AI Rate Professor

Ethnic Studies

Michael Carter

AFROAM4 · AFRO10793 · AFROAM004 · 8 lifetime ratings

AI rating
28/100
RMP rating
2.1/5
Take again
12.5%
Difficulty
3.4

The decision

Avoid if you can; the class is low on teaching support and high on flawed, high-stakes testing.

Best fit · Self Taught ProTest HeavyBroken Course LinksLecture HeavyYells in ClassFactually Contested Quizzes
  • Course grade is almost entirely a handful of true/false or multiple-choice tests
  • Students repeatedly report broken links, inaccessible materials, and no review/study guides
  • and describe a stressful, unhelpful environment

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

40/100

Some still get A/B because there is , but and no review make a clean A unreliable.

Online and exams that students call hard or unfair.

Is the course easy?

Standard

45/100

Content load is moderate with limited reading, but lecture-heavy detail and picky true/false items raise the challenge.

Similar standard difficulty claims across formats, driven by test .

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

45/100

while others do not; tags and comments conflict between mandatory and optional.

Online often optional; some in-person reviews mark mandatory with .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Would-take-again is very low; students call it the yelling and broken materials.

Negative recommendation is consistent online and in person.

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

28/100

Graded by few high-stakes tests with , and claims of wrong official answers.

Format shift

Both .

Workload

Light

72/100

; the load is almost entirely watching lectures or films and taking a few exams.

Format shift

Online explicitly has no homework; .

Teaching experience

Poor

28/100

Students respect some knowledge and humor but , and weak support.

Format shift

Online focuses on broken content dumps; in-person focuses on films, yelling, and no study guides.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

92/100

Nearly the entire grade is 5-6 short exams or .

Format shift

and in person.

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

5 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

on films and lectures, and feature yelling, no study guides, and contested quiz answers.

Main concern

Incorrect or and stress from yelling with no .

What students said

“This professor bases his tests on things that aren't true. Any basic google search would show how wrong the "correct" .”
AFROAM004
“he never provides a review or a study guide for an upcoming test & if and he offers 0 .”
AFRO10793
“He was funny but he yells a lot and for no reason sometimes.”
AFROAM4

Remote format

Online

3 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

Online AFROAM sections feel like article and YouTube dumps with broken links, no review, and grades based only on a .

Main concern

and .

What students said

“This is barely a class. It's a bunch of articles & youtube videos posted to read / watch. Half the articles had broken links or .”
AFROAM004
“My whole grade was based on 5 tests that are multiple choice.”
AFROAM004
“ .”
AFROAM004

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

and frequent claims of incorrect or inaccessible source material.

Multiple choice / true-false onlyNo answer review after submitNo study guideBroken source linksOpinion-contested answers

Assessment risk

Strict

30/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

- and lecture-based, lack study guides, and are accused of wrong and yelling if challenged.

Test heavyNo study guideIncorrect answers allegedYelling if challenged
“this class however is graded on 5 or 6 tests that are impossible to get an A on because they are worded incorrectly, have incorrect answers selected as the correct ones”
AFROAM004
“he never provides a review or a study guide for an upcoming test”
AFRO10793
“he makes you watch videos the entire time and then gives u a 20 question test about them but theyre very detailed so pay attention and .”
AFROAM4

Online

Online grade is basically five multiple-choice or and videos, with broken links and no answer review.

5 exams no final in some sectionsTrue/False quizzesNo review after submitBroken links
“My whole grade was based on 5 tests that are multiple choice.”
AFROAM004
“ .”
AFROAM004
“Half the articles had broken links or .”
AFROAM004

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“This professor bases his tests on things that aren't true. Any basic google search would show how wrong the "correct" .”

Voice snapshots generated from 8 reviews (3 online, 5 in and material issues. Credibility rating: Medium.

📉 Poor Teaching Support

28/100

“This is barely a class. It's a bunch of articles & youtube videos posted to read / watch.”

📝

92/100

“My whole grade was based on 5 tests that are multiple choice.”

👎

18/100

“Find a different class if you can.”

🔗 Broken Materials

25/100

“Half the articles had broken links or .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Dr. Carter is a very intelligent man and can crack the class up.
  • He was funny but he yells a lot and for no reason sometimes.
  • He is very defensive and not AT ALL helpful when you ask q's for further learning.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • My whole grade was based on 5 tests that are multiple choice.
  • .
  • they are worded incorrectly, have incorrect answers selected as the correct ones

Theme 3

⚠️ About Course Materials

  • Half the articles had broken links or .
  • The .
  • Something that sucked was that a bit of the material he provided page).

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

8

Recent reviews read by the AI

8

Lifetime ratings

62/100

Evidence confidence

8 reviews across and broken-material complaints, but the sample is still modest.

Inside 8 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50
4 out of 50
3 out of 53
2 out of 53
1 out of 52

Course coverage

AFROAM0046 reviews
AFRO107931 review
AFROAM41 review

Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

7 reported outcomes

A range

3

A 2 · A- 1

B range

2

B 2

C range

0

No reported values

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

2

Not sure yet 2