Reviews of professor See-Won Byun

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Byun is a good professor but she assigns a lot of writing and is a tough grader when it comes to papers. You will have weekly discussion forums and you get to choose one of the questions from a list of options she gives you. There are 3 papers as well, which require a lot of research. If you love writing take Byun. Lucky to pass with an A-.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is a cool teacher and is easy to talk to but I did not like her teaching style. It was almost as if she jotted down notes and put them into slides. If she had more in depth information on her slides I may have understood her a bit better. Aside from that there's lots of reading, but you should expect that being an IR major

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I love See Won!!!! She is so sweet and funny in class. Her lectures were really dry, but unless youre a theory junkie, thats to be expected. The discussions were always interesting and she made the class atmosphere very comfortable and open!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very nice and caring professor. Wants her students to do well and gives really good feedback on papers. Lectures were a little dull, but I think that was me not being a fan of the course rather than her teaching style. Class consists of a couple of papers, midterm exam, a group presentation (which was a lot of fun), and a final paper. Not too bad.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's a great professor who gives great feedback for all papers. There's lots of reading but that's typical of all IR classes and this is worth 4 units, after all. It's not that difficult and she's definitely willing to help if you don't get something. Her syllabus lays everything out for the semester and also has very clear guidelines.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
10% participation, 50% on two papers, 30% on final paper, 10% on final presentation. Prof Byun is a great prof. There's a lot to read. Weekly forum participation. Not a difficult class, but it's difficult to get A's on the papers.