Reviews of professor Baris Tasyakan

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Get ready for a very lecture heavy class! Only a few tests and essays, but because of that, they cover a huge span of information from units, so they are difficult. His tests were super long and consisted of multiple essays and short questions. No homework, just make sure to keep up with reading outside of class! Overall a super nice guy!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Seems like nice guy. New professor, seems a bit stubborn and unwilling to compromise with students despite lack of experience himself. Today in class, over 90% of students got poorly worded quiz question wrong despite most of us doing the assigned readings. No comment from Prof. regarding that question, just moved on. Shows lack of experience.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
HIST class at USD, it has been my worst prof so far. He is extremely boring, reads from the slides with no explanation, and makes large assumptions about the knowledge of the class for an intro history course. He was clearly inexperienced, I learned nothing, and there were a ton of pointless quizzes. He spent too much time on the economic aspects.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Be prepared for a heavy lecture class. Although not graded by much (2 essays, midterm, and final) you will have to pay attention in order to receive a good grade. He is very tough on grading essays and often doesnt explain what you specifically did wrong throughout the essays. If you are a good writer and enjoy history this is a great class for you

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The worst professor I have ever had. Seems extremely inexperienced when lecturing (reads directly from the slides without any outside input) and SO boring. His final study guide is every term on the powerpoint of which he hasn't ever explained. Readings are never actually discussed only quizzed on making them pointless for future use.