Professor: Michael Forster
Department: TBD
College: University of Chicago
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: PHIL600
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He reads his book out loud. Useless. Get a life.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: PHIL1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is very knowledgeable, very kind, and very engaging as a lecturer.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: PHIL207
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Obsessed with Johann Gottfried von Herder relative to the general philosophy community. Made us buy a $45 Herder book which he edited.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: PHIL375
- 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:
Forster is brilliant. He is dry as dust, and won't appeal to those who really love class discussions. However, he does field questions at all times during his lectures and is quite adept at answering them. Go to his office hours. Not a difficult grader, and if you keep your ears open, you're liable to be let in on totally new ideas every class.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: HUME115
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Arrogent, gets side tracked too much. If you want to learn the info you have to go to office hours. He didn't seem like he wanted to be teaching HUM in the first place.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: PHIL250
- 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:
Took his history of philosophy course in the summer. He is brilliant and knows so much - but he often just reads from his notes.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: HUMA11500
- 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:
Brilliant. Sometimes he gets side-tracked though, so you have to go to office hours to get some info that he left out that is pertinent to the paper. Very well versed in Greek and knows classics very very well
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: HUMA11500
- 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:
His lectures brim with brilliant insights and his encyclopedia-like knowledge of Homer and Plato is jaw-dropping. Learned more in his class than I did during all four years of high school. Very soft-spoken, lectures peppered with dry British humor. Sometimes hard to hear. Eager to help students.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: PHIL25010
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: HUM117
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His lectures were impeccable and inspirational. It seemed that every class brought a new revelation to a logical, eager first-year. The reading assignment were not taxing, and the paper topics were essentially rehashing of class lectures, but it was still far better than random student discussion.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: PHIL
- 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:
Good teacher
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: PHIL
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I had a completely different experience with forster than the one below. He's very helpful and loves it when students go to his office hours. He also slightly resembles a slightly older James Bond.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: MODNPHIL
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
After numerous emails, calls, conversations with his assistant, and numerous submissions, three years later I don't have a grade on a paper. Terrible teacher. I had to pay for another class so I could grauate on time.
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