Professor refuses to use Canvas or any sort of grading platform that allows you to see your grade. He also rarely responds to email and makes you print all assignments. Class was "Writing for Public Discourse" and public discourse was very briefly touched upon. Made up a bunch of inane grammar rules that you have to memorize for the final.

Samuels is a complicated guy. He is very smart, but also has a huge ego. He will effectively teach you, but sometimes in a more condescending way. His sense of humor is very polarizing in the sense that he likes to "push limits" in comedy, I wasn't a fan. Refuses to use any form of technology whatsoever, don't even ask about a gauchospace page.

All he required was four paragraphs in the whole quarter and the films were fun to watch. His lectures are more like rants but they are still interesting.

made us write short 2 paragraph responses in class because of chat gpt which is fair. he tends to go on long tangents which was annoying but we were rarely given work outside of what we did in class so it balances out.

Extremely unclear grading criteria. He refuses to use canvas so you are forced to keep referencing one email he sent at the beginning of the year. Completely random grading as well. Take someone else if you can.

I think Robert is a great professor. I can't really speak about his other classes but this seminar was good. He does go on a lot of tangents, and doesn't really stay on track, but I enjoyed going to class. He's funny.