Reviews of professor Jeremy Patzer

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
nice guy overall, but tests are TOUGH. textbook is necessary, and need to watch a lot of videos and read articles because they're very testable. wastes class time but they were entertaining. he's very easygoing. only 2 term tests and a final exam. if you study all material given, you should be fine. closed book tests which made the tests tougher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great prof! He created very good recorded lectures that outline and explain tough readings. It is a required theory course so the older theorists we had to read were a bit boring and tough but he added some newer theory readings which were definitely the best part of the course. took a while to get grades back but there was also a strike happening.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is great at lectures and makes the content really interesting. He is clearly very smart and passionate. The readings are great and relevant. If you go to class and do the work, you will be fine.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although I ended up with an A in the course, I really had to work for it. The material is very dry and lengthy, and I found his recorded lectures went off topic quite a bit (same as his ZOOM meetings). I have a B+/A average and got low 70s on my first few assignments and had to adapt to his marking. Overall, he's a nice guy and helpful when needed.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I didn't mind him, but he puts way to much emphasis on in-class participation (to the point where we'd waste an entire class doing a participation exercise, and have to go over the lecture slides on our own time). His tests include extremely obscure questions (something we covered for less than a minute in class), and he is a comically slow marker.