Reviews of professor Simon Hoellerbauer

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mr. Hoellerbauer is an incredible professor who explains concepts with great clarity. His expectations are clear from the start and his lectures and very interesting and easy to follow. He is very clearly passionate about the topics discussed in class which makes the course even more fun. Also very funny, 10/10 would recommend this class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I would definitely recommend Poli 130 with Mr. Hoellerbauer. He's extremely knowledgable about comparative politics and gives awesome feedback. His summer session course had 3 papers, a midterm, and a final. The third paper was basically just the first two papers combined. If you participate and do the readings, you should do well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Hoell was a really understanding professor; totally willing to give extensions and extra help when needed. Coding heavy class and he doesn't always have resources posted for it but he's super helpful if you reach out. More than half the class was group projects so hope you get a good group because they're random and will make or break your grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Simon is a nice person and truly cares about students. Because of the pandemic he made the class asynchronous and it was pretty clutch. His prerecorded lectures were very organized, easy to follow and comprehend even if you have no prior knowledge in poli sci. Gives solid feedback on papers, midterm and final were doable and not bad. 10/10

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing person!! Super passionate and incredibly helpful. Grades are very fair. Class is mostly group activities. Professor made the material more interesting, and was always incredibly accessible.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He expects lots of participation. A very hard grader, despite the fact that he gives great feedback and he's always happy to help you outside of class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
POLI 281 is a CODING CLASS first of all, so it's super heavy on the logistics of coding using R. Simon is super nice and clearly cares a lot, but he has a hard time explaining topics thoroughly. If you go to office hours, you can get a good grade but he still doesn't explain things super well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Simon is one of the best professor I met at UNC. He is extremely patient and would like to help students succeed as possible as he can. I was highly stressed by the difficult course. Fortunately, with Simons help, I made it. I hope to take another course with him in the future if possible.