John Geer - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Professor: John Geer

Department: Political Science

College: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PSCI3893
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

fun lectures, cool guest speakers like the mayor of nashville and former vice president al gore. really tough to get an A, but easy to get a B come to class, take notes, and read as much as you can most difficult part is writing the essays, extremely vague expectations, or none at all

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PSCI3893
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Geer is funny and insightful. Class needed more organization, but it's interesting just to hear his ideas. He respects students and their thoughts, however vapid. Class was large, so TAs did grading, which was erratic on tests, but fair on papers. Tests are free response; you choose which questions to answer, but they're tough, so do well on papers

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PSCI3893
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Geer is an extremely knowledgeable, smart, engaging professor. He truly cares about the work he does, along with student feedback. He really wants to make sure us students are interested and learning from the material. Has great connections and brings a lot of cool speakers to class. Take anything he teaches!!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Geer is an engaging lecturer and knows his stuff. Attending lectures is not only interesting, but helpful in being prepared for exams. However, tests and papers are graded by TA's, so the grading expectations become less clear.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Geer is a relatively interesting lecturer, worth it to go to class as lectures are on exams. Class not an easy A, but if you put your work in, go to review sessions and revise papers with TA should get at least B+. TA has grading power, so make friends, unique thought rewarded in papers

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HON183
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Political Advertising Honors Seminar- it was so interesting though it was a bit difficult

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BNBNMJHJK
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

College Professors are not to teach opinion, instead Factual and clearly balanced for an educational knowledge. Therefore allowing free agency to choose individual opinions of context taking the class.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Hard to get a good grade. 3 papers due, 3 midterms, and a final. Don't need to go to class, but you should.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• 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:

Geer gives great lectures and is very helpful outside of class. Attendance isn't mandatory but it will help a lot on the exams, because he draws straight from what he says in class. Grades largely depends on the TA though.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: POLIS100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Geer is a great teacher! interesting and not hard. just go to class and take notes and you'll be fine! He's funny and personable. Learned a lot even though I just took class for nonmajor elective. He also had awesome guest lecturers who were very interesting. Geer knows his topic and is prominent in political science world.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Professor Geer is helpful outside of class if you seek him out. This is a huge lecture class so attendance is not taken, but go to class. He is an interesting lecturer and brings in really interesting outside speakers. The outside speakers will be on the exams! Three exams, three papers, and one final big question. Not hard.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Amazing class!!! I would absolutely recommend it. Professor Geer is fantastic! As long as you do the readings and take notes in lectures, tests and papers should be fine. Very interesting material, as well.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• 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:

Professor Geer's course was a lot of fun. His lectures were always great, and he did a great job incorporating current issues into the requisite American history. The reading is substantial, but most of it is reasonably interesting. I switch to a PSCI major because of him!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Geer is a great lecturer, always brings in interesting speakers (ex. Tim Pawlenty, Anne Kornblut, etc), and explicitly tells you at least one question you can expect on each upcoming test...but that means you have to really plan out your essays beforehand in order to get full credit. Also, get to know the TAs! They grade your papers!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• 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:

Knows his stuff. Not a lot of work, but tests are kind of hard. Lectures are interesting though and you'll learn a lot. He brings pizza sometimes too.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

GREAT GUY! Brings pizza to class on rare occasion, very interesting lectures, knows his stuff. There is a lot of reading and the tests are not easy but are as hard as should be expected. TAKE THIS CLASS! It will give you a great perspective on American government.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PSCI243
• 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:

Geer is an awesome professor with tons of connections so there are great guest speakers/callers. Grading can be tough on the papers, but they are fairly reasonable. He just knows a ton about the subject so definitely take him

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: POLSC243
• 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:

Real easy class. Enjoyed it because we always had influential people calling in. Basically just talked about the 2010 midterms all the time.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PSCI150
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

One of the leading political scientists in the nation. Definitely knows his stuff. If you are a PSCI major you should take at least one class with him. I liked his lectures better than Oppenheimer's.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PSCI100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Great class. The workload isn't overwhelming, and you'll learn a lot. Better yet though, the class allows you and encourages you to form your own opinion, which is very fulfilling. The lectures are very well structured and very interesting. Take this class.