Reviews of professor Ian Saxine

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ian's an awesome prof, he loves history and teaches it very well. I suck at history and had to drop it last semester because I was going to fail, but his class is very easy to follow, and very easy to do well if you show up and take notes. He's pretty funny and makes boring lectures interesting, he's super nice and helpful. Highly recommend him

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
extremely lecture heavy course, Saxine is not the worst history professor I've met but definitely not the best. He does not grade work in a timely manner, none of the things gone over in class are on the exams as well as if you answer an exam question correctly and it's not the way he would word it, it is wrong, good luck.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Saxine is one of the best history professors I have taken. He is very passionate about his work. Be prepared to read for each class. Grades fairly and clearly explains expectations.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a tough grader and I found his rubrics to be a bit confusing. Overall he was really nice and had really good lectures that were clear and easy to follow. He also was great at responding quickly to emails and was always offering help to his students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's an intelligent guy, & tries to add humor to the class. He uses very complicated words making it extremely difficult to follow along. The readings he chooses and the tests he give are also very complicated to read. There is also a final paper that makes 0 sense and very complexly worded. & If you don't word things VERY specifically you'll fail.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You can just tell he loves history. The readings can feel long, but they're interesting, worthwhile, and he always provided a reading guide that ended up being the basis of class discussions and the essays. He's funny and super easy to get along with. I feel like I learned something in his class, he asks questions that make you think.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor with clear expectations. Pretty interesting classes for the most part and not too much work at all! Refreshing to have a professor who wants you to do well!!!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Some of the source analysis were a good way to understand the topics of the class more. But when it come to lecture it was just boring didnt really engage with his students. The class in general is lecture based. He slides were a little bit confusing because he jumped around a lot of slides and it was hard to follow along.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Absolutely awful. Not the worst professor at Brudgewater State, but the worst youll ever take. Makes absolutely nothing clear. Extremely minimal chance of passing a single exam. Absolutely nothing talked about in class is on the exams. May as well hand you a textbook and say this is the course. Dont pay 13k to waste your time on this fool.