Reviews of professor Robert Asen

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The course material was very vocab heavy but if you pay attention it is easy to understand. It's difficullt to pay attention because the slides are boring and his voice is kind of monotone.  If you can commit to going to lecture and writing down the things he says in addition to the slides, the assignments aren't too bad

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had Professor Asen for a debate class (at UW-Mad; not UWEC). bc of covid, the class was online, lectures were asynchronous. Lectures were incredibly dry and rhetorical. Black text bullet points on a white background with a voiceover. Hard to stay engaged. They were difficult to understand because of how dense they were. Probably better in person?

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof Asen is fine, I'd give him a B. He seemed really nice and funny but his lectures are super boring. Definitely don't take if it's online but if it is offered in person, it's not a horrible class and they grade pretty easy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
TAKE THIS CLASS. It was an amazing way to end my college experience at UW-Madison. Our whole class just yapped the whole time about educational topics. The amount of papers (one per unit, one final paper, no exams) was fair. He went over our readings the next day in class (so you were safe if you didnt read). MUST participate though!!!