Andy Heard - Simon Fraser University

Professor: Andy Heard
Department: Political Science
College: Simon Fraser University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: POL222
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
One of my favourite POL classes so far. Gives great additional feedback on assessments when you request it. You must work hard for your grade but I believe Prof Heard is a fair grader over all. Assessments are lecture and textbook based. Overall I really enjoyed the material in this course as well as the professor.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: POL222
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Andrew was an amazing professor. He's very caring about his students and want everyone to succeed in his class. His exams are very heavily based on lectures and readings. I would take another class with Andrew again.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: POL417
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Professor Heard was amazing! He was very kind, approachable, and easy going, but also provided good feedback and fair grading. He provided really great insight to class topics and kept the course interesting. I would love to be taught by him again!
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: POL222
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
One of the best profs at SFU. Caring and tries to make the class as interesting as he can. Posts the lectures online as well so you can re watch before the midterm or final.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: POL324
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He reminds me of Tigger. He is so friendly and makes learning about constitutional law very entertaining and easy to understand, which is impressive given the complexity of Canadian federalism and constitutional interpretation. Graded fairly, recorded lectures, but messed up both our midterm and final, so that was slightly frustrating.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: POL101W
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Nice guy, grades as if your PHD program. weekly posts need to be replied to every single students posts and then some in order to get full participation marks. Long time in getting marks back, writing requirements are excessive and you have no idea of where your sitting with marks going into final. Avoid this class take POL100 for easier grade
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: POL324
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Hilarious guy who manages to make the Canadian Constitution/politics fun. Definitely knows his stuff. Provides thorough lecture notes and lectures well enough that you can fill them in more and not need the readings at all (I didn't even buy the books). Paper is long but manageable.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: POL324
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Probably one of the most pleasant person you will ever meet. Manages to make super dry content enjoyable. Also really appreciate that he records lecture
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: POL324
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He is able to make the Canadian constitution incredibly interesting given how dry the content is. Dr. Heard takes the time to make the content understandable by providing many examples that can even be used on exams. He really took the time to reconstruct this course and he did an excellent job.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: POL324
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Andy Heard is a great professor, he does his best to make dry course material interesting. He also records his lectures and posts them to canvas which is extremely helpful when studying! He really cares about his students, 10/10 would recommend.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: POL221
  • Grade Received: B-
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Kind and personable professor however RIDICULOUSLY tough on essay marking for lower-division PoliSci courses; as if you're a Master's student. Gives no detailed criteria for marking. Spare your GPA the unnecessary hit and AVOID
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: POL101W
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I didn't like this course at all. I think I had a bad TA so that did't help whatsoever. Andrew Heard is using the same outdated textbook - references 2010 Olympics, 9/11 terrorism, and the Harper government. Some of the online modules Heard writes are worded weird and hard to follow. SO MUCH READING for being tested on such specific things. DO NOT.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: POL221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Heard is a really funny professor who definitely knows a lot about what he's teaching. Exams are really fair, and he records lectures and puts them online if you're sick. The term paper is lengthy, with a lot of research requirements, but it's not that bad. Grading is a bit harder than usual, but not crushing. Overall, a good prof for POL221!
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: POL221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Amazing lectures. Really funny guy. Very knowledgeable and definitely prominent in his field. He does grade fairly difficultly as others have noted and the paper is pretty long but not too bad. His tests aren't too bad; all written from a pool that you can choose from. He records his lectures Audio/Video/Slides which is nice.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: POL101W
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Being a 4th year student, I did not expect this class to be as difficult as Dr. Heard made it out to be. He is a very strict marker for a first-year introductory course. Had I known this, I would have not taken the class with him and waited another semester with a different professor.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: POL221
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
excellent lecturer. he wants you to do well, but will make you work your ass off for it. he's also super tough on papers, so be sure you triple-check your writing. other than that, I retained most of the information he taught during class, and seriously helped me build a vital fundamental knowledge base for upper-division polisci courses.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: POL101W
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Took POL 101W online w Heard. Good guy, gives helpful feedback, & course is pretty clear overall. Although as others have pointed out, marking on essays is tough for a 100 level class so it's not an easy A. For tests, he won't tell you exactly what to study but they midterm & final are pretty straightforward. You'll likely need the textbook.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: POL221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Nice guy, but by far he is one of the hardest markers I have had. I am a third year and for a 200 level course he marks it like a 400. If you dont mind hard marking, hes the one for you. Hes a nice guy and lecture notes are posted online.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: POL221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great professor with clear explanation of topics in lectures!
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: POL101
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Lots of reading but not overly dense.
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