Reviews of professor Joseph Cartolano

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Please do not take this professor. He assigned new readings and papers each week. He didnt grade most of our essays until the semester was over, even though he had ample time to do so as we only met once a week for an hour He gives harsh grades with vague feedback and his essay prompts are more difficult to understand than the readings he gives.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Save yourself and don't take this professor. He posts 2 page paper assignments every SINGLE week and he always posts them on the WEEKEND so you can't even enjoy those days of no school. Not to mention the 5 dollar movies he makes us buy for the assignments. The 2 page paper assignments come with 20-30 pages of reading.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Every week, you read and write too much, and he doesn't give grades to check on you. Nevertheless, it has the advantage of being online, so if all you're looking for is an online course, you should be set.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Worst Professor. Asynchronous class with a 2-4 page paper a week on long readings that are hard to decipher the answers to the questions he poses. He assigns 40-page readings where 2 pages out of the reading would answer the question he wants to be answered and expects 2 full pages with no space between the paragraphs. yea OK *eye roll*

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Take this class and professor at your own risk. You will be reading a lot , multiple essays in one week, and you will have movie assignments but will have to purchase each movie that he assigns.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is clearly passionate about American history, but he is a very tough grader! So many students dropped the course, and he gave many people an F in the class. It does not help that he was unreachable via email. 
If you need an online class, take him. If not, I implore you to take anyone other HIST 103 professor. I retained nothing from this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Strongly do not recommend taking this class. It was horribly executed. Does not put anything blackboard. Doesn't post assignments on time. While giving very minimum amount of time for easy. Continuously targets students who do not wish to participate or put their cameras on. Disables chat so people cannot explain themselves. Very bad...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible experience in this class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Cartolano's class most definitely wasn't easy, and I put a very considerable amount of effort into his weekly assignments (which consisted of heavy reading and writing). With that being said, he's as passionate as he gets about teaching the class and he genuinely seems to care about teaching.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ton of papers for HW, doesn't send you grades, very long readings, and don't forget this is a His104 class not a Writing Intensive course. I don't recommend him for His104.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take this professor if you're not willing to read 30-60 page book chapters per week and write 3-4 page papers. Thats all the course is.