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Reviews (106)
This professor is rude ignorent and a hyprocrite.He dosent avide by his own rules. Missed the last 2 weeks of class and crammed everything on everyone at the last minute leaving you to get his directions on your own time. good example of what tenure cando
Very anal!!!!!!!!!
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Dr. Eger is by far the best professor I have encountered at DCCC. He can be difficult for some students because he demands a high quality of work and studentship.
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Dr. Eger is a very difficult professor to comment on. He is highly opinionated which I found very amusing, although others were offended. He expects alot of work throughout the semester and you must take "copius" notes.
He makes you take a test on the syllabus. When you get a paper back it is just chewed up with red marks from top to bottom. He is very anal and talks down to you. I dropped the course, It was just an awful experience. If your stuck with Eger, drop.
This teacher is HORRIBLE! "Copius notes" hahahahahahaha, he's lucky i didnt kick his copius butt (and im a girl)! Yeah i dropped this class as soon as i could. What a bizarre man he is!
This is the worst teacher I have experienced. Very rude. Late for every single one of my class sessions by at lest 15 mins. I don't think the work is hard, but the class is difficult if the prof is an ignoramus
Teaches a lot about himself, not much about the class subject. Enrolled students that can not learn on their own will not be successful.
JUST SUCKS...STAY AWAY
Dr. Eger can seem very intimidating, and blunt. His grading is strict, and he has the highest of standards. Through his eccentric personality lies an ingenious mind, with depth to satisfy any question. He inspires autonomy and character. Highly Recomended
what a crazzzy guy. englisg is his 3rd language,maybe?? horrible, always LATE.
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DONT LISTEN TO THESE INCOMPETENT SLACKERS BASHING DR. EGER!! No doubt he is a very difficult grader, but you'll learn so so much. He should be teaching at Berkeley. By default his high intelligence makes him a bit eccentric. Stick with him, you'll benefit greatly!!
Okay, whoever goes to a real university will realize that Eger just wastes your time in asking esoteric questions that are not relevant to the subject. Regardless, I kept with the class and earned an A that was not hard to earn, but a real pain to get.
This teacher is horrible. Why is he teaching english? The man can't even speak our language correctly. His grading is waked. I handed in a paper that I had revised by other teachers, and he gave me an F and circled ever other word. I have reported him to the dean. He needs to retire!!!
Total prick, plain and simple. Don't take him unless you enjoy castration.
I'm a non-traditional student - not only is he one of the worse teachers I have ever encountered, he is one of the worse human beings I've ever met - ****, ****, elitist - you name it. Do not waste your time (And I got an A!)
Dr. Eger made my semester a living hell. I did not like how he expressed his own views all the time. I go to school to learn the subject not a professors personal opinion. He is very close minded. He is a good guy at heart but his expectations are ridiculous. 8 tests, 4 papers, and a 25 page paper.
MEANEST TEACHER EVER!!!!!!!
Mean spirted and vindictive, Egers is not a nice human being and is a poor teacher. Try to avoid taking his class - He is an exercise in how to be uncaring and unkind.
a big dump stain of a teacher
Without a doubt one of the worst human beings I have ever encountered. He is not a good teacher and not a good person. Do not take his course - he is extremely unkind and unpleasant.
get the hell out and run for your lives worst teacher very hard **** does not like himself and tries to make everyone else insecure so he feels better about himself took him and dropped his class and actually wrote a letter and met with dean about him
IMPOSSIBLE to pass his class, Rude person, DO NOT make him your teacher it is a waste of time and money!!!!
ridiculous
This guy is a jerk! He thinks he's the smartest person on earth! Assignments are all hard tests are impossible! DO NOT TAKE ANY OF HIS CLASSES!!!!
Do not whatever you do, take his class. He has a ridiculous cirriculum, and makes your write down every word he says that isn't class related. As soon as you hear him say he was Martin Luther King Jr.'s translater........RUN!!!
Worst human being I have ever come across in my entire life. I have met criminals, bums, and drug addicts who are better people than him.
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if you get this guy, drop it
STOP GIVING US WORK!!
all i have to say is ive never tried so hard in my life i went to the learnign center and asked him for help and did all the rewrites and i still only got a C. hes the biggest jerk ive ever met. he's hipocritical, unfair, and an unrealistic pompus ****bag. it was Eng 100 for godsakes not a course for my masters!!! dont waste a second of time in any of his classes
I took Dr. Eger a long time ago.. 1994 or so, and I thought he was hard of course, since I knew lil english then. But personally he was very nice, firm and discipline as his german roots are. I agree, if you wanna be a slacker and think that english classes should be easy A, forget it. BTW I got A too, and I learned english rather quick...
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worst teacher ever!!!!!!!! GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!!
I had him first semester last year and I hated his class. I'm an english person, it's my favorite subject, but his class was terrible. I worked my ass off and all he ever did was criticise. He was very rude to everyone in my class.
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You will learn alot but only if you can suffer him keeping you 5 mins after the class has ended to share what you have learned. Take Miss Latta instead for an easy A.
THE CLASS IS NICE, YOU WILL LEARN ALOT FROM YOUR CLASSMATES AND THE PROFESSOR BUT BE PREPARED TO WORK AND STAY LATE AFTER EVERY CLASS.
Best professor I ever had. He is very particular and pays attention to details. In turn, I learned to also take care with my work. I earned an A in his class. It can be done! Just follow the directions and go to him for extra help. He always has office hours and is very approachable.
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this guy is NUTS! i had him for eng 112 and I couldn't get out of it. no passive verbs, vary your sentence beginnings blah blah blah. a total waste of time! i went to his office the last day of class and I got home at 5pm!! he talks non-stop about nothing. DROP IT now unless you do not want to have a social life.
I took an Interpersonal Communication with this nazi and it was THE worst collegiate experience of my life. He is unequivocally rude, ignorant, arrogant, and insulting. Towards the end of the course I was maintaing a 'B' average, but I didn't complete my 30 page "learning inventory" to his satisfaction so he gave me an 'F' for the course. ****
He is unfair, intimitating, a dictator and German Nazi! Drop this class befor it is to late, you will hate it. Even people who are English A's will not get an A. He graduated Oxford and was the translater for Mister King, met Queen Elisabeth.. What is he waisting his time at DCCC are there not better universitis who would hire him? RUN guys RUN!
way too hard, will not directly answer any question, you have to ask him the same question 3 different ways before getting an answer, he is very forgetful, not helpful.
This man wants your soul. Worst experience ever. Had to degrade myself on a daily basis to get an A.
Ok, Dr. Eger is a massive ball-breaker. Nitpicking, riding your ass CONSTANTLY about everything from lateness to raising your hand to not saying "should", it drove me nuts and I despised him. DESPISED HIM! But you know what? A lot of that nitpicky anal stuff was really helpful later on. Have your pen in hand, notebook open on the first day!!!!
Well, many can say so much about this professor, but i liked him. He was very helpful most of the time. Yes he gives a lot of work, makes you work hard, but hey, thats why you are a student. He worked us off, but it paid since i got an A. Well informed and constantly communicating with his students. I suggest that you consider his class and be read
Very Rude!
This course was a lot of work, but it was well worth it. If you really want to learn to communicate better and increase your vocabulary, take Dr. Eger's course. He is an enthusiastic professor who seems genuinely concerned that his students succeed. He give lots of feedback, with an emphasis on the positive.
i absolutly hate this guy. he makes u write down EVERYTHING, even if it has nothing to do with the class. he doesnt answer questions, hes always late and expects you to wait for him. he degrades and picks on people. drop him!!!!!!!
I was excited to take this course.Dr. Eger seemed okay, but in the 3rd wk, i was one of only 7 remaining students out of 30. we finally went to the dean to discuss his constant tardiness, condescension, unclear assignments, and basic degradation of students. luckily the dean allowed us all to add/drop into a later accelarated course. Worst experi
I learned a great deal in Dr. Eger's class. If you are not willing to put the time and effort into learning how to become a proficient writer and perhaps an eloquent writer, this would not be the class for you. If you are a serious and mature, Dr. Eger will give you 150% of his time and energy. His life motivation is to simply "teach" .
Recently received invitation for The National Dean's List, I intend filling out also used on my resume, per Dr. Eger. The Dean's List gives opportunity to name teacher who helped attain the honor, that is Dr. Eger. He equipped me to continue in school w/understanding on how to proceed and succeed at the very highest level. Excellent teacher.
Dr Eger means no harm, he's a nice guy from germany. He might be a little crazy and makes you work very hard, as a result of it I learned a lot. He still keeps in touch with his students via e-mail which no other teachers do. Students are lazy and don't want to do the work.
Class was extremely difficult; however, he encouraged everyone to participate. One of my best teachers.
I had to take this class (SPE100) in order to graduate. Rather than graduate, I am going to drop this worthless, egotistical, soldier bashing "drilled","copius"bullcrap spewing idiot and take my chances with another class at another campus! WORST CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE EVER! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! DROP HIM NOW!
Though I enjoyed this class, MANY ppl dropped out. We went from 24 down to 3 ppl by the end. This class involves a LOT of details (including being able to remember specific citations from the text on a Mult. Choice exam). If you know a great deal about grammar and writing, you will be okay.
Worst class ever. I was in his class for maybe a week & a half and dropped it. He yelled at me because I didnt have a black folder (I had dark green). He was unbelievable. Turn back now!
when i went to sign up for classes, the counselor was very apprehensive about putting me in the class. if that doesn't tell you something i don't know what will.i didn't enjoy his class and at times hated it but learned a lot, still Dr. Eger is very annoying and i would not recommend this class to anyone. there were 6 people left in the end.
I WAS A 4.0 STUDENT ENTERING THIS CLASS. I QUICKLY LEARNED THAT I WAS UP AGAINST A NUT. NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED, I COULDNT DO WELL. HE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO DOWELL. HE SAID TO ME AT THE END IN HIS ANNOYING ACCENT, ....."I'M SORRY.....I GUESS YOU DIDNT MAKE THE GRADE." (MEANING I LOST MY 4.0 BECAUSE OF THE GRADE HE GAVE ME)RUN AS AST AS YOU CAN
Do not take this class. Only 3 people remained at the end of class. I really thought that I could stick it out and pass the class. He is demanding and unrealistic. I would not recommend him to my worst enemy. I have a F on my transcript and he would not remove it.
Understand hes trying to be helpful but he has unrealistic expectations for full time students. Took 4 classes this semester and took 90% of my homework time. Do not take him
Professor had a lot of great real life advice even if it was a little mixed in with personal opinions. Hope you like to write, a lot of papers. This was a hard course but I really learned a lot. Good experience even if it was a little frustrating.
He was a very hard professor and expected a lot, but you do learn a ton. I enjoyed his class and found him to be very interesting. He really does want you to learn and is willing to help you any way he can. I highly recommend him.
DO NOT TAKE THIS TEACHER!!!!
He has some good ideas and can throw out some interesting facts, but he is very strict and cares more about the way papers are presented (font, size, spacing) rather than how well it is written.
I'M TELLING YOU NOW DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!! All he talks bout is him-self. I learned nothing at all from this class !! If you have him get out now, while u still can !!!
In other words: The antichrist. A pretentious and self indulgent moron who plays favorites. Didn't like me. I took 10 courses at DCCC and recieved 9 A's and one B. Where do you think the B came from? Avoid the class if you can.
I learned a lot in this class, however none of what I leaned concerned the material in the course description or even in the teachers syllabus; two documents that you would not believe are related unless someone told you, then beat you over the head till you suffered brain damage and told you again, anyways f this guy I am law school and he is.....
He's a bit of a tool though.
I do not think Dr. Eger cares so much what students think of him as much as he cares how much his students learn. He is concerned about the whole student-not just their knowledge of English! It is obvious that he cares tremendously about his students.
Good Teacher learned alot. If you take this class stay on top of everything. Always willing to help his students as long as you make an effort. I would suggest someone take this class keeping in mind being prepared to work.
Overall: DO NOT TAKE THIS TEACHER Didn't like: always late but made a big deal about us being late, graded papers during class instead of teaching, lectured us about irrelevent things, spoke to us like we were children, graded the last paper especially hard but didn't hand it back until it was too late to revise it Like: useful handouts
Not an easy class, required a lot of work. It's manageable if you keep up with things. His grading is tough, but it was not hard to pass. If you want anything more than just a pass you will have to work very hard. Do what he tells you to do, it will train your mind to become a better writer, not just to make one template to use for all writing.
He needs to do a 180 with his teaching methods and actually grade papers on content not as much as on structure. Lastly, also walk into oncoming traffic
I AM WARNING YOU DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS.. I had him a few yrs ago, I felt so degraded, He made us make name tags and tape them to our desks, if you diddnt write down every little thing he says [even if irrelevant to the course] he gets in your face like a drill sargent. Not to mention on your papers he takes 10pts off every MLA violation BEWARE
Worst Prof. ever! The first day of class he made us read and summarize the whole table of contents from the book required for the class. He also forced us to read his syllabus everyday in class. I had him for fall 09 and the deadline to drop him was on the first day of class so it was too late for me. The other bad comments listed are very true.
I had Dr. Egar about 8 years ago. He's one of those teachers that will leave a good or bad life time impression on u. He really expects a lot from his students and is passionate about the subject. He can be scattered-brain at times but it was a great learning experience. I was 1 of 5 students remaining in the class of 30. I received a 'B'.
This man, despite his experience, should not be teaching. Please don't take his class.
Dr. Eger is more concerned about demonstrating his knowledge and personal sense of accomplishment than he is about teaching. Only 2 out of 24 of us completed his class. He asks you to memorize sections of text rather than discuss content and share ideas. He does not value your opinions if they're different from his. I would suggest avoiding him.
Dr. Eger is class brought out the best in me. He genuinely cares about his students. His class is not easy though, that is because he expects the best from his students and nothing else. He is fair in his grading. Do your work, read Course materials, read Syllabus, follow exact directions & finally, check emails often and you will succeed in his class.
Dr. Eger is absolutely one of the most rotten people I have ever met. There aren't enough words to clearly express how awful of a person he is. I had a professor offer to pull strings to get me out this class after the drop date because he's horrible. I stuck it out, and I got an A. I felt incredibly accomplished for making it through!
Dr. Eger is an AWFUL professor! He belittles his students and gets angry when anyone challenges him. He makes condescending remarks and likes to "weed out" anyone who will not do things his way. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS.
Terrible professor. Belittles his students and exploits your flaws to the entire class. Cares more about writing down useful information he blabs on about more than the actual papers and materials. Strongly advise switching professors, getting an A in this class was a huge achievement,
If you are willing to work hard in this class and want a challenge, it's worth it. He makes the schedule so that the beginning of the semester is hard and by the end the workload lightens up. He wants his students to do well and goes out of his way to help you if you take the initiative to ask for help.
Very demanding professor, however the knowledge gained from his personal anecdotes along with the class notes proves useful in everyday life. If you are looking for an easy class, don't take this one. Professor Eger expects you to perform at your best level and will call you on your nonsense if you try to hand in mediocre work.
Professor Eger is highly demanding but insists on getting the very best out of his students. Note taking becomes disjointed as he doesn't spoonfeed information. Very useful information that students can take with them throughout life. If you want an easy course or grade, do not take this. You will earn every bit of your grade here.
Dr. Edger only wants the best for his students. I agree with many of the post that he is demanding, but he prepares you for the real world. Nothing is given to you, you have to earn it. I have matured and learn alot from Dr, Edgar,in my opinion he is a class well needed to many students growth in life.
Great Teacher!
Dr. Eger is irrational and gets angry when students challenge his opinions. He is very smart but he is too busy trying to show how much he knows instead of trying to help his students learn. I received an A in his class but only b/c I was willing to ignore his rants. He has a wealth of information, but ruins it by being self-righteous.
Dr. Eger's class was incredible. He is an extremely demanding professor, but he will also give you every single tool you need to acquire an A in his course. He is opinionated and harsh, but it is for your own good. He only wants greatness from his students. I would definitely recommend his class to any student willing to learn and work hard.
He is very demanding, wants whats best, but is very harsh, thinks he knows everything, and definitely hates to be challenged. but he is an ok teacher, just be ready to BE STRESSED all the time in his class..CHECK YOUR delgate EMAILS all the time! :) He sends emails out at random times of the day.
I love this man. I learned a lot!! If you hang in there it'll be well worth your time...
Beware do not ever take this class he is aweful. He is anal rententative egotistical and be prepared to do extreme load of work...not worth your money not worth the stress
This teacher is unbearable, very smart but not interested in helping his student just like to show off his accomplishments and swears he no everything its his way or no way.......Good Luck
This class changed my life. From the moment I walked in I knew this class would be different, and on the day I walked out I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness. I did not want the class to end. I will never forget the things that Dr. Eger and the class taught me, and this I could never have learned from any other professor.
Best Teacher hands down I've had throughout a long college career. Yes, he is difficult. He has high expectations and many students aren't up to the challenge. If you are in college to better yourself and are willing to work harder than you have before then this prof is for you. He doesn't sugar coat things and expects you to be professional.
Dr. Eger was a tough, no nonsense teacher, but he was fair to the point of giving my class a second exam after the first surprised everyone by requiring very precise answers. No one passed the first time. Let me be clear: the class was not easy. It was challenging. I had to step out of my comfort zone. But that is how I grew.
Dunno if this man still teaches, but I took one of his classes years ago. Repellant human. It's not just "slackers" that don't like him. Eger picks favorites early on. Not you? Tough. He will attack you personally and teach little. He couldn't care less about real learning. Eger is vindictive, egotistical, hypocritical, insufferable, you name it.
slackers BEWARE! Dr. Egar has an enormous amount to give if you are prepared to work and listen. He will give you the tools and techniques to write clearly and concisely. Respect his experience, knowledge, and mastery of the English language and you will reap phenomenal benefits. He WILL NOT coddle you!
Class Info
Attendance Mandatory
100%
Textbook Required
83%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Improving
+0.32 avg changeRatings by Course
SPEECH
5.0
(1)COMM101
5.0
(1)ENG02
5.0
(1)COM112
5.0
(1)COMMUNICATIONS
4.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
ENGLISHCOMP
5.0
ENGLISHCOMPII
5.0
ENGLISH100
5.0
ENGLISH112
5.0
COM000
5.0