Professor: Toyin Falola
Department: History
College: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: HIS315
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Falola is a nice guy and his lectures are funny, but how you do in the class depends on your TA. I took him my freshman year and had a nice TA and got an easy A with no effort. This year I took him again and got a jerk TA who is giving me a low B. Lectures are off topic and you don't really need to pay attention to pass just read the textbook.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: HIS311K
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Class is mandatory and if you don't go, you'll lose points of your final grade. You just have to be there; you can do other assignments. His lectures are boring, but he tells some jokes. The answers to the essay questions are in the book. His TA doesn't give feedback just the grade. I skipped a plethora of classes - don't be like me, go to class!
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: AFR310L
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Attendance is mandatory in this class, you will loose points from your final grade for each unexused absense. Lectures were boring, but there were no exams or assignments. Final grade will be dased on your attendance and 3 papers. I found this class to be an easy A, but if you don't like writing don't take the class. I didn't really use my textbook
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: HIS311K
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Not too bad of a class to fill a requirement. Get the textbook. He wrote it and it's essential when writing papers (basically helps guide you and give serious info on the topic). Lectures are boring and odd, but occasionally funny. He has a coarse and brash sense of humor. Attendance (in this course at least) is 20% of the grade.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: HIS310
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Ah, he's okay. The lectures were rarely on topic honestly and the grading system was beyond annoying. He's not really even sure about assignments (all up to who you get as your TA) so he was pretty unhelpful and unapproachable overall. A good guy who cracked a few good jokes every now and then, but I avoided taking another history class by him.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: HIS310
- Grade Received: A-
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Falola is great! His lectures are normally very engaging and insightful (and often hilarious), but they can get a little boring. Your grade will also depend on your papers (not his lectures), but attendance is mandatory, so you might as well listen to what he has to say -- you will be entertained most of the time! Write good papers for an easy A.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: HIS350L
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
(African Images in Film) Love this course and the professor. We watch movies and do presentations in the class. There is also a book report, movie review, conference paper, and an Essay Final of your choosing. The professor grades pretty easy and is understanding. He is also hilarious and a nice guy overall!
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: HIS317L
- Grade Received: A-
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Falola's class is really boring. His accent makes him difficult to understand and most of the lectures seem to be the same thing said in different ways. His TAs do all the grading and are really annoying. Attendance is mandatory but everyone just scrolls through FB during class. Really hard to be motivated to do the readings. Would not recommend.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: 310
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Take this prof
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: HIS317L
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I loved this class, he was funny and entertaining and I enjoyed what I was learning. His accent can be difficult at first but you get used to it as the class goes on. His tests were easy to prepare for but you should definitely be in class to get the notes for the essays. Taking another one of his classes because I enjoyed this one so much
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: HIS317C
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
(Africa-Us relations). He is hilarious, sarcastic, and uses some crude humor. Has a think accent, but clear enough. He's knowledgeable, but the class uses old, boring films. Two essay exams not too hard, but need to really use class notes/attend class/pay attention.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: HIS315
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This was probably the most annoying class I've ever taken at UT. He takes random attendance, but being in class is the most boring and painful thing in the entire world. TA grades everything, and harshly might I add. Falola would just fwd my emails to the TA. impossible to understand b/c of accent.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: AFR000
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
One of the more entertainIng classes I've had. 2 essay tests straight from the readings (which are dry), two 3 page papers, and a conference review. He's unapologetically himself, which tends towards the self-congratulating, unhelpful side of things. I don't think anything else could be said but that I would definitely without a doubt take it again
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: HIS310
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Although this is probably the most boring class I've been to in my life and he nor the TA were any help at all, It was a fairly easy class. I wrote a book report, about a book that he wrote, and I literally read the first two pages. I made and 88, so if that doesn't say how easy this class is I don't know what does.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: HIS312
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Don't believe the hype. He turned out to be pretty average. Left-winged, Dependence Theory; same things you would hear in other classes. Lectures consist of him reading off slides 90% of the time. He tries to get input from the class, but the same 4 opinionated people, more than likely naive Freshman, dominate discussion. VERY DISAPPOINTING
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: HISTAFR
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
There is an accent barrier so you really have to listen to understand him. He's a nice guy but it was hard to concentrate and I didn't really know what was going on half the time. If you do the readings and go to class it's not hard but he only has essay tests and papers for his grades.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: HISTORY
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
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Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: HIS350L
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
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