Reviews of professor Brian Schaffner

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Brain Schaffer is really knowledgeable and cares about the topics he is teaching. Intro to civics is a very lecture heavy class and sometimes the lectures can be unclear. However if you talk to him, his wiling to work with you.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A very average class. The lectures weren't the most engaging and it felt very repetitive, but it was fairly easy to understand. The midterm was ridiculous as we got very little guidance on what to study and it was graded harshly. Group project counted for a big portion of our grade and was fairly straightforward so that was a nice grade booster.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Schaffner is a very attentive and smart teacher. He cares about students and is always available to help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a real life pollster outside of being a professor and brings incredible insight into the classroom. Every lecture completely changed my perspective. Textbook not very important but additional readings were. Tests asked vague questions; you'd have to answer the question and incorporate related theory's/ readings not explicitly asked for.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Schaffner is a great teacher, but his class is not easy. His tests are difficult, but he does provide a list of concepts to study before every test. There's a fair amount of textbook reading.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Fine class. Pretty basic and boring lectures but some interesting readings we were tested on. He tried to make the class more enjoyable I think, but it was an Intro level so not much to do. One big problem I had was a big part of our grade depended on a group project that the whole group got the same grade on. Bad if your group is bad.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I learned a ton in Research Methods. Schaffner is easy to love and an incredibly clear lecturer. All the resources are there, it's just up to the student to review them. You can definitely do well if you want to. I really recommend him as a professor and am lucky to have been his student.