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Sociology

Terry Timmins

SOC180 · SOC · SOC180H · SOC160 · SOCIO180 · SOC185 · SOC185H · SOC100 · ANALYSOC · SCO180 · SOC195 · SOCA185 · SOCSOC · SOCA100 · 137 lifetime ratings

AI rating
78/100
RMP rating
3.8/5
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Difficulty
2.0

The decision

if you want a low-stress sociology GE with and a funny, laid-back professor.

Best fit · Easy A HunterEasy A with study guidesHilarious storytellerOff-topic lecturesGenerous curveExtra credit heavy
  • Study guides and textbook reading make exams very doable for most students.
  • He is entertaining and kind, but lectures often wander off topic or .
  • ; curves and protect grades.

Key questions

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Is this an easy A?

EasyA

88/100

Study guides often match the and are common, and many students call it an easy A with modest effort.

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Is the course easy?

Introductory

82/100

Material is treated as common-sense sociology with multi-choice and .

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Is attendance flexible?

Optional

86/100

Students report and some leave after the sign-in sheet with little penalty.

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Is this professor recommended?

WorthIt

72/100

and entertainment, though a vocal minority dislike boring or off-topic lectures.

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Course guide

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Grading

Generous

84/100

Curves, , and study-guide-aligned tests make high grades common with modest work.

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Workload

Light

78/100

Main work is reading the book, doing the study guide, and a .

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Teaching experience

Average

66/100

Students split between loving his humor and stories versus saying he reads slides and rarely teaches tightly.

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Grades mainly come from a handful of exams built from notes and the textbook, sometimes plus a short paper.

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

50 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Easy A Hunter

In-person sociology sections feel like a chill GE: funny stories, movies, study guides that mirror tests, and or factually weak.

Main concern

Some students feel because lectures drift off topic and .

What students said

“It's an easy A class... All you , and study 100 questions from the study guide.”
SOCA185
“Easiest class/prof at OCC. He's the best! A!”
SOC180
“he literally hands you a study guide with every single question on the test... .”
SOC100

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

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Main concern

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Exam style

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Exams are largely multi-choice from study guides and the and softened with .

Study guide matches testMultiple choice and T/FGenerous curveExtra credit

Assessment risk

StudentFriendly

82/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

as study-guide based, multi-choice/true-false, and curve-friendly.

Study guide matches testMultiple choice and T/FCurveExtra credit
“The study guide is basically the test, so it's super easy. :)Mult choices and T/F”
SOCA185
“If you follow study guide, you will get 100% on all his exams.”
SOC185H
“BUT !”
SOC180

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Easiest class/prof at OCC. He's the best! A! :)”

Voice snapshots generated from 50 in-person reviews spanning 2008-2013, highlighting ease, humor, and lecture-drift themes. Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Easy A Reputation

88/100

“It's an easy A class... the study guide is basically the test, so it's super easy.”

😂 Entertaining Personality

80/100

“Informative, intelligent, hilarious... One of the . TAKE THIS CLASS!”

📚

55/100

“Yes he is easy, but his lectures are straight from the publisher and he reads them word for word.”

📝 Curve and

84/100

“plenty of . because of study guides.”

Theme 1

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • It's an easy A class
  • he literally hands you a study guide with every single question on the test
  • A/B with little effort
  • Easiest class/prof at OCC

Theme 2

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • lectures are very boring though
  • Intelligent and always cracking jokes
  • he goes off tangents and will waste one hour
  • his Dave Chapelle impression is great

Theme 3

🚪

  • Swear I went
  • once he passes around the sign in sheet, leave
  • , BUT YOU SHOULD SHOW UP

Data context

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Analysis sample

50

Recent reviews read by the AI

137

Lifetime ratings

88/100

Evidence confidence

Fifty detailed in-person reviews across many years show consistent easy-A and study-guide themes with only moderate opinion split on lecture quality.

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Quality ratings

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Course coverage

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