Reviews of professor Benjamin Brand

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Brand is incredible. Kind, hilarious, and knowledgeable. Maybe the best professor I've had. The class has lots of reading and recitation participation can be tough to get full credit for. As long as you're willing to put in the work, it's amazing. Take Dr. Brand if you can! He's great.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Brand is really nice but takes his class way too seriously

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super nice guy! This course was pretty easy whether you are taking it for a gen ed or to fulfill a german minor or major. There was a lot of readings but I found them to be interesting so it was not as bad trying to get through them. He is pretty bad about responding to emails so I would recommend talking to him in person if you have a question.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Such a great professor! Super funny and engaging. Loved the flipped format because I could watch the lectures whenever I had time. Just beware, there are a lot of readings (but they're fun because they're just folktales!) I highly recommend the class and the professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Brand is one of the most caring and intelligent professors I've ever had. That being said, if you don't want to put work into a gen-ed, just don't take this one. It can be a lot of reading. Some of his (or other profs) German gen-eds are a little more laid back, but this is more intensive. Very available during office hours, bad with emails.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Given that Dr. Brand was given the course last minute, I think it was overall good. It felt a little disconnected at times and we jumped between topics a lot, but the topics themselves were very interesting. Was not a big fan of the very loose guidelines for projects, but nevertheless, I had a really fun time and always wanted to go to the class.