Professor: Jim Hamilton
Department: Philosophy
College: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: PHIL120
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He's very knowledgeable, and skilled at making complicated topics accessible to the layperson using anecdotes and examples. He lets his personality shine through his lectures and assigns very little homework, unless you count readings. You'll really learn a lot from him.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: PHILO340
- Grade Received: C-
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Course was unnecessarily difficult. Lectures are hard to follow and the assignments that follow are almost impossible to pass. Drops grades along the way to help make sure you don't fail outright. I did the readings, participated, and never skipped. I would recommend waiting to take any required courses in philosophy if he's the professor.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: PHILO100
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This professor has taken my brain and beaten it with a sledgehammer. I did not enjoy the long boring lectures that offered no participation, even though he grades you on it. Don't skip this class or you'll be sorry. You'll be sorry you're already enrolled. Good luck. Glad that I am done.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: PHILO100
- Grade Received: D-
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He definitely knows his stuff but it stops there. Very boring long lectures where he only gives his opinion and there are no opportunities for class discussion so you can hear all opinions and sides. Quizzes are ridiculously hard, even if you've read the material for them. Still an easy A but not an enjoyable journey to get it.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: PHIL120
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class COULD be an easy A. But his tests are completely incomprehensible and nothing like the work we do on quizzes and assignments. He expects us to read his mind. We don't even get actual questions for the final. They are statements, and we have to figure out what to do with them.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: PHILO100
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
great teacher. really takes baby steps in challenging us to succeed.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: PHILO120
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very intelligent man. The class was difficult for me, but Hamilton is one of the most entertaining profs at kstate. He knows his stuff.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: PHILO365
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
You read the material. He lectures. Everyday. Very monotonous. He's a charming fellow but the class was very boring.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: LOGIC1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Be prepared to have work outside of class time. Some of the material is pretty rough, but he is always willing to help. Great class.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: PHILOSOPHY
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: PHILO120
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very hard class, but very interesting if you're interested in the subject matter. Any theatre, music, or art student should take this class.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: PHILO320
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Class was way too easy, but that's not his fault.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: PHILO
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Excellent, excellent, excellent. He's charismatic and fascinating, a polymath with an infectious curiosity about EVERYTHING. Don't graduate without taking a class from this man!
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: PHILO
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Pretty hard class. Be warned.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: PHIL
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: LOGIC
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a great guy. If you have any problems, can't understand something, or just want to chat, he is always willing to talk. Whoever thought he was 'worst at KSU' must have been a psych major.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: PHILO297
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Hard course, hard grader, he is the dean so be warned... overall he's a niceguy
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