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Expect disorganized and underprepared lectures. Some readings were long, opaque, and repetitive. In classes about politics' effects on science, Dr. Alatout went beyond encouraging critical analysis to encouraging conspiracy theory-like distrust in science and institutions while sharing his own opinions on the safety and efficacy of medical tech.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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 professorRate My Professors ↗
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