Inchausti, Robert  

Prof. Inchausti is a great teacher. He admits that he himself is not perfect and does not seem to impose perfection on anyone else. He does however stress clarity in student papers. He is very insightful, highly recomended...

Dr Inchausti was by far one of the best teachers I have had at this university. He gets involved with the students personally and wants to help everyone. He always is able to get the students talking in class, and sometimes he can inspire arguments between them. His essays are fun (if one can be), and his tests are not very hard. I would recommend him to anyone who has the chance to take him.

I wasn't very interested in the subject matter that we had to read but he explained it all very clearly. He prepares you well for the tests and lets you have open book also. He is very knowlegable about the books and is very laid back. If you have to take English for a GE class I definitely reccommend him!

Dr. Inchausti is an extremely interesting lecturer, with lots of funny stories that relate the literature to modern day problems. You learn the material and can actually use what you learn. This class teaches American history as well as literature. His grading policy is very fair-he makes it virtually impossible to not do well in his class. He could be a little better about getting the students to talk in class, but when you do talk, he doesn't make you feel stupid. I highly recommend his class.

He is an amazing teacher. He made me laugh with all his historical impressions, even at 8am. You must take this teacher. He is interesting, passionate, and fair. Each week you have assingned readings and quizzes, but he tells you the quiz comprehensive questions beforehand and goes over all the readings in his lectures. The miderm was 5 idetifing short answer questions and a 4 page paper. The final was the same, but in class. This class is based on simple reading and original unique thoughts. If you do the reading and listen to the lectures you are going to get a B or above.

Inchausti is seriosly the best! He never assigns too much reading, and he alawys gives you all possible midterm/final questions before the tests. As long as you go to class on the days that he does "discussion starters" and you bring up a lot of authors in each of your 3 essays, you will get an A. He is a very easy grader. I would definitely reccomend him without a doubt.

I definitely recommend Professor Inchausti for ME 240. The class itself was actually very interesting, and I enjoyed most of the stories we had to read. I'd already read most of the greek stuff that students seem to want to (re)take, so I figured I'd give this a shot and learn something new, and it was pretty fun. Inchausti himself is excellent. While class discussion was kept to a minimum, he did cover most of the ideas pretty well. Reading amount was not too bad, either.

Okay, first off I hate writing and reading, but Robert is one of the best Professors at Cal Poly. His way of relating to the 20th novel is aw inspiring. He is a must see and he has a good amount of books. They are a good read and you get graded for it! The GWR for this class is easy so take it to get it out of the way. -IF66

All I can say about Dr. Inchausti is well, he's very interesting, even at 8 in the morning because he's very humorous! All the readings for this class were so interesting and fun to read. As long as you keep up on the readings that he assigns every week, you should be okay, even though they may seem really long. He also assigns short paragraphs about each of the readings each week. He gives you the essay questions for each midterm ahead of time, and also for the final. For the first midterm, he gave us three questions to prepare for, and you had to write on one for the midterm. For the second midterm, he gave us five questions, with one to write on. So, as long as you know most of them well, you have a chance of at least one of the questions that you know really well to be on the midterm or final. (So you don't waste time doing all of them!) I usually detest English, but this is one English class that I really enjoyed.

He was okay as a professor. I thought the his grading was somewhat fair. The only thing that bothered me was that he would collect the homework at the end of class, so most people would just do it during class after he went over his interpretations. He was also arrogant but in an entertainig way.

Dr. I is a good teacher. The books were fairly interesting and he has a good sense of humor. The class is made up of 2 midterms, a final, and inclass quizzes each worth 25% of your grade. He gives you 5 essay prompts before each essay test so that you can prepare for them and then 3 are chosen for the test and you are required to write on 1. He is good with answering student difficulties and is very approachable. Overall I would recommened Dr. I for any literature class.

Mr. Inchausti was a great teacher! Before going into this class I was dreading it. I am a science and math kind of person who doesn't like literature especially poetry. But he opened my eyes to it and made me really appreciate and enjoy it. He really had examples to go with our lives to relate to the stories or poetry that we read. We only have three tests. He would give us like 6 or 7 questions before the test and he would pick 3 or 4 of them to be on the exam. I would recommend him to anyone!!!!

You have to able to think outside the box in this class. I really can't, that is why I got a C, plus I didn't read. His class isn't hard, just go to lecture and take notes. I only had to read about a third of the books to pass.

He is a very good teacher who makes lectures as interesting as literature can be. I hate reading and this class wasnt too bad...for shiggity take him if you can

There was one thing about his class, if you sit in the back you get all your homework done for other classes sense their is no point in listening to his meaningless lecture. You do need to go to this class though because he gives pop quizzes on readings, but after the quiz feel free to sleep because that is the only way to get through his lectures. This class was really easy though, we read probably 15-20 pages a night(that is if you actually do them, which isnt always necessary) Then he gives you test questions ahead of time so all you have to do is take a few hours to prep for the essay test, and that is that. Basically, this guy is extremely boring but as far as a literature class goes i dont think it gets much easier, take him!

Doctor Inchausti is hands down one of the best teachers at Cal Poly. He understands students needs and how to teach effectively. I learned more in his class than any other General Ed Class. If you want to learn a lot and read great literature, take this class.

Eng 253 was a very enjoyable class, and I usually don't like English classes. Prof Inchausti presents the material and the course objectives clearly. He is straightforward with what he expects on the exams and as long as you attend class , you will do fine.

This teacher is great. All you have to do is actually read the books and go to class and you're guaranteed a good grade. We only had to write 3 in class essays and that's all the work we had all quarter other than reading. He knows we have better things to do so he grades really easy. I got an A by just going to class and reading. My essays weren't even that great

I continuously thought about inflicting some type of injury to myself so that like a wounded soldier, I would be medevaced from my desk to mental safety. The continuous masochistic tendencies were derived from Inchausti's daily routine of sitting Indian style on his desk while attempting to regale us with his less than interesting interpretations of the selected literature for 1 hour and 45 minutes straight. All of this could have been triggered by my distaste for the categorical initiative professor Inchausti took on defining the broad writings. The class is easy... just don't expect much interaction. Robert, if you get to read this, please include more class participation. Me and my fellow non-English majors would like to get more out of the class than to only hear you speak.

Inchausti is one of the best professors I've had at Poly! He gets the student interested in the material and relates it to us in a modern context. The class was set up with reading being due every tuesday and new reading being assigned every thursday. This was the Great Books III: Modern Literature class, so there was a lot of reading and a lot of discussing of the reading. There were three essay exams. Two of them were midterms and the third one was the final. The reading was hard to keep up with at times and we did have reading quizes ever so often, but he would usually tell us what the question on the quiz was going to be the class before the quiz. Much of the reading was novels and poems. I have never really liked poetry, but Inchausti made it interesting for me. His explanations of the material really cleared up questions and made the students see the beauty and the worth of the work. Much of the reading was hard and didn't fully make sense, but he helped to make it enjoyable. He doesn't write much on the chalkboard, he just speaks to the class. His class is pretty relaxed and even a little bit fun at times. He is a very intelligent professor and explains things very well, but he isn't arrogant and makes all the students feel at home. He used real world examples to get students to understand the material. Some of the material was a few hundred years old, and he related the material to us with modern examples. He also always had some humor in his lectures, which really helped relax the mood in the class. He is very funny and his friendly demeanor helped students to feel comfortable and learn in a relaxed environment. His lectures were pretty interesting and he brought a real deep understanding of the material to class and easily passed this understanding along to his students. We usually got out of class early everyday, which was great. His tests were fairly difficult, but not too bad. He would give us seven questions to write on and then he would choose four. This way, if you studied four, then one would have to be on the test. The essay questions would want you to tie in different points about the different readings into one collective idea or a few parallel ideas. He was always prepared for each class and was an excellent teacher.

Inchausti is an excellent professor, he made romantic and modernist literature (not a fan at all) interesting! His hilarious interpretation and ability to relate it to our daily lives makes an early morning english class enjoyable. He is lasid back and his grading is fair. You will have weekly quizzes on the reading and three essay midterms (one of which is the final). Good class, easy A or B.

Really great teacher. There are 2 tests and a final, some in class quizzes, and that is about it. He will show you why GE's are important and actually make it fun. Do the reading and take notes, especially when he goes over the prompts, and you will do well in the class.

I really enjoyed Inchausti's class, and I HATE romanitc poetry crap. Go to class, he will make sense of what you're supposed to be reading. Three essay midterms and weekly quizzes. Overall this class is pretty chill, I was late almost every day and he never cared. Definetly take him!

Can't complain that I got a B since I really didn't do much in this class. I think I only read maybe 1 book at the most. I slept through some of his lectures, but he never called me out on it. If I had fewer classes on my plate I would have put more effort into this class. Overall, Inchausti is a good guy who makes GE's interesting without forcing you to do tons of work. Take him if you can.

Professor Inchausti is cool! He just wants the student to wrestle with the text and have some sort of organic experience with the novels. I would recommend taking English 253 with him, and I will be looking for more classes to take with him in the future.

So I took him at 8AM Mon-Thurs during summer. As you can guess the class wasn't very awake and lively at this time, but he managed to keep it interesting. I felt bad because he always made jokes and no one laughed because we were all half asleep. He always tried to get some participation but it just wasn't happening, so instead of being an ass and calling on random people he would just explain the material to us very thouroughly. I would suggest taking him in the summer for a 5 week session because I found it very easy. A few in-class essays that we could prepare notes for, so based off reading sparknotes I got A's on every essay. I'm just lazy and don't like to read, but the books we read didn't seem to horrible. I actually liked the one that I did read. :) Overall he's a very friendly guy and a good choice for this elective.

Dr. Inchausti is a great teacher.

Pretty down to earth guy. I'm not a fan of old literature, but Professor Inchausti was able to keep me motivated about the stuff. His unbiased and humorous lectures have a surprising amount of depth, giving insight not just on the books, but to life as well. He's well spoken and very laid back; I was constantly late for class, but the guy didn't get bothered by it. With that said, he grades very generously in that he respects the opinions of his students, though it's important that you reiterate the concepts he shares in lecture. Overall, he's a great teacher in that he puts his heart into helping his students understand the material, regardless of how the students treat him. Take him.

TAKE THIS CLASS!!! Inchausti is easily one of my favorite professors at Cal Poly, he picks great books for you to read and while they may be a bit challenging, he explains everything in class. He literally walks into class, takes his coat off, sits on the desk up front and starts talking. Normally that would be really boring to me but this guy knows what he\'s talking about and makes everything funny and relative. Best class ever. The only thing I guess is that your grade is based off one midterm and one final, which is nice in that you don\'t have any huge papers to write...but sometimes it\'s easier to convey that you know the information through essays instead of multiple choice exams. He only did multiple choice exams this quarter because the class was so big. Either way, take this class!!!

LOVED INCHAUSTI! I took his class Summer 2010 in a 5 week course. I thought this class was going to be overwhelming because of the amount of books I bought but the reading was pretty easy to get through. 4 in class essays--do the reading, write a thoughtful paper and you\'ll do great in his class. As long as you put some effort into the class you\'ll do fine. I am hoping to take another class from him-AWESOME TEACHER. Funny/corky/best class i\'ve taken thus far.

Professor Inchausti is one of my favorite teachers. Wait, correction- he is my favorite teacher! I took him for Summer term Great Books III the Romantics and loved it! He is funny, easy to understand, has great stories, and grades fairly. As long as you understand the prompt you will be fine. The books you have to read are 100 pages-ish and are easy reads! For the writings make sure you apply it to your life and to now-a-days. INCHAUSTI ROCKS!

Robert Inchausti is kind, willing to help, and entertaining. He sits cross-legged on his desk as he lectures, comparing contemporary pop culture to the books you read. Class can at times be boring, due to the lack of discussion. Inchausti attempts to create discussion, but I was in a morning class. The class was fairly easy. Although there were weekly readings, none of them were extremely long or terribly difficult. There were no homework assignments, and if you prepared ahead of time for the in-class essays (open note and open book), you had a good chance of getting an A or B.

There are about 4 in-class essays that count toward your grade. Just mostly based on the readings in class. The readings weren't that bad, there is some poetry in it though. He goes over all the prompts with you and what you should maybe write about. He's a nice guy!

I'd recommend this class as a GE. A piece of advice that he consistently mentions throughout the quarter, and that I wish I had followed earlier in the quarter, is that he does not try to trick you with his multiple choice questions! On the midterms and during the quizzes, I constantly found myself second-guessing and over-analyzing the answer. His questions are very straightforward, and so are the answers. If you did the readings and an answer sounds right, it most likely is. Keep this in mind, and you will do well!

Inchausti is a good lecturer and makes super-helpful comments on papers. He's also a nice guy and a fair grader. Tests are not bad--a lot of crucial term identifications, at least in Literary Criticism. Several shortish papers, but he usually lets you revise an earlier one for the last paper grade.

It would have been nice if he had bothered to learn our names beyond "C" in the alphabet (from the roll sheet.) This was tough to have at 8AM, b/c he would sit on the table and talk at us, and there were about 3 people in this class that loved to hear themselves talk, and it became a dialogue between them, instead of involving the whole class. And I usually sat in front. Oh well, I do like Dr. Inchausti, he's funny and interesting to talk to, and he brought us donuts for the final, which saved my life.

Awesome class. All it is is reading 6 books the entire quarter and writing 3 page essays on the book. Just go to class every day because he will take attendance randomly. Overall he is an easy grader and take him and you will definately get a good grade

This is my second time taking Inchausti and it was a good experience just like it was for ENGL 253. The workload is not much different- 3 essays total, but there is a quiz for each book. The reading pace was rapid at times but it's not too bad as long as you read a little everyday. I'd definitely recommend him for anyone looking for an enjoyable and semi-relaxed GWR class!

Seriously such a nice guy that just loves his subject. I took this for my GWR, if you need a GWR class, take this! The class is 6 books, 3 essays. You read two books, then he gives you 5 or 6 essay prompts a week or so ahead of time, then has you write on one of the prompts the day of the midterm/essay. Basically he doesnt care what you thought of the book, just convey that you actually got something from them, read some of it thoughtfully and explain how you felt about it, and you'll do great. Some of my essays i left thinking, that was such a bunch of BS, but i got an A, just for being well spoken. I didn't read a single book, just parts and excerpts. One girl in the class was behind in her other classes and he let her wait 3 WEEKS to take his midterm/essay til she got caught up. sooo nice. Take it. It's easy, and you might actually like one of the books.

Inchausti is the bomb - take him. I was afraid of this class because I hadn't written anything in over a year. But that didn't really matter as long as you know how to throw together a decent essay. 5 paragraphs, decent size, and you're good. And we covered 6 books like The Color Purple, Brave New World, etc. Inchausti really wants you to think and write in your essays how you feel. To be honest, I never read any of the books either and just off of online notes and his lecture you'll be fine. He had us start off the quarter with a sample essay for the writing lab (not graded), then 3, 100pt, essays (one is your take-home final.) Oh and there are random reading quizzes so go to every lecture. But you can easily pass them because he says take the quiz, now ask your friend what they put. Literally. But those quizzes are important because although you don't get any points for them, he uses them for attendance and will subtract points at the end of the quarter. Def. take this for an easy GWR/GE.

I really enjoyed this course. There are three essays total, one of those is an in class essay. He grades pretty easily and if you go to class and incorporate the notes from class he likes that too, even though he doesn't take roll. He has a good sense of humor and I would definitely recommend it!

I LOVE Inchausti. He made the material extremely understandable and will always make you see the text from a different perspective, even if you thought you had already understood the material. His lectures are always entertaining and he is just a great professor in general.

BEST PROFESSOR EVER. He is really good at lecturing and tells you what you need to know. He also acts scenes out to keep the lecture interesting and upbeat. Very simple and easy class. He the professor who wants you to understand concepts and help you go to in-depth thinking about the novels read in class. Grades don't really matter to him.

Prof. Inchausti is a good professor. I took him for both 253 and 351 (dif. quarters) and I felt the classes were easy. The reading by most part is straightforward and not overwhelming. He goes over poems in detail and is open to any questions. He has nice stories to tell in class, though he only tells them rarelly. He kept me wide awake in 253, but 351 was more boring. He gives out copies of the questions he'll have on tests in advance, so it's easy to plan ahead (I had entire essays ready so I could just pick which one to write on). Contrary to I expected, he did not require any memorization of special terms on poetry. His tests are all "what did you think about x writer" -- very simple.

I'm a business major and I only took this class to satisfy my GE. Poetry...how gay is that. Anyway, Robert was a really good teacher that cared a lot about poetry. I liked the class and actually learned some stuff. There are also a lot of cute girls in the class. As long as you pay attention in class when he talkes about all the poets you should do well. He has two tests which you write an essay. He gives you some topics before hand and then he picks three for the test and you must write on one of them. This class also satisfies your GWR. This is a good class to take even if you don't like poetry. Also Charles Burkowski is the most fucked up poet of all time and you get to learn about him in this class. Robert is a good guy and a good teacher.

great course: the first ge course i actually enjoyed studying for. satisfies the gwr req.- you take the diagnostics test during the first week and many pass the gwr first pass. the class has minimal work outside of lecture- and the midterm/final are both essay- but you'll be fine if you go to class and take good notes. great class and you can really get into the material if you attend class. very interesting subjects and poets! take this class...

Good class. In class essay for the first midterm, quite a few reading quizzes. He did something new this quarter and made the midterm a bunch of take home essays, it was a ton of writing, a fair amount of reading, but a good class overall. Towards the end, Rilke and Neruda really start to get old fast, and they are probably two of his favorite poets, so that makes it a really difficult class to go to, but he does a great job of explaining why you should care.

Inchausti is an awesome teacher who you should take if you ever get the opportunity. His sense of humor make his classes the ones you look forward to in your day. Also he doesn't grade papers like some nightmare english profs do. You know when it takes you longer to read through the negative comments than it did to write the paper? His comments are helpful and encouraging. Plus he's a cool guy.

Let me start out by saying Dr. Inchausti is one of the nicest guys you'll meet, hands down. Very thoughtful, speaks well in class, wonderful at putting things together, making a larger picture, extreamly creative in his assignments. That said, I dont really think I learned much. And for a seminar class, he had about 25 people, far too many. It was another lecture class instead of discussion. I was ready to have a seminar on the Beats, but did not feel sufficently challenged. I noticed that alot of his ratings come from non majors, and with this considered, I can see why he would appeal to the non major. However, if you are expecting a bit of a challenge, you are going to have to do it yourself. The reading and the matierals are intersting, but there is only so much one can do as a student. Over all, not a bad teacher, not at all. Just... something amiss.

Dr. Inchausti is one of the best professors I've had at CP. He is funny and charismatic and he presents the material very well. His papers are easily turned into his midterms and final if you do well throughout the quarter and keep up on the reading. His interpretations of the works are thought-provoking, and I learned A LOT about philosophy, art, history, and the literature itself the quarter I took him for Russian Lit. I'd recommend him to anyone else, English major or not.

This class is what you make of it. Dr. Inchausti is very passionate about what he teaches. The difference between a 200 level course and a 400 level course is that for 200 level courses, he needs to give quizzes to make sure you\'re doing the readings (and if you\'re attending class). For our 400 level course, there were no quizzes, and there was no roll-call because we were all there because we wanted to be there. We read because we WANTED to read, and we attended class because lectures were fascinating. Inchausti knows his material and presents it in a way that makes it contemporary. Love him.

Prof. I. is great. I am embarrassed to admit that I spent the first three weeks of the quarter thinking that this guy was completely wasting my time. Shame on me for not realizing sooner than I did that this would be one of the most valuable classes I've taken at Cal Poly. Why? Because, unlike the majority of fantastic professors at CP, he's a Real Teacher. What does that mean? It means that he recognizes the fact that WE are the ones who have chosen to get an education-- and he leaves the responsibility of learning up to us. He isn't up there trying to get people to participate or to listen because that's OUR job-- not his. He's not a motivational speaker, which I think is often what our entertainment-saturated generation has come to expect. His kind of teaching allows the people who truly want to learn to explore ideas that matter to them without the pressure of worrying about "what's going to be on the test." He wants to help people learn to THINK, not to memorize stupid details that will be forgotten in three days anyway. If you really want to explore what YOU think about a text, take this professor. He'll tell you what his ideas are, but if you raise your hand and contribute, he'll actually integrate your opinions into his conversation (lecture is the wrong word here) as if they actually counted for something. Inchausti also tells great stories-- I wish he did it more often. He has a way of relating a story that doesn't really in itself explain the text the class is talking about, but when you're confused by the reading and he tells a story that could be about something totally different, you find that somehow it suddenly makes sense. Also, it may seem like he's just sitting up there and rambling to himself, but he really is watching the class closely. If you raise your hand, he'll stop immediately and let you talk-- that's what he's waiting for. He basically just throws out ideas until it clicks with someone else. And really, isn't that what learning is? Oh-- also, when it seems like he's making a joke, he is. Go ahead and laugh. For some reason I and the girl sitting next to me were the only people in the classroom who were laughing our heads off at his humor, and the fact that everyone else just seemed confused got a little awkward after a while.

This professor is great. A nice, friendly, funny guy. I am an English major, and believe it or not, I hate reading. I hate it oh so much. But I really really didn't mind reading the stuff for this class. Russians are crazy man. Their books are actually good, much better than any of the other crap you have to read as an English major, believe me. He makes going to class really interesting and amusing. Just sitting around listening to Inchausti's stories are worth going to class for. He is very good in office hours and helped me a lot for the final paper. Recommended for anybody. Thanks a lot Professor I.

Dr. Inchausti's Russian Lit class has the best reading list of any other English class at Poly. Not only are the pieces great alone, but when he connects them with relationships or events it makes class even more interesting. Class goes at a slow pace, which gives students ample time to complete the reading. Dr. I is a great teacher who uses humor to make lectures interesting.

Fine teacher, but a little dry in the presentation. I wouldnt suggest having her at 8:00 in the morning, might be difficult staying awake.