Reviews of professor Juman Kim

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't expect the class to be anything new or exciting. It's basically intro U.S. politics all over again. Kim does a decent job of lecturing but is extremely repetitive, especially with material students are all already familiar with. Class is a bore and you won't get anything out of it. Grading is not extremely difficult but not easy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Heavy on the readings and lecturing, but the exams and homework assignments were straightforward and easy. He went missing for like, a week which was pretty great for the students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class is half over and I can't tell you what we've learned so far. He uses iClicker for attendance and allows students to take over the class periods by debating contentious contemporary topics. The rest of lecture is him rambling about simple cases like Plessy v. Ferguson or Marbury v. Madison. Not an upper-level case law course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Content of his teaching and lectures are a bit dry for the early hours in the morning. Opened the class up to discussion sometimes but most of it was him struggling to get through five slides per class. Assignments and exams are easy however, will boost your GPA if you're willing to sit through his class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Not a difficult class, but some of the online quizzes were unfair. Also takes an ungodly amount of time to grade things.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
A pathetic excuse for a university "upper-level" class. 2 essays worth 60% of your grade, 1 midterm exam worth 30% of your grade, and the other 10 points are just for showing up. If you put the least bit effort in, you will get at least a B. Hilariously easy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
You can tell he didn't really prepare his black and white lecture slides. That said, one of the easiest 400-level political science courses I've taken and sparked some very interesting discussions between the students. Though he's not great at teaching, class was rewarding because he brought out the best in classmates. Essays are easy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The professor is extremely boring. His Constitutional Law class often gets out of hand by certain students dominating the discussion, and Kim will not move the class forward. Readings have very little to do with the lectures so I advise you don't do them. He only tests on the lectures, but paper grading can be difficult.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Driest, most boring professor at the UO. He is precisely why students are so turned off from the Greeks. Don't take.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Race, Politics, and Law was a really fun class. Sadly he only taught this class once so not many people can relate to the experience, but we read Danielle Allen's book Cuz and discussed really difficult questions about race and intersectionality throughout the history of the United States. I greatly appreciated Professor Kim's academic rigor.