Reviews of professor Sayres Rudy

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The Comparative Politics class was not necessarily the hardest class ever, but the vocabulary used in lecture can be intimidating. The discussion sections are mandatory and help with the understanding. Response papers were annoying. All exams were take-home including the final.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Genuinely the most useless class I've ever taken. The reading amount is fit for a 300 level class, but I read two of the nightly pieces and got As on all the exams. Lecture is pointless, I went to 7 lectures and got an A. He is incredibly disorganized though, didn't get our grades in on time or have any hint of a class structure. Take 121 instead.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The prof himself is a very nice guy. He just assigns way too much reading for a 100 level gened. The TA's grade everything you do, and they all grade drastically different so it tends to be unfair sometimes... do not take this class unless you have a deep passion for political systems and theory. it is not an easy gened.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Rudy is a great professor but for a 100-level class, there is way too much emphasis put on long, dense readings with no visual aid to assist in understand them during lecture. Zone out for one second in lecture and youre behind. He doesnt know how to use Moodle so dont expect help from that either. There isnt even an actual syllabus.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Didn't have a syllabus until a few days before spring break. Absolutely ridiculous. No lecture slides, no way to catch up if you miss lecture. This class is a joke, excessive amounts of reading and the professor is clearly incredibly unprepared. I will never take a class with this professor again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The syllabus changed at least three times over the course of the semester, his lectures were just him speaking for an hour, and he assigned 120+ pages of dense reading a week. Guy has no idea how to teach a large class let alone an intro. Only grading is on essays that are pretty straightforward. My TA was the only reason I understood anything.