David Kyle - University of California Davis, Davis, CA

Professor: David Kyle

Department: Social Science

College: University of California Davis, Davis, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: SOC195
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Do not take him if you actually would like to learn anything. There is no structure to the class, we watched an irrelevant documentary everyday. He definitely does not read assignments because I was getting A's and little feedback until the final which I got a C and it brought my whole grade down to a B. TLDR; this dude is nuts but class is easy.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: SOC001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I truly enjoyed this class as well as Professor Kyle's teaching style. I found his lectures interesting. He's knowledgable on current and past sociological issues. He doesn't test on things he doesn't teach. Go to class, participate, and do the assignments & you will do well. A few take home essay exams. I would recommend! :)

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: SOC001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I truly enjoyed this class as well as Professor Kyle's teaching style. I found his lectures very interesting. He's extremely knowledgable on current and past sociological issues. And he never tested on things he didn't teach. Go to class, participate, and complete assignments and you will do well. Take home essay exams. 10/10 would recommend! :)

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: SOC1
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

While Kyle clearly knows what he's talking about, there was no structure to the course. We watched a lot of documentaries, which I mostly found interesting. Readings are pretty long, but I only learned from this textbook. We had a couple take home one page essay question quizzes and the final was also just essay questions. Not too hard to get an A.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: SOC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

For the love of education, use powerpoints to help students keep up and stay organized. You don't have to read off of them if that's the type of professor you're afraid to be. But it's better to have some words with brief descriptions on the projector for students than to have students scramble to note take based solely on oral speech.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: SOC1
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Don't take the class. In the whole quarter we only had 2 lectures where he didn't show a documentary. The documentaries didn't even teach anything new. The few lectures were obviously unplanned. I took the class to prepare for the MCAT and only the book helped, Prof. Kyle just chatted randomly and didn't show up to his own office hours.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: SOC01
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This professor has no idea how to teach an introductory course. While he does use good teaching tools such as documentaries and online chapter quizzes, his grading is extremely unclear and his lectures are difficult to follow, especially if you are a visual learner. He does not write the definition of terms down. Learn from the book.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: SOC195
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Come to class, participate, and complete assignments and you will do well. Take home essay exams. Provides powerpoint slides with comprehensive notes on class lectures and takes class time to review the assigned reading material. No Textbook, just a novel, and selected readings he will post in canvas. Fun Class, interesting, and inspirational.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: SOC01
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He is a very eclectic professor. He started off with strong and mysterious lectures that were excellently tied together and hidden with "Easter eggs" he'd revisit throughout the class. Then he started mixing documentaries with lectures. He's not a conventional prof; we're observing the docs for the themes he teaches in lecture. He's good&Underrated

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: SOC104
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I thoroughly enjoyed this class as well as Professor Kyle's teaching style. He does go off on tangents often, but I always found them interesting, and he never tested on things he didn't teach. There was one paper a week, no midterm and he gave us the answers to most of the final questions right before handing it out. 10/10 would recommend!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: SOC104
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Overall, he's a great guy and extremely knowledgeable! I would recommend to avoid his classes.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: IRE104
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Although he deviates from the conventional teaching style, his lectures were really informative and interesting. The essay prompts might seem hard at first but it was a nice challenge and really made me think about the material. I did well by taking detailed notes during lectures, doing all the readings and connecting the two for each essay.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: IRE104
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I have never rated a professor until now. Please, please, please avoid Dr. David Kyle by all means! He is incredibly unorganized (plays videos for last minute lectures) and has readings that do not align with lecture. He is unpredictable. As a side note, this is coming from a student that did all the readings and went to every lecture!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: SOC001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Please take this class with a different professor if you can. It was hard to follow him during lecture. He puts a cyborg spin to everything. Shows one too many videos in class. Has technical difficulties multiple times per lecture. It was impossible for me to take notes in this class because he goes off topic so much. But I appreciate his enthusiam

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: SOC46A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He was nice, and while he did go on tangents sometimes, even they were related to the course, but sometimes you'd have to think about it to see the connection. Hardly studied for his tests and got an A. There is a group project, quizzes, 1 midterm and 1 final. If you know how science experiments/scientific method works, you'll be at an advantage.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: SOC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Fun and upbeat professor!! He goes off on tangents A LOT but he really reviews before the final exam so its easy to do well in the course. TAKE THIS TEACHER!!

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: SOC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Such a sick professor. He goes off on tangents a lot and focuses a lot on the world of "creativity" but it was such a good take on the subject versus other teachers who simply drown you in reading and hard exams. TAKE THIS PROFESSOR!! No midterm, one final (which he basically gives you the answers to..) worth taking the class!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: SOC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Such a chill professor. Goes off on tangents and in lecture his material is hard to follow but if you read the book, do your chapter reports, and get a good TA, this class is deff an easy A.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: SOC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Dope professor, this guy knows what's going on! His structure, if any, is very "creative", really gives an intro to Sociology course a different meaning. 8 mini essays, put in time and show your TA you care and you'll do great. I made the biggest mistake of waiting to see him the last week of school. This guy is a genius, take his class!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: SOC001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He goes on in class on many tangents making it hard to figure out what it is that he wants you to know. The key is to have a good TA! Mine sucked making it harder. Prof. Kyle requires 8 chapter essays and my TA would grade them so harshly, it was hard to know what was it they wanted out of them. Plus, this class doesn't cover writing GE!