Reviews of professor Nate Brophy

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you like your free time, do not take this him. I took 3 400 level classes and this class's work was equivalent to all the work compiled. With COVID's platform change, this teacher's idea is to give a LOT of very easy assignments to keep you engaged. Well, those assignments took up 20 hours a week. We had to do something everyday to stay afloat.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Brophy is a really cool dude! The class wasn't too demanding. He was extremely flexible with due dates! He's a PhD student and understands the workload of college life and is willing to work around it to satisfy everyone! Lectures were somewhat interesting but he tries to make them as fun as possible. Overall, a caring person and great choice!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this class Spring 2021 when it was virtually online. Despite the schedules changes professor Brophy was very understanding with the assignments. You take a qualtrics survey to pair you with others students to be grouped for a class project. The textbook is dense, but he explains it to students where it would make sense. A real cool guy

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. B. is one of the few professors who truly cares about his students, well-being and all. Lectures were personally confusing for me, but he made himself available for questions or concerns outside of class. My only criticism is that he frequently sent out last minute emails, usually to change/add on to coursework. Highly recommend for COMM 400!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's very nice and you can tell he's very passionate about what he teaches. The class isn't a "sit back and get an A" class, but it isn't too hard either. He tends to change due dates (likely because of the whole online thing) but it's usually helpful to you and he's forgiving if you just talk with him. Take him if you fear stats in research.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took him in the Spring 2021 semester online. Hands down the best professor anyone could take for COMM 400. I was so nervous about taking a research methods class, but Professor Brophy made it bearable and somewhat interesting. He actually cares about us succeeding and does whatever he can to help. GMU needs more professors like him!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The course had a good amount of assignments that are manageable. The professor was nice and gave good feedback. He gave examples of formatting the work, which helped a lot. The group assignments were the worst part of the course.