Professor
Jason Ferguson
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2024 - This is a review for an in-person lecture, differing from the other reviews at the time of my posting which come from online Covid-19 lectures. Dr. Ferguson is very engaging and opinionated which can bring up the energy in the room. However, his egotistical personality and condescending nature take away from the course, shifting it from engaging with the student to grandstanding on a podium. It’s understandable that someone as well educated as Dr. Ferguson would feel above his undergraduate students, but displaying that attitude in the overt manner he does, only shuts down critical thought rather than encourages it. This quarter I saw him budge on multiple occasions to accommodate students, but that had more to do with external pressures coming from the protests on campus and the administration’s disrupting response than anything else. Without those pressures, he would have continued finishing lectures in half the class time and preventing student access to certain materials that he considers his valuable IP. That’s really what this boils down to, someone with an interesting mind and fascination for figures like Karl Marx, but none of the consideration for how he provides that information to the student. If he is forced to by unprecedented events, then he will shift how he approaches you, but otherwise you must bow down to his glory if you wish to work with him. Finally, he ended off his class with his view that we cannot change anything about the current power structures in the world and we need to just accept it. His dystopian, depressing take on society while simultaneously demonstrating how he feels above his own students, really took away from the content of this course. I do not recommend this professor.
Spring 2024 - This is a review for an in-person lecture, differing from the other reviews at the time of my posting which come from online Covid-19 lectures. Dr. Ferguson is very engaging and opinionated which can bring up the energy in the room. However, his egotistical personality and condescending nature take away from the course, shifting it from engaging with the student to grandstanding on a podium. It’s understandable that someone as well educated as Dr. Ferguson would feel above his undergraduate students, but displaying that attitude in the overt manner he does, only shuts down critical thought rather than encourages it. This quarter I saw him budge on multiple occasions to accommodate students, but that had more to do with external pressures coming from the protests on campus and the administration’s disrupting response than anything else. Without those pressures, he would have continued finishing lectures in half the class time and preventing student access to certain materials that he considers his valuable IP. That’s really what this boils down to, someone with an interesting mind and fascination for figures like Karl Marx, but none of the consideration for how he provides that information to the student. If he is forced to by unprecedented events, then he will shift how he approaches you, but otherwise you must bow down to his glory if you wish to work with him. Finally, he ended off his class with his view that we cannot change anything about the current power structures in the world and we need to just accept it. His dystopian, depressing take on society while simultaneously demonstrating how he feels above his own students, really took away from the content of this course. I do not recommend this professor.
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