Makes you feel awkward in class by constantly laughing at his own jokes about history. Thinks he is smarter than you and will let you know it. For a good grade on the homework it will take multiple hours, but some weeks he will just take it as a participation grade without telling you. Takes attendance everyday for a grade, no matter class time.

As a student athlete, I had to catch up with all my assignments, it was the hardest thing that I have ever had to do. Would not suggest athletes taking this class in season.

Hard as all get out do not take

No one should like him the way he treats his students he creates his questions so confusing you really aren't sure what the answer is I had to withdraw because how hard he was and was unwilling to help gave me the college was made for people to fail

Extremely rude and untimely. Disorganized and blames it on the students. Definitely a tough teacher, if you have this class DROP IT

He is hands down the worst professor I have taken in an online class. I will spend hours doing my discussion posts, and I will barely make above a 50. We had a proctored test over the constitution, and he was asking questions about specific sections in the articles, so basically if you didn't memorize the entire thing, you failed. DO NOT TAKE!

I took him last year as a lecture class and as long as you went to class it was an easy A, I did not even have to take the final. I thought taking his online class would be about the same but as a class not required for my major it is the hardest class I have taken. I never pass the discussion post, take him in person, NOT online.

Patrick Hightower is probably the worst professor that I have ever taken. I took both his in person lecture and online class and they were both awful. His lecture is extremely boring and his online class is almost impossible to make an A in. I could spend hours on a discussion post and still make a 60. Do yourself a favor and avoid this class.

Not the greatest experience. All lectures contain vague slides with little to no note-taking points. Most of the lecture is him talking, and it's hard to determine what he says is worth notating or not. Lectures are NOT well structured. Important assignments are explained only once in class, so if you skip even once, just forget it and take the W.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!! GPA KILLER FOR SURE! His class lectures are always off topic and you literally don't learn anything in his class. The Powerpoint doesn't help and he basis a lot of his stuff off of other resources instead of teaching it. Also his discussion post are ridiculous and its very hard to get a 100 on them. WORST TEACHER!!

Do not ever take this professor. There is a ton of notes and a ton of crash course videos to watch weekly. He lectures almost everyday and his powerpoints have nothing to do with his lecture. The tests are impossible and ask specific questions from videos and lectures, they also include extremely difficult short answer questions. DO NOT TAKE!

Do not take him if you can't perform on a 5 question quiz. He is an awful grader and his quizzes are impossible. You have to do everything on the syllabus to do well in his class which is nearly impossible.

The only thing that saved me from failing was quizlet.

His lectures never relate to anything on the test. He is very nice. I just do not agree with his teaching style.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! Lectures were terrifyingly long! attendance was apart of the grade! HEAVY HEAVY grader! Why would you teach history and not have it in chronological order ???? Lectures were wayyyy behind quizzes and tests! would never ever take again

He's a great person, But I would suggest taking another Professor. His whole class just felt like a bunch of rambling to me, and you have to be able to be good at tests since that's all that made your grade. His textbook is online, so while you don't have to buy a hard copy, you cant.

His tests are very hard and take hours to complete. Attendance is not required and it was a waste of time to go. He would get off topic and start talking about random stuff and on Thursday's we would do a group discussion which would last the entire class and no one would have time to present what their group came up with.

His lectures are extremely boring and he makes jokes that only he laughs at. He test are open note, but every question is "pick the best answer" so the test are very difficult. I would NEVER take his class again. He grades very harsh on every assignment. I have like a month left of classes and still don't know my actual grade. TERRIBLE PROFESSOR!

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. Sweet guy and all, but he should NOT be allowed to teach. The grade-book for him is some foolish 1,000 point system and you have NO idea what your grade is until the class is over. AVOID THIS CLASS IF YOU CAN, This system has put me in so much duress. YOU WILL NOT KNOW YOUR GRADE, AND YOU WILL FAIL THE TESTS, which are HARD.

DO NOT TAKE! He grades extremely harsh and doesn't give feedback most of the time. He is extremely boring and he makes jokes that only he laughs at. I wish I would've taken a different professor. You also won't know your grade until there is like 2 weeks left in the semester. Do yourself a favor and please don't take him.

Do not take him. On his assignments he gives very specific instructions and if you don't do one thing he says, you get so many points taken off. This class is not an easy A class like he makes it seem at the beginning of the year. He makes this class just as hard as my A&P class. I wish someone would have told me how bad he was so I could drop it.

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS! You won't know your grade until the very end of the class because he puts zeros in for assignments you haven't done. This class is supposed to be an intro class and he treats it like an honor class. I honestly don't know how he is still allowed to teach. He is a horrible teacher, do not take him!

If you have this class drop it! Take it online or something. During this class I feel like professor Hightower wants his students to fail. He grades very harsh and doesn't give feedback. He takes off a lot of points if you do one thing wrong. He should've honestly picked a different career. I literally can't stand him or his class. DROP!

Don't put yourself through this class!

HORRIBLE! Is the only word to describe this professor. His lectures are so boring and the test have nothing to do with his lectures.

If you have professor Hightower... RUN!

This is the worst professor I have ever had. He should be FIRED for the grading system he uses, what a joke. These tests also have nothing to do with the material. Avoid him like your life depends on it, because it does.

I have wanted to be a high school US History teacher since I was in 8th grade. I changed my major after this class. I have made an A+ in every history class I have ever been in, I have a failing grade atm. He is so hard. I think I know the material and then fail the test. They have nothing to do with the lecture or textbook. Run

Not a fan. Lectures are fruitless as he gets off topic easily- it felt pointless to even go to class. He is also very harsh on grading extra credit. Tests are difficult. When i went to his office hours he told me he wouldn't talk about anything relating to class or the readings but if i wanted to "talk about something else" he would.

god this man just would not shut up. all he does is yap.his powerpoints r dogwater. not enough information and doesn't coordinate well with teachings. if he makes you watch crash course videos outside of class, watch them cuz he does put that on the test sometimes. does do extra credit, but it only counts if u do it based on his expectations..

This professor has to have tenure. For your own sanity and gpa, do NOT NOT NOT take his class. He goes on too many tangents, so that half the time what he is yapping about is not relevant to ANY test material. He talks about his own personal life too much, and his powerpoint's are no help whatsoever. I am learning nothing from this class.

He only grades with 4 tests which are hard and ap exam style which makes it impossible to actually get higher than a C on the test. THIS CLASS WILL RUIN YOUR GPA. Lectures are boring. Tests cover 4 chapters and a bunch of crash course videos and extra sources which are hard to keep up if you procrastinate. He is a nice person but overall bad class.

I'm sorry but this teacher was by far one of the worst teachers I've ever had. He assigns LOADS of reading and doesn't give any direction on how to study for his tests. He has NO assignments, NO study guides and only grades tests/attendance. He offers some extra credit, but not enough to salvage a failing grade. ALL he does is lecture DON'T take.

Genuinely the WORST professor I have ever had in my entire life. Listen to me and everyone else when I tell you that this man is impossible to please, and does not belong in a classroom. History is clearly a hobby of his but that doesn't mean he should teach it. Half the class withdrew during midterms because everyone failed.

Don't waste your time in his class I wish Id dropped the first week. He claims you'll have to retake history with him anyway but that's a lie my advisor showed me plenty of other options with different teachers. Weve asked him numerous times for other assignments to help with our grades but he never says yes and justifies why its better he doesnt.

get ready to read that text book because I read it the test were not like the note class average was terrible also don't underestimate his rating because I said he won't be that bad I was wrong. he's a great person but his teaching is terrible and i like history and he made me not like it

0/10 terrible. his class lectures made absolutely no sense even when you were trying to follow. he didnt give an overview of what we were discussing and jumped all around and just expected you to understand. he doesnt give you a study guide or any information over what the test is and claims that everything within the chapters is testable.

Worst teacher ever. He was no help whatsoever. After the first test half of the class dropped, one of the questions on the test was talking about what figurine he had in his office hours. He would say "this isn't on the test" and then go on a tangent about it for 10 minutes. It was non stop yap.

He is the worst teacher I have EVER had. His lectures all of class start to finish for 1 hour and 15 minutes and it has nothing to do with the exams. The only graded assignments are his exams plus one extra assignment we had to beg him to give us. He gives so much homework per exam that ALSO have NOTHING to do with the exam. 10/10 do NOT RECOMMEND!

DO NOT TAKE HIM. i've never in my life experienced a professor as bad as he is. PLEASE drop the first week or you're screwed. went to his office hours and poured my heart out to him how i'm not succeeding in his class and his response was "well is that all you have for me?" I said "yes" and he said "okay have a good day." ZERO help at all. DROP

Lectures have nothing to do with the test. Book has barely anything to do with the test. Anything he puts on d2L has nothing to do with the test. He told us week 1 that we need to read the textbook at least 8 hours a week to even do decent in the class, I should've known to drop it right then. Everything he does is to try and tank your grade.

DO NOT TAKE HIM! I would not wish this class upon anyone. The tests have nothing to do with lectures. You have to read for HOURS! Even if you study and do everything he says his tests are IMPOSSIBLE to pass. I wish I had dropped the class sooner. He said that it was expected to at LEAST spend 8 hours studying a week to just pass... absolutely not.