Reviews of professor J.P. James

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures the entire class. Unforgiving when it comes to attendance (I had a death in my immediate family and he required and obituary.) Marks you absent if you show up late. End of the semester project is poorly outlined and is an excessive amount of group work. Only positive thing about this class is tests are usually 50% of study guide.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
does not care to engage students individually and focuses more on the board than making sure students are engaged. with online grades there is not many assignments that he actually puts efforts in to grade, which i found lazy. I sat front row and im not sure he would know my name if i said hello. Not bad professor, he just doesnt go above or beyond

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Take him!! the workload is not bad at all :)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
grades you on partcipation in poll everywhere, an app where he quizzes you as class goes on. tough grader. his quizzes are exact replicas of the practice tests, but i needed to retake it 10 times to see and get right all questions. he hooked us up with a chance to pitch for dunkin donuts. he cares about his students in class and for the future.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Interesting professor that clearly enjoys the subject he teaches from his background in the working world. However, his idea of a well rounded class consists of busy work like high school and homework due all throughout the week non-stop.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I LOVE THIS MAN!! Attendance is mandatory, and you have to be there ON TIME, or you will lose points. He makes our project apply directly to real life- which teachers never do. Do not buy the textbook- we don't use it and he never references it, everything is in the lectures. Tests are the exact same questions as practice quizzes on Canvas.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
In his class you have to do a simulation of a marketplace and it is so confusing and hard to understand. He is very passionate about it too and takes it very seriously so if you do bad on it... good luck passing the class. I had to spend so much money between that and the online textbook which i find crazy. Overall an Ok teacher.