Reviews of professor Benjamin Taylor

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very cool guy, there is a lot of reading and writing each week but hes pretty lenient when it comes to grading. Each week you will have to read to articles for discussion posts and work on a research paper throughout the entire semester.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Only graded with four tests (lowest score dropped and highest doubled) and attendance. Two excused absences are available, but if you attend everyday, he counts the two days for extra credit. Mainly studied key terms at end of each chapter and review questions. He copies and pastes questions from textbook. Awesome Professor!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Taylor is a very kind and funny professor who has a very clear passion for political science. I appreciate that while he has clear political views on certain topics, he mostly stays unbiased and just presents the information. In the honors version of this course, we did 2 analytical papers and 2 essays for mid and final with Qs given prior.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Taylor is awesome. He truly cares about you learning the material, but also that you are successful in his class. There are only 4 exams and Attendance counts toward your grade, but he gives you plenty of time to prepare. He gives out a study guide before each exam, but my best advice would be to read all the chapters. 100% recommend!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Funny guy and enthusiastic lecturer. Course is graded from attendance and four tests. Your lowest test score is replaced with your highest, (meaning your highest score gets counted twice) so you can skip one exam with no consequence. There's also four auto-excused absences, so you can easily keep an 100 without having perfect attendance.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Taylor laid out clear guidelines for what was needed to succeed in his class. He also gave buffers to ensure each student could make a good great despite mistakes. Just read the textbook, attend lectures, and look at review questions and you'll do fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is an easy class if youre willing to take the time to go over the practice questions in the back of the online textbook chapters. there are only 4 grades (exams) but i did well on all of them by going through the textbook questions. Dr Taylor is a funny and knowledgeable guy so going to class isnt a bore, definitely take again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof. Taylor was an amazing professor. You are only graded on four tests, and that's it. He tends to pull many of his answers on his tests from the book. As long as you do the questions in the book, you'll do great. He is very funny and does not give any homework. You do however, have two extra credit opportunities throughout the semester. DO THEM!