Derek Buescher - University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Professor: Derek Buescher
Department: Communication
College: University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: SSI162
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Worth taking the extra time to produce thorough work. He is a thoughtful grader which is a blessing and a curse. Says he rarely gives A's but also rarely gives poor grades, in his own words more or less. I would definitely take a class from Derek Buescher again.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: COMM170
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Governmentality and torture was an awesome class and it got me fixated on media studies despite being a biology major. Buescher was helpful, responded to emails, and was understanding. There is a lot of reading, but most of it is very interesting and modern! Definitely would take another communications class from him.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: COMM 170
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Derek was/is a really good teacher. I had his governmentality and Torture class. It sounds weird but was really interesting. He's also my adviser so he's really helpful and easy to understand.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: COMM103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Derek is a great teacher. He certainly starts out slow but his classes warm up to the point where you begin to discuss a lot of socially relevant issues. You just have to care enough to pay attention. He's also extremely helpful outside of class (if you can get a hold of him!) Take his classes if you're interested in Communications!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: COM212
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
nice guy outside of class but he is hard to deal with in class especially if you have been sick.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: COMM103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
wondeful teacher, after taking this class three years ago I STILL thank goodness that I took it! This is the kind of thinking you NEED as a person in our advertising enriched society
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: COMM103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Totally not what the course description said; he actually admitted to totally re-working the course on the second day of class. He's a sweet guy, but speaks like a textbook and he's pretty preoccupied with writing his own book. Rather than talking about adventure, we spent a ton of time on grammar and structure of arguments.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: COMM103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class bummed me out. Derek was extremely unorganized and flaky. He took a month to hand back the first paper! He's a nice guy, but overall his teaching was sub-par.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: COMM103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
We didn't see eye to eye at all. This course was pointless, too. All that said, he's a pretty nice guy. Just remember to challenge his statements in class, don't take what he says for granted.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: COM220
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: COM101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very fun class, and always as helpfull as possible. Learned a lot.
Discuss With Everyone:

No comments:

Post a Comment