Reviews of professor Geoffrey Nathan

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was somewhat difficult but manageable. He is very critical when grading, you can feel a snarkiness with his comments when you don't write exactly what he wants. Luckily, this class has no tests, so showing up to class and trying to do the readings will help. The readings are insanely long and filled with tough language, be prepared.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Only take this class if you retain information from lectures & test well. 3 discussion posts, 2 midterms & final research paper pretty much makes up your entire grade. AKA you have to do well on everything. This class was VERY stressful for me. Treats a GE like a history major course. Very hard opinionative grader with little to no feedback.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Nathan is very intense and he can be pretty demanding. He did teach me a lot about history and I learned a lot about why it is important. Coming to class and participating counts for a lot, so if you show up and try to do the readings, you'll do ok.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Nathan is very passionate about his topics and really opened my eyes to different perspectives of history and opened my mind more to different ways of approaching topics. He is a very tough grader as he looks for very specific format and content despite not being specific in class. You must show up to class and participate to do well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There were too many assignments for a GE, but I really liked the class. Professors lectures were good, he was pretty funny, and very helpful outside of class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Weirdly hard class for a history-100 level course. Twice a week lectures that are actually pretty interesting, but you don't really have to go to all of them imo. The midterms were straightforward, but you do have to prepare pretty well. There is a research paper, but as long as you start early you're fine.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took this class this fall and let me tell you that it was bad. He wants you to participate in class but only his opinion matters. Make sure you read the LONG articles he assigns or he will kick you out of the class like he did with us, he literary kicked us out of the classroom. I don't know why SDSU still let him teach. He's very condescending.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Nathan is very interesting and so are his lectures, but this class takes work. You can try and read as hard as you can, but he will always find something to critique you for and never tell you how to make improvements. He grades based off of his own opinion and not the actual material. No other GE classes have me working this hard.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He was nice and cared about his students but he did not give great feedback. Most of the things in his class were opinion based yet your answers could still be wrong. I never knew how to improve. History just isn't my thing but if it is yours, you will definitely enjoy this class.