Had an asynchronous class with him, absolutely horrible. He was so monotone and made it as difficult as possible to follow the lectures. His lack of enthusiasm has drained already a very draining academic year. He grades on a curve and he does not give any indication of how you did on exams. (I got D on midterm because I "misinterpreted" one of the prompts"). I do not recommend at all.

Honestly, Professor Jepson was a fair professor. If you attend lecture and discussion, you will get a great grasp of the material. The class consisted of weekly discussion posts, a midterm, a non-cumulative final, and a paper (you have to pick from a small list of prompts he gives in the syllabus). He gives study guides for both the midterm and the final a little over a week in advance so you can prepare. Discussion posts are based on weekly readings (the readings were kinda dense but fairly easy to understand and were not long). The TA I had was super helpful in preparing for tests and breaking down weekly discussion posts (which made up the questions on both the midterm and final). His lectures can be kind of monotone, but he would crack jokes that were pretty funny and made his lectures engaging and easy to understand. I would recommend this class and take another class with Professor Jepson again!

Jepson has a lot of bad reviews, but his class was not nearly as bad as I expected it to be. It was very straightforward, and if you attend lecture and discussion, you'll be fine.
I took it during COVID so lectures were all asynchronous and recorded. Lectures were not anything special. Jepson basically reads off of a script, and it's kind of boring. But they were often shorter than the 75 minute lecture period, and I could watch them whenever I wanted. I usually watched at 1.25 or 1.5 speed while I took notes because he talked pretty slow, so I could get through them pretty quick. There was also a transcript that I could copy and paste into my notes or read through if I needed to find something quickly. He always posted a lecture outline that was a great guide for taking notes. With asynchronous it's really tempting to get behind in lecture, but keeping up with it is the easiest way to do well on the exams.
Midterm and final were a little challenging, but very manageable for me. They are both completely open note, but you only have 75 min to take the midterm, which feels tight. You answer whatever 4 questions you want out of 12. Final is not cumulative and has the same structure but with more time. He posted separate study guides for the discussion section (based on the class readings) and the lecture for both exams. The lecture guide is basically just notes that you can reference (you don't have to do any additional work), and the discussion guide is sample questions you have to fill out. If you fill it out and have multiple examples for every question, you can do good on the exams. I would study the day before the exam and be fine.
Each week we had to answer a question about the reading for discussion section. I usually did not read the entire passage, and only did what was necessary to answer my question, but having those responses every week was normally good enough for the discussion related questions on the exams. I never read the lecture specific readings as he covers them in class, so it's really not necessary to read them yourself.
Again, I thought this was a really straightforward class. The exams seemed really fair to me being open note and only having to answer a third of the questions. If you watch lecture and do the weekly discussion question, you'll be fine.

Great professor, took is SOC 182 class. One paper and two blue book tests.

I am selling the course reader for SOC 182 by Jepson.

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