Reviews of professor Joseph Piper

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prepare yourself to look up all the material yourself and read the book constantly but never touching back on it. Lots of homework is to be expected outside of class. I suggest taking only one of his classes during a quarter or don't. Hard to get in touch with him outside class even if his syllabus says his office hours.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You'll have a lot of work outside the class, don't take more than one of his classes and make sure you take his class with other classes that will be easy! You WILL spend a lot of time working on this class. Very contradictory of himself and not very helpful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Super contradictory of himself. Critique isn't helpful. Very hard to get a hold of. He tells you to ask if you need help but doesn't end up helping. LOTS of busy work outside of class. 30 hours a week roughly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took 2 classes by him at once and regret it, I've never been so swamped with work in my life. He is confusing and doesn't explain things well, he hardly actually teaches, the work load is insane, he only sometimes answers emails. The feedback isn't really worth much and he contradicts himself a lot. If you can avoid taking any of his classes, do.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He gives you everything you need on the first day. You have to be a hard-working student.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Assigns way too much work with no regards for having other classes, a job, or a life. Instructions are badly written and all his "lessons" are wikipedia and youtube links, hardly even formats his class pages correct. Extremely rude and doesn't actually teach anything, just assigns boatloads of work and grades arbitrarily.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
For each class I have taken from Mr. Piper he has been very knowledgable. If you are interested, do the work and participate, as in any college level class, youll do well. He doesn't grade on innate ability. He grades on your effort. Im surprised to see the negative comments. Level of homework seems normal for a college class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's rough personality-wise. I think he likes the drama when he groups the whole class up for the final project. He gives a lot of work, but overall his class isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Just do the homework and you'll be fine. You don't even have to be good at art to pass. Just attempt it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Wow so much extra work, dont take if you dont have time. Unclear links YouTube videos and Wikipedia articles instead of teaching. I shouldve just taught myself because I learned nothing.