His class is very hard, he is not helpful at all. He is rude and has a huge ego.

This guy has no idea how to write a test. misspellings throughout all of his online exams. most of the time the questions don't even make any sense. it was all absolutely ridiculous. learned nothing and barely passed. I had the book and did the reading. BTW he words his online exam questions so that they are completely unGoogleable. AVOID AVOID!!!

Horrible teacher. I took this course online. He doesnt even know how to run a course on etudes he makes things way to complicated. The quiz questions are very tricky. he always asks if somebody has a question, but if you ask him a question he will never reply to your message. He grades the assignments after like a month your submission. Stay away

Horrible. Makes the online course way too complicated and acts as if every student is a history major . The majority of the students that signed up dropped the class (no joke). Just avoid.

This professor is special, the syllabus is not clear. I took this class online and the testsquizzes has nothing to do with the readings. Google is useless as well. This professor is unwilling to help you if your have questions, he replies with insults and rude comments. AVIOD THIS TEACHER YOU WILL BE WASTING A SEMESTER.

Worst teacher I have ever taken at LACC. He changes his syllabus during the semester and won't tell you about it. His instructions are never clear. He never tells you how long your paper should be, so you are left guessing. Never gives extra credit. Enjoys seeing student do badly and is joyful if students withdraw - it is a badge of honor for him.

Awful professor. Extremely biased. He believes only his way of seeing things is right. Closed minded. I don't suggest him.

If you take him online get ready to fail. He doesn't have real assignments, just read and then a test. He doesn't answer any of your questions and never replies. His test answers are extremely ambiguous. I do not recommend at all

A lot of reading. No lectures. Tests irrelevant to reading material. Extra credit: 30 page paper to make up for one missed/failed assignment. Be ready to fail.

This professor is NOT the best professor at the college. He is difficult to contact. He complains that he is teaching 7 courses and cannot fully concentrate, not my problem. Gave my class the wrong syllabus 3 times. His grading is unclear. He spent 2 class days teaching us on how to NOT read books. Total waste of time. Do not take!!!

be prepared to get ignored. this professor doesn't care about his students. never replied to any of my emails. please avoid this guy.

it is like he does everything he can to give the class a hard time. Very incompetent and does definitely not know the difference between a reflection paper and an argumentative essay. unfortunately, I wasted my semester and he messed up my GPA with the D he gave me. it went all the way down , from 4.5 ...

Just don't take his class for your own sake.

Please do not take his online history class! It's too complicated! I repeat! DO NOT TAKE HIS ONLINE HISTORY CLASS. I am a 4.0 student but I will receive a B because of this man. I study so hard for all my tests but his quizzes are too hard... Plus, he does not respond back to your comments. He did not reply at all to my for my grade changes.

Reviews that are positive from below are clearly written by professor. Experienced taking his class and all students have complained about coursework. 95% of students dropped his class. Look at the writing style, very similar to each other. Do not trust those reviews on the bottom.

Those reviews on the bottom? No. Do not trust I took his class and 100% no accurate. Everyone has complained that he does not respond to comments which is true. Please do not take his class! His tests are nonsense! Those reviews on bottom are liars!

Assignments aren't clear. Some readings are in wrong order. and has strict grading criteria. If you expect a regular history class don't take this is a critical thinking class to write about a topic you pick on the reading. Then add personal and researched information. He does not want a summary or an opinion essay. Has to be in correct MLA Format.

This Professor should be History! complete waste of a person's life! Don't take any classes from this person!

When he lectures I get disturbed. Why do this school allow this professor to continue. He clearly do not know what lectures about. I dropped his class and changed my major! This professor made me hate History!

What can I say? I regret taking this professor. If you want to continue to well in life don't take W Gabriel Selassie I classes. I wake up with nightmares.

You could see this professor is not respected by students. Most teachers at Los Angeles City College are confused little can't teach at unIversity level RE rejects. .

I'm taki g online class. But when I send an e- mail, he never answer without reason always. Also he doesn't like give a good grade to his students. I'm 3.8 GPA student, but he broking my GPA now. The problem is I don't know why he giving me a bad grade. I did everything; homework and essays. I really need to talk to him, but he never answer.

I decided to take history online and well it was not so great with this professor. I had a classmate warn me about his hard grading but I did not listen. He is such a hard grader I decided to drop the class it was not worth a fail. He was good at answering emails but I just do not recommend at all. You will need to read ALOT.

Do not take this teacher. Negative true Positive Professor. HE even talked about the positive reviews ' Hint Hint

No way! This class is a big joke and like The teacher W Gabriel, what ever his name. Why should I trust someone with that name anyway. Do not take this class.

I didn't learn anything!

No. STAY AWAY! PLEASE STAY AWAY! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. DON'T LOOK BACK! RUN

MY first year in college and my first bad college teacher Gabriel Selassie. He is a bad explainer and has crazy lectures. My college experience other than this History class is great.

Currently enrolled online class. Horrible. I want to drop but my GPA will suffer.

I took his class awhile back. Reading is given, I didn't have a problem with that. My issue was the essays & the way he graded it. Yes, you pick out what topic you want to talk about. He's wants you to analyze the topic. You start to wonder if he knows what the difference between an analysis & summary is after your essay has been graded. AVOID.

Professor Selassie does not care about students. He is really really tough grader and you do not know why your grade is so low He ignores the email If you can't fit into his level of education and understanding, he won't give you any grade. DONT TAKE HIM. AVOID PLEASE unless you want a big stress in your life.

Please read my review and take it seriously. When you write your essay or discussion and your grammar is not PERFECT than he gives 0. ME and 3 more friends earn 0 on the essay and discussion. Disrespectful comment such as There is nothing to grade, Your English is not a college level Go back and learn.I really think he could said something better.

Do not take him. Dude does not know what analysis writing is and will tell you your essay is a summary when it really wasn't. PhD?? You have got to be kidding me. I think students like him because he just socially outgoing. Don't be so shallow guys! He is truly a disservice to higher education. Choose wisely.

At all cost avoid this professor, my fellow classmates were struggling to be in this class because the teacher expected a lot & he wasn't helping a lot. He was really rude to those who needed help & would say rude things. His feedback on assignments does not help at all. He can't even give points for trying & grading criteria is awful.

JUST DONT TAKE THIS CLASS! LOOK AT THE REVIEWS THEY ARE ALL RIGHT!

Look at the other reviews. Do not take any classes from this Professor. He doesn't offer much help, won't reply to emails or questions, grading criteria is confusing, goals of the class unclear, but he will blame you for taking the class and suggest you're just lazy or a bad student if you ask for help or point out any problems.

I decided to drop his class due to the fact I wasn't learning anything. He provides the readings, but they were difficult to follow. The readings went over concepts like immigration and revolution without going into specific historical details. His test questions were an absolute joke. Re-taking class during summer with a different professor. Run!

How is this guy a professor? He speaks highly of correct grammar but uses "aint" in his canvas. Much contradiction for a professor who strictly grades essay by the book, don't you think so?

hardest class i've ever taken he made us write a minimum of 1000 word essay once a week, thought history was going to be easy i was wrong.

Horrible teacher! His grammar is middle school level at best. I believe he his writing his own reviews because they sound an awful lot alike, odd don't you think. The fact of the matter is he's rude, argumentative, and dismissive. I'd never recieved a D On a paper til I took his class. Run far away from this class, you've been warned.

Test questions made ZERO sense. I wrote an essay each week but felt like I was not learning much about history. Yourre graded on just essays and exams. He gives you the reading mayerial as PDFs which consists of several books. Hard to follow. I dropped his class. Worst professor at LACC.

terrible teacher. Stay far away. For your own sake.

Feel free to take this class if you want to pull your hair out. His grammatical prowess makes you question his academic achievements. It is genuinely so bad that it can often make taking his tests problematic. He's quick to attack the student. That says enough. I got an A in class, so you can't call me a "slacker" as you so often do.

The test will be too broad to answer correctly. He will shame on students when they got low scores and shame that student didn't study enough. It was SO DISCOURAGING and you will walk out of this class with lower self-esteem. Don't do that to yourself. Please take another professor. I beg you.

He is a good professor I am not going to lie but as I stated in my rating, you need to work hard for this class. He maybe teaching as an online professor at an County College but he gives his work to his students as if we are in a four year college instead. I wish he did not make us do Chicago Manual style papers. Also his quiz questions are hard.

Run. A nightmare. Questions on quiz that aren't in the reading, no lectures, misleading syllabus, non ADA compliant textbook (just a PDF with pictures of a book), he shames and intimidates students for failing, saying they are "lazy." The real problem is his poor teaching. Any good reviews here are written by Selassie himself.

The worst teacher Ive ever had in my 22 years of living. Stop hiring teachers like him, LACC.

Although this is a history class ¬ a speech class, the teacher will try to fail you if you don't talk EVERY class. His grammar and spelling is concerning for a professor at college. Assignment instructions are very vague. He will count off points for not following a requirement that wasn't mentioned in the instructions at all. Worst teacher

Although this is a history class not a speech class, the teacher will try to fail you if you don't talk EVERY class. His grammar and spelling is concerning for a professor at college. Assignment instructions are very vague. He will count off points for not following a requirement that wasn't mentioned in the instructions at all. Worst teacher

I have taken his class during the fall of 2019, I work so hard in his assignments. I believe I should get some credit for this, but no he give me a D, . I always ask him lot qustion about anything I need help with. Even though I wasn't receiving good grades in my quizzes but I ask him lots of questions, and I did everything in his satisfactory way.

Ridiculously overzealous about his assignments. Very condescending in his comments regarding work instead of being constructive. Please only take this class if you have nothing else to worry about in life because that is the amount of dedication he wants from the student.

3 days into the zoom class and he dropped me for no reason. I messaged him to see if it was an error that same day at 8am and its now been a week and he has not responded my email. Its unprofessional not to respond to someone's email and even more when you drop them for no reason. Will not take him again and will advice friends not to either

I took this professor on Fall 2020. This professor didn't answer my emails and I accidentally took this professor because the school transferred me to him. I don't recommend this professor to anyone. After reading the ratings, he has horrible reviews, but it was too late. And I took his class anyway but it was not a good choice.

WORST professor I've ever taken. He makes you read a long a** book for absolutely no reason because the exams are not related to what you read. NOT a single question was about the book. Like WTF. Please Please save yourself. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. He takes forever to answer your emails, and when he does it is with an attitude.

Avoid Selassie at all costs!! Fulfill HIST requirements elsewhere!! His quizzes are unrelated to the texts and your answers in essays must match his personal views. He accuses struggling students of laziness instead of addressing his poor teaching. Positive reviews here seem written by him, since they repeat that students just “don't want to work.”

He insisted on contacting him, yet he barely responds. Bad attitude and condescending. The quizzes barely give context, and getting clarification is hard. Lots of misspellings, makes understanding the material even harder. Even if it's a late-starting class, there should be some form of extra credit to help balance these challenges. Avoid him!