Jay Atlas - Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Professor: Jay Atlas

Department: Philosophy

College: Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PHIL185M
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This class is not self-aware in the least. It enacts seemingly unexamined pedagogical practices that are uncritical of the impact of its own knowledge production. Throwing around the word "logic" to value western science above all other ways of knowing & being without examining "whose logic?" is very dangerous & consistently happens in this class.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PHILSECT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Atlas is one of the greatest assets of Pomona College. His old-school british-style attitude may take some getting used to, but he is easily one of the best professors I have ever had.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: LGCS060
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Atlas is absolutely fabulous. He is definitely intimidating at first, but then ends up being amazing. I love that he's my adviser.

Rating # 4

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

While my first impression was dry/boring, I ended up liking so much that I switched my major and selected him as my advisor. After graduation, faced with the hard facts about the utility of the philosophy degree, he provided invaluable mentoring support, which helped me achieve long-term success. Like him or not in the classroom, he's a good man.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: 1997
• 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:

A professor of the classic style-- not unlike an Oxford don-- his teaching talents are best demonstrated in the one-on-one tutorial. If you wish to learn the philosphers' craft his is the ideal class.

Rating # 6

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Knows his stuff, seems very intelligent. Unfortunately, also very intimidating and not very willing to help out if you're lost, or even let you know whether you're lost in B-C realm or floundering all the way down around D-F.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: LGCS060
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Linguistics060:Logic.AlsoListed asPHIL 060.Entire grade consisted of 5 hw assignments & 1 exam.1 of my favorite profs at the claremont colleges.He loves what he teaches.He misses class a lot,but rewards those w/PerfectAttendance at the end of the semester

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: LINGSOMET
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

he's a brilliant and engaging prof with bad attendance