Kent Portney - Tufts University

Professor: Kent Portney
Department: Political Science
College: Tufts University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: USENVPOLICY
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Professor Portney is a very clear lecturer and he leaves all his ppt slides up long enough to take notes. There is ALOT of reading in the 1st half of course that you have to do for the MC section of the final. Which was the only issue I had with the course. But he looks for reasons to bump up your grade and grades very easy on essays.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: PSSEM
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Excellent professor. Very clear lectures. Encourages student participation. Concerned with student understanding. Judicial Politics and Political Behavior of Young People are both interesting courses. He encourages you to think outside the box. Also, he is very approachable and a nice guy.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PS115
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great cClass and pretty good prof. As long as he can get the money you actually put out a national survey. Pretty leanient grader and basically gives the same 8 lectures over and over again, which is fine because u spend most of the time working on the survey. definitly take the class
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PS184
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Nice guy, but SO BORING. U.S. Environmental Policy class was difficult to sit through.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: JUDICIALPOLITI
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Portney is not a BAD professor - I just think he is stuck in routine. He is often funny & wants to be liked by his students. This limits him in that he rarely challanges them. I've taken many of his classes and unfortunately have to say that I took more than one of them for the easy grade. That said - there are definitely worse professors at Tufts.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: PS116
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Prof. Portney is well meaning and enthusiastic, but he manages to make this course which sounds interesting, somewhat dull. The lectures were wordy and needlessly complicated.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: JUDPOLI
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
he was a big disappointment, class was boring and uninspiring
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: PS116
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class is just so useless and boring - DON'T TAKE IT
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: PS116
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
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Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: PS
  • 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:
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