Reviews of professor Andrew Coe

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Just started at Vandy and still adjusting (i.e. makes California jokes and assumed we were rich, smart, and lazy, etc.) Grades harshly, but whole class curved. 3 HWs (10% ea), 10% participation, 25% midterm, 35% final. Study guides for midterm and final, but still hard. HWs consist of 4 SA, but can only write 1500 words MAX per homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Coe is the man. My favorite classes at Vandy were the two he taught. If you get the chance to take either 2274 or 2275 do it, the material is interesting and his lectures are great.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Coe is clearly very intelligent. He's nice but can unintentionally come off as condescending sometimes. The course material is super interesting but the assignments are graded pretty tough but he curves the grades at the end but you won't know until your last exam. You don't have to do the readings all the time cause he goes over them.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
3 problem sets, midterm, and final. Psets are easy if you go to office hours. Assigns lots of reading, but I did none of it and got good grades on everything. Prof Coe is a fantastic lecturer, and the material is interesting. Take his course, and be willing to put in slight work. Not much, but enough to show you're actually learning. Well worth it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
PSCI 2171 is a weird class because it only has lectures once a week and most of the grading is dependent on your research work. Dr. Coe is sweet and cares a lot about his students, but the lectures/textbook for the class component are somewhat dry (still interesting) and because there are no tests few people pay attention to the course content.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This was probably my favorite class I've taken at Vandy. Very reading-heavy but it's all really interesting material, and you should be fine just skimming it, as he tends to go over it in class. He can be a difficult grader, but he gives a pretty generous curve at the end of the semester. Dude knows what he's talking about, helpful in office hours.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Coe is the best Vandy professor I've ever had. He is crazy intelligent, funny, interesting, and great at explaining the material. He is a tough grader so initial grades seem scary, but says he will curve at the end. I will be taking every class of his that I possibly can!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Coe is the greatest of all time! He could explain paint drying and it would be interesting. His lectures are fantastic, he actively promotes student engagement/questions, and even the homework assignments are cool thought experiments. Can't recommend him enough, especially his Weapons of Mass Destruction class!