RELB 3408

I recommend this class. It's quite an easy class if you need to fill a requirement, but want to do as little work as possible. I didn't do a single reading and I stopped going a few weeks in. The content is dense and very hard to understand but basically, the only thing you need to know about is what your paper topic is, and he will meet with you and tell you what books you should get to use for it. He's a really nice guy and you can tell he has a passion for this topic, but the classes are meant to be inclusionary discussions, and they are quite boring, so when I was in class and not dozing off I was pretty stressed he would ask me questions and I would have no idea what the answer was, but he never did. All in all, I wouldn't want to take this class again, but it was an easy three credits and a cop out of a humanities/non-western perspective requirement. Would recommend.

The material in this class is incredibly dense and difficult but you're expected to have almost no knowledge of it. Most of your grade is based on a final paper of your choice that he seems to want to give As on. Lecture is incredibly dull and only half of the class shows up but he doesn't seem to mind. Reading is very confusing so little of the class does it.

If you need an easy religion course then here you go. Campbell is a really cool, go-with-the-flow type of person, which I could see being annoying to some people as a professor. He cancelled class without warning a couple of times and never followed the syllabus. We were suppose to have weekly posts about the readings but ended up only having 3. There was suppose to be a midterm, but he ended up cancelling it. So pretty much the only grade is a final paper on a topic of your choice, which Campbell will help you with if you go to office hours. As long as you do everything that he actually assigns, you will get a good grade.

Campbell is without a doubt a cool guy and very intelligent. But he just did not seem to care about this course at all. In fact, he did not even show up the first day and routinely cancels classes. Very hard to find in office hours too! With respect to coursework, there are weekly reading response posts which are no big deal and then there is a 8-10 page paper at the end on a topic of your choice. You won't know your grade until he puts it up on SIS almost a week after they are due.

I am sitting in this class right now and it is so bad that I feel compelled to write a review. I am a science major but took it because of a personal interest in Buddhism but this class has just killed it. He seems like a really cool person but the least organized professor I have ever had. His lectures are all over the place and I can honestly not tell you what the topic is because he always goes on random tangents. He assigns reading but I think only like 3 people in the class actually do them because their is literally no incentive to do so - his lectures don't seem to follow them at all and there are no opportunities to participate in class, although a large portion of our grade is participation...basically if you want to actually learn something, choose something else.