Reviews of professor Richard Chasdi

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Chasdi is a caring man and clearly shows interest in the class he is teaching. He is also very patient and I appreciate how he helped me go over the subject material numerous times to make sure I understood. I recall earlier how I emailed him the night before our final and gave me a quick response. You need to work for your grade!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Literally one of the most disorganized professors I have encountered. All of his powerpoints are so difficult to understand and half of the lecture is just the powerpoint reworded poorly again and again, with each iteration just getting more confusing. Completely behind schedule and grades VERY hard.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Chasdi is very well educated in international affairs and political theory, but because he's so knowledgeable, his lectures can be a little hard to follow. Additionally, his lectures are very dense. The midterm and final are essentially just essays that you will write in a blue book in class. He usually does a review just before exams.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class made me switch out of the Security Policy Concentration because I hated it so much. This class is purely lectures which Chasdi makes very long and boring, and are just walking through the readings for the given day. Your grade is based off of two midterms, a book review, and the final, and his grading is unpredictable.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Chasdi is very good at helping students retain information-- if you go to the review sessions, he hosts it's hard not to do well. That being said, his lectures aren't very cohesive, so it's on you to make sure you understand what's going on. Exams are a lot but pretty straightforward. You can get away with not doing the readings.