Reviews of professor Jose Fernandez

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Easily the best philosophy professor at Fairfield. Taken him for intro and Social & Political, and made every second enjoyable. His intro class and S/P class cover the same texts so if you use your notes from the first, you don't have to take new ones, just expand on them. Super smart and caring guy, wants to, and will help you get an A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Took business law over winter and spent maybe an hour at most per week. Genuinely learned a lot, but as long as you skim the textbook while answering the questions on the take-home exams, there is minimal effort required. Apparently there were live and recorded lectures that were optional, but I barely dropped below 100% without them, so idk

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Fernandez is an old school "sit down and listen" type teaching methods. I took the 8-week course and the lectures are 3-4 hours each for once a week. You can attend the zoom meeting or watch it on your own time. He assigns everybody in groups. I highly suggest you split the work up within your groups. Easy A if you work with your group.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
take him for philosophy! 3 papers, gave everyone 100s on the first one, last two he graded tougher. follow the outline he gives you, and you'll be fine. prompts are also pretty easy. participate 1/2x a class and you're good. start the papers early and meet with him! he also cancels class a lot...had him at 9:30 and he cancelled a lot of classes

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I've never spent so long in a lecture, retain nothing, rely on textbook. Quizzes are open book/notes but the questions can be subjective so it's hard to figure out what he's asking. Exams are open book/notes, half multiple choice, half calculations. Calculations portion is hard and must be 100% correct, no partial credit for 15min work/question.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Great professor! Gives out a lot of extra credit for being in groups. Would recommend this class to people who work because you can get your portion of the work out of the way quickly.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Fernandez is a nice professor and his class was not super hard. As long as you have a general idea of what is going on, show up to class, participate, and hand in assignments you should get an A. He is a very easy grader but a stickler for participation. If you are taking him for a core course I would recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tests are weighted very heavily and he is the WORST at presenting information. He just stands there and reads from the powerpoint and does not even seem interested . I went to two lectures all semester because I did not see a point. The tests all come from the slides but in the most obscure places ever. AVOID.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is a great professor who gives a reasonable amount of work. I finished the 5-week winter course in 3 weeks.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is amazing.easy A class. He is giving you the enough amount of time to do your homework.