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He sets unrealistic goals by giving heavy workload and tight deadlines. For take-home exams, expect to write dozens of pages in 2 days without knowing the scoring of each question. The weekly homework needs to be completed based on long and tedious readings - they were ALL very difficult to read AND his lectures WONT help a bit on it.Rate My Professors ↗
The class content is not hard, but the online quizzes are ridiculous. The homework does not prepare you for the quizzes, and the tests are basically "learn by yourself". The content he talks about in class is usually pretty bland and does not prepare you for assignments. The TAs aren't very helpful either, making the class that much harder.
I really enjoyed the course material and his lectures were a helpful recap of the textbook. TA's will be helpful in clearing up misconceptions as he tends to move quickly through more important material.Rate My Professors ↗
learned to use discourse markers in English that are very very important from his classRate My Professors ↗
The grading was super easy, we ended up having take-home exams so not to difficult. The weekly assignments were harder because I never really understood the content until discussion when the assignments were due. I feel lecture was a waste. I didn't learn anything that I couldn't read in the book.Rate My Professors ↗
Lectures were worthless, lecture slides averaged ~80 words per slide. I actually found it paid off not to pay attention in this class. He says some pretty sketchy things, but he is nice. So there's that. I wouldn't take 333 unless you have to though.Rate My Professors ↗
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