J.P. Shannon - Kent State University

Professor: J.P. Shannon
Department: Architecture
College: Kent State University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH1001
  • Grade Received: D
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Absolutely avoid if possible. Lectures are dry and incoherent to the point of being impossible to follow. I am in honors and this is the only B I received. Even with reading the textbook, the tests are unrelated to anything covered in class. The only positive is the ridiculous curve he uses. There is no reason this man should be teaching a class.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I took this class straight out of high school where I had a 3.9 GPA. I was not used to getting Bs in classes, then I take this class and receive a B-! Given, I didn't study AS MUCH as I should have, and I skipped almost every lecture because of how boring he was. You HAVE to go, and you HAVE to study to get a good grade. Avoid if possible.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH10001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is really boring. I wanted an architecture minor before taking this class. He's a nice guy but his tests are stupid. They have nothing to do with architecture. To get a good grade on his term paper, you have to do the max work. The minimum work gets you a D. He's not there to help you either. DO NOT TAKE!
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: UA1001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
As dry as they come. Tests were on irrelevant random quotations, and not the material gone over in class. I'm not one to complain, but MAN was this class hard to go to. Avoid him if you can.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
test score averages are indicative of professor shannon's blatant lack of teaching ability. 80% or higher is typically the cutoff for an A and the cutoff for A- is even lower. in an introductory course this grade scale is clear cause for alarm since the material is fairly basic and straightforward and geared towards students from other majors.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a very bad teacher. He sucks!!
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH002
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
very monotone and boring. no student involvement. hard to pay attention in class
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH002
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
lectures are terrible, tests require you to regurgitate random useless information, class as a whole was disorganized. this guy shouldn't be teaching.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
if you enjoy someone transcendentally lecturing you on incredibly simple concepts and then testing you on irrelevant subtleties, then by all means, take dr. shannon's course.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH002
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
these lectures are the most directionless, structureless, haphazard, mind-numbingly useless experiences of my life. we literally spent 30 minutes talking about eskimo coats. he just stumbles around various topics until he wanders into some random, nonrevolutionary conclusion at which point he makes a hand motion and stares at the class quizzically
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
To the average college student the depth of Dr. Shannon's lectures is insulting to say the least. His understanding of content is dated, his tests are irrelevant and ill conceived, and his lectures are nothing, but directionless stumblings through equally ludicrous hand outs. I've learned nothing and gained nothing, but a fine arts credit. avoid.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Shannon desperately searches for meaning in far-fetched and often irrelevant text book content rather than the historic or artistic aspects of the discipline. Additionally, he wastes class time with terribly unstructured, blunder filled excuses for lectures. If you value your GPA you ought find another fine arts credit.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He spends his class time "broadly interrelating" everything under the sun and ad-libbing his entire lecture. He tests based on vague, misconceived, and convoluted learning goals which really just boil down to a random combination of quotations and opinions. Some effort on his part in the way of lecture notes or organization would go a long way.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ARA
  • 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:
Interesting professor, however, lectures are really dry and boring. I wouldn't recommend this course without having a deep rooted interest in architecture.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH1000
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
good guy, bad teacher. impossible to learn in the classroom and impossible to follow the lectures.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
While I am quite sure he is a wealth of Architectural knowledge, his class is about as interesting as watching paint dry.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
worst, most boring professor out there!
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This guy is the most boring person I have ever came in contact with. This class was horrible.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH400
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
awful. do not take him unless you HAVE to
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ARCH1000
  • 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:
Very knowledgeable man but not the greatest teacher. Boring but very quirky. If there was a documentary on him I would watch it.
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