Reviews of professor Jared Simard

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Big time yapper but class was fine. Really lenient with how he grades and always open to different interpretations.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE HIM. He was joking about how his class is the easiest- while giving us SO MUCH homework, including journal entries (every week), heavy reading, city sights and the many assignments along with it (journals, projects, quizzes), entry tickets to reading, etc. His homework literally takes away most of my time and I can't take his workload.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Nice professor!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I loved Prof. Simard! He is one of the best professors at nyu. Actually, an easy A class if you do things that are assigned. He doesn't give a lot of homework and the class is mostly discussions but participation doesn't matter huge. You will love this class so much!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
very smart, just pay attention in class and you'll get everything you need, weekly journals, no essays, loves participation, sweet person, makes an effort to interact with his students, lots of reading for hw tho but you can mostly sparknotes to contribute in class. overall he's a sweet professor and I learned a lot

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Solid class. Professor Simard is funny and engaging. The assignments are varied and interesting, not the traditional papers you would expect. Reasonably easy class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!! He is such a kind and funny guy who makes his class so interesting and engaging. I genuinely looked forward to seeing him and always walked out learning so much. There are a lot of readings, entry tickets, and weekly journals, but if you manage your time well you can get it done. He's kind and very understanding.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
super chill and makes jokes during lecture which keeps you engaged. def recommend

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
weekly journal on the readings, and project for midterm and final. I feel that doing projects is more interesting than writing essays. If you spend some time, you will get good grades for your projects. A lot discussion in class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof. Simard cares about his students a lot. He is very knowledgeable and passionate about what he teaches! Weekly journals / the midterm and final are both projects rather than essays which is nice. He is an easy grader, as long as you complete the assignments you are pretty much guranteed an A.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He was nice and provided good feedback if we asked, and is clearly very passionate and knowledgeable. However, he had high expectations of our abilities that could have been justified if he wasn't so strict about physical copies and memorization. Also, he leads discussions in a way that makes clear he just wants to hear what he said repeated back.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great teacher! But sometimes it's clear he doesn't want to teach, which is slightly depressing. His students are more excited to see him than he is to see them, but, still, a great teacher.