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Philosophy

Scott Marcus

PHIL101 · PHIL113 · PHILLOG · PSY235 · PHIL102 · PHILOSOPHY · PHIL101ETHICS · PHIL100 · 19 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.4/5
Take again
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Difficulty
3.4

The decision

unless you can self-teach philosophy and tolerate long off-topic lectures for a tough grade.

Best fit · Self Taught ProBoring LecturesOff-TopicHard to Get AUnclear ExpectationsDebate or Avoid
  • Most students call lectures boring, off-topic, and .
  • Assessment is sparse (a few tests and a paper) but getting an A is widely described as hard or impossible.
  • A minority like the debate style if they already enjoy philosophy arguments.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

28/100

Multiple students say an A is hard or impossible, with C grades common even for prepared majors.

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Is the course easy?

Standard

42/100

Content itself is not always advanced, but and off-topic lectures make learning the material harder than it should be.

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Is attendance flexible?

Optional

72/100

, and some students skip without formal penalty, though missing lectures hurts test prep.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

26/100

Dominant advice is do not take him , and .

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Course guide

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Grading

Strict

30/100

Students report hard A ceilings, C averages, and accusations or rewrites that feel unfair.

Format shift

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Workload

Light

70/100

; usually a couple of tests and one paper, so busywork is low.

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Teaching experience

Poor

28/100

Repeated complaints of boring, off-topic, unorganized lectures with .

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

82/100

Grades hinge on a few tests and a paper rather than regular assignments.

Format shift

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

19 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person philosophy sections are lecture-heavy, often off-topic and boring, with sparse graded items but and .

Main concern

, hard A ceiling, and misleading or .

What students said

“this guy is a horrible teacher...he talks about pretty much nothing the whole class and ..”
PHIL101
“ and only 2 tests all year and a final. All you have to do is listen to his long lectures and you should pass.”
PHIL113
“You cannot get an A in his class.”
PHIL101

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

No stored summary is available for this format.

Main concern

No main concern is stored for this format.

Exam style

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Sparse exams and a ; format is not clearly open-book or strictly proctored in comments.

Few TestsEssay or PaperChoice QuestionsLecture-Dependent

Assessment risk

Standard

45/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

plus a paper; one review notes choice of questions, but reviews do not prove open-book or .

2-3 TestsFinal PaperVerbal AssignmentsQuestion Choice
“ and only 2 tests all year and a final.”
PHIL113
“Only 3 things he grades on, 2 test and 1 paper, all relativly easy.”
PHIL100
“you get a variety of choices of questions to answer on a test.”
PHIL101ETHICS

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“this guy is a horrible teacher...he talks about pretty much nothing the whole class and tests us on stuff we barely learned..one of the and shows up late all the time.. !!”

Voice snapshots generated from 19 in-person philosophy reviews, highlighting weak teaching and . Credibility rating: Medium.

🎯 Teaching Quality

28/100

“His lectures were extremely boring and he spent excessive amounts of time talking about one thing, and half the time he wasnt even teaching philosophy.”

🚫 Recommendation

26/100

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🅰️ Hard A Reality

28/100

“You cannot get an A in his class.”

📚

70/100

“ and only 2 tests all year and a final.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Very boring teacher and
  • He goes off topic and .
  • If you are capable of debating and discussing, this is an awesome class.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • Hard to get an A, but not extremly unfair
  • You cannot get an A in his class.
  • easy to fail

Theme 3

❤️ About Character

  • .
  • he is rude.
  • He's obviously dumbing down his standards as it is.

Data context

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Analysis sample

19

Recent reviews read by the AI

19

Lifetime ratings

72/100

Evidence confidence

19 reviews over many years are consistently negative on teaching quality, though a few debate-oriented outliers soften the extremes.

Inside 19 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 52
4 out of 54
3 out of 53
2 out of 52
1 out of 58

Course coverage

PHIL1018 reviews
PHIL1004 reviews
PHIL1132 reviews
PHIL101ETHICS1 review
PHIL1021 review
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PHILLOG1 review
PHILOSOPHY1 review
PSY2351 review

Reported outcomes

B range results lead the reported letter grades.

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