Reviews of professor Paul Dower

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Verryyyyyy boring. Super dry & monotone but cant blame him thats his personality. Expect a quiz almost every week. 2 group projects. 4 homework assignments that are very complicated and he does very little to explain them (know how to use excel). 1 midterm and one final. A lot of readings that are posted online( honestly I skimmed through most)

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this class online- The professor is very boring and monotone, sometimes the lectures were confusing. Knowing Excel is a MUST for the homework sets- these take at least a few hours to complete. Have a decent understanding of statistics because he won't teach you how to do it but he'll test you on regressions. Oh- and there is a group project.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Guys seriously do not take his course. There are 5 assignments to do which takes way too much time finishing it (he said in the syllabus will be 4 assignments but end up with 5 assignments), weekly group work, one group presentation, weekly quizzes, one final paper, and a final exam. By the way, 40 percent of materials were never taught in class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although Paul Dower is experienced in the economics field, specifically around developing countries, his entire course structure lacks any awareness of how students operate. Lectures are a mess of text and math heavy slides (which he will breeze over without any explanation or examples), very quiet and frankly boring lecturing, and dense readings