Reviews of professor Luc Bovens

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Bovens is one of my favorite professors at UNC, and he did a phenomenal job covering the Philosophy portion of IDST 111. He brought a lot of enthusiasm and energy to the 8 am lectures and strived to draw every student's interest. Moreover, I enjoyed talking with him during office hours about the various topics covered in class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Boven's is a lot of fun. It is clear he really enjoys the material and is passionate about teaching. The workload is not very hard, only 15 discussion posts, 2 papers, a midterm and a final, and he makes all of the possible questions that could be on them available before both the midterm and the final.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I liked Dr. Bovens and I think that this first year seminar was pretty decent. The content was relevant and interesting and discussion could be dry at times, but I understood the points he was bringing up and why we were discussing them. He's a bit nitpicky with grading papers, and it's really hard to predict your grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very nice man, grading is done by TAs but his lectures are very funny, graded by 15 reading discussions, 2 800-1200 word papers, and a midterm and final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I enjoyed engaging with the assigned material throughout the class. Prof. Bovens is funny and made the discussions interesting. His grading is not harsh, but nitpicky in a helpful way. Its made me a better writer, or at least more thoughtful about my own writing. His class environment also helped me overcome my hatred for public speaking :)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I generally enjoyed Professor Boven's first-year seminar as it was relevant and not too heavy courseload-wise. He assigned interesting nightly 50-word discussion posts but in-class was dry sometimes. He grades pretty subjectively with no rubric and honestly based on his own opinions, with convoluted feedback - which made it hard to predict grades.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is fairly graded and the TAs are accessible. He's the type who could teach this class for 20+ years and still show the same passion about this subject every time. If you're someone who wants to really delve into economics/political science beware that he only covers things at surface level since there are so many topics in one class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing guy with a lot of experience. Grading can be a little rough on the essays (TAs) but rather than that everything was very fair. He makes the class fun and is very passionate about what he teaches.  The class is extremely interesting and the tests are structured in a way that you can not study for 1 or 2 topics that you don't find important.