Reviews of professor Martin Hahn

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Not necessarily a difficult course but a horrible prof. His slides are incomprehensible, lectures aren't better as he read them word for word and drones on incoherently. Extremely disorganized; typos in slides, emails, study guides, and the freaking exam. Overcomplicates simple philosophy concepts. If you need this, wait for another prof.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Literally reads his slides word for word so do not bother going to lectures, it will make you dislike the topic a lot more. I'm lucky to have a great TA so i can talk to them about questions that he was unable to answer in class

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
100W (Fall 2016) was the first philosophy class I have ever taken and Martin was the reason I switched from a biology major to a philosophy major. He is certainly not for everyone - can be a bit hard to follow in lecture sometimes but I thought he chose really interesting readings. Final exam was open book - if you did poorly on it that's on you.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Overall Martin was a good professor simply because he was passionate about what he was teaching. I found that the grading was quite strict but tutorials were a big help when writing his papers. The final exam was also graded pretty strictly.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Easily the worst professor in the SFU philosophy department. Going to class, although essential to receiving any information for the 3 total assignments, was practically a time for Martin to show off how smart he was and how philosophy of language is supposedly the most important type of philosophy. I regret taking this course.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
final was very difficult but open book. make sure you really prepare for it and write stuff down. good luck

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Reads word for word on lecture slides and lacks real life examples or questions. Cheat sheet was allowed for final, so just remember who said what; schools of philosophy; and big ideas for each topic. The TA's were extremely helpful and engaging, so seek help from the TA's instead.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I enjoyed Martin's lectures for this course. He is a clear and engaging speaker. There were 4-5 small writing assignments and 2 papers - all handled by the TA's. The final exam was difficult, but it was heavily curved. It's a fun class if you are interested in philosophy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Put together one of the worst final exams I have ever taken. So many spelling mistakes in the questions that it was distracting. We're being assessed on our learning but he doesn't even care enough to proofread the exam.. 10/10 do not recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Bro showed up with covid, but don't worry he only coughed into his mask :)