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Shahin Berenji
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Spring 2019 - This class is super straightforward and Professor Berenji is great! Lectures are engaging and he makes the concepts and theories very simple to understand. Readings are also not difficult to understand and connect perfectly with lecture. Class is structured like the rest of his courses- 4 simple reading quizzes, midterm, and final. Definitely learned a lot and would recommend this class
Spring 2019 - This class is super straightforward and Professor Berenji is great! Lectures are engaging and he makes the concepts and theories very simple to understand. Readings are also not difficult to understand and connect perfectly with lecture. Class is structured like the rest of his courses- 4 simple reading quizzes, midterm, and final. Definitely learned a lot and would recommend this class
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Spring 2020 - The material itself is interesting, but his lectures are dry and he is not very well organized. I think he definitely knows a lot and wants students to learn, but the lack of organization and maybe the online format due to covid made things worse. He was constantly behind on posting lectures and rarely stuck to his syllabus schedule. He graded pretty harshly on the midterm and when I submitted a midterm regrade request he told me to remind him to read it and he never ended up reading it. Answers for midterm and final exam have to be extremely detailed and pretty much perfect in order to get a high score.
Spring 2020 - The material itself is interesting, but his lectures are dry and he is not very well organized. I think he definitely knows a lot and wants students to learn, but the lack of organization and maybe the online format due to covid made things worse. He was constantly behind on posting lectures and rarely stuck to his syllabus schedule. He graded pretty harshly on the midterm and when I submitted a midterm regrade request he told me to remind him to read it and he never ended up reading it. Answers for midterm and final exam have to be extremely detailed and pretty much perfect in order to get a high score.
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Winter 2019 - This class was great! Definitely a lot of stuff to memorize/understand, but Prof. Berenji is super accessible and emphasizes important points, so it's really all on you if you don't know everything. The final was a bit rough, mainly because it included a final cumulative exam as well as a take-home essay you had to write in 24 hours. That being said, I liked having the grade % split up a bit, and the essay topic was not hard. Prof. Berenji is obviously a passionate professor and really cares about his students. I also came out of the class feeling like I actually learned something. I see crossover in a lot of classes I am taking now, which is awesome, and I have brought stuff I learned from this class into conversations with friends and family!
Winter 2019 - This class was great! Definitely a lot of stuff to memorize/understand, but Prof. Berenji is super accessible and emphasizes important points, so it's really all on you if you don't know everything. The final was a bit rough, mainly because it included a final cumulative exam as well as a take-home essay you had to write in 24 hours. That being said, I liked having the grade % split up a bit, and the essay topic was not hard. Prof. Berenji is obviously a passionate professor and really cares about his students. I also came out of the class feeling like I actually learned something. I see crossover in a lot of classes I am taking now, which is awesome, and I have brought stuff I learned from this class into conversations with friends and family!
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Fall 2018 - First upper div Polysci course iv taken. Honestly wasn't bad at all. Class consists a midterm a final and 4 quizzes. There is weekly reading but you can get by without doing them. He marks specific reading that the quizzes are going to be based on- which is super helpful. The quizzes are usually 5-9 questions online. So workload is pretty light. The midterm seems like its heavy- he gives study guide and there are alot of terms but you can definitely find them in your notes. You kinda have to go to class just because he doesn't post slides. He's actually a really good professor, he's very nice and understanding and lenient as well too. Hes not a hard ass at all, he really tries to give you as much information as he can for the midterm. I would definitely take this professor again. Combination of easy workload and great professor, definitely take again. Only problem I have is that im not sure if its the material or him, but the class gets a little boring and you start to doze off. but still 9/10 would recommend.
Fall 2018 - First upper div Polysci course iv taken. Honestly wasn't bad at all. Class consists a midterm a final and 4 quizzes. There is weekly reading but you can get by without doing them. He marks specific reading that the quizzes are going to be based on- which is super helpful. The quizzes are usually 5-9 questions online. So workload is pretty light. The midterm seems like its heavy- he gives study guide and there are alot of terms but you can definitely find them in your notes. You kinda have to go to class just because he doesn't post slides. He's actually a really good professor, he's very nice and understanding and lenient as well too. Hes not a hard ass at all, he really tries to give you as much information as he can for the midterm. I would definitely take this professor again. Combination of easy workload and great professor, definitely take again. Only problem I have is that im not sure if its the material or him, but the class gets a little boring and you start to doze off. but still 9/10 would recommend.
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