Reviews of professor Nicholas Cooley

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Like others have commented, very frustrating course and feedback... even the readings are not great. However, prepare for his questions. These questions are the worst I have seen in a Literature class. This intent on squezing the student's patience and ability to learn is completely unacceptable. He will show you, you don't know and he does...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The Evaluation option in this course dissapeared after the first 2-3 weeks.
The most shocking experience in his American Literature course is the very long critiscm comments he makes in every submission. He will always assign 120-140 pages of reading and question how you analyze and reflect or interpret the readings.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Cooley is a cool professor, but I wouldn't recommend it if you want to do heavy work every week made up of lectures and essays. His scores on essays are 2 pts and you basically either pass or fail each assignment. There's no extra credit, but he always delivers feedback on all papers. Overall, this class is pretty overwhelming.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Cooley really is a great guy. He definitely knows his stuff, I loved every reading and lecture we had, and feel like I've come out a better reader because of this class. My biggest gripe is that it took forever to get grades back. Be sure to follow directions carefully! He's a little tough on grading. Overall, really nice guy though.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Cooley wouldn't be teaching this course if it wasn't because the evaluation on his American Literature class, dissapears after the first 2-3 weeks. Do other students a favor and submit your evaluation while it is allowed. Whatever you think about this course in that time frame, it will continue or worsen.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall very good class and puts you up to the test. He is a very strict grader and provides lengthy feedback which is helpful most of the time but is contradicting at times. Essays are all that you do, even for discussion posts. I recommend you stay on top of your work, he doesn't expect late work and if you miss one it can drop your grade.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was interesting but frustrating. To begin the grading scale was annoying. 2 points for a discussion 5-15 points for a paper. It made the class stressful. His grades always came in super late so I never knew where to improve from until weeks later. But the professor is nice and understanding when hiccups in life happen.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He grades super late. I did the 4 journal assignments without getting feedback from the first one so I didn't know if I was doing it right. He graded the first one and corrected things on it and then got mad that I didn't fix the things on the first one. I submitted it an entire month before he even graded the first assignment. Very unhelpful.