Hitt was a horrible excuse for a professor! His attitude is aweful, he rarely returns grades despite constant reminders, and his grading system makes no sense! The course grade is based off of quizzes, 2 papers and a group presentation. The group work was terrible and he shows no sympathy in who he assigns you with. I depise both him and his class!

Tough grader, and very confusing on his grading policy. Philosophy is not an easy class and Professor Hitt does not make it easier to understand. I would not recommend him if youre not a philosophy major.

One of the worst professors I have ever had at SVSU. Goes over the assignment instructions AFTER they are due. Does not respond to any email and when he does they are short and not helpful at all. Doesn't have a clue about what any of the assignments are about. Thinks he is better than anyone else just because he is from NY. Horrible Professor!!

Do not take this prof!!! He is extremely disrespectful and takes forever to respond to emails... if he even responds. His lectures are a waste of time and doesn't go over assignments. He is very arrogant and everything that is for a grade has nothing to do with in person content. Grades all assignments SUPER LATE so don't expect to know your grade.

Most unorganized professor I ever had. Never saw my grade once and never explained the grading criteria. Although there were very few assignments, you won't know how you did on them. His lectures are VERY long and confusing. All he does is reiterate information from the textbook. Not good at communicating outside of class. However, he is nice.

I took PHIL 205 in person and quite honestly this is a hard class. There is no instruction or guidance on any of the assignments,and the weekly quizzes have nothing to do with the lecture. The lectures are confusing and when you ask questions you leave more confused then when you started. Be prepared to not get an email back.

Worst professor at SVSU. He waits until the last day of finals week to start grading papers from MONTHS ago, that he says you should use feedback from to write your final paper. The lack of care that professor Hitt has is astronomical. Do anything you can to avoid his class.

Professor Hitt's lectures do not line up with anything. The lectures did not cover what we were doing in class, and it just made me more confused about what I was doing. They were so pointless to the point I stopped going. Takes forever to grade work, it's the last week of class and very few things are graded.

This professor is awful! He wrote the textbook and it is terrible. I have emailed him multiple times to no avail, he never responds. He also hasn't graded anything in weeks so i have no idea where I stand in this class. Minimal guidance on assignments and zero feedback since there has been no grading done.

This professor NEVER responds to emails. Without having a face-to-face class, it makes it incredibly difficult to stay on top of material if you have a question. He does not provide any lecture. It is all book and quizzes. He does not grade anything until the end of the semester so you don't know if you are doing things correctly or not. Awful.

doesn't communicate, grades work very very late.

I would never take this professor again, it was an online summer class. He made me buy an $80 online textbook that was full of typos and errors but we needed it to track activities for credit and had all of our assignments. He didn't answer emails. He is very quiz, essay, and discussion post heavy. He is very ambiguous and unclear.

The class averages for his quizzes was never over a C. The class lectures are pointless and have nothing to do with the assigned chapters in the online book. The textbook is online and he wrote it himself. It is full of typos and the activities in the book are just busy work and a waste of time.

AVOID IF POSSIBLE. Both the class and the professor are the WORST that I've experienced at SVSU. Prof Hitt is extremely unorganized, very vague when it comes to directions, and doesn't grade assignments in a timely manner. His textbook is filled with misspellings. I have learned very little from taking this course, total waste of time and money 0/5

Dr. Hitt openly brags about how hard his quizzes are and the test scores reflect that. He will also explain how the lectures will not be tested on, so the only point of going is attendance. Papers and written responses have the most confusing directions. Although the quizzes are hard, the amount of homework he gives you raises your grade.

Do not take James if you can. It takes him weeks to grade assignments so you never know your grade. Quizzes are unclear and made specifically to make you fail. He even states that he wouldn't want to take his quizzes as a student, which is insane. Has no compassion for any student and is extremely rude. Please take this advice!

Starts class bragging about how hard it is and says he wouldn't take his own quizzes. Takes forever to grade. Lectures are off-topic and include weird jokes about killing students. Quizzes are from his own book and make no sense. Final paper is 7+ pages, explained last minute. Weekly discussion posts. Only went to class for attendance. AVOID

Brags about how hard the class is and says he wouldn't take his own quizzes. Lectures are off-topic and include jokes about killing students. Quizzes are from his book and make no sense. Takes forever to grade. Final paper is 7 plus pages, barely explained. Weekly posts. If attendance didn't count, I wouldn't have gone. Avoid this class.

Grades will be put in weeks after. Attendance is mandatory but what you learn in class doesn't correlate with actual grades. Good luck on quiz

The assignments were ok, but there was a lot and he took FOREVER to grade. It took the whole semester for him to grade the first quiz, and he still hasn't finished and grades were due a week ago. He also tries hard to push his political ideas in his lectures and through his assignments. Students couldn't express their own opinions on ideas.

Dr. Hitt waited until after class was over to grade every single quiz and assignment. I am a straight A student and received multiple Cs, Ds, and Fs on his quizzes after spending multiple hours on about 10 questions. However, since he waited until after class was over to grade, I had no clue how bad I was doing.Grading system makes no sense at all.

Told us at the beginning of the semester that attendance counts towards your grade, but when he finally grades stuff at the end of the year attendance is 0% of your grade. He won't grade anything until the week before finals, and if you ask him about putting grades in he still won't. Don't take this class unless you really need it.

Attendance is mandatory but he says nothing he lectures on is included on the quizzes. 2 chapters+ a quiz every week. lectures can be engaging but he intentionally makes the class harder than needed and the quizzes are terrible. final paper is worth 30%, 7 pages long. prepare to master APA. doesn't grade anything til last week of class. terrible.

Absolutely do not take this class. Says attendance is mandatory but has no guidelines on how it will effect your grade. On top of that, actually attending class is a complete waste of your time. He literally said that lectures do not follow with the book/quizzes. Also quizzes are awful. Average quiz grade is below a 50% according to Canvas.

Lectures do not reflect anything on the quizzes, though you still have to show up because attendance is mandatory. The required textbook is poorly thought out and written, but all quizzes are based on it. Grades are not put in until the very last week of the semester, which makes it hard to know how you're doing in the class. Avoid if possible.

do not take this class for your gen ed credit take a different one. doesn't put in grades til the very end of the semester so you have no idea what you have. very difficult to have a conversation with always feels like your answer is wrong. lots of discussion posts which are worth a lot of points. quizzes don't rely what we learned in lecture.

The information was interesting, we just didn't learn half of it until after we already took the quiz for it. You are expected to know everything from the book, not much from the lectures are actually on the quizzes. You will probably get called on for in class conversations, he expects participation.

DO NOT TAKE!! He is very rude and always argues with students to make sure they are never right. This class taught me nothing. Goes over slides in class but quizzes are just based off the textbook. His tests averages are less than 60% and he says he would not take them if he was a student because they are so hard. He is proud of being a bad teacher

Lots of discussions, multiple parts. Doesn't grade work until last week of semester. Doesn't explain anything clearly, always on a tangent. Won't give any clear feedback. And he always has to be right. But if you just do the work you should manage a decent mark, it's just a lot of work.