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After finishing a semester with this man, I have concluded that Njeru is not the ideal teacher. As his name suggests, he is a native from Africa. It is very difficult to understand what he is saying. Also, your grade is based on three tests and three quiz
This teacher is like none that I have ever had. His. has always been my fav. subject, along with the teacher. He will give you good grades only if he likes you, and he doesnt like many. He is cold hearted and doesnt care about anyone or how they feel. Never ever EVER take his class.
He is hard to understand but this course is worth the effort. He is easy going and I can't wait to take part two next semester. If you go in wanting to learn you will get what you came for.
Gives unclear thoughts, he wanted us to do a sheet and 30 people based on rights and it was difficult.
He is hard to understand and his way of looking back at history can seem confusing and pointless. But its easy to seem like you understand and get a good grade.
Horrible Horrible Horrible teacher. Class does not make sense and neither does he. Dont bother to ask him any questions becuase he is always right and you are wrong.
Loved the class...deep thinker...easy exams that were based on what was taught...this is college...a majority of the professors are from another country so you have to adjust to their accents..plain and simple...
This professor has some serious issues with his teaching methods & the way he grades assignments & exams.He suggested that some of us were not writing at the college level while many of us, myself included have had reading and writing experience at a collegiate level.Many of his students have tried to get him fired.
Dr. Murage rates among the best professors I have met. I spent 4 years at a private college and took his MCC class to meet NYS teaching requirements. He is passionate, inspiring, friendly, and sets clear standards for success. He does require VERY detailed essays, but he is fair.
Totally unfair and bases all his grades on grammer, so if your not an english major you'll fail his class. I DONT RECOMMEND ANYONE TAKE HIS CLASS!!!!!!!!
Absolutely the most demanding and difficult liberal arts course I have ever taken. Rewarding but brutal. Be forwarned. Dr. Murage is helpful, but you must work independantly to do well in this course.
terrible
This is the WORST history class that I have taken in my entire life. It seems almost like he preceives present day African Americans in a bad light which changed the vibe of the class, and has the students lose respect for him. I felt like I learned a lot but it was from me studying on my own. To be quite honest save your money and just buy the boo
This class was horrible!! He gives essay exams, normally no problem, not in his class. You answer the essay question and when he reads it he tells you thats not what he wants. He will allow you to present him with a rough draft before an exam, but you can rewrite it forty times and it still will not be correct. Worst professor in five years!!
this is the WORSThen you ask a ? and he does not know what to say he kicks you out, when you ask what your grade is you get kicked out, he goes around in circles and can never be straight forward w/ you !!!!!
This is the Worst class that I've ever taken! This is a great class to take but not with Dr. Murage, He is very unclear.If you ask him a question it won't be answered, he'll just go in circles until you become frustrated. If you want to pass this class know your grammar b/c he grades on it & do your own studying.
Brought a fresh perspective, being from Kenya. This man amazed me with his ability to compound lessons from Day one to the final exam, and show you how he crafted one big puzzle from beginning to end, and how the umbrella of history effects everything. Take this class if you are into being enlightened.
This is the WORST! class i have ever taken. I thought that i might learn something from the history class but he does not teach you you have to teach yourselves, plus he does not ever give you help he can not give a clear answear, so you can never get anything answeared clearly. he give you the run around and i would not recomend this class to anyo
I only created this account becuase of this professor. He is the worst I've ever had. He gave me a B+ 10 weeks in so I could send my grades to the college I was transferring to. He later told me I could opt out of the final. When I got my final grades I had a C in the class, still do not understand it but I am already in my next school so I let it
I have a love for history and wanted to pursue studying via the classroom setting. After my semester that I bear passed I've completed confused and unclear. Mr. Murage is a likable teacher but lacks clarity and you really don't ever fully know what's required of you.I should have withdrew and taken this class next semester with another teacher.
Dr. Murage is definitely a different professor. He will definitely challenge some of your thoughts and morales. His approach to teaching is different, however I wouldn't say he is a bad teacher. Just takes some getting used to. Just make sure you do EXACTLY as the assignment says and you should be fine.
At first I liked DR Murage but within a few weeks I began to be very annoyed with him. All of the assignments he puts on the M drive are poorly organized. He does not know how to describe what he wants accurately. This makes the most simple assignments make no sense. For a teacher his Grammar is pretty bad!
This professor is very hard to understand and is very picky about how assignments/excersises are done. I made the deans list with straight A's last semester and I ended up with a C+. If you don't give him the exact definition in his words that he gives, it is wrong. I strongly object to anyone thinking of having this professor in the future.
He demanded clarity from students, but often spoke in circles. His brilliant moments were tarnished with being unorganized. A fine and interesting man who grades tough. You will work and think in his class, but be dilligent in getting clarification on doing assignments.
He has a real thick accent and its sometimes hard to understand.he gave the same vocab test 5 times, and he told us to write it in our own words, but when you do that you fail. he also gets sidetracked but i loved his lectures on globalization... he collected portfolios on the last class day, leaving the class with no notes to study for the final..
he grades like you go to harvard! if you're a visual learner definately not a good choice, he doesn't use powerpoints and loves youtube but never really expresses what he expects from you. you spell a word wrong, he atuomatically takes points off, good luck!
He is a mean and rude! He when over the same lesson every class to learn anything you would have to read the book. His assignments were ridicules and his expectations where outrages! He kicked my out of class because I didn't agree with my grad and he was sick of talking about it. He canceled ever meeting i set up with him. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS!
Honestly, one of the WORST professors I have ever had. His test and assignments are ridiculous, and expects us to answer his questions exactly the way he wants. He says "use your own words" and when we do, its wrong because its not what is written in our notes. His accent makes it so hard to understand most of the time. AVOID AT ALL COST! NO JOKE!
History will never be the same once you take Dr. Murage's course. He will help you to utilize the knowledge of history. You will learn to think. He will come to your aid if you need his help. I recommend him to all serious students.
Worst professor that I have ever had. He said that he "doesn't teach tests" so therefore it's pretty hard to pass them. He decides to wait til the last minute to give extra credit when he promised it in the beginning of the semester. He's not organized and it's difficult what to know is going to be on his tests. Save yourself from frustration!
Each of his lectures is an event. He is insightful. He teaches to transform students. You will never be the same after taking his class. You will be enlightened and happy. You, however, must be open-minded and interested to learn. He was my favourite professor.
Each of his lectures is an event. He is insightful, helpful and sincere. He teaches history to transform students. You will never be the same after taking his history class. You will be enlightened and happy. You, however, must be open-minded and interested to learn. He was my favourite professor.
He shows that history is a big story with many smaller stories. The grade you get reflects the knowledge you have. He does not inflate grades. You will come out from his class a well informed person. No sleeping in class is allowed.
If you take his class, you will be able to engage in an intelligent conversation with your friends. The reason is that you will come out of his class a very informed citizen. He helps students to become activists and good citizens.
A lovely professor! Knowledgeable and kind.
He believes that all students are noble beings and that each one of them has many talents and faculties. He is a great professor.
He is like no other history professor. He is extremely insightful. History comes alive in his classes. Dr. Murage is passionate and compassionate.
Dr. Murage! God bless him! He made me love history and humanity! He will made me think and reassess my assumptions! You will love and trust him.
He teaches very well. He is easy-going. Very friendly. I like his style.
He is great! He does not expect you to memorize dates and names. He trains students to know about historical events and to connect them. He is a true college professor and not as a high school teacher.
HE IS THE WORST TEACHER THAT I HAVE EVER HAD. HE GRADES RIDICULOUSLY. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.
Dr. Murage treats all students as grown-ups. He does not tell you what to think but makes you to think about history. He wants the student to learn to interpret historical events on his or her own. He is a wonderful person. His grading is very reasonable. I recommend him to all serious students
He si the best teacher i ever had, in the matter of fact in most of his lectures we barely used the txt book unless we looked up a word or sumtin, but overall he would be th eteacher to take if u ever take history. I'm telling you the guy is very educated in what he does........
When I was at MCC, I disliked Dr. Murage. His class was not memorizing dates or events, but thinking critically about historical events. I went on to Nazareth as a history major and this is how history is studied! I did not respect Dr. Murage until I graduated with my BA in History.
Great professor for anyone who wants to explore african America history, I learned a great deal of info based on the booked he suggested we read. He is sometimes inconsistent but if you read the info then you shouldn't have any problems.
Thick accent, grades based on how he likes you. Expects students to "think outside the box" but any answer besides exactly what he is looking for is considered incorrect. I received A's in every class besides this and struggled to scrape by with an A-. Not recommended.
Horrible professor. Incomprehensible, goes off on tangents so often we didn't make it through half the material we should have. Felt like I got ripped off.
This prof is awful. Teaches his view of history. Tries to be open bc history is a collection of interpretations, but in the end, he only wants to hear his opinion reiterated back to him. I got an A but didn't learn a thing. Sad and frustrating experience. Homework given on the LAST DAY of class, what good is that? you never know if you did it right
He is a wonderful Professor! If you can only learn from someone who speaks the same way you do college is not for you. Memorize the vocab words. Most student only try to "put it in their own words" because they are to lazy to do this but that is how to get an A! Also if he seems to be speaking in circles you are not listening to what he is saying.
Just don't.
I had to leave class literally just 10 minutes early for work three different times and missed 2 classes and he ended up giving me 0 out of 100 points for participation. He's completely unreasonable and will give you a bad grade if you do not answer the test questions exactly word for word to his power points. I dont recommend his classes to anyone
nice guy. horribly unclear in what he wants as answers to quizzes, tests, etc. assignments are impossible-pretty much everyone fails them. at least he dropped the assignments... if you ask for help, he'll give you one answer and then it'll end up wrong. if you ask again, he'll give you a different answer. nice guy, very confusing got an a tho
GOOD PERSON BUT DIDN'T REALLY GET THROUGH THE BOOK BECAUSE HE TALKED ABOUT HISTORY IN HIS OWWN VIEW. HAD A LOT OF CLASS DIZCUSSION INSTEAD OF LEARNING THE MATERIAL.
not fair at ALL if your a hard worker dont take this course EVER
He values his class and every student who does so will certainly pass. Quizzes almost every class day and two essays for exams. If you are carefully paying attention when explaining assignments and exams, he pretty much give you all the answers. It's up to you to put them in full sentences (he likes answers in full sentences). He is one of the best
I have no idea what this man wants out of his students' essays, and only 2 weeks are left in the semester. He is generous with study guides, which is nice, but I don't understand his rubric for grading essays. Class is kind of boring -- he doesn't do much to engage the class. Proceed with caution. The review on 5/17/12 nails it.
This is the real deal on this professor, I took his history 112 BEFORE history 111 and got an A- in the class. PROS AND CONS of his class CONS:he is rather disorganized with your assignments took 4 weeks to return a test. Has an afican accent. PROS: He is extremely intelligent, history comes ALIVE when he goes on rants make sure you closly listen
Very disappointed by this class--learned essentially nothing. He rants constantly circling the same idea over and over again, is very disorganized, and has unclear expectations on the essays. I would recommend taking this course with another professor. I was hoping to get more out of it--even if i did end up with a good grade.
Very nice guy, but very unclear with his expectations as far as assignments, and exams. He grades very harshly based on expectations he does not explain. You will recieve a worse grade in his class than you deserve. I would not recoment his. The entire experience was very frustrating.
I never liked history in High School. Dr. Murage has created in me a love for the subject because of the way he teaches. He emphasizes processes rather than disconnected events. You will love him.
Definitely a hard professor. He goes on repeated rants in his lectures and doesnt end up covering all the material but still expects you to know everything. Most of my learning was done on my own with a TON of studying. VERY HARD grader on in class essays. An 8 pg paper with a few missed facts will pretty much get you a D. Didnt learn much in class
He is not a typical history professor. You will get from his class more than you expected. He focuses on historical processes rather than simply getting you to memorize dates, names and places. I very much enjoyed his method and approach to history
His was my favorite course. Dr. Murage helped me be able to relate history to my life. Before taking his class I was told to memorize dates and that history. His class actually showed me how the process of events connected and influenced my life today.
He is not very good at clarifying when exams are coming or even what to write your essays about. He's not too helpful and very very confusing!!!! His midterm and final exams are essays, and only randomly gives out quizzes here and there. Also doesn't give out grades so I have no idea what I have in his class. WORST PROFESSOR EVER!!!!
History is not my favorite subject, but I liked the way Dr. Murage taught it. His class helps you to make friends with other students.
Be prepared to write essays in the two exams his gives. He will help you as much as you need with the drafts of your essay.
He was completely impossible to deal with. I received the best grade out of the class which was still a C. When you ask him for help he makes you arrange for his office hours then decides to go to Canada and not respond to any emails. To barely pass the essays you have to include EVERY item he put in the guidelines that you already had to beg for.
Murage is a difficult teacher. The whole class is failing except one person he says. I put effort into my homework and 4 of them were 1/10 or 2/10 and stated that I did not "understand" the chapter when I spent 4 hours on 5 simple questions. I met him in his office once, didn't help me on the homework at all, just lectured me about the government.
I HIGHLY recommend you choose a different professor for this class. Professor Murage is very unclear on assignments, and grades way too harshly. I ended up getting a D in the class even after he gave out an extra credit assignment worth 20 points. Out of a class of 25-27 that I started with, only 11 including myself was left at the end.
Very nice guy but the worst professor ever. He rarely gave notes and all we did was discuss which was not good because I didn't understand a word he said. (He has a thick African accent) When it came to the two essays we had to write for our exams I had no idea what I was doing. He grades so harsh and is very unreasonable. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS.
Professor Murage is hard to rate because he has his good qualities and bad qualities. I have no clue how I got an A, but I did. He grades way too harshly and is extremely confusing on assignments. However, he is a very nice guy and will help you when you don't understand something. Overall, he is ok.
He is the kindest professor I have ever had, and he really enjoys history. However, he is hard to understand because of his thick African accent, and he also does not stick to the syllabus. Everything in his class is very disorganized and not structured. His thinking is very hard to follow, and he is not very helpful in his office hours.
I love Dr. Murage's class; I learned history from him the most.
Dr. Murage is so kind and helpful. Although he has an accent, he gives good notes and extra credit. He will make you like history because you won't memorize facts but rather will try to see how history relates to you life today.
Doesn't really teach the material you're tested on. The only thing I can say that would be beneficial is that he gives you the EXACT midterm and final with all the answers in it already. From there you do everything yourself. I didn't learn anything in this class and nearly failed because of it. I'm a 90's student. DONT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR!
Do not ever take this course. He will destroy your GPA and will never help you out when its needed.
Very thick African accent (he is from Africa) makes him hard to understand. Depending on class days, you will most likely have a quiz on textbook chapters every 1st class of the week. These quizzes along with a midterm and final worth 20% of your overall grade each, make up your grade for the class with participation. He gives study guides weekly.
Doesn't follow the course outline. Easy class but terrible teacher.
He has a very heavy African accent that is hard to understand. You get tests ever week, sometimes 2x a week. You have to do the study guides. My whole class failed exam #1,but he realized it so he gave us extra credit.
Although he is pretty hard t understand at times due to his accent, I loved him as a professor. I learned more about History in one semester than I did in all of High School. Quizzes are easy, but tests are a little harder. Overall, loved the class and would take it again in a heartbeat!
The only problem I have with this professor is the way he grades exams. Our whole class failed the first one and I thought maybe with the answers he gave us for the next one will make it somewhat easier. But I soon found out that the teacher just grades our exams based on what answers he feels is enough for a point and not from his notes and book.
This class is really easy to pass. I don't recall having to participate at all. When he wants us to talk he makes the whole class say something but I just get up and leave to the bathroom. His quizzes and tests are literally the same as the study guides and he gives you the answers. His class is literally so easy. He gives extra credit and is very
Dr. Murage is an amazing professor. His accent isn't nearly as hard to understand as these reviews make it out to be. He's very kind and truly cares about his students. Theres an easy multiple choice quiz every week on the chapter you read prior. Two exams - no final.
Quizzes were multiple choice. If you did the reading you could do moderately well. Watch for trick wording. Exams were essay and even though the answers were provided in advance for studying, the exams were long and difficult. Journal is worth 40% of your grade is has NOTHING to do with history. SOOO WRONG. I do NOT recommend this professor
His tests are so long & difficult to pass. He seems caring but expects a lot from you. There are 10 quizzes and 2 long exams. Expect to write a lot in the exams. He grades based on how he feels you answered the question. His lectures are long & boring. Overall, it was a bad experience & I wont take his class ever again.
Nicest dude ever and a truly enlightened soul. He gets sidetracked in his history lectures and talks a lot about love, social relationships and society, which I'm a huge fan of. His class is a lot like a philosophy class. Overall a really solid professor that will teach you about life and the world around us.
Dr. Murage is a really nice guy, but a terrible teacher. His lectures are rarely about actual history and he mostly talks about your social life. His "tests" don't test anything because he just expects you to copy word for word his answers from the study guide. Don't try to put things in your own words, you'll fail! Would not take again.
Awesome Professor. He gives you all the answers for the tests and extra time on all your work. He also puts all his powerpoints online so you dont need your text book. His lectures are exciting and raw, he rips historys band aid off. Id definitely take another class taught by him.
Very sweet, but not very good. I am a straight-A student and still only passed his class with a B because of attendance. Journal entries are all based on self-care, not History. Tests are long and questions are strangely worded. Lectures are often about the way to finding true happiness, which can be interesting, but not what I'm paying for.
Very relatable, tests are hard but he gives you the answers a week before for you to study, very inspirational although a little hard because its history
Murage is a decent professor. Theres not much to say becides giving a pros and cons list. Pros is that he gives the answers to all of the tests the week before his tests. There are only 3. The cons is that he relates his history lectures to the spirit of life and can get confusing. He cares about students but should not teach HIS he should try PSY.
NEVER take a class with this professor. The most unorganized pathetic class Ive ever been to. Can barley understand anything he says, spends more time acting like he teaches anthropology than history. You will learn nothing and honestly come out knowing less than you did when you walked in. Tests very harshly and gives a ton of homework. STAY AWAY
I have learned a lot when it comes to the human mind like "why do we fear?"- He is very good at psychological and philosophical discussions about life and history but I have not learned any history while taking his history course. He has been even worse in organization, grading, and structure since going online because of the pandemic.
I barely learned anything about "American History". The lectures were mostly him ranting about his political views on race and religion. If you work on a assignment with classmates he will give you a zero. In his words "its okay to work together but you must have separate answers" When all of the answers are from the damn textbook....
Very kind professor, but extremely erratic grading, with poorly written assignments at times. The lectures are excruciating to get through. Very off-topic, and even when on-topic, it was accompanied by rambling and abysmal PowerPoints that are so bad you want to laugh. It's usually very hard to follow what he is teaching and goes on tangents often.
This is the worst professor I have ever taken. I have never hated a professor before, but this one, this one is real. He is never accessible outside of class, gives misleading information in preparation for exams, skips class often, types with errors, and the most strict grader I have ever seen. He is completely unfair and not worth taking.
This was the worst class I have ever taken.
best professor I've ever had. very passionate and informative. he's accessible outside and responds to emails promptly. participation is a must and it is a lot of work but this college but if you attend and participate you will gain vast knowledge and be successful period.
One book 252 pages with papers & 4 power point presentations w/ essay questions. If you enjoy writing, the course is fairly enjoyable; history mixed with psychology and anthropology. However, by the final 2 papers I was burnt out from writing about the same thing. Would take again if other courses in semester not demanding. VERY time consuming.
This Professor was abysmal… He single handedly ruined the class. He give 11 page long homework assignments that he strictly grades then he had in class work and sent it to the testing center and just tuned them into quizzes out of nowhere and if you dont write what he specifically said you dont get any points and the class is over 1,000 points
Murage is a mixed bag - engaging lectures but erratic grading. The tests are challenging, but he provides answers in advance. unstuckstudy helped me prepare effectively for this class.
This teacher grades really hard. I felt like I could never do right, and when I asked for feedback, it was more like Keep doing what you're doing, you will figure it out. WEIRD. Sent long "rant" feedback or responses. Very philosophical, sometimes his responses have nothing to do with what the work is, and push you to dig really deep for answers.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
84%
Textbook Required
84%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Stable
+0.02 avg changeRatings by Course
HIST101
5.0
(1)HIST232
4.5
(4)HIST103
4.0
(4)HIST112
3.6
(11)HIS101
3.3
(3)Difficulty by Course
HISTORY111
5.0
HIS223
5.0
HST104
4.0
HISTORY
4.0
HIS104
4.0