Reviews of professor Shawn Clouse

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Shawn is the worst professor I've had at UM. He is incredibly condescending, does not listen well, and is unresponsive via email. The directions to his assignments are not clear. I suspect he actually is not very well versed in the topics he teaches, as his most common response to student queries is "look it up."

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
A very nice guy, but a mediocre prof. I 100% believe he knows his stuff, he's just terrible at teaching. Basically every day we'd go to class at 8am for 15mins (not an exaggeration) then he'd leave. He relied on students for grading and barely taught anything himself. The class was easy but only bc I already knew VB

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Clouse is a good teacher. His 365 class is difficult, you need to be willing to put the time in and work hard just like any other class. If you just swallow the pill you will get through the class just fine. A lot of people don't want to put the effort in and therefore won't succeed. Just work hard people it's not that difficult.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Clouse takes a lot of heat for his lack of knowledge and availability, which is true. I will, however, say that he has set this class up so that if you attend study jam and put in the time, you will not only pass but have learned it the hard way. Most people will find this annoying. but I learned a lot about programming I wouldn't have otherwise.