Reviews of professor David Mindich

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pop quizzes, long textbook chapters, WROTE his own textbook and makes you buy it. Gave my group all of three days to put together a presentation and wouldn't let us change, awful and confusing final paper. seriously avoid him for any classes. long lectures where he really only talks about himself. you could skip classes but might miss a pop quiz.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He sucks. the grading is subjective, you have to read approx 200 pages of his textbook a week with pop quizzes. His TAs just don't know how to grade and often take off points for no reason with no feedback. In the last three weeks of class, you have a group project, term paper, AND final. you also wont know what your grade is until the sem is over

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Mindich is a great person. However as a professor he can sometimes focus too much on the small details quiz you on specific dates, names and quotes. He assigned his own book as a textbook, which is very much a mass communication book, not much of a journalism one.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I loved Professor Mindich this semester. Homework is super easy, just note taking from the textbook that is a super easy read (however this is homework about every night). During class, his lectures were pretty much just open conversations about current events. Just take really good notes and you will pass his class with flying colors.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I really enjoyed Prof Mindich's class. You have to buy his textbook but it is actually interesting and a great read. You learn a lot of meaningful things in this class and although sometimes there is a lot of work, it is very manageable and definitely worth the time.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Mindich assigns a chapter to read and take notes on before every class, and there's always the possibility of a pop-quiz. He does give students the benefit of the doubt when grading, by adding weight to whichever you did better on between the term paper and final. This class is very difficult for an intro course - I would not take again

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do not get discouraged by a few bad grades at the start of the semester! Mindich scales everything to the benefit of all students at the end of the semester. Anyone who hates on him is ignorant and lazy; yes it's a lot of work, but most of it is reading. He is an incredible guy, met with me when I needed help, and has a truly infections smile :)

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
horrible class. worst time ever. wouldn't take again. the class was so damn boring everyday it was the same thing. lecture after lecture and then boom pop quiz. I haven't learned one thing from this class at all. the midterm SUCKS. the final paper SUCKS. he made his own textbook and its not even good. David I hope you're reading this. you ruined me