Alphonso Haynes - Grand Valley State University

Professor: Alphonso Haynes
Department: Social Science
College: Grand Valley State University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The biggest challenge was to seperate his redactionist expression from the actual theories he tried to teach. While his interpretation of a partiuclar theory was interesting, it wasn't always correct. I was plagued in my graduate study to read the works of many theorists again because his perspective was not quite accurate.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This guy yelled at his class to try and make some kind of impression. He boasts of an obligation to fight the system and do right but he ignores the same ethical issues that happen at the university. Easy A. Poor law to the welfare state was a boring book.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Just before a meeting, I asked him for advice on what to do. His advice was clear and specific, "Tell 'em to go to hell!" I asked him to clarify and he said it again, "Tell 'em to GO TO HELL!" with an expectation for me to say it 10 minutes later. I was initialy impressed by his NASW commitments made in SW150. However, he didn't follow through.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He tried to impress the class by yelling, he amplified the role of NASW acting as if it was as powerful as APA, his lectures were tied between one of his tangents and the text book. It's an easy A. He is not a man of his word. I challenged him when GVSU violated Code of Ethics and he didn't do what he said he would. It's just a front.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: SW348
  • 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:
Terrible! Very condasending and demeaning towards students. Yells at students for various minor things and does not listen to students. Get out if you have a chance!!!
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Really a good prof. Lectures can be boring and off topic, but he means well. Pretty amusing at times, too. Incredibly fair grader. Read what is required, don't show up late or miss too many classes and you'll be fine.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: SOC208
  • 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:
Fonzie is da bomb diggity!! BEST TEACHER AT GVSU!! take him you won't regret it. he's easy on the eyes. he's like a kid in a social science store!!!!
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: SW340
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Haynes is an interesting prof. Good at answering questions and discusses material well with students in class. His exams are a breeze if you study well. I heard horror stories about his demeanor/teaching style, but he really is cool. He is accomodating and helpful. In class he demands order, follow the rules, he is nice and you'll be ok
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very intimidating. Demands strict adherence to NASW code of ethics but justifies violation in lecture and advising sessions. Yells in class at the top of his lungs. Teaches from the book on occassion otherwise rambles on. Deviates from a large syllabus. Made offensive personal remarks in class.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: SOC348
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
AWFUL prof obviously enjoying tenure. Calls students work "garbage" in front of the class. Then wants to skin and grin on the day of student evaluations and pay compliments. Once the entire Jr. class in the Sch of SW asked for his removal if that lets you know what kind of a prof he is. A real POS.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: SW150348
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Al Haynes gets a bad rep. Give him a chance & visit his office once, just to shoot the breeze about SW & listen to what he has to say. Most of the people who don't like him don't listen to him. He's old and has a lot of good advice. Has a good NY accent.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SW348
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
It is truely hard to believe he is a SW prof. He is the worst prof i have ever taken. You will learn nothing from the class unless you take the time to read the book. The highlights of the class were guest speakers!!
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
YAwnnnnnn...wow that class was boring. He is a crazy old man that says, "Think about it" after every sentence. Also, he tells stories that just prove he is senial.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class was boring but it was an easy A. All you have to do is show for all your classes and your bound to pass. Last 4 weeks of class is presentations. We didn't even have to take the final and the midterm was had only 25 questions on it.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • 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:
This class has a syllabus three times thicker than any amount of work you have to do. Attendance is necessary but for what? To sit through a lecture about...what? Reading, for what? He should have stayed doing social work in the field, and not
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He grades you on whether he likes you or not. No clarity what so ever, no tests, nothing. He ends up telling stories about his family over and over, each time a slightly different way.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SW150
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Learned nothing in his class and made me turn away from Social Work. Don't take him.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: SW348
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very inconsistent, often rude and unwilling to help. Be sure to stand up for yourself even if you think it won't do any good- do not let him intimidate you! Needs to learn about respect for others.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: SW340
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Hard to believe he works in the SW field. Unfair grader, KNOW YOUR APA FORMAT...Take other prof if possible.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: SOC150
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is the WORST proff I have ever had. At times he is pretty funny, but everything depends on his mood that day. he just rambles on and on about stories that are useless thro the course.
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