Reviews of professor Philip Waggoner

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Waggoner's American Politics class is engaging and not difficult. The exams are multiple choice and the final paper is very open ended. His lectures were engaging and went over the textbook material, so doing the readings thoroughly is not necessary to pass if you go to lectures. Great professor!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Waggoner is truly condescending. He does not know how to teach William and Mary students, giving all multiple choice tests with no direction than "know everything about government" and they are designed to trick you. Very difficult with accommodations and pretty boring. Participation is worth a lot, but he won't give you a 100 on it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof. Waggoner is very excited about the subject material (course was a senior seminar on Data Science research methods), especially since this is his specialty. Knows an immense amount about the subject, but sometimes had difficulty translating higher level concepts into laymen's terms. I leave the class glad for having taken it. Would recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Waggoner expects a lot out of his students, but it is worth it. He is an outstanding teacher who knows his material very, very well. He cares about his students. He makes class interesting and fun. I would take his class again in a heartbeat.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He can be condescending at times. Otherwise, very detail oriented and is passionate about public policy. Could be better, could be worse. Participation matters every friday.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Waggoner is honestly kind of condescending, doesn't post his lectures on bb, expects us all to want to be aspiring political scientists, and also gives weirdly hard exams that we think are easy. I would not have taken this class with him if I had known it would be unnecessarily difficult. Sure, he is knowledgeable, but also he isn't great.