Ricardo Salas - Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA

Professor: Ricardo Salas

Department: Political Science

College: Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: POL100
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He isnt necessarily hard... but doesnt help much. Rather he discussions are about political things isnt helpful. HARD AF for a Intro/100 level class. COMPLETELY on your own with no guidance.. this is the class for you. The material isnt necessarily hard but there is a lot of reading... and you have to retain it for tests.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: POCS100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Worst teacher ever!! avoid this guy, he doesn't teach. He'll give you 5 study guides each with 40 questions that might be on the test. If you wanna pass his class then you must buy both books and read them to find the answers to the study guides

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: POSC230
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

I took Professor Salas for POSC 120, 215, and 230. He is without a doubt one of the best professors I've ever had. If you want to pass, all you have to do is complete the study guide, memorize it and pass. It's an easy A. Other than that he's hilarious, he has strong views which makes class interesting. If you want an easy grade, take him.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: POCS100
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Don't be messed up. The man is doing his job just fine. Do the study guide and study off of the study guide and you will do for an A. You put in the effort you pass, don't blame it on the teacher. You learn you learn, if not you fail. Easy as that.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: POCS100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lectures are completely unfocused, has a ridiculous attendance policy and literally doesnt teach at all.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: POSC100
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Took this class my first semester of college a few years ago and dropped it. Lectures were complete nonsense and were often about stories from his childhood that were neither entertaining or relevant to the course material. He was not approachable regarding grades the grading scale and was quite defensive.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: POCS100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This class is hard you need to be really self motivated, it's a lot of reading and doing study guides. Your whole grade is based on 4 tests that's it! and they are 100 questions to be answered in 60 minutes. But the professor sends helpful info through out the semester and is always helpful is asked. If you do the work you will pass.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: POCS100
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Hes a good man but as a professor, skip. Lecture is heavy &has nothing nothing to do with test material. Yeah, you can probably pass with just studying the study guides because they are the same as the exams but there is atleast 40-50 pages for each exam to memorize and half of the exams are fill in the qs with 8 blanks for each question.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: POL100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

All he does is ramble on and on about random things that he CLAIMS are related to the text. But they hardly ever are. What's worse is that he's self aware of this and often cracks jokes about it but does NOTHING to fix it. Two major things you wanna do to pass his class: -Study the study guides -Go to class (attendance does affect your grade)

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: POL230
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

If you rate Salas as difficult, you clearly don't understand his grading. Ignore everything he says in class, just show up. Do the study guides in class. Study the study guides. That's 100% of what the classes is graded on. It's an extremely easy A. If you take him online, fill out the study guides, and you're good to go.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PLYSC101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Nice man and very critical thinker. That being said, he probably has no concern for students. As many mentioned, his lectures review the material for the first 10 minutes of class, then become rants about his family or religion, nothing to do with the class at all. When questioned why, his response was "I have tenure." Study guides are key.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: POSC230
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

An absolutely horrible professor who doesn't know his own subject material. The fact that this guy is still teaching is an embarrassment to Fullerton. All he does is rant about politics and doesn't teach anything about international relations, but he makes attendance mandatory. Got an A by teaching myself. Doesn't care about students at all.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PLYSC101
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Take this class if you don't mind teaching yourself the material. Make sure you do ALL of the study guides!!! They are time consuming but you can always work on them during class while he lectures. Record his reviews with your phone. He lets you know which questions he will pull from the study guides for exam. SG are time consuming so start early

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: POSC230
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Salas has been the absolute worst prof I have ever had. Every class he rambles on about Trump and completely disregards the subject of this class, IR. Nothing he says in class will help you on your tests. Each test has about 5-7 study guides w/ about 50 questions each. Do them or you will NOT pass your tests.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: POSC100
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lectures were kinda of dreadful only because I'm not interested in the subject, but the class wasn't bad. Took it in the summer and really all you have to do is complete the study guide and memorize it for test. Couples days before the test he will mention most of the specific questions that will be on the test from the study guide.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: POL230
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

One of the worst teachers I have ever had. He's extremely opinionated in lecture, and usually factually inaccurate. He comes off as incredibly biased and ignorant within his own field by doing some light google research of his statements/facts. Get the study guides off his site, study them in class, you'll get an A.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: POCS100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lectures dont help, his notes r chicken scratch. If you want to pass this class all you have to do is finish the study guides and memorize them, but they take forever to finish and its a lot of material to memorize. Pulls questions directly from the study guide onto the test. Attendance is required, easy A if you memorize the SG. Buythe ebook trust

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: POCS100
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

First off, avoid this professor like the plague. His lectures are very unfocused, oftentimes talking about how bad Trump is, how ridiculous religion is, how bad the republicans are. He very rarely covers anything that is on the tests. Regarding the tests, the first one was about 75 questions, but the study guides... expect to have about 40 pages.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: POSC100
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

RIDICULOUS! His lectures are super heavy and long. His exams are crazy into detail about what you read. ex: "what color of shoes was bla bla wearing in 1980"? The study guides are VERY time consuming and don't even help. save yourself a headache and time. Take someone else!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: POSC100F
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Ok. So when I took POSC 100 OL1 with Ricardo Salas , I did terribly on the first Exam. USE AND FILL OUT THE STUDY GUIDES ON HIS SCHOOL WEBSITE AND YOU WILL BE FINE. This professor does not give homework but gives 4 Exams . If you take the online course, expect this to be a very independent class where you're pretty much on your own.