Reviews of professor Ian Gerdon

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm sitting in this guy's class right now. Gerdon is so smart and clearly loves his job. The only problem is homework readings are ridiculously long so if you don't have time to read 100 pages and write a response on them before class then you will be lost during lecture because he talks fast and flows through ideas quickly.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I like Professor Gerdon a lot, his class is just a lot more than I needed out of a basic university requirement for all freshmen. He requires participation and encourages you to think much more than other profs that my friends took did. If you are just trying to take this to get a requirement out of the way, I do not recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Amazing. I never really liked writing/English classes, and I have never had more fun and learned so much in one before Dr. Gerdon. I will definitely take one of his courses again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Strict and intense but you will definitely be engaged in his lectures. Tough grader but good feedback, allows you to redo the first three. Tough to get an A but should get a B at the bare minimum. Would stay away from the class if you are looking for the easy A or just to fulfill the requirement. 
GRADES YOUR PAPERS DURING AN INDIVIDUAL MEETING

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I have never been a big writing/English person, but I loved Dr. Gerdon's class. He is a tough grader, but he gives really good feedback and lets you redo papers. He is a very engaging lecturer and ties everything together really well. Even though I didn't get an A in the class, he made me a much better writer and I learned a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I've never had a lecturer as good as him. Asked students lots of questions, no slides no notes. He'd just weave everything together in his head and make it a cohesive story that covered a pretty rigorous breadth of theology. It's not an easy intro to theo, but it sets a great foundation. Tough but fair. You'll have to be a good writer to do well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is the worst teacher I have EVER had! I was one of the most talkative students in his Writing and Rhetoric class and yet he would tell me that I did not get full participation credit. We had 5+ papers and it took half a semester for him to grade the 1st paper. He says that there are regrades but that's only true for the first 3. Learned nothing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
VERY knowledgeable professor. I have taken Theo my whole life and was worried I would be bored, but he gave a lot of new insight to the class. Definitely take this class if you want a great understanding of theology. But if you want an EASY A, DO NOT take this class. He grades fairly hard and you need to know a lot of information for exams.