The first month and half of classes were alright; but the middle of October the professor was letting real life events dwell into the classroom, and his own personal opinions on tense situations made the classroom an uncomfortable for those in the class.

Samer is clearly passionate about this class and his students but the lectures were hard to follow, dry, and long. He can be helpful at times but his mood seemed to decline near the end of the semester. Material is tough.

It is very clear that he is quite passionate and knowledgeable about this subject. His teaching can be a bit erratic but he does a great job of teaching everything from a politically unbiased perspective. The material itself is very interesting to learn about. The class is graded on the 5 papers which have very clear grading criteria.

He loves teaching the class, but his love and passion for environmental studies gets in his way of the material. He fails to provide insight in the textbook material, instead he goes off on tangents. There are 5 papers which all have very broad topics but are graded fairly easy. There was no final at the end. Take the class. Interesting and easy.

It can be a very insightful class to what is actually happening in the world but the class and the final have no correlation. There are 5 papers due and the final is just 130 questions of random vocabulary. Also, you wont get full credit for attendance or lecture even if you go to all of them... final grades took forever to get in. Worst professor

He is very passionate about the subject which is cool. The only work for this class was 5 short papers and the final. There was also an opportunity for a lot of extra credit. As long as you show up to lecture there is no need to buy the textbook.

The worst professor I have ever had. Lectures are unclear and unrelated to topic often times, is disrespectful to students, wastes time discussing himself. Take if you want an easy A, avoid if you want to enjoy learning.

He is one of the most awesome professors I have ever had at UW. He makes himself very available to students. Teaches with obvious passion. Class very appropriate for a freshman and sophomore levels. Loves his students.

I love this man but the lectures are bad. Read the book, do the extra credit, and the papers and you are good. Get help for the papers they are very BROAD (in atlanta).

Funny guy, but his lectures are very scattered and odd. I learned everything from discussion and the book. He has occasional "quizzes" in class that count for participation. 5, 3-4 page papers that have open-ended rubrics and a final. Easiest class I have taken so far at Wisconsin.

This class involves a lot of busy work when I had intended on taking it simply to fulfill my social science requirement. The content is very scattered and I wish I would have taken something else.

Lectures are completely scattered and not planned out well at all. He rambles on and on and it is hard to understand his main points. If it weren't for discussion sections I would have no idea what this class is about. He's not very good with technology which causes a problem when he tries to use iclickers. It's an easy class, but not worth it.

Samer is a good professor. He wants students to succeed & is willing to change things around if something's not working well in the course. Sometimes disorganized, but provides helpful study guides for exams. Textbooks are dry. Weekly journal responses on readings required most weeks, and 2 papers. Frustrating at times, but overall a fine course.