Reviews of professor Steven Hahn

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Took his Historical Interpretation class in Spring '18. He just showed videos for half the semester. He wouldn't even pause the videos to point out things he wanted us to take note of, or to ask the class questions about what we were watching. I got an A (learned a lot from the TA) but Hahn's lectures were an utter waste of time and tuition.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great historian and writer, awful teacher. Way stricter for an undergad class than any other professor. Incredibly curt and borderline rude in emails and in in-class comments, absolutely no leniency with deadlines and a very harsh grader. Also you have to track down the books on your own, so buy then or take them out from the library early.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took American History Makers...a good professor who clearly knew his history. He had great guest lecturers and the readings were really interesting. Participation matters so much, but he'll talk over you half the time, so just  say something. Weekly readings with response and one final essay. Feedback is not great but a good class overall.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Steve is a great person, very insightful and knowledgeable. But get ready to read, a book each week almost, and write response papers. Just 1 final paper is required for this course, and class participation MATTERS! He makes you work for that A. I appreciate that and enjoyed this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
We studied the Haitian revolution, the US civil war, the Mexican revolution & the Chinese revolution. As a Pulitzer Prize winner for his book about the US civil war, he was massively overqualified to teach the first half of the course, but then upon reaching foreign history, his knowledge was obviously lacking and we just watched youtube videos :(