As much as I love philosophy, I am truly detesting this class. - The professor wrote his own textbook, making it needlessly convoluted and hard to process at times; he also injects his own bias very often. Seems pretty contradictory to the purpose of a philosophy class. -For the content, he gives you a certain number of chapters to read by a specific date (e.x. 4 chapters by Sept. 25th). No lectures, no additional work; just the self-paced reading and end-of-chapter quizzes (terrible for my ADHD, btw). - As for grading, as I stated, there are 12 quizzes - one per chapter, 10 questions each. One attempt. However, they're all true or false, and also are too vague to always be clear what he's asking. Luckily, he only counts your 8 highest scores for the quiz grade (20% of your final grad...read more

He's a very sarcastic person, and not in the funny way. He literally stated on the iCollege feed that, and I quote, "If you took it, and got 5 or less, it is advisable to evaluate the way you studied the material in the chapter. Getting 5 right out of 10 on a true/false quiz is equivalent to guessing." Trust me, these quizzes are frustrating enough that you just might get a 50. I do hear that if you contact him outside of class though, he is a very straightforward person and is willing to help, which is a plus.