He is condescending and acts like he is far superior to the students. He can't seem to be bothered to slow down long enough to take a question. By far the worst professor I have ever had. He doesn't seem to care about the students at all and seems to live in his own little world.

This professor does not set you up to succeeds. Online quiz on reading before class when you haven't had a chance to ask questions over the concepts being quizzed on. Kicks you out of class if you don't have your mandatory response to daily reading. Focused more on you doing the work than you learning the material.

Homework every night and you do the same thing in class every day, so if you don't read and do the homework, don't even show up. Only talks about homework questions and will not help you with any clarification. Does very little teaching. He is very dry and condescending. Would not take a class taught by him again.

I would not recommend this professor. Taking his online class is stressful if you struggle with understanding complex concepts. Forget seeking other sources to help you understand, he actually discourages and explicitly states not to do so. Basing off all your knowledge for a class based off a single text book isn't a class. Take another teacher.

Meah, I would not recommend this class. Mr. MoWAD is difficult to hear in class and is a bit passive aggressive. He gave me the sense that he feels people have been out to get him and it reflects in the way he treats his students - he does not set them up for success.

Completely Apathetic to the real word in which his students live in, makes everything far more difficult and confusing than it has to be with Alpia and his attendence policy. DON'T TAKE HIS CLASS IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD GRADE

Dr. Mowad asks for tok much in one assignment. I get philosophy is a complex study, but he does nothing to help. You're basically on your own. Grade depends on a few discussions and a lot of quizzes worth A LOT of points for only being 5 questions. I wouldn't take this professor, it's easier to fail the class than it is to pass it.

Terrible at explaining. He speaks like a philosopher using terminology that nobody can understand unless they are very familiar with philosophy courses. Everyone was confused at my table. Asking him questions leads to odd answers that give more uncertainty. Very picky grader, seems to forget we don't have a doctorate in philosophy like he does.

If you have a choice don't choose him. His discussion post prompts take an hour to decode and search in the dictionary. Like we get it you wasted half ur life in college but like at least talk like a normal human being.

If you want to read a huge book with small font about who knows what then this is the class for you. I was actually super excited about this class until I took it. This class only consists of really hard discussions and quizzes, and if you dont do good on either of those then you arent passing the class. He is a tough grader & does no lectures

I wouldnt take this class again

he is knowledgeable in philosophy but he cant teach it very well. could not understand this class at all, was VERY stressful from the beginning . You need to STUDY hours a day , so many rules and guidelines that must be followed in order to understand this curriculum. Did not use the book, we just needed the access code in order to do homework

Tough teacher... his expectations arent clear.

Possibly the worst class I have ever taken. I am a straight-A student and it was apparent from the beginning that he rarely ever allows A's. Assignments were extremely precise and confusing. One single sentence off and it completely tanks your grade. Throughout the class, there are only quizzes and discussions, so few improvement opportunities.

Does not help students and is a really tough grader and want give any credit for something if you didnt do it all right.

He teaches philosophy but is very one-sided when it comes to everything that is in the class. Teaches like we have taken philosophy our whole lives and expect us to put big concepts into elegant work. Wouldn't recommend taking this class, if it is recommended you take it for a degree just take an easier class it is just a culture class anyways.

When I was in his class, I was overwhelmed by the amount of pages we had to read for his class. His lectures were also long but it was bearable. The one assignment I thought I did really good on was my final paper to later be seen as "not thought out" and "one-sided argument" when I had it reviewed by other professors. This class was ridiculous

I took this class for credits to get my Associates Degree. This is supposed to be an intro Religion class and it's the hardest thing I have ever taken. He is so specific on grading, only does online lectures and gives you no homework other than little 5 question quizzes. I felt like I was fighting for my C the whole semester and I learned NOTHING.

I'm a 4.0 student took online accelerated summer class with an enormous amount of reading ancient text. Expects you to understand on your own, 5 question quiz worth 100pts. Lectures are old 15 min videos, you don't get to watch until AFTER quiz. condescending, pompous, and unhelpful. write 4 papers for final reads/grades 1. I hired a tutor. NO!!

I'm just gonna say I should've listened to the reviews and the rate and not take the risk of taking his class.

Taken over summer, rude teacher, way too many video lectures at a pace that is too fast to keep up with while working a part time job. Offers little to no feedback for drafts for discussion posts. Boring and dry lectures, about 10-15 minutes per video with 67 total videos. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR.

Go with a different Professor. Mr. Mowad is a smart mouth Teacher, monotone and way too much online lecturing, its awful.

If you are extremely interested in religious studies, do not take his class. It will ruin it for you. The lectures are crazy long, the longest lectures I have ever had to sit through in college and he does not respect that class should end at a certain time. If you ask too many questions he will leave you 10x more confused.

Dr. Mowad religion class is all based off of his lectures. You watch his lectures take quizzes on them and write a discussion paper. His lectures are super confusing he talks very fast and it sounds as though he is reading out of a book. He is a tough grader everything has to be precise. Very confusing and hard class with little instruction.

I have NEVER been so discouraged to learn. In a 101 class they treated us as though we should have already known how to lead philosophical discussion and use only objective truth in writing. They clearly were looking for a "correct" answer in their discussion posts and mainly essays. Told him everything he wanted to hear and got an A, 100 on Final.

I never leave reviews anywhere but this deserves one. He's not meant to be a teacher. Grades too harshly on entry-level students. Don't take this class unless you are a genius with religions. He's very lecture heavy and doesn't explain anything without using terms that aren't easily understood. I wish I took no class rather than this class.

He is very strict with grading his papers and only had one point of view and if u steered and wrote your opinion he would give you a low grade. He accused me of plagiarism when I never did

I could tell by reading the syllabus this was going to be such a stressful course. I had trouble passing the syllabus quiz it was that difficult already and assignments due on the 2ndday of class. I could hear the professors voice in my head telling me he was better than everyone else by the way he wrote his emails. I had to drop the class 1day in

I took the introductory world philosophy course online and I was instantly bombarded with papers I had to write within very strict deadlines. Being an introductory course I expected a little more leniancy and easing into the subject rather than just having to complete a paper on a short lecture within the first few days of class.

Very lecture heavy class with slideshows that do not have the information we need to learn. This is a problem since he does a very poor job of explaining and does not know proper teaching skills. He never provided study guides or other ways to learn. The only resource we have is from what he tells us, and we were prohibited from using the web.

- The lecture is extremely lengthy, lasting 1 hour and 30 minutes of continuous talking. The professor shows no concern for the students and does not attempt to show the connection with them. - He expects the responses in quizzes, tests, papers, and discussions as if you are at master's degree level in order to meet his standards for assignments.

Quizzes don't match reading material and lectures, yet specifies must take only from textbook reading and lectures. Hard to write papers when you don't understand the religions you're writing about.

As others said, lectures and reading assignments didn't appear to match quizzes and assignments at all. His weekly emails were a jumbled mess with no coherent thought. Little feedback was provided if you messed an assignment up. Slideshows in lecture videos provided no true information. Fit the philosophy professor stereotype.

He is terible! Requires you to go to another website other than canvas to do the homework just to make you buy the textbook that you dont need to read. On that website you need to provide an acces code only found in the textbook, that is not provided, and then the book is never used again. And he clearly does not care at all about the class.

He will not work with students at all; just there to get a check! He will not update his powerpoint notes and they WILL look different to in-person lecture powerpoint slides.

You need to have AMAZING comprehension skills to be able to succeed in this class. He is not very lenient when it comes to grading. He literally has said do not submit idiotic work, which I get but come on the lectures are so hard to understand. Not allowed to go to previous question on quizzes. 2 assignments per week and 1 paper per module.

It is essential to read the textbook also get the textbook in some kind of way. He has VERY few items to grade and you should NOT miss class. His lectures are very boring in the sense that he has a very monotone voice and his general attitude towards the subject. He also has a very specific format for the way he wants things done.