Reviews of professor Daniel Chard

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Chard is very kind but his class is awful. There are four things in the grade book, all worth 25% of your grade. His lectures aren't laid out well and he jumps around a lot and goes on tangents. His slides are confusing and hard to follow and it is difficult to take notes in his class because he doesn't do a good job of explaining.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Attendance isn't mandatory...but it is. You need to listen to what he says in class, his posted slides aren't very informational. He's an awesome professor and clearly passionate about the subject but his grading style irks me. His exams were all written response and very open ended. If you didn't write exactly what he wanted, your grade suffered.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Its been a while since I took Chard's class but lately I can't stop thinking about it. I'm getting my Masters right now and a lot of what we're discussing in class I am able to refer back to Chard's lectures He was so engaging and made history exciting He's incredibly passionate and talked about Indigenous people and land with such care and respect

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Miss one day of class and you will suffer. Slides aren't helpful on their own, take notes on everything he says. There's two book essays and two exams. The book essays aren't bad, however the exams are difficult. I had to write 5 sentences for someone that was covered for maybe 10-15 minutes and there was only a picture of her on lecture slides.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Chard is passionate about his teaching and loves to interact with students during lectures instead of talking at people, however almost every class will be entirely taking notes on lectures. Only 4 assignments (2 tests based on lectures, 2 essays based on books read outside class)and few extra credit opportunities. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Exams were based on lectures so class attendance would be academically smart. Fair grader, not easy not hard. Very passionate about his job and it shows, making his lectures as if he was telling a story of his own life. Humorous as well, tried to crack a joke at least once a day. VERY note heavy though, his lectures are informative but heavy info

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
You will be graded on weekly reading posts, a group presentation, and two essays. As long as you read the two books and pay attention to any group discussion, the essays and reading posts won't be too difficult to write.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy but god he assigns so much reading. Who assigns 120 pages a week for a 100 level? And it didn't really help with the lectures either, just with the papers. His lectures were decently interesting but he did go off on unnecessary tangents. Take it with friends and split up the reading and you'll be fine.