Reviews of professor Joshua Bishop

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is extremely flexible/ forgiving with due dates if you have the courtesy to ask. Very nice guy who is almost always available to help outside of class

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Bishop is a nice guy, and the workload is very manageable, but the presentation of the class is absolutely dreadful. The lectures are incredibly boring and disorganized, so much so that he doesn't even get to the assigned readings until the last 15 minutes. This class is very easy, but astonishingly dry. Don't take if you want to learn.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Bishop was great. He understood that many people were taking this class simply for the credit but still had us doing interesting assignments to keep us engaged. I had quite a bit of fun with our sight visit paper as well as the movie review. If you do the assignments and follow the grading criteria, you'll do fine in this class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Bishop is a great guy, but his class was WAY too much work for a 3 credit core requirement. There are 4 response papers, a site visit assignment, a movie analysis, and a 5-7 page final term paper, with a midterm and a final. The final is cumulative and there is so much material on it (49 terms, 41 people, and 35 READINGS). Just TOO much.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Bishop is a really nice guy and you can tell he cares about his students. However, the structure of the class is incredibly boring. It is pretty much a lecture the entire class based on the assigned reading which is not necessary to read as it is all covered in class. Do not take this class at 8:30 if you want to learn anything.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took this class as a requirement but loved it. His topics were wide ranging and he is mainly lecture based but uses slides to keep the students engaged. Other reviews say too much work but I was able to finish most of it pretty fast. Genuinely a great guy, one of the few professors that actually wants his students to succeed. 10/10 would take again

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Readings and lectures are usually super interesting. Midterm and Final are easy - just identifying terms in relation to the readings. 1 music presentation, research paper, & 4 response papers (2 pages each) that aren't really that difficult if you keep up with the readings. He is also super nice and is lenient about deadlines.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Bishop was one of my favorite professors. I typically hate lectures, but he made his class so interesting and he mainly lectures. Readings are not difficult, some are long, but his lectures explain everything so clearly. I found him to be so caring and granted extensions if needed! Midterm, Final, 3-4 short papers and one final paper.