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Here is an unbiased review of Dr. Antonsen. I had this professor for an online course, which means that I can safely review with the course and the way he teaches it rather than grading the professor himself based simply on irrational "facts".
Since this was an online course, we had one to two discussion board topics that were due each day that were required to be discussed throughout the entire day. We were responsible for posting substantial posts of our own ideas and posting substantial responses to our peers in the course. If we had an idea or an opinion, Dr. Antonsen would almost always let us know what he thought about our opinion.
Yes, Dr. Antonsen is a liberal. I am a Republican, but what can we expect from a course that is supposed to teach us about "cultural diversity"? Should we expect a closed minded conservative to teach the course? On the other hand, I never saw where he punished anyone for their opinions or views on the issues. While he would punish us for not exhibiting cultural respect (this is a component of the course), our feelings on political issues such as government takeovers and government assistance to certain groups of people were never a reason for receiving low grades.
His exams and quizzes are all essay based (or they were for my class) and were over OBJECTIVE questions regarding definitions and factually based scenarios. His exams never asked us for our opinions or asked what we thought about a certain issue. In this way, the grades for the course were handed out fairly and were objectively measured based on whether the student stuck to the content or wondered off topic.
Many people have brought up the fact that he gets mad when religion is used in the course or when Republicans try to argue. In the cases I examined, people started discussing religion or bringing up religious arguments that had nothing to do with the topic at hand. Any issue can be answered with, "The Bible says God loves all people" or something to that nature, but answers like that do not work on college exams that want you to present what you have learned in the COURSE through reading COURSE materials. The Bible is not a textbook for this course and should not be used to answer questions on exams that want answers from readings pertaining to the course. Just like how the Bible is not an acceptable textbook for Biology exams, it is not an acceptable book for this course. Dr. Antonsen does not care if you are religious or not, he just cares if you start using religious arguments in the course that he wants formed from the reading materials instead.
His grading is pretty tough, so make sure that you answer each essay question to the highest degree that is possible and that you use references from the reading materials from the course as much as possible. Three sentence answers will not result in a good grade for this course when trying to answer his essays. Make the essay questions around five to six paragraphs of good information with each paragraph using evidence to support the claims and answers to the questions.
Bottom line: Dr. Antonsen is a great professor and one who will always respond to your e-mails in a timely manner if you have any questions about the course. He is a very helpful professor and one who really does want is students to succeed. This class is not a class to spread liberalism, but it is a class that is supposed to teach the ideas of different cultures in the United States and the act of respecting these cultures and trying to understand where they come from and why they believe what they believe. If "liberalism" is considered to be loving all people (as God wants us to do) and respecting other cultures, then maybe the world would be a better place if we were all liberals.
Great class! Not too much work! Not too much reading! Just have fun with the course and enjoy it. From what I have read, I recommend taking his online version of the course since he seems to be a jerk in class and will take off points for not speaking up in the classroom setting. The online version has a laid back atmosphere and a very approachable way of learning. Take it online.
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