Peter Andreas - Brown University

Professor: Peter Andreas
Department: Political Science
College: Brown University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: POLS820U
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He is socially awkward which negatively impacts his teaching style, but I cant necessarily fault him for that considered hes been kidnapped threes times. His intermediate level class had more reading than graduate level courses Ive taken. He cares as much as he has a capacity to, but definitely expect to self start in this class.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: POLS1020
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Peter Andreas is one of the most eminent authorities on the global economy but he does not make that known. In class he just reads off slides and does not provide interesting anecdotes. All the assessments are just memorization. Everything in this class can be learned by reading a book on the subjects. Boring class with no critical thinking.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: POLS1020
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
cool topic, learned a lot
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PS1000
  • 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:
politics of the illicit global economy was the best class i took at brown last year. definitely one of the more interesting classes i've had.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: POLS1020
  • 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:
I love Global Illicit Economy. He is an extremely interesting guy and everyone should take this class. All you bashing PS40 should hate the subject matter not the professor. I had it with a different prof and it was awful as well.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: PS102
  • 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:
Prof. Andreas is many things, but definitely NOT mean. The previous reviewer simply seems vindictive, who knows why. PS 102 is so far a great class, popular and hard to get into.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: VARIO4
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Wow--that last rating was harsh. Peter does like to be in charge and doesn't like his opinions to be too strongly challenged, but I've never seen him be mean.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: PS409
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A prof should serve as a mentor to his undergrads. Peter had a personal dislike of me that was evident to others (we disagreed on methodological and normative grounds). Now that I, in turn, teach undergrads at a top polsci dept, I am stunned that he allowed his personal feelings to be so apparent.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: PS40IR40
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Some of the topics were interesting and he did an okay job at clarifying some more complex subjects, but the class tended to be boring. Also his 92384 analogies got old fast.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: PS18232
  • 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:
All these ratings are for PS40, which is a huge intro lecture class that all IR students have to take. But Prof. Andreas also teaches one of the most amazing seminars at Brown, "Contraband Capitalism." Take it if you can, but it is one of the most popular hardest to get into.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: PS40
  • 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: N/A
Comment:
Fantastic class!!
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: PS40
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is sooo boring trust me - - all of my friends stopped going to his lectures,,, do NOT take this class... he really really annoys me with these stupid analogies. Makes it seem as if we were 3rd graders instead of Ivy league students..."the philosophies are like tools and this is your toolbox - with it you can fix the stage of government"
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: PS40
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
sooo boring with those ridiculous analogies all the time.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: PS40
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
fantastic--I decided to be an IR major because of this class!
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: PS0040
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This is a standard introductory course and Andreas is a decent professor. His lectures are occassionally uninteresting but that's not necessarily his fault. He does a good job keeping the students engaged, and his powerpoint presentations decent.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: PS0040
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I LOVE HIM.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: PS0040
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
one word...boring!
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: PS40
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great teacher, great class!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: POL40
  • 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:
Introduction to IR...bites. At least his Klingon jokes were funny.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: PS
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
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