Do not take this teacher. I love the civil war and he has totally ruined this subject for me. First off we start with slavery then we zoom past a lot of material and go to 1 and a half years into the civil war! We talk about one battle then we zoomed again into reconstruction. Trust me, dont tske it

Do not take this teacher! He does not teach the class very well jumping around from one thing to the other. His required readings are pathetic and the essays are suppossed to be about hwo you feel on the subject as long as you agree with him.

THIS PROFESSOR IS HORRIBLE DO NOT TAKE HIM! He rambles on about nothing during lecture, then he tests you on all these things he never even mentioned. Then he lied about his teacher evaluations and tried to not give them to our class because he is HORRIBLE.

Not helpful, you cant ask him questions because he makes you feel dumb. I asked him a question about the test, so he hands me a syllabus, cause i didnt understand something in the text and he told me i should know whats on the tests. Do Not Take this guy hopefully no one does and he loses hi job.

He gives professors a bad name. The single worst professor EMU has produced. Totally unclear with his paper assignments. Grades are purely based on how he feels about you or that day. Totally arrogant and self absorbed. He ruined a very interesting topic, though he did give a good selection of books to read. Stay away from this class

Only course were I thought about appealing for my tuition back. Received a good grade but slept through his useless classes. Horrible teacher. He was unprepared, rude, and taught unfactual information. We never learned about the Civil War: learning was based on four books loosely related to the Civil War. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS! Should be fired.

absolutely the worst professor I've ever had. No rubric, no clear guidlines, weeds out the people that don't agree with his extreme leftist ideology. Avoid him.

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The worst professor I have ever encountered! RUDE! If you don't brown nose forget about getting a good grade. If he doesn't like you redo redo redo! we didn't have one intelligent lecture. WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY, runied my GPA

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROF! He is horrible and very unclear with what he wants in his papers! He doesnt give you a rubric and barely reads the papers and gives you a D... this man should be fired!

This class was the worst. Hard time focusing on his lectures which were rather unclear and off into space. His exams are always essay so make sure you know exactly what he wants to hear or he'll fail you. Best of luck with him

This isn't a history class, he isn't a history teacher. Its fun and games time. If you want an education take someone else. It is obvious he doesn't know how to teach, so he plays games instead...

This Teacher is the worst!! Unless you like acting in ridiculous plays all semester and not having your opinion given a damn go ahead and take this class. He is mean and failed my paper because it was opinionated he dropped my A down to a C- because of it.

What I wish I could say about Higbee the website will not allow me to post. He is very biased against some of his students, and if he dislikes you (which he establishes within the first week) he will avoid helping you. He takes a class with potential to be fun, and kills it! I suggest the course HIST 179, but AVOID Higbee!

I took this class because it sounded really interesting. I have friends with other professors and they love it. My professor is very rude and not helpful at all.

I asked for assistance from him by asking for feedback about my 2 prepared statements and his response was "This is OK. We will see if you fully understand your points tonight." That was the only feedback provided. He is full of himself and consistently puts his students original thoughts down. He is not an educator he is rude. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS

From what I can tell, he is happiest when he's funniest, which can often be at the expense of other people. But wait, there's more! Want your assignments explained? Too bad! Want your questions answered? Oh well. Oh and also, I have an IQ of 143. I get 100%. With him? B's. Why? He doesn't really say. It's hard to get A's without instructions.

Mark Higbee was a terrible professor who was uncaring, unprofessional, and rude. Im a great student and still did well in his class but he was a rude person the whole way hated him

He was the most unprofessional and uncaring professor I've ever had. He didn't teach lectures for the first two essays (66.7% of your overall grade), so it was hard to learn. If you don't agree with his opinion, you are penalized. I would not recommend this professor.

Was way harder than it should have been for a level 100 class. I took HIST 115 and it was harder than almost any college class I took. The instructions and syllabus are very confusing and the instructions on how he wants you to write the essay are poorly laid out and unorganized. I would definitely not recommend.

DO NOT TAKE HIST 115 WITH THIS PROFESSOR. I took this completely online before dropping and the grade was based on 6 papers. This Professor will give you very rude feedback on your papers, he is unprofessional in how he writes his emails and instead of offering to help or recommend resources he basically concluded that college was not for me.

I took his online class and I hugely regret it. You're only graded by 8 essays, and you have to do 100+ pages of reading every week. If your essay is "bad enough" Higbee won't even read and he'll say fix it before you give it to him without actually saying what's wrong with it.

Higbee's papers are ridiculously trivial and that is all he grades off of. He does not actually teach anything in the course. His feedback on papers is extremely rude and does not give constructive criticism. When writing his papers, be super literal because he cannot read between the lines.

This isn't a class, it's 4 books you have to read and write papers on. What should be in these papers? Great question, and one that Higbee refuses to answer. He says he wants a paragraph, but then grades you down for not giving enough detail. You give more detail, and he'll complain about you not addressing some other concept. This class was a joke

The course is made up of 7 essays. Each essay will be about a book, paper, or essay you are assigned. Almost all are on the same topic. You won't be taught a single thing. You are given the syllabus and that's it. Feedback on your work is never constructive. It is as simple as a grade and either "Good job" or "Awful job". Avoid if you can.

I try to give people benefit of the doubt, I really do, but this man is unforgivable. He accused me of being a lazy student & said my paper was boring. Little did he know, I spent hours on every assignment. I dropped the class asap. Take with another prof, if possible. Save yourself stress, tears, & confusion. I have had amazing profs, he is NOT.

Professor is very rude and demeaning in emails. Doesn't provide any help, positive reinforcement or advice. Advise not taking a class with him and if you have to good luck and keep your head up.

Professor is very belittling and mocking In his "corrections" and grades on assignments. Provides no positive reinforcement or help. Makes a lot of assumptions on his students. Even on issues that just need clarification he's is very rude about it.

Very rude in his emails. Grades from 15 CPAs. Thinks you dont do work even if you are a hardworking student as he likes to make assumptions. Never taking him again and never a history class again because of him.

Professor Higbee's class wouldn't be so hard if his grading wasn't so random. If you are too specific or not specific enough he will mark you down. Also, even tho we had the same assignment every week, your grade could drop two or three letters if you're not careful with how you answer each week's chapter write up. Avoid him at all costs.

He doesnt actually teach you anything. He gives you the syllabus with a bunch of dates that you are supposed to finish readings by then complete an essay prompt There were 7 books assigned with the exact same essay assignment for each reading. The books are good reads but there is no dialogue among your peers or the professor to make an experience

Do not take this professor at any costs. He is so rude and disrespectful and demeaning over emails I had to drop the class because my mental health could not take it. Just makes assumptions about you and is mean spirited.

He will just assume what he wants about you and you have to take it in stride. The amount of mistakes he makes in instructions and emails is very high. One slip up and he will call you a bad writer and start docking points off things for no reason. No lectures, no learning. Reading and essays without him ever saying a word. AVOID

Professor Higbee is probably the most offensive professors I have ever had. He continuously talked down to me over email. He also tells you to not have any spelling errors and continues to send emails out with several spelling errors which makes him look bad.

he was extremely condescending and rude any time you would try to email him for clarification. it was unpredictable what your grade would be every single time because you could answer the question given in the weekly essay but ONE word used wrong or incorrectly will make your letter grade drop. i hate him

Professor Higbee is unprofessional. He is extremely passive aggressive in his emails. He assigned interesting material, but that's all the class is. Two books and three essays. He did not contact us the entire semester except at the beginning to send us the syllabus.

Professor Higbee threw a tantrum in class when I had him. He cussed out a kid because they didn't play the role he was assigned the way Higbee wanted him to. He wasted many classes talking about nothing related to what we were learning. The whole class revolved around Frederick Douglas when there is an additional 170 years to discuss.

Some people just want to watch the world burn. Mark Higbee is one of them. If you love being degraded for asking for help, then this is the class for you! Aside from doing quite literally no teaching, Professor Higbee will be sure to speak to you like you are an infant child than cannot even chew your own food. If you respect yourself, avoid him.

I try to empathize with profs and be positive, Im unable to with this one. To be fair it was an online class, he might be fine in person but the class I was in was baaad even tho I was really looking forward to the subject. He just emailed a list of books to read and told us to write essays. No professor engagement or enjoyment to be found here.

I took this profs HIST115 class 3 years ago and am about to graduate, but I still remember the chaos this class was. We read about 5-6 books and wrote essays based on them. Professor Higbee tended to grade based on his mood that day, and was fairly rude in mostly all of his response emails to said grades. Please do not take this prof.