Reviews of professor Jerell Blakeley

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
easy grader, but grades everything at the end of the sem. extremely inaccessible & unresponsive. a lot of busy work/ papers even though it doesn't count as a writing class. posted all of the assignment due dates wrong for our class and didn't change them for weeks. didnt even lecture, just posted vids & articles. take a diff prof, pls.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Easy A! No final exam; most people got an A. Ignore bad reviews. A secret: he uses ChatGPT to grade. Rarely responds to emails, but it's worth it for the grade. This class is also online, asynchronous, and completes the CCD SAS core requirement. What else could you want? This class should be WCR as well (lots of writing tbh), still easy A.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
So I like the course and grading was fair/easy if you put in effort. My biggest complaint is lack of communication/response time. Also he stopped grading before the midterm and didn't grade the rest until the last day grades were due, so you didn't know where you stood

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great class overall. Professor has a great understanding on the topic. Weekly assignments (usually 500ish words), not bad just get ready to write. Class was online, so just do the work during the week. Ended up cancelling the final exam this semester. Pretty awful in terms of getting grades back at a reasonable time.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You do not need a textbook for his class, because he gives you the material. Work is fairly easy if you are passionate about the topic. You do not really take exams but you are expected to write a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Probably one of the best profs I've had at Rutgers. Class revolves around readings which take awhile, but they are interesting. You write essays weekly (500-1000 words). Grades very fairly, its an easy A and you find it interesting.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Good professor, just very lazy. Used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to be horribly late on grading. No joke, he assigned the week 15 assignment (last week of semester) before grading the midterm from week 8. Took countless emails to the dean to finally get this professor to grade. Don't assign weekly work if you can't keep up with the grading.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I learned a lot in Professor Blakely's class. I had no idea about so much of African American history. He was responsive to my emails and the modules were very diverse with a mix of videos and writings. The course has a a lot of writing/reading but overall the material was interesting and I learned a lot. Take him, you will not regret it!