Alan Beyerchen - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Professor: Alan Beyerchen

Department: History

College: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: HIST658
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Few professors I have known have been as interested in my overall success as Prof Beyerchen. I took this class over 20 years ago and he continues to be a prominent fixture in my mind

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: HIST311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great teacher. Not easy though. Need to stay up on the reading every week to be able to follow along.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: HIST311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I'm not a History major, but took this class as a GEC requirement. I really enjoyed the lectures, and genuinely looked forward to class. Professor Beyerchen is passionate about what he teaches, and really wants you to understand his class. Would highly recommend!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: HIST331
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Learned a lot. Great teacher. Not an easy class though.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: HIST300
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Prof. Beyerchen was the best teacher I had at OSU. He genuinely cared about his students and was always available to answer questions.I highly recommend his classes.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HIST331
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He is a great professor. Very passionate and interesting. I was rarely bored in this class. Always available to meet and answers emails thoroughly within an hour usually. Definitely not an easy grader though. Reading quizzes are really detailed and papers are graded very hard. Overall great teacher though.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: HIST331
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Beyerchen is arrogant and unclear in what he asks. He is available for questions, but his answers are often more ambiguous than the original question you had. I would not take a class with him again. He is very biased towards History majors.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: HIST311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Beyerchen is quite simply awesome. He clearly loves teaching and cares about his students. His class IS hard, esp. for a 300-level that includes a lot of non-majors. However, he is very willing to help if you take the time to ask. Excellent class.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: HIST311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Beyerchen is wonderful. Demands perfection but awards you for what you can do. Very fair grader. I wrote a paper in an hour and got an 85. Only one of the two papers count. He is very helpful and loves to teach. Made history very interesting, definitely worth taking his course!!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: HIST518
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I have taken 4 separate courses under Dr. Beyerchen. Everything from freshman level Western Civ. to European and German history. Every course was thought provoking and educational. His lecture style forces the student to not just learn but to change they way they think about History. He grades fair and does not give busy work, but expect to read !

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: HIST518
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Smart man. Arrogant. Not a very friendly demeanor. Loves graduate students a lot better than undergraduates. Does have the fire of teaching German history. The part about Clausewitz was interesting. The TA was a little friendlier, but gave me a worse grade than I deserved -- and I am a history major. Bad experience with these two.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: HIST658
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

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Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: HIST518
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

One of the best professors I've ever had. Took the course 5 years ago and still remember his teachings. This class was tougher than many classes I took in Honors & Sorbonne; he makes you take an extremely critical look at everything. He forces you to ask questions about why you do or do not do things, which was essential to understanding WWII.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: HIST512
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Beyerchen is a nice guy....but his class are NOT fun. Seriously, if you're not a history major, you are definitely overachieving if you take one of his classes. He knows a lot but tends to ramble, clarity goes out the window sometimes, and the lecture at the beginning of his courses is very repetitive.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: HIST331
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Alan is such a nice guy and so knowledgable about the subject. You can tell the Holocaust is a huge passion of his and he thoroughly enjoys teaching. There is a lot of reading, but if you put in effort, he is definitely a fair grader, and very helpful!! Would take this teacher again!!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: HIST512
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

512.04 - Grew up detesting history, because my background in it is embarrassingly nonexistent and it bores the crap out of me. That having been said, this was easily one of the best classes I took at OSU. Spends a lot less time on textbook terminology and a lot more time putting you a century back in time. Lecture actually enjoyable to attend.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: HIST
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I sometimes wonder why people are so obsessed with him. I think his reputation is exaggerated a bit. He's tremendously knowledgeable, but somewhat hard to talk to, especially if you already have different views than he does. He was a good prof though, and I definitely learned as well as enjoyed the class, which are the two most important things.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: 6COURSES
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Above and Beyond the most devoted professor I've ever come across. Makes you work for you grade, but that is how the real world works. If you take one class and do the work he asks of you, you will come back again and again, because professor's that put their students ahead of their research are the rarest thing you can find in a big ten research u

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: 51204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The man definitely knew what he was talking about. The class required some work but didn't kill you. He rambled on a bit but provided you with a vast knowledge of europe in the 1900s and was very insightful.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: HISTORY51204
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

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