Andrew Colenbrander - Delta College, University Center, MI

Professor: Andrew Colenbrander

Department: English

College: Delta College, University Center, MI

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENG111
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Drew has disappeared leaving us with Sara W. Not sure what happened to Drew, but Sara won't give us a straight answer. Hope he is okay but it seems like he isn't coming back to our class this semester.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENG201H
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I took Drew for Honors Colloquy. He is a great professor that gets you thinking. You will get an A if you do all your work and put in your best effort. Its a fun class. I definitely recommend him!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENG111112H
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Insanely easy grader, irrelevant busy work, boring in class lectures. Easy A, but I will not take again. Also, the novel we read was poorly written.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENG111
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

One of the easiest classes I've taken. You'd be dumb not to take this professor if you have the choice.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: IHU201H
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Drew is an excellent instructor. He is a very easy grader, but he does assign a fair amount of busy work. His main focus is on the big projects and the little things are supposed to help you to complete your big projects. He is a little longwinded, but he really wants you to learn.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HIS290W
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Andrew Colenbrander Is a fantastic teacher with a love for history and class discussion. Depending on what class you take with him you may end up reading quite a bit. I took a History of the World Wars class and it was a rather reading heavy class. Instead of a text book we were assigned to read "Hiroshima" and "All Quiet On The Western Front".

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENG111
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

No games, straight to the the point. If papers were not exactly what he was looking for, he gave second chances to receive and A instead of a lower grade, flexible.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENG111H
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I had to get help from classmates/the internet outside of class. If you ask a question, he turns it back on you. Assigns you tons of work that's irrelevant to your writing. Makes you have hour-long discussions, read a poorly written novel, and do lots of work that doesn't relate to your writing. Had to rely solely on prior knowledge for everything.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENG111H
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Drew is an excellent professor. ENG111H is a fun class and is an easy A. The papers were fun topics and easy to write. The book was interesting and the journals took 10 minutes tops. He gives excellent feedback and believes that grades should be based on progress not on grammar and content. Be prepared to participate and to read papers.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENG112H
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This class is part of a learning community with History 111HW. Drew saves the day for the class time. He is a very easy grader, and wants you to be a very good writer. In 112, he puts a little more emphasis on grading than he did in 111, but he is still just as helpful and easy. Probably one of the best and kindest teachers at Delta.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENG111H
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Drew is an excellent teacher. He truly cares about your writing, and wants to help make you a writer that could be published. Drew makes the class very easy to pass and get an A. He feels writing cannot be formulaic and simply graded, and cares more about improving your skills than he does about a grade (although it us very easy to get an A).

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENG111
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Drew was an AWESOME teacher! I have 0 complaints, he was so helpful and nice! I loved this class, 3 essays, and discussions over Nickel and Dimed. Easy A! Even online Drew was incredibly warm and helpful!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENG111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Drew made this class very easy to pass. We wrote three papers total, with smaller assignments in between. His feedback was really clear and helpful. I never had any problems with him at all.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENG111
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

After 25 years of being away from a college classroom and forty years from being there the first time, let along taking a class on-line, I was very leery of starting over. Drew put all my fears to rest. He answered all questions and gave great feedback! Thank you!!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: 111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I never thought I would be good at writing until this class. Even online I could tell he has an amazing personality & truly cares about his students. He definitely made me more confident in my writing & the topics were actually very useful. There were only three papers & they were all handed in drafts so the for the final you knew what to fix.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENG111
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I have to say that I was very nervous about taking an online course. This was a great experience! If there was any confusion with an assignment, he was there to answer any questions. I would highly recommend taking him! I never knew that I enjoyed writing as much as I did. It helped that we were able to write about our own life experiences.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENG201H
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Drew is a great guy, but be prepared to sit through long lectures and have to talk alot about creativity both in its from and comparing to Da Vinci and Shakespeare. You have two projects and journals throughout the class. I really liked our first project getting to write the definition of something (hard to explain), but hated the 2nd creative proj

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ENG111H
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I have always hated writing until I started Drew's class. Makes writing seem like a much easier and fun thing to do than ever before. Even though lectures can be long at times, we all love him for the things we've learned and how he treats us. Even though you are working on your journals or paper every week, it becomes second nature. Take him!!!!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: HONORSCOLLOQUY
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Loved Drew! Awesome teacher that really makes you think each week and made class actually interesting.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENG111H
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Drew was an Awesome professor! I'm not the best at english and I did great in his honors course because he was so helpful.