Reviews of professor Joseph Mills

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Nonsensical "teaching" style, doesn't plan lessons, and despite giving no clear criteria for assignments, picks them apart with semantic arguments irrelevant to the content. Have caught him making a few mistakes that he won't acknowledge. Arrogant narcissist. "You won't find this in any textbook, this is the best class you'll ever take." Sure Joe.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
joe is a funny prof. you have to participate or else you will have no idea what is going on. Love the guy, but he is a bit lazy - won't provide adequate notes, will not post grades, and gets students to teach his lectures. i appreciated his encouragement to think critically but he was hard to follow at times. make sure you ask for clarification

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Awful professor. He openly spoke about how there is no such thing as a god. He would give you bad grades if you disagreed with his opinion even though he would tell us to disagree with him and that it's okay to disagree with him. Was very unprofessional over email. Rude and biased towards students. Had favorites if you agreed with him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Speaks super quietly to "promote active learning" and doesn't give us any notes to make sure we are "active learning" ???????? Won't repeat himself, claims there are no "wrong answers" but claim we're wrong.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I may be one of the few who actively enjoyed Dr. Mills' classes. He encourages students to break classroom norms, and critically think about the reasons for those norms, and then expand that thinking outside of the classroom. He had a very open teaching style which I found easy to understand, and it really got me engaged and excited for soci class!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doesn't give any guidance in the class and doesn't give out rubrics for assignments. Doesn't give you a breakdown of grades, marks aren't posted. Participation is expected but attendance was not taken and being online he had no idea who was joining the lectures even though it heavily affects your mark. Not consistent, lectures are hard to follow.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Mills' teaching style is a mess, he has no plan for lessons and it becomes difficult to follow along. Grading criteria is non existent and even if you meet all of it, he "doesn't give 100's". You better be paying full attention to what's going on during lectures because there is no textbook to look back on for assignments. Luckily, no tests.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Would not recommend taking a class with Dr. Mills. Incredibly lazy as he gets the students to teach the required course material through powerpoint group presentations. He grades subjectively and fails to give back the majority of your assignments unless you repeatedly ask. Bottom of the barrel hire