Alan Soble
| School: | Drexel University |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Location: | Philadelphia, PA |
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Cons: EVERYTHING
This professor is literally the worst one yet at Drexel. He goes on tangents, or it will at least seem as though he's on a tangent, but somehow his tangent will appear on the exam as opposed to ALL the content in the textbook. Speaking of the textbook, its basically as useless as the professor. Usually, when you don't understand the professor, you would go to the textbook, but guess what, the professor WROTE the textbook making it just as useless as the professor. You WILL fail the first exam. No. Matter. What.
RUN from this man for your life and grades. RUN.
Cons: He is an EXTREMELY hard and unfair grader
Writes sarcastic comments on your Quizzes
Dr. Soble was probably one of the hardest teachers I have had at Drexel. I dreaded taking his quizzes and no matter how much time I put into the class, I never got a grade that reflected the amount of work I had put in. If you don't put what he wants to see in an essay, there is a possibility you won't get any points on it. Do NOT take his class. Horrible experience.
- Nice, laid-back guy
- Knows this particular class (PHIL-111) is required for some majors so he is willing to curve test grades slightly.
- Explains things thoroughly
- 4 exams - 2 in-class, 2 online (final is online)
Cons: - Can be boring at times
- Explains things TOO thoroughly on occasion
- Will sometimes go over class time
Overall, Soble is a great guy and knows a lot about philosophy and logic. He is pretty good at explaining somewhat complicated topics and is well-aware that the class is required for a majority of the students in the class. He can be boring at times but as long as you pay attention and take half-decent notes, the class is fairly easy. His exams can be pretty difficult but as long as you attend class, go over the pages in his textbook (it's just a PDF that he emails you) the night before the in-class exams, you'll be fine, and contrary to what a lot of people on here have said, he DOES curve the grade of the first exam.
Cons: Terrible professor, irrelevant test questions, hard grading.
The online class that Soble teaches should be straightforward given that there are no lectures or ANY material given by the professor whatsoever to aid learning with the textbook. The textbook is decent and absolutely required but the quizzes can't be answered by just reading the book and Soble turns this into a nit and pick grammar class that won't benefit anyone who hasn't mastered English grammar as a whole. He looks to take points by creating ridiculous guidelines and the vagueness of the class, mixed with the lack of true teaching is a complete shame to such an otherwise great university. DO NOT TAKE.
Cons: tests are too hard, takes points off if he doesn't like your grammar
You must attend class or your grade will be significantly lowered. If you don't attend you won't understand the materials anyways. My final was take home (yay!), but because of this Soble makes it extra long and hard. One question alone was worth 20points and was stated in the text book to be the hardest problem there is. Questions like these should NOT be given to students who are taken a 10 week beginner course. Ridiculous. He is a nice guy and can be helpful :/
Cons: 3 Exams = 100pts per = 300pts Total
No Curve
No Extra Credit
No Laptops
Must be on-time
Must not miss any classes as each miss or lateness counts against your grade starting from day one.
No study guides
No detailed explanation of material
Vague responses
Vague explanation of exam content
Happily fails most on first exam
Pretty bad attitude
*Please see cons
Dr. Soble,
Please retire
He gives a study guide, which is pretty much all you need to get through the class. There are weekly quizzes, 10 of them, with the last one as the final. All quizzes are take home so you have a week to work on them.
Cons: The quizzes are really hard. He is also very finicky about how the paper should be formatted, and named, etc (in the case of online submissions)
Even though the quizzes are take home I always worked on them just the night before and regretted it. It can be time consuming.
He is a great professor! Among my group of friends who have all taken Phil 105 with different professors, I am the only one who ended up with an A!
Cons: Boring
Unhelpful
Bogged down in tradition
Soble was a nice enough guy, and I would bet he's much better in subjective classes. However, Soble in Phil 111 was an absolute nightmare. He did nothing to present any interest in the material and rarely went into any greater detail explaining why it was that way. In my class about 70% of the class failed. When this was bought up, Soble claimed that for the 20 something years he has been teaching Prop Logic, at least half his class fails the first midterm. however, he refuses to curve because "two people in the class got an A, so obviously it was possible". If half of all your students failed the same test for 20+ years the problem isn't with the students, and there is only one variable left.
Despite doing much better in the second midterm, he was unwilling to help besides giving one extra credit assignment. (A two page paper for one measly point) My options came down to !. Take the exam and fail the course no matter how well I do. or 2. Don:t bother with the exam, still fail and be turned in for unsatisfactory academic achievement.
In short, don't take him for this class. He is way to set in his questionable ways.
Cons: Only 3 grades for the class
Quizzes do not reflect lectures and are ridiculously hard. Very vague about what will be included on quizzes. Half the class fails the first quiz and he sees this as acceptable.
Cons: He allows no laptops, which means you have to take standard notes.
DO . . . NOT . . . TAKE . . . THIS PROF.
He will screw you the flip over.
He's very ambiguous, HARD A$$ grader, and too damn frigid. He repeats things 5 different ways and expects you t memorize them. IF you DO NOT put down things by WORD PER WORD definitions on your tests he will mark you wrong. Be present every class or he'll mark you for that in your final grade. He's very linear in thought and doesn't really take to external points of view. No matter what you ask or how you debate it YOU WILL NEVER WIN. He may seem friendly but DO NOT LET THAT deceive you. I unfortunately fell victim to this man so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT FALL VICTIM TO THIS PROFESSORS ASININE WAYS.
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He knows his stuff and communicates solidly but he grades HARD; it's either completely 100% right and fully explained with absolutely no ambiguity or it's half credit. Midterm and Final make up your grades and the tests are 50% book stuff and 50% what he mentions in class. VERY HARD.
This guy is a hard grader and he only gives you three tests. and thats it for your grade. No attendances, no homework, no extra credit. That means if you mess up with one test you will end up getting BELOW C
He's a good guy and can be genuinely funny, which is good in a boring class. His tests are completely crazy though.
Two midterms, one cumulative final. His first midterm was the day after phillies won the world series. Half the class failed, i personally got a 40, and the kid next to me got a 14. He said himself that in 37 years of teaching this course at least half the class has always failed. As a logic professor he should see the exam is too hard, but he claims two people got A's.
I studied my ass off for the second midterm, but most of it was material he did not tell us would be on the test. In fact, some of the material on the test was info he specified would NOT be on the test.
This class is probably going to ruin my GPA if he doesn't curve the hell out of it. He is not afraid to fail you for a class that you really don't need. When am I ever gonna have to use propositional logic?
Avoid this guy for 111.
He knows you're going to get bored and so he makes jokes every so often to wake you back up (He says this is a proven teaching method).
The articles aren't really required, although if you read ahead you definitely get brownie points. Midterm and final were decent, mostly regurgitation.