Reviews for GVPT409E

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Scott Kastner
GVPT409E

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/20/2020 		I took GVPT409E East Asian Politics with Kastner and he was an excellent professor. He is very knowledge and passionate about the Asian region and it shows through his lectures. Kastner is also really understanding. Fairly easy course if you come to class prepared by doing readings/participating. I worked hard on the major assignments and got an A.
Scott Kastner
GVPT409E

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/31/2018 		I took East Asian Relations with Dr. Kastner for the Spring 2018 semester. The class focused mainly on China (which is his field of specialty, I am assuming), which was fine but it would have been nice if we focused more on the other countries in the region (although we briefly spoke about Japan and their relations with China, and North Korea). Most topics we discussed were either on China, issues related to China, or China's relations with a neighboring country. Dr. Kastner is a fair grader and pretty helpful if you have questions. I had questions about the final presentation and he pointed me to several resources for my topic specifically. I also had to email him about an issue with a groupmate for a group project and thankfully he was very understanding. Personally I hate group projects, however he gave us a lot of time to complete the project and even gave us class time to work on the project, as well. I appreciate that he put up the powerpoint slides online before each class and also gave us a short 10-15 minute break during class since the class was 2 hours and 45 minutes long.