Reviews of professor Khristian Smith

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Smith is super caring and recognizes that the class is for freshmen so they do a good job catering toward our needs. He often gave extensions and does not grade based on percentages but instead uses a completion-based course contract. Their assignments were like many other Engl 105 classed but getting an A is a little extra work.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The assignments were pretty much busy work, especially during the humanities unit (can't stress that enough). Although he gave great feedback at the end of each unit, he was a very SLOW grader (we often had to turn in our final drafts not knowing how we did on our rough drafts grade-wise which was kinda unfair for my peers and I first semester...

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
So many more assignments compared to any other English 105 course and never grades anything. He does have a clear grading contract but you will not get any feedback all semester and he expects you to turn in everything yet doesn't look at any of it. His class is so boring and he doesn't teach you anything, he just likes to listen to himself talk.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Never returns graded papers. Self-important. Rambles endlessly. DO NOT TAKE.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Smith is a very insightful and thoughtful professor. You can tell he cares about his students. This class is tailored towards freshmen, as it is a first year requirement. He has a grading contract which sort of guides your grade for the class, therefore as long as you put effort in and show up you will do fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Smith has a clear grading contract, so it is relatively easy to keep up with your grade. Nothing you submit really gets "graded", and their feedback took a very long time to get back so I never really knew if my writing was improving at all. Sometimes his tangents seemed a little far fetched, but interesting nonetheless. Nice professor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Khristian was the perfect Covid year professor. His classes were enjoyable and he is an entertaining teacher. He does not overload you with work and is very amendable regarding due dates and your schedule. This class added 0 stress to my year and was 10/10.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I really appreciate Professor Smith, and I feel like I've grown as a writer in his class. The time we actually spend in class is used to work on things related to our unit assignments, so that was really beneficial. He was always really helpful whenever I came to him with questions, and he really knows his stuff. Low stakes class with real payoff.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Khristian was a great COVID professor. He understood the challenges of distance learning and did contract grading so if you completed every assignment it was a guaranteed B. I got absolutely no feedback on anything or any actual grades so I had no clue what I was coming out with but ended up with an A.