Reviews of professor Deniz Aksoy

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Aksoy's class is lecture-based and some classes can feel boring, however many topics are interesting so overall I found the class worthwhile. Her class was not super easy, but also not excessively hard. Aksoy is a bit disorganized but she is certainly an expert on political violence and terrorism, and I learned a lot from her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really enjoyed Ethnic Violence with Aksoy; I felt she was a generous grader and a kind professor. She did a pretty good job of teaching in lectures and although I was not completely wow'd by the course, I definitely learned a lot of helpful ways to understand conflict. Lots of reading, midterms not bad, papers super easy, lectures are average.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Aksoy is a smart professor, but she's a dry lecturer. Not very accessible outside of class and a harsh grader. She means well, but she comes off as disrespectful and uncaring in both her grading and her office hours. Course material and topics on Political Violence are pretty interesting though. Forget asking about extra credit or any sort of help.