AI Rate Professor

Art History

John Abel

ARTH157 · ART101 · ARTHISTORY · ART157 · ARTSECT · ART260 · ART261 · 17 lifetime ratings

AI rating
92/100
RMP rating
4.0/5
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Difficulty
3.0

The decision

if you can sit through long lectures and will use and notes to secure your grade.

Best fit · Effort For RewardLecture MasterExtra Credit FriendlyArt History ExpertHippie HumorField Trip Fun
  • Students love his deep art knowledge, unique humor, and museum field trips.
  • Classes are lecture-heavy with ; tests can be hard but notes and save grades.
  • Showing up and taking notes is the main path to an easy A.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

EasyA

80/100

, and lecture-based test hints make an A reachable with steady effort.

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Is the course easy?

Standard

55/100

Content can feel hard and lecture-dense, but many call the course easy when you attend and use notes.

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Is attendance flexible?

Recommended

48/100

Missing class hurts because lectures feed the tests and .

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Is this professor recommended?

MustTake

85/100

Most students , and one of the .

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Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Lenient

78/100

Heavy and passable curves let weak exam .

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Workload

Light

75/100

; load is mostly lectures, a few papers, and optional field trips.

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Teaching experience

Excellent

86/100

Widely praised as , and genuinely passionate about art.

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

72/100

; homework is minimal or absent.

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

17 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Effort For Reward

In-person lecture-driven art history with fun field trips, lots of , and hard but .

Main concern

Three-hour lectures and .

What students said

“Just show up to his classes and ... Easy class”
ARTH157
“if your an art head and want a for you.”
ART260
“even if you get D's in all 3 of the exams... you still can pass with a B.”
ART260

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

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

; hard if you miss class, fair if .

Lecture-based testsExact wording from notesExtra credit available

Assessment risk

Standard

58/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In-person exams come straight from lecture notes with exact wording; study sessions and help.

Lecture wordingHard testsStudy sessionsExtra credit
“be sure to listen to every word of lecture because that is where the questions on the ”
ART260
“ !”
ART260
“If you study it's not hard to get an A.”
ART260

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“A great professor. It's a privilege to be under his instruction. His knowledge of Art is unparalleled.”

Voice snapshots generated from 17 in-person reviews spanning 2004-2013, highlighting lectures, , and art expertise. Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Teaching Quality

86/100

“his knowledge of the subject is outstanding.”

👍 Recommendation Rate

85/100

“TAKE THIS PROFESSOR! his class is challenging but the lectures are the .”

🎁 Safety Net

80/100

“even if you get D's in all 3 of the exams and get 5 out of 10 on all the quizes, you still can pass with a B.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • describes himself as a Hippie & he is
  • He is one of the nicest professors I have met
  • Teacher has great sense of humor too

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • If you study it's not hard to get an A
  • There's 3 tests, 2 term papers, and 1 field trip that is 25 pts
  • he tells you all the questions that are gonna be on the tests

Theme 3

🏛️ About Field Trips & EC

  • The field trips are really fun!
  • they are great fun!
  • Gives for field trips and holds many study sessions

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

17

Recent reviews read by the AI

17

Lifetime ratings

85/100

Evidence confidence

Seventeen reviews across many years show consistent praise for knowledge, lectures, and with only a few sparse negatives.

Inside 17 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 59
4 out of 55
3 out of 51
2 out of 50
1 out of 52

Course coverage

ART26010 reviews
ART1572 reviews
ART1011 review
ART2611 review
ARTH1571 review
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ARTHISTORY1 review
ARTSECT1 review

Reported outcomes

B range results lead the reported letter grades.

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