# NEIL KODESH — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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### departments

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| SRMED     | 21    |
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| STDYABRD  | 52    |
| STS       | 8     |
| SURGERY   | 25    |
| SURGSCI   | 33    |
| THEATRE   | 91    |
| URBRPL    | 60    |
| UROLOGY   | 5     |
| ZOOLOGY   | 89    |

## instructor

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### name

NEIL KODESH

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### last observed at

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### ratings

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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## history

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## timeline

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## term

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## courses

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## reviews

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    "review_date": "2022-12-26 19:01:11 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "Professor Kodesh is full of information, a clear master of the subject he teaches. However, his lectures are quite boring. He is very willing to help outside of class, which I appreciated very much. This class wasn't time consuming at all, we just had 2 midterms and a final essay. If you want a general synopsis of Africa, take this class!",
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    "comment": "Neil Kodesh is a very knowledgeable about African history - however, he is a very boring lecturer. He has weekly quizzes of varying levels of difficulty, and there are weekly readings (a lot of them). There are two essays which are graded difficultly but fairly.",
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    "review_date": "2020-12-25 07:04:03 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "Prof. Kodesh is a fine professor and definitely knowledgeable, but I felt that the class was not worth it. Half the lectures were given by guest lecturers (other profs in the department) and the class, while interesting, wasnt memorable compared to others. Your grade came down to your TA (mine was horrible), so Ill give Neil an average rating.",
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    "comment": "Neil is an amazing professor and I learned so much about Africa in general from this course, definitely recommend; however, a 75 minute lecture with him talking the whole class period is TERRIBLE. 30 minutes in, I begin falling asleep. You have to attend lecture in order to do good on the assignments, but great course.",
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| course\_f58a2befed3ba544f80bedc5 | HISTORY 283                                          |

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