# JOEL ROBBIN — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

[View on UW Courses](https://uwcourses.com/instructors/JOEL_ROBBIN--instructor_c0cdf3b94e8c52dc3792af59)

## Dataset

### search projection

#### version

1

#### terms

* 1272
* 1264
* 1262
* 1254
* 1252
* 1244
* 1242
* 1234
* 1232
* 1224
* 1222
* 1212
* 1204
* 1202
* 1194
* 1192
* 1184
* 1182
* 1174
* 1172
* 1164
* 1162
* 1154
* 1152
* 1144
* 1142
* 1134
* 1132
* 1124
* 1122
* 1114
* 1112
* 1104
* 1102
* 1094
* 1092
* 1084
* 1082
* 1074
* 1072

### revision

b68f68efcd3387a01fee00416f57beb6d43f3bcb

### repository

twangodev/uwcourses

### schema version

6

### importer version

8

### projection id

84ef894187d6e25cdc7581be1fb1349a5254613f3a20ecbb5eb766fbfcb3e68b

### observed at

2026-09-07T15:55:43.033547+00:00

### built at

2026-10-04T15:23:21.818911+00:00

### courses

8951

### current instructors

5754

### limited

false

### terms

* 1272
* 1264
* 1262
* 1254
* 1252
* 1244
* 1242
* 1234
* 1232
* 1224
* 1222
* 1212
* 1204
* 1202
* 1194
* 1192
* 1184
* 1182
* 1174
* 1172
* 1164
* 1162
* 1154
* 1152
* 1144
* 1142
* 1134
* 1132
* 1124
* 1122
* 1114
* 1112
* 1104
* 1102
* 1094
* 1092
* 1084
* 1082
* 1074
* 1072

### term

1272

### departments

| subject   | count |
| --------- | ----- |
| AAE       | 90    |
| ABT       | 20    |
| ACCTIS    | 36    |
| ACTSCI    | 14    |
| AFAERO    | 10    |
| AFRICAN   | 87    |
| AFROAMER  | 71    |
| AGROECOL  | 21    |
| AMERIND   | 53    |
| ANAT\&PHY | 7     |
| ANATOMY   | 2     |
| ANESTHES  | 8     |
| ANSCI     | 57    |
| ANTHRO    | 95    |
| ART       | 125   |
| ARTED     | 10    |
| ARTHIST   | 121   |
| ASIALANG  | 129   |
| ASIAN     | 109   |
| ASIANAM   | 28    |
| ASTRON    | 38    |
| ATMOCN    | 69    |
| BIOCHEM   | 51    |
| BIOCORE   | 10    |
| BIOLOGY   | 14    |
| BIOMDSCI  | 18    |
| BME       | 66    |
| BMI       | 41    |
| BMOLCHEM  | 10    |
| BOTANY    | 69    |
| BSE       | 44    |
| C\&ESOC   | 73    |
| CBE       | 48    |
| CHEM      | 101   |
| CHICLA    | 52    |
| CIVENGR   | 133   |
| CLASSICS  | 47    |
| CNP       | 10    |
| CNSRSCI   | 50    |
| COMARTS   | 137   |
| COMPBIO   | 15    |
| COMPLIT   | 11    |
| COMPSCI   | 138   |
| COUNPSY   | 78    |
| CRB       | 19    |
| CS\&D     | 71    |
| CSCS      | 40    |
| CURRIC    | 193   |
| DANCE     | 93    |
| DERM      | 8     |
| DS        | 88    |
| DYSCI     | 35    |
| ECE       | 155   |
| ECON      | 145   |
| EDPOL     | 114   |
| EDPSYCH   | 97    |
| ELPA      | 70    |
| EMA       | 53    |
| EMERMED   | 17    |
| ENGL      | 206   |
| ENTOM     | 40    |
| ENVIRST   | 148   |
| EP        | 15    |
| EPD       | 67    |
| ESL       | 16    |
| F\&WECOL  | 60    |
| FAMMED    | 22    |
| FINANCE   | 50    |
| FOLKLORE  | 40    |
| FOODSCI   | 43    |
| FRENCH    | 63    |
| GEN\&WS   | 145   |
| GENBUS    | 72    |
| GENECSLR  | 17    |
| GENETICS  | 60    |
| GEOG      | 113   |
| GEOSCI    | 83    |
| GERMAN    | 82    |
| GLE       | 48    |
| GNS       | 38    |
| GREEK     | 27    |
| HDFS      | 41    |
| HEBR-BIB  | 13    |
| HEBR-MOD  | 10    |
| HISTORY   | 233   |
| HISTSCI   | 56    |
| HONCOL    | 13    |
| ILS       | 43    |
| INFOSYS   | 9     |
| INTEGART  | 7     |
| INTEGSCI  | 22    |
| INTER-AG  | 18    |
| INTER-HE  | 11    |
| INTER-LS  | 22    |
| INTEREGR  | 16    |
| INTLBUS   | 21    |
| INTLST    | 50    |
| ISYE      | 83    |
| ITALIAN   | 53    |
| JEWISH    | 56    |
| JOURN     | 88    |
| KINES     | 128   |
| LACIS     | 26    |
| LANDARC   | 61    |
| LATIN     | 24    |
| LAW       | 120   |
| LEGALST   | 48    |
| LINGUIS   | 35    |
| LIS       | 89    |
| LITTRANS  | 78    |
| LSC       | 52    |
| M\&ENVTOX | 7     |
| MARKETNG  | 62    |
| MATH      | 153   |
| MDGENET   | 8     |
| ME        | 130   |
| MEDHIST   | 43    |
| MEDICINE  | 60    |
| MEDIEVAL  | 32    |
| MEDPHYS   | 39    |
| MEDSC-M   | 29    |
| MEDSC-V   | 41    |
| MHR       | 68    |
| MICROBIO  | 45    |
| MILSCI    | 16    |
| MM\&I     | 22    |
| MOLBIOL   | 6     |
| MS\&E     | 59    |
| MUSIC     | 165   |
| MUSPERF   | 126   |
| NAVSCI    | 20    |
| NE        | 44    |
| NEURODPT  | 11    |
| NEUROL    | 7     |
| NEURSURG  | 4     |
| NTP       | 11    |
| NURSING   | 111   |
| NUTRSCI   | 65    |
| OBS\&GYN  | 18    |
| OCCTHER   | 39    |
| ONCOLOGY  | 14    |
| OPHTHALM  | 5     |
| OTM       | 43    |
| PATH      | 34    |
| PATH-BIO  | 29    |
| PEDIAT    | 26    |
| PHARMACY  | 31    |
| PHILOS    | 77    |
| PHMCOL-M  | 11    |
| PHMPRAC   | 45    |
| PHMSCI    | 60    |
| PHYASST   | 37    |
| PHYSICS   | 88    |
| PHYSIOL   | 3     |
| PHYTHER   | 37    |
| PLANTSCI  | 52    |
| PLPATH    | 35    |
| POLISCI   | 192   |
| POPHLTH   | 58    |
| PORTUG    | 33    |
| PSYCH     | 101   |
| PSYCHIAT  | 22    |
| PUBAFFR   | 54    |
| PUBLHLTH  | 23    |
| RADIOL    | 11    |
| REALEST   | 41    |
| RELIGST   | 90    |
| RHABMED   | 9     |
| RMI       | 24    |
| RP\&SE    | 102   |
| S\&APHM   | 17    |
| SCANDST   | 73    |
| SLAVIC    | 89    |
| SOC       | 149   |
| SOCWORK   | 87    |
| SOILSCI   | 46    |
| SPANISH   | 83    |
| SRMED     | 21    |
| STAT      | 94    |
| STDYABRD  | 52    |
| STS       | 8     |
| SURGERY   | 25    |
| SURGSCI   | 33    |
| THEATRE   | 91    |
| URBRPL    | 60    |
| UROLOGY   | 5     |
| ZOOLOGY   | 89    |

### designations

None recorded.

## instructor

### instructor uid

instructor\_c0cdf3b94e8c52dc3792af59

### source

legacy

### identity basis

name\_only

### identity status

unresolved

### name

JOEL ROBBIN

### first observed at

2025-12-03 12:33:41.418072+00:00

### last observed at

2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00

### ratings

#### review count

58

#### quality

1.78

#### difficulty

3.97

#### quality count

58

#### difficulty count

58

#### profile id

rmp:202885

#### source url

<https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/202885>

#### match basis

exact\_name

#### observed at

2026-09-07 16:31:58.923827+00:00

#### courses

##### course cc1de60e9953cdd9c469e9a5

###### review count

18

###### quality

1.83

###### difficulty

3.39

###### quality count

18

###### difficulty count

18

##### course 3464c11254a81dbe86277318

###### review count

1

###### quality

1

###### difficulty

5

###### quality count

1

###### difficulty count

1

##### course 0002a781bc9543f3a2ac1a94

###### review count

1

###### quality

1

###### difficulty

4

###### quality count

1

###### difficulty count

1

##### course 6bc496e4640fd08f71e1b041

###### review count

6

###### quality

2

###### difficulty

4.5

###### quality count

6

###### difficulty count

6

##### course c9bdf631650ccfb896fcfc26

###### review count

4

###### quality

2

###### difficulty

3.75

###### quality count

4

###### difficulty count

4

##### course 3b14f667f980624c1f5bde67

###### review count

2

###### quality

1.5

###### difficulty

3.5

###### quality count

2

###### difficulty count

2

##### course 4aa5bbed0c86993f5f0dc832

###### review count

1

###### quality

4

###### difficulty

3

###### quality count

1

###### difficulty count

1

##### course 9b0dc1865ea603eb0083bc33

###### review count

5

###### quality

1

###### difficulty

4.6

###### quality count

5

###### difficulty count

5

##### course 8634dde81cc95f6c58014087

###### review count

1

###### quality

1

###### difficulty

5

###### quality count

1

###### difficulty count

1

#### bayesian quality

2.2619707137298963

#### prior mean

3.6596857835465957

#### prior weight

20

### current

false

### courses

None recorded.

### revision

b68f68efcd3387a01fee00416f57beb6d43f3bcb

### instructor url

/instructors/JOEL\_ROBBIN--instructor\_c0cdf3b94e8c52dc3792af59

## history

None recorded.

## timeline

None recorded.

## term

1272

## courses

None recorded.

## reviews

### items

```json
[
  {
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:31:58.923827+00:00",
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTIwNTAyNjQ4",
    "source_instructor_id": "rmp:202885",
    "instructor_name": "Joel Robbin",
    "course_label": "MATH221",
    "course_id": "MATH 221",
    "course_uid": "course_cc1de60e9953cdd9c469e9a5",
    "review_date": "2012-07-18 20:36:06 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "If you have a class with this professor, DROP NOW. He constantly makes mistakes on the board, explains things that are irrelevant to the class expects you to know random info for the exams. I dropped this class b/c I was failing and took again w/ a different professor and received an A.",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/202885",
    "quality_rating": 1,
    "difficulty_rating": 5
  },
  {
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:31:58.923827+00:00",
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTE5NjQ4NTA0",
    "source_instructor_id": "rmp:202885",
    "instructor_name": "Joel Robbin",
    "course_label": "CALC221",
    "course_id": null,
    "course_uid": null,
    "review_date": "2012-01-01 13:34:00 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "I went and met with this professor, and as a person he was very nice and interested in my struggles and progress as a student.  However, as a teacher, the way the class was taught didn't make sense, he was hard to understand, and was self proclaimed to be falling &quot;deeper and deeper into his senescence&quot;. Also, my TA barely spoke english.",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/202885",
    "quality_rating": 2,
    "difficulty_rating": 5
  },
  {
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:31:58.923827+00:00",
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTE5MzcyMzE4",
    "source_instructor_id": "rmp:202885",
    "instructor_name": "Joel Robbin",
    "course_label": "MATH049",
    "course_id": null,
    "course_uid": null,
    "review_date": "2011-12-03 20:26:11 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "This guy makes you prove a lot of theorems. He also put on the midterm i just took something that nobody knew what to do with. The secant concavity theorem. He gave a list of proofs he said might appear on the exam the week before the midterm, but this was not one of them. I had to leave the page blank.",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/202885",
    "quality_rating": 2,
    "difficulty_rating": 5
  },
  {
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:31:58.923827+00:00",
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTE5MDI4MDg4",
    "source_instructor_id": "rmp:202885",
    "instructor_name": "Joel Robbin",
    "course_label": "MATH3",
    "course_id": null,
    "course_uid": null,
    "review_date": "2011-09-27 23:20:20 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "Didn't understand a thing from lecture.",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/202885",
    "quality_rating": 2,
    "difficulty_rating": 5
  },
  {
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:31:58.923827+00:00",
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTE2MTY1NzMw",
    "source_instructor_id": "rmp:202885",
    "instructor_name": "Joel Robbin",
    "course_label": "MATH112",
    "course_id": "MATH 112",
    "course_uid": "course_3464c11254a81dbe86277318",
    "review_date": "2009-09-01 11:23:11 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "hands down worst professor i've ever had. extremely unorganized, unhelpful, and does not know how to teach what he is supposed to be teaching. the board is a mess when he writes on it, and he constantly erases notes because students always find errors in his work. avoid if possible, if not, be prepared to learn yourself.",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/202885",
    "quality_rating": 1,
    "difficulty_rating": 5
  },
  {
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:31:58.923827+00:00",
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTE1NjM5NjY5",
    "source_instructor_id": "rmp:202885",
    "instructor_name": "Joel Robbin",
    "course_label": "MATH320",
    "course_id": "MATH 320",
    "course_uid": "course_0002a781bc9543f3a2ac1a94",
    "review_date": "2009-04-12 18:12:55 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "THIS GUY CAN'T TEACH (and he admits it too)! Must learn the material on your own...and he misses appointments. I am very lucky to have a good TA; otherwise I would have flunk this class already. If you need this material own the road, AVOID AT ALL COST....",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/202885",
    "quality_rating": 1,
    "difficulty_rating": 4
  }
]
```

### total

58

### page

1

### courses

| course\_uid                      | course\_id |
| -------------------------------- | ---------- |
| course\_3464c11254a81dbe86277318 | MATH 112   |
| course\_c9bdf631650ccfb896fcfc26 | MATH 141   |
| course\_9b0dc1865ea603eb0083bc33 | MATH 211   |
| course\_cc1de60e9953cdd9c469e9a5 | MATH 221   |
| course\_6bc496e4640fd08f71e1b041 | MATH 222   |
| course\_8634dde81cc95f6c58014087 | MATH 234   |
| course\_0002a781bc9543f3a2ac1a94 | MATH 320   |
| course\_4aa5bbed0c86993f5f0dc832 | MATH 421   |
| course\_3b14f667f980624c1f5bde67 | MATH 461   |

### matched

true

## social Image

false