Manageable workload- 2 essays (one is reflective), 3 mc tests, a group presentation, and weekly discussion posts. They aren't graded harshly if you follow directions. He also gives lots of interesting/funny anecdotes and TONS of book recommendations in class. He does cancel lectures every now and then, but overall I did learn a lot.

He cancel classes for sure, and I think you don't have to go to the class to write the paper. I think he is very nice, knowledgable and easy grader. He care less about citations and styles which makes it easier to write papers. I think he replies email fairly quick. Overall it is easy and fun.

Professor Nielsen never answers emails, cancels in-person classes and doesn't post online lectures. I've never had a teacher with such bad teaching skills. You can only do well if you have a good TA. Criteria is always so unclear on every single assignment, so it made class hard. I would not recommend taking any class with him at all.

Kind of insane how disorganized this class was this quarter. Not once, but twice he failed to post the exam for us to take on schedule. He did not respond for at least 3 days when students emailed him to ask what was going on. This included the final btw. He seems like a very wholesome person but this class was frustrating. Pretty easy though!

I have never had such an unorganized professor. It seemed every week at least one class was canceled, insanely slow on grading (3 weeks before end of quarter and nothing was graded), exams not getting posted online the day they are scheduled, boring lectures. The class is easy, I mean we barely had class and I still did well but I learned nothing.

His class syllabus was incomplete and lacked vital information. He missed more classes than the students and didn't even bother doing a make up. He also jumped through lectures, and didn't upload slides. REALLY SLOPPY. Attendance fell to less than 30% and he should have taken it as an indicator to do something, but didn't.

I took this at Sonoma State, class was, classical social theories. Nielsen did a great job at making a boring topic interesting. He gave great insight during his power point lectures and is very easy to talk to. I highly going to his office hours if you are struggling because he is willing to explain it to you until you understand, also he is funny

His powerpoints are very scattered and he flies through them, so don't even try to copy them down. He seems like a nice guy but his class was repetitive and a little dull. He provides a lot of extra credit opportunity. Overall, I would say he is just an average professor.

Honestly, one of the worst teachers I've had at this university. So jumpy and random in lecture, can't hear him, powerpoints are horrible, sends out 54854393 emails every day. So bad he makes interesting subject matter boring as hell. Has no idea what hes doing. Avoid this class!!!

He's definitely nice and helpful. A bit conceited. Not sure if he's gonna b teaching this class after this quarter. Lectures r interesting, lots of reading, but a very informative and fascinating class. I recommend it regardless of ur major.

Great TA, follows the guidelines for the class and stays on task. Easy grader and very helpful. Tells you what you need to know, and to the point! Highly recommend as a TA for ES1.