Reviews of professor Andrew Detch

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Detch is a fantastic professor. He cares about each and every student, and does his best to give personal feedback to improve writing skills. I loved going to office hours to have him review essays because he was insightful with what he said, and made me reach to get a better argument. Definitely a better writer because of him and his efforts.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is extremely interesting if you like history, and the professor does a great job of teaching and keeping students engaged. You need to go to class and read the assigned texts, or else you will have no idea how to succeed on the papers. Super tough grader when It comes to papers, but overall would take this class again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Detch's class was informative and enjoyable. He seems to really enjoy teaching and brings wonderful energy to class that is infectious. The structure of the class was extremely conducive to my understanding of the material and the context in which it happened. I really enjoyed the class, and if you do your part I bet you will too.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have my thoughts and feelings, but that's not why I am here. I am here to say that he does NOT like National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets. For being a history professor, I feel like this is the wrong take.
Other than that he's a good professor, lots of work but you can understand where he is coming from with his grades and expectations.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A great professor, engaging lectures and a real desire to teach and help students get better. My favorite professor I've had.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great professor and very personable/cares about your success. A lot of reading and writing. Hard class, but you learn a lot and it is very rewarding if you stick with it.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His lectures are excellent and make the material very interesting. The actual assignments are boring, instead of essays you write 3 book reviews. This means reading 3 books of 300 pages and writing a very formulaic review, so if you don't enjoy a specific topic it's a real slog. Overall, a good professor that needs to work on assignment quality.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Detch is one of the most knowledgeable professors I have ever taken. Knows his field extremely well. Class is heavily discussion based. Papers are very hardly graded. That is not to say they are impossible though. Make sure you get yourself Grammarly and go to the writing center.