Reviews for James Vaughn Green
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: ENES460 Grade Expected: A July 11, 2010, 7:56 am | The course was so poorly depicted in the syllabus that I had to schedule a meeting with the professor on campus. Also, his grading was just simply unfair. For one assignment, there were 3 criteria outlined by the syllabus, when I got my grade back I was shocked that it was as low as it was. Turns out that the rubric that he sent me had over 30 criteria listed on it! How is that fair? And no, even after I questioned him about this, he refused to change my grade or allow for any make up work. I asked him why he couldn't have just sent everyone the rubric and he said "well, it's a senior class". I'm still not entirely sure why that makes a difference. He also said that, based on the semester, he grades more leniently or more difficultly. I know someone, a guy on the football team, who took this class in a winter session and he got A's on every single assignment without putting forth any real effort. I, who am in the Honors school, have had to dedicate huge amounts of time to these papers, and only have 1 A paper. What really gets me is that the syllabus never changed! How can you grade two semesters so differently when the syllabus doesn't change at all? The class should have been better planned. We had about two weeks to complete the first, smallest assignment and then about a week for each successive assignment. Then the very last, most important, hardest assignment came around and he gave us 4 days! Why couldn't the assignments have been spread out better to avoid us having to write 20 pages and plan 30 minute presentation in 4 days? Lastly, the professor had a discussion board on ELMS that he liked to use for questions, because this way there wouldn't be repeats. I thought this was a good idea until I asked a question myself. With our final project due in less than 2 days it took our professor about a day and a half to answer one of these questions. (The question wasn't mine but I had the same question). It just seems to me like he didn't care about his students needs at all. I originally took this class because I read some reviews about this professor and heard he was a great guy. Well, he seemed nice while I watched him on our video lectures, but he was a real disappointment in person. |
| Anonymous Course: ENES210 Grade Expected: A December 10, 2009, 11:52 am | This class was def. a great laid back class. Take this with a hard scheudle if you want a breather! Grade consists of 3 main essays, which are easy to get an A on if you follow his instructions, and one big final group project(35% of your grade). Not much homework, except for reading assignments. Pretty much guarneteed an A if you do your essays and project |
| champ123 Course: Grade Expected: A December 10, 2007, 9:21 am | Good teacher. Had him for Freshman Connection. Don't need to show up for lectures but he takes attendance. Make sure you participate because thats a part of your grade. Overall he teaches well. All his lecture notes are on slides posted online. His papers are easy too as long as you write exactly what he's looking for. And usually he'll say what he's looking for on the paper. And what he's looking for is on the slides. So it makes it really easy. The TAs graded the papers. I did well on all of them. Interesting class. Easy A. Oh and he'll give pop quizzes off of the chapter you had to read. But he only have it twice. And he gave extra credit on the second quiz. He's easy, but he's very serious. You kind of don't need a textbook, but you might need it for quizzes. |