Anyone use Rate My Professors .com?

[TrailRunr]

When I took a community college class in the early 90s while in high school, I thought that the professor was a bit forgetful here and there. He was pretty good at lecturing since he lectured the exact same way for decades. Looking at the RMP entries many years later, the dementia got so bad that forgetting things was common and frequent, yet the school let him stay on.

Back on the topic, I use RMP for disaster avoidance like TESU liberal arts capstone mentors that treat it like a Ph.D dissertation. I agree with LLL that some of these classes like the TESU capstone are busywork and a waste of time, so I want easy as well.

[yb1]

I used it a few times but for one particular course at community college. I had a full load and wanted to add an extra class and I was hoping the extra class would be easy.

The guy had solid reviews. Great teacher! Funny! Awesome guy! Engaging and fun class. I was sold.

Two months later I absolutely disliked the class and the professor. I had the stomach flu, followed by bronchitis and he is telling me if I miss another class doctors note or not than he is dropping me. Then he expected us to know everything about classical music. I spent more time studying for his tests then I did all my other classes and his was suppose to be the easy one.

[sanantone]

Some people have an interest in learning a variety of subjects and others don't. They have very narrow interests, which is fine. Universities were originally designed to provide a well-rounded education, but many people use them as vocational training these days even though they still aren't designed for vocational training. What I noticed, though, is that people often point to social science and humanities classes as classes they neither care about nor have any use for. But, how many people use biology, physics, earth science, or chemistry in their daily work? How many people use college algebra in their daily work? Because I use advanced algebra so little, I've forgotten most things, and it has had no affect on my work or ability to obtain jobs.

[sanantone]

I used it a few times but for one particular course at community college. I had a full load and wanted to add an extra class and I was hoping the extra class would be easy.

The guy had solid reviews. Great teacher! Funny! Awesome guy! Engaging and fun class. I was sold.

Two months later I absolutely disliked the class and the professor. I had the stomach flu, followed by bronchitis and he is telling me if I miss another class doctors note or not than he is dropping me. Then he expected us to know everything about classical music. I spent more time studying for his tests then I did all my other classes and his was suppose to be the easy one.

Even though I didn't base my selection of PhD classes on Ratemyprofessor reviews, I did read some reviews before and after I took some courses out of curiosity. The easy statistics/regression teacher had great reviews. It appears that he is good at explaining things because he makes concepts easy to understand, but the problem is that he doesn't cover the harder concepts. A lot of these students don't know what they don't know. As undergraduate CJ students, it doesn't matter at all whether or not they grasp more advanced statistical concepts, but this could be detrimental to graduate students.

For another professor, the students had generally good reviews of him, but often complained about too much sociology being in his courses. Um, most of CJ is based off of sociology. It is stupid to not expect sociology to be in juvenile justice and race and ethnicity courses. The problem I ended up having with him was, not that he injected too much sociology into the course, but that his course was disorganized. A lot of assignments ended up being cancelled, we didn't get far into our class project, and he didn't lecture on most of the chapters of the books we had to buy. In the end, I came out learning very little about a subject I wanted to use in my research.

Yet another professor at Txstate who has above average reviews on RMP is really a below average professor. I'm assuming most of the reviews were written by undergraduate students. But, when you talk to doctoral students, you will find out that a large percentage of them have failed one of the classes he teaches due to lack of clarity of expectations for the assignments. He also has a tendency to only teach from a third to half of the scheduled time for the class. That wouldn't be a problem if his teaching was good. There was only one professor most of the doctoral students I came across recommended to absolutely avoid, and he was that professor.

My least favorite professor at Angelo State University has good reviews on RMP. When I took his course, he was the least engaged out of all the professors I had during my time there. When he did give feedback, he would always praise this one student who had clearly plagiarized from our readings. If our professor was familiar with the readings he assigned, he would have known this.

[videogamesrock]

I googled site:ratemyprofessors.com "school name" "easy a" your results should give you all of the teachers who have comments of easy A or not an easy A.

[Life Long Learning]

Did BOG AAS, (Summer 2016) West Virginia University at Parkersburg know you have other degrees?

I googled site:ratemyprofessors.com "school name" "easy a" your results should give you all of the teachers who have comments of easy A or not an easy A.

[TrailRunr]

General education is:

1. GE is designed to make sure graduates are well-rounded.
2. GE is designed to keep professors and some departments afloat by making students take classes in departments like Asian studies and philosophy. In my area, San Jose State University requires 12 credits of upper level GE that cannot be taken elsewhere on top of 39-45 LL GE credits.

I think the real reason for absurd GE requirements is #2 and #1 is just used as justification for #2. I'm sorry, but excessive GE takes money away from overcrowded classes in business, health professions, and computer science. Popular majors have sky high GPA requirements to declare while you can declare history with a 2.0 GPA. More students today are staying away from non-money making majors and flocking to $$$ majors like CS. So yes, use RMP to look for the easiest way out of GE and other similar requirements.

[bluebooger]

I googled site:ratemyprofessors.com "school name" "easy a" your results should give you all of the teachers who have comments of easy A or not an easy A.

tried
site:ratemyprofessors.com "school name" "hotness"

didn't seem to work so well

[sanantone]

General education is:

1. GE is designed to make sure graduates are well-rounded.
2. GE is designed to keep professors and some departments afloat by making students take classes in departments like Asian studies and philosophy. In my area, San Jose State University requires 12 credits of upper level GE that cannot be taken elsewhere on top of 39-45 LL GE credits.

I think the real reason for absurd GE requirements is #2 and #1 is just used as justification for #2. I'm sorry, but excessive GE takes money away from overcrowded classes in business, health professions, and computer science. Popular majors have sky high GPA requirements to declare while you can declare history with a 2.0 GPA. More students today are staying away from non-money making majors and flocking to $$$ majors like CS. So yes, use RMP to look for the easiest way out of GE and other similar requirements.

This is not true. The most popular majors have remained relatively stable. CJ is not a gen ed subject, it remains extremely popular, and it has a very high underemployment rate. Business administration/management remains as the most popular major, and this major also has a high underemployment rate. Some of the social sciences and humanities remain in the top 10. No one is forced to take Asian Studies and philosophy unless you attend a for-profit that maps out your gen eds due to limited options. If people didn't have to take a science, the only thing that would keep those departments afloat would be STEM and healthcare majors. There are hardly any STEM majors in the top 10.

Let's use logic, which is something one might improve upon in a course from the philosophy department. Students have to take a couple of humanities courses for their degree. An Asian Studies course is not going to be one of the more popular options unless it's at a school with a high Asian student population. In this case, you just might have a lot of students who are genuinely interested in the course. Otherwise, an Asian Studies department is not going to be supported by a couple of dozen students taking an intro course each year. Most universities are not San Jose State University.

For other subjects people complain about, such as psychology, they do not rely on gen eds at all. Psychology is the second most popular major. Sociology/psychology/anthropology are also a required prerequisite for most health professions. Even without them, there are plenty of people majoring in psychology to keep psychology departments afloat. While an undergraduate degree in psychology is not the most marketable degree, the mental health field has a shortage of licensed professionals who have a graduate degree.

The real reason for gen ed is tradition. Universities have been this way for thousands of years. They were never meant to be vocational schools. What I tell people who don't like gen ed is to not go to a 4-year college because it is not meant for them. They can get an AAS or certificate and be done with it.

[Life Long Learning]

Many jobs require a BS+ and the Edu-Gov't Complex will make you take Gen Ed. The way to mitigate the nonsense is use RMP.:hurray:

What I tell people who don't like gen ed is to not go to a 4-year college because it is not meant for them. They can get an AAS or certificate and be done with it.