A lot of reading. No real grading scale, seemed like he just gave grades. Picked favorites.

Worst professor I ever had. Stay away from him. Doesn't care about his job, and makes people look stupid just to make himself feel important.

He is very hard to follow in lecture- jumps around topcis alot and tangents easily. Text hard to read, difficult Friday quizzes over text every week. Test is difficult as well, even with studying and reading. Definitely would not recommend as a gen ed as long as Cutter is the professor

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This teacher was awful. He was the most boring person ever. His lectures were impossible to follow-they were just scribbles on the overhead. His weekly reading quizzes were bad too. His tests were impossible to get an A on, becuase he looked for every little detail. Do not take this professor!

Pompous ****. He forgets that the students are paying him to be there. He has issues with control and a huge ego. He seems to forget he only has a masters degree. His class is unorganized and poorly managed. His TA does all the real work. Grades papers and test for a 100 level class expecting near graduate level detail. Horrible professor.

worst teacher ive ever had. doesnt care at all what you say. preaches about religion. grades extremely hard. thinks his class comes before all. DO NOT TAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HORRIBLE! Grades far too hard on essays. He expects you to know everything and understand it all when he never really tells you what he wants you to learn. He has weekly 1 page essays due every Friday and are only worth 5 points, but never gives you 5 points no matter what you write. DO NOT TAKE MR CUTTER

Grades unnecessarily hard, his notes are extremely disorganized, overall the worst professor I have ever had in my entire academic career. I gave 110% effort, never missed a class, and yet I was lucky to pull off a B.

He is a horrible teacher, grades real tough for a 100 level class, writes real sloppy sentence fragments on the board and is tough to follow, do not take him for a teacher, all exams are short paragraph/essay form,assigns a lot of busy work and expects every one to be as interested as he is. DONT TAKE

worst teacher i have ever had

Worst history prof I've ever had. I've never had one before that required you to memorize EVERY date--and I'm a history major. Avoid this class at all costs, total waste of oxygen.

At first I thought maybe he had confused this class with a 200 or 300 level he was also teaching, but no. He expects 300 level work for a 100 level Gen Ed. Likes to pretend he's from Mexico. Just go to class, sign the attendance sheet, and read the textbook.

Teacher is boring and test are way to hard for 100 level. I missed a couple of Fridays and the quizzes killed me. The book is a terrible and is lots of random dates that you must know. Avoid this class with him

I loved history until I took this class.

AVOID!!!! Hardest book ever that u have to read bc have quiz ever friday. 1 midterm & 1 final-hard! random papers on random books. group presentation that i dont think counts for anything. he gives hardly any guidelines. Never in his office hours. unhelpful, rude, crazy guy. He is ridiculous! way too hard for a 100 level class!! PLEASE AVOID!!!!

He has a rude opinionated sense of humor. His notes are sloppy and do not make sense. You have to do ALOT/ an unreasonable amount of reading and quiz quizes every friday on information that you would never pick up from the book. He has unrealistic expectations and isnt considerate of the fact that were in more then 1 class.

He is a horrible teacher. He is a nice guy at times but what he ask for in his papers make no sense. You never know your grade at times. Plus everything he grade he is a stickler on, Do NOT take him

Mr. Cutter has a hard time with notes. His tests are simple and straight forward and so are the projects. The reading quizzes, which sometimes happen and sometimes don't, are less than necessary. His class room demeanor is often rude and opinionated. Would not recommend.

He is the worst teacher I have had at Illinois State! He will not answer questions in class and is always rude. He thinks he is superior to students. For the exams he expects you to be able to write paragraphs about terms he never talks about in class! He is also very repetitive and will talk about the same term for days! Do NOT take him!!

WORST PROFESSOR EVER!!! Extremely rude, and a terrible sense of humor. Unclear on what he wants, confusing, goes and tangents and repeats himself. He actually made me cry because he singled me out so much for no reason. AVOID at all costs.

DO NOT TAKE!!! By far the worst teacher I have ever had. He constantly yells at students in front of the whole class and makes everyone extremely uncomfortable. He knows about history but has no idea how to teach and just rambles on. Seriously HORRIBLE.

Not very organized. Makes rude comments on papers when returned. Very hard to understand what he wants on assignments. Midterm and final are all writing. Avoid.

Prof. Cutter was easily one of the most unorganized and scatter-minded professors I've ever had. He jumps between topics without any linking material and expects you to have a prior knowledge before coming to class. He required a book that he assigned homework from one time. Took the whole semester to grade a paper. Avoid this class at all costs.

Horrible and rude teacher. Very offensive and horrible and hard grader. Did not learn anything. Worst teacher. Many students have reported him to the Department

Just don't take this class. This teacher and class will ruin your semester. The guy is not a good professor and his teaching style is horrible. Will scribble key words on the board occasionally and has to voice his opinion on random things completely unrelated to class. Completely unhelpful in every aspect of the class. AVOID!!!

He is a terrible professor. He's rude and disrespectful. He does not care to help students succeed whatsoever. He gives you a whole bunch of unnecessary information, none of which will actually be on the midterm. His teaching style is horrible, he scribbles words on a white board that you can't read. Do not take his class.

What you learn in his class during lecture is barely useful when it comes time to take a test, although he does take attendance. Expect to take a chapter quiz every friday. There are 2 big papers , 2 small papers, a midterm and final. It is a lot of memorization and he does expect you to memorize EVERYTHING. Not a fun or easy teacher.

Never take this persons class. Horrible attitude. He called me out for leaving early one day for work, i was sitting in the back of class and did not disrupt anyone around me. Very self-righteous.

Honestly the worst professor I've ever had. I didn't go to class a few times and he called me out on it and ever since has hated my guts, I try hard to do good in his class but he doesn't care.

He makes you read 40+ pages every two days. Only allows you to miss 6 classes a semester, or he drops your grade a letter grade. Publicly humiliates his students and talks down to them during class. The most boring and irrelevant class I have ever taken in my life.

He focuses more on telling his students how bad they are doing on everything instead of actually helping provide feedback on what you can do to make things better. He is the worlds slowest grader when it comes to anything. It took a month to get our very first paper back. His lectures are confusing because he can never stay on topic. Dont take him

Horrible teacher. Constantly gets off topic, assigns papers with no rubric and no grading scale. Is a very harsh grader, never adds assignments into gradebook. Is not easy to talk to, lectures are confusing and so scattered. Assigns things that don't even relate to the course, favors students who suck up.

Douglas is a huge pussy. I did not pay to hear his opinions.

Very impersonal, very harsh, very very very very strict.

The midterm was not in the grade book a week before finals, there's no way to know what your actual grade is. The class is impossible to enjoy because it is very boring but he drops your grade for absences. Weekly quizzes that are impossible to get a good grade on and papers that take forever to write and 3 books to read throughout the semester.

Professor Cutter gets off topic, but is passionate about what he teaches. The books we read were dry, which is typical in college, but the essays were 5 pages which would need to be filled with a lot of BS to meet the criteria. He is nice. This class was not fun but if need be, manageable. You need to show up, it's only 50 minutes.

I picked this class before this semester started and didn't drop it throughout, and nowI hate myself for it. He is a very strict grader and his class notes are horrible! It's very easy to space out during his classes and very tempting to skip but don't! Attendance is a must to try and stay on top of this class. He can also be very rude sometimes.

Unclear in his assignments and expectations. Openly rude to students. So much reading. Told us he wanted to make sure he lowered our grades.

Worst teacher I have had so far. He is unclear on what he wants from you, tells you their will be quizzes on certain days then does not give quiz. Horrible notes that are hard to follow, everyone I have talked to that have taken his class or are currently taking all dislike him. I am not exaggerating with what I am saying, it is very annoying class

He does know what hes talking abut and you can do well if you take good lecture notes. There are weekly quizzes on the reading on Fridays. His expectations are unclear. He does give the exam questions in advanced but he doesnt put grades in for ages and there is a ridiculous 6 page paper on a different book. Hes unprepared and changes due dates

The worst professor I have ever had. He is very unreasonable when it comes to his final and midterm exam (he wants to hand write 7 free response questions and 1-2 essays in 50 minutes.) Cutter is a negative professor and says rude things during his lecture 75% of this time. He WILL call you out. Does NOT provide helpful feedback on anything.

If you want to be miserable I would recommend this class. Professor Cutter has been rude and disrespectful since day 1. He gives confusing assignments with little to no guidance. His notes are confusing to follow. He in addition when reaching out via email gives 0 help, and his very rude in his responses. Don't ever take a class from him.

I had him this semester and I am doing fine in the class but I do NOT recommend him. He is rude and very condescending. His lectures on Zoom are very confusing, and he skips around a lot in lectures. Does not give much clarification on anything, when you ask questions he seems mad. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS!

most cocky teacher I have met. He even accused the class of cheating and reported 60 falsely accused students to the Dean of Students with little evidence. get ready to read 800 pages in total for essays as you will do only that. this class feels more like an English class then anything. i love writing but even at the end i felt drained from papers

Professor Cutter was extremely rude to me on the very first day of class. Over email he is very short and rude as well and clearly does not care about the well-being of ANY of his students. Ridiculously hard grader yet gives no guidelines of what he wants from you on any assignments or papers. Gives way too many readings. Worst professor I've had.

Professor Cutter's lectures were always very dry and I barely learned anything from the whole semester. Assignments were centered around writing with occasional quizzes over the textbook. The midterm was all writing and took way too much time and effort to complete. He is not very clear on expectations for assignments. Overall, not a good class.

Worst teacher I've had in a while. His notes are so vague all he does is writes down one word and talks about it for 5 minutes and then writes another word. This guy doesn't know how to teach and shouldn't be a professor. Don't even try to email him he's no help and really rude. I'm three weeks deep into this course and I haven't learned anything.

This dude is terrible and thinks he is funny but really just cringe. You will have weekly assignments and he has graded one so far this year and its 10/25. The tests are written only. AVOID AVOID AVOID.

This course wasn't organized at all, the material given wasn't understandable and he made many comments on students presentations that were utterly rude and not necessary. This was one of first history professors at ISU and I will never take one of his classes again. The assignments were messy and due dates were never easy to access. Just don't.

I started the class so hopeful but as the semester went on it only got worse. Started with weekly readings and papers and just lecture. Lecture is all over the place but that's fine. Then we got big papers and big projects. There were very vague instructions with each. Then he didn't return grades until the night before the optional final. Not Fair

Hes very narcissistic and thinks everything he says is funny. He lectures 95% of the class and is one of the worst notetakers I have seen in my life. The fact this guy got a job as a professor is such a joke. Avoid him at all costs.

I took this class because I thought it would be an easy A,but that wasn't the case. Lectures for a little bit and then goes off-topic for the rest of class. Had us go to four movies outside of class at the Normal Theater and write a 2-page paper on each one, not pertaining to the information talked about in class. Stopped going to class mid through

One of the worst if not the worst professor I have ever had. Awful note taking. Goes off track way too often. Hard to get an understanding on what we are learning. Few 5 page essays where we didn't really know what to write about. Overall class is a total mess.

horrible rude professor, he insulted my presentation in front of the whole class. we spent the whole semester on world history event presentations, to the point where we had no time to learn anything else, and our final is on everyone's presentations. completely unorganized, horrible at putting anything in the gradebook. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!

SLOW grader. Lazy and unclear grading criteria only to be backed by useless and messy lectures. His midterm for HIS 10403 was borderline unfair with multiple long answer questions with an essay portion. He himself stated that he expected this to take at least up to a hour to complete in a 50 minute class period. Gives horrible feedback.

Where do I start. The lectures are constant and go off on random stories. The notes are extremely hard to follow and have no organization. The lectures have NOTHING to do with the tests which all come from the book. You have to read multiple times to answer the questions correctly.

Douglas Cutter is awful. Exams are written and has to be 80 words which is funny cause his notes are 5 words. Do not take him unless you want to stress out

Mr Cutter wastes usually half of the class talking about random things-that aren't even entertaining. He likes to preach his ridiculous ideas about masculinity like "men can't drink margaritas" and will go on a 5 minute tangent. He does not answer questions and his notes make no sense. He grades his essays like he is an english professor.

Terrible professor, his notes are 5 words all just writing down what he is saying. Class is mandatory and he does pop up in person quizzes. 1 written midterm where you have to write as much as you can about historical events/people, optional final, 2 papers, 1 project/paper, a few online quizzes and a few in person quizzes. Very unclear.

This professor is not great & if you skip classes you're screwed. He is biased & if he doesn't like you, you probably wont pass. Also grades harshly. Seems at first to be chill but will also yell at you in front of the class if you are on your phone. Not a fan of his class, would never take again.

He is a nice person but gets very off-topic easily. He gave us a pre-assignment for a 5-page paper and the only feedback, he gives is "not good enough". Very Tough grader and expects papers to be perfect.

He will fail you on any assignment if he does not like you. He will like you if you participate but he will also make fun of you in front of the whole class if you're wrong This man isn't just a bad teacher, but a bad person as well. He doesn't care about anything but getting his paycheck He WILL fail you for absolutely no reason on any assignment

Save your self a headache and money! Do not take a class with Cutter, his style of teaching is out of date. Not very clear on directions and is often rambling in class. Also, his content is very unclear!

Douglas Cutter is one of the worst professors I have had. Directions for different activities are extremely unclear. He responds to emails in a very rude manner. Calls students out during class constantly. I definitely do not recommend.

ok um how do I start. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS CLASS. bro writes one word and explains everything with absolutely no context. tells so many stories. like bro we get it. Only gave us barely two weeks to read a whole book and write a five page paper. criticizes peoples presentations WHILE THEYRE UP THERE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. look for a new gen ed.

This professor is Terrible, his lectures are unclear and he goes on tangents about random stuff not pertaining to the class all the time. On top of that there is no rubric for any paper and grading criteria is super unclear. His rough draft feedback is terrible and comes off as very condescending and rude, he is also very rude in emails

Rude Professor.

Professor Cutter is a kind guy in person, but once he steps into the classroom he directs the class in an unorganized manner which makes following the content of the course impossible. He constantly sh*t-talks student's efforts on projects and communications while also being incredibly opaque about WHAT HE EXPECTS IN ANY PROJECT. Spare yourselves!

Professor Cutter is passionate about the subject, but he is extremely unorganized and unclear. He gave me extremely unprofessional and condscending responses when I raised concerns about the gradebook being inaccurate. It's incredibly difficult to make sense of any lectures since he does not use slides and simply rambles. Avoid at all costs.

This class is one of the worst I have ever taken, and I wish I hadn't. He does not use PowerPoints for lecture, he writes one word on the board and then yaps. He is very unclear in grading criteria, and relatively rude in emails. I asked for clarification on something as I had been sick and he said, "write an outline, it's that simple." AVOID!!

Very few assignments he actually grades. Doesn't respond to emails and when he does is very rude and at times felt like he would try to belittle and insult you. You don't want to take this class.

No PowerPoint just writes words on the board and goes on about how it relates to the topic. When he assigns papers he gives very little detail on formatting and contents of paper and gets frustrated when we ask questions about said paper. Never once saw a rubric. Took him 2 months to grade a one-page assignment. Good luck trying to email him AVOID!

Gave 2 five page papers where the only source you could use was a book he assigned. I thought this would be an easy ged ed, but it was not that. Doesn't present slideshows, only writes one word on the board and expects students to write everything he says. Very boring class, and even more difficult if you aren't interested.

You will hear "just get it done" a lot.

This teacher is bad at teaching, he goes on lots of tangents about his personal beliefs on subjects that have nothing to do with the class. Even when he is on topic he jumps around making it difficult to follow as well as take notes. Whenever you ask him a question about anything to be concise he is very rude and condescending.

Pretty bad lectures that are just a few words on a whiteboard. He embarrasses his own students in the middle of class for having electronics out. He's just rude and negative. Don't take this class if he's the professor.

All he does is talk about politics... didn't learn a thing about Latin American history

Doesn't use slides or PowerPoint, only lectures and you have to be very analytical with your note taking. There are only two exams, but what is on them is usually something he only lectured on for five minutes. Also, if you miss class, he is very unaccommodating and will not tell you what he discussed.

Douglas Cutter is the worst professor I have encountered during my time here at ISU. After successfully completing my assignments in a timely manner. He did not get to grading until four weeks after the assignment was due. He leaves very rude comments on papers and went on political tangents for about 20 minutes each day.

1/10. Douglas made the class purchase a $40 textbook that we used once the whole semester. He has no power points that you can refer to in his class, he teaches off of the top of his head in every class. He also put final grades in the very last day that they were due. 1/10 do not recommend.

Douglas Cutter is the first teacher I've ever had. Never ask for help, and he will lower grade for it. He grades things subjectively and whenever he wants. The class was out of 950 points over half of which he graded in the last week of the semester so you couldn't know your grade. I was 1 point short of A out 950 which was definingly on purpose.

Literally one of the meanest professors I ever met, constantly gets very upset and yells at students for using any technology to takes notes, the things he talked about were the same and often makes innapropiate references to sexuality and human genitalia as well as says makes weird references to his life. Be prepared to be publicly shamed

In need of ADHD medication. Incredibly rude over mistakes and takes months to grade papers.

When students asked him questions, frequently he shut them down rudely by saying “we already went over this but you were on your computer” “you need to be better at listening” He failed at having important grade in within a timely manner (months). Due to how I've seen him treat student asking for help if you have a learning disability avoid him.

He is AWFUL. If you can take this class with anyone else, do so. He was so passive aggressive in class and inappropriate sometimes. He has few grades in the gradebook so if you get a bad grade on a paper, it is hard to get your grade back up. The papers are painful to write, and he tells the class he will not be impressed with your work.

This was one of the hardest classes I took. I took this to fulfill a category I needed for my major. Never take him, he teaches 5 different topics at once—the notes he has us take in class, our essays, quizzes, and in-class assignments. His notes he takes on board make no sense and the class is super confsuing.