Terrible. You never understand him and he's a really tough teacher. He interrupts you when you speak and is just really unreceptive to your ideas.

Ok so it is impossible to understand him, nothing but reading novels and writing papers on them. Watch alot of old movies about culture. Grades the papers terribly. He is more or less a bad teacher, I mean he is a very smart guy that knows his stuff, but doesnt know or care about explaining it in everyday english.. chose another course

HIST150: Awful teacher. GO TO THE STUDY SESSIONS PROVIDED BY TA'S. They give you the answers for the homework; you will not be able to do it yourself, and get an A in the class! He knows his stuff, but is hard to understand, and boring. Don't take notes-the midterm and final are take home, and there are studdy sessions for them.

Assigns homework and readings that don't make any sense at all. He refers to his own book in third person. Only take this class if you are looking for an excuse to not come to lecture.

Horrible teacher. Never explains anything, lectures are completely useless and boring, the movies he shows are even worse. We only had to buy the book, which is really aimed towards upper level classes, because he edited it. The essay is impossible, and is due the Monday after spring break. Get a new professor if possible.

If ~90% of the students get a D on the first test (thank God for the curve he so graciously allowed us to have) and everyone has to attend study sessions to have any chance at all of passing, you're doing something wrong. We're using the book he edited. No surprise there. We had to buy two others, but we've never touched either of them yet.

While he might have a great amount of experience in the field, his teaching doesn't prove so impressive. His third person references to his text that he required us to buy are frustrating, and it's impossible to follow him in class lectures. I just listen for small info bits to use in the papers & then ignore the rest, but I don't recommend him!

This man is absolutely AWFUL! For the love of god, do NOT take his core level class. He expects you to do things that most upper level history classes don't have to do. His class is a complete waste of your time because everything he talks about in class has NOTHING to do with what is on the homework. Worst teacher EVER.

I have taken 200, 300 and 400 level history classes with a number of profs at BSU.... This is by far the worst. He uses no textbook, uses films and novels to "teach" non-western cultures. five 4-page papers analyzing cultures we know nothing about so you don't have any fact for papers and get Cs

I hated everything about this class. The lectures did not relate to the homework or tests. I survived the class by going to the teaching assistants' study sessions where they basically fed us the answers to the homework and take home final. But you probably won't have those TAs so don't sign up for Hall

Loves to schedule absurd amounts of homework, but not tell the class. Lectures don't have anything to do with books readings, he jumps from time period to time period in no order whatsoever, he doesn't answer questions clearly, he makes you read his horribly edited book...There's just nothing nice to say about him. If you have him, you WILL fail.

This professor is awful! His homework assignments are nearly impossible--it usually took me around an hour to answer ten multiple choice questions and I still got Cs on most of them. His exams are just as bad. Seriously, this class was more difficult than my level-400 classes.

Conceited and rude. Primarily used the textbook he edited, which was comically enough difficult to read and irrelevant to his lectures. Homework assignments rarely corresponded with book work or lectures. Overall, he made the content unnecessarily difficult to follow through a lack of organization and poor communication skills.

confused and confusing

He doesn't make any sense. He expects too much for a 100 level class. And this is Western Civ, in which he never uses the book required for the course, which is about western civilization. Instead we use a book he edited that is entitled "The Growth of NON-Western Cities."

His lectures are hard to follow, with inconsistent homework assignments with random quizzes at the end of each lecture. He also expects 100 level class to be experts on History, making an easy class unnecessarily hard.

Awful professor. His quizzes are nearly impossible, even if you take notes, he doesn't cover a lot of info he puts on the final and mid-term, and the only way to get a good grade is get free answers on homework from TAs, which means if you can't make it to their sessions you're screwed. I'm honors, I should not get a C in 100 level history.

I have only had class since the beginning of the year and he is already impossible to follow, rambles on, impossible to understand and is a horrible teacher. I plan on using the study sessions to pass.

He is such an awful teacher. He is really smart but just impossible to learn from. And you can't use the book because he wrote it.. On the bright side with the TA's, I have a 100% in the class because they give you answers to everything including in-class assignments, tests, midterm and final. I haven't read a word all semester!

Easiest A! I never went to this class. He doesn't do attendance but he would do random in class quizzes but he would give you the answers to them. Make sure you GO TO THE TA SESSIONS, they give you the answers to the homework, midterm and final! Other than that just go to his class and sit on interest the whole time. EASY A! DO NOT BUY THE BOOKS!

Terrible teacher. Treats females unfairly. Speaks over groups when presenting. Doesn't explain subjects, papers, etc. Extremely boring. DO NOT RECOMMEND

TERRIBLE TEACHER. Only talks about the places in the world that he has been to. Vague on paper assignments. Expects you to know EVERYTHING about the cultures that you read about in the 7 books that are read in the class. Seriously, just avoid him at all costs because he just talks forever and is a terrible instructor.

I took him in the summer. Only Recommend for summer history because you don't have to show up to class. Also, he has assignments due each week, but he gives you all the answers. Don't take notes and don't buy the book, waste of money!!!!!

I wouldn't recommend this class on my worst enemy. DO NOT take this class. It's the hardest class I've ever taken. You read about 100+ pages a week and have homework assignments every day. Save yourself the time and don't take this class with him.

Responded to emails very belatedly and gave little relevant feedback, none of which was ever new from one assignment to another. Did not submit any grades on Blackboard for the entirety of the course: class has been over for a week and I still don't know what I got on my first paper!

For my class, there are four grades. 2 papers, midterm and a final. They do not have specific dates, which is nice. HOWEVER, he never posted the midterm, and I had to EMAIL him asking about whether we were having a midterm and he sent it to me. He is slow to reply to emails and is a slow grader. DO NOT RECOMMEND for online classes.

This class is reading 6 books (all are depressing), writing 4 papers, watching terrible movies and listening to Hall give his life story. He is terrible at putting in grades. His lectures are torture but the take home final is all about the lectures so take notes through your tears. I would never take this history class if you like history.

Do not take a class with this guy. Make sure you save documented evidence that you turned assignments in for him because he will still give you 0's, watch your blackboard CLOSELY. Class is all reading awful books and awful lectures, you will not want to wake up in the morning for this class. Avoid Kenneth Hall if you enjoy history.

Literally one of the worst professors I have ever had. Not only is the syllabus full of inaccurate information, but he does not give clear directions. He can say the requirements for an assignment, and when yo do exactly what is required, suddenly it is incorrect. Like ?? Do. Not. Take. unless you have literally no other choice. I hate this class.

I had to take his online class and it was the worst class I've ever taken. He uploaded nothing on BB. No information, no announcement, and not even the final. When he never sent anything out I had to email him for both tests or I would have never gotten them. He didn't grade anything or give any feedback until I was done with the class, not clear.

He offered to submit a rough draft to the TA who would look at them. My rough draft was good, but I got a 62% on the paper. He said to not write about the book itself, as the reader has already read the novels, yet in many of my references to the book he wanted me to detail the scene. 3 papers done so far, only one graded with a month left of semes

He rambles a lot about his experiences in Asia, which is really cool, but he tends to repeat himself and rambles for 10 minutes of class time on a topic that doesn't exactly relates to the topic of the lecture. Gives unclear instructions and two weeks at best for a novel. More of a literary analysis class than a history class.

He is a great guy but is very unorganized and you have to literally email him multiple times to even get the assignments, BUT he gives you the answers to basically all the homework, midterm, etc so if you show up to class you will get an A no doubt. Nice guy but a lot of rambling done in class. I would take him again just to get the A

Terrible with zoom. His wife has to come in and help him figure out how to turn it on. His monotone voice is even worse with a mask. The papers are basically the entire class grade and the only feedback he gives is on grammar. Worst prof ive ever had. dont take him

Honestly the worst professor Ive had at Ball State. He reads directly from his PowerPoint slides the entire time. He doesnt have a clear grading system. One week hell give you an A the next a C. I purchased nearly 6 books that we had to read and write 4-6 page papers over. I ended up with a B in the class. Ill never take his class again.

Avoid his classes if possible. He is very harsh with his feedback and expects graduate-level work out of a 300 level course. There is no set schedule, and you never know what you will be doing or talking about when you walk into class. Boring, unwelcoming, and a confidence ruiner. An excellent student in all other history courses? Impossible here!!

Professor is a nice guy, but boy will you bored to death in this class. Its lecture everyday and is crammed with so much information and most is just about his own research and work. Lots of books to buy and must read them since grades is almost entirely off papers. Won't lie, I did not show up a lot because class time felt useless.