Reviews of professor Daniel Douek

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great guy, great prof. Lectures are so interesting you always want to go, and tests and assignments are always fair. My only complaint is that the conferences seemed pretty disjointed, so he might not have given the TAs much help in planning.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Douek is a smart prof with enjoyable lectures, but he is very overrated. Assignments and grading is super unfair and efforts made to improve your mark over the semester are unnoticed (at least by TAs). Expectations for participation and work quality are insane. Little feedback on assignments. I've taken 4 of his classes and am let down every time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a terrible professor, doesn't know how to teach. His personality is ok but he is very opinionated and doesn't care for other opinions. His structure for teaching is pretty unfair and he doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing. Classes are very hard to do well in.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Fascinating topics and entertaining lectures.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Douek is genuinely an excellent professor. Not only is he super funny, but his lectures are extremely interesting! He is very good at explaining concepts and he really takes a lot of his points from the readings he assigns. If you do the reading, you will find it easy to follow during class. Though I did find the exams tough.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a great professor and he's very passionate about politics! His lectures are very organized, but you need to attend lectures to get more than a B+ in exams. No textbook, but I strongly urge you to do the readings to grasp theoretical concepts.