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Daniel Richter HIST329Q Expecting an A Anonymous 08/01/2024	Professor Richter’s Jews and Sports was a fun class for my last semester at UMD. Honestly the other reviews on here seem to miss how he designed the course and not consider how the discussions were generally pretty good and then got better by the last half of the semester when students understood the themes more. He also was always accessible before or after class to discuss papers.
Daniel Richter HIST329Q Expecting an A Anonymous 05/19/2024	Professor Richter is super nice, but his lectures are super disorganized and essentially just stream of conscious. This works for some profs, but not for Richter. It was almost as if he was insecure about the quality of the class: every class, instead of actually discussing the readings, he’d ask us “what did you think of the readings because honestly I’m not a huge fan so I want your feedback.” But we’d never actually discuss anything about the content or material. There was just no engaging discussion in the class. It’s really hard to describe, but the classroom environment was just kind of pathetic to be blunt. By the time we were a month in, hardly anyone came to class discussions because of how useless it was. On the bright side, the class I took with him was easy to do well in as long as you’re used to writing papers. But the mean grade on the paper assignments on ELMS actually was not that high, so he may not even be that generous of a grader, just beware. With that being said, he is a nice guy and as long as you participate in class, he'll take notice and want you to do well.
Daniel Richter HIST329Q Expecting a B Anonymous 05/16/2024	This dude is just bad. Screws over his own people too.
Daniel Richter HIST329Q Expecting a B Anonymous 05/14/2024	One of the worst run classes ever. No rubrics and lectures are incredibly useless. He rants about nothing. You will learn everything through the readings. Honestly just terrible.

Daniel Richter
HIST329Q

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/01/2024

Professor Richter’s Jews and Sports was a fun class for my last semester at UMD. Honestly the other reviews on here seem to miss how he designed the course and not consider how the discussions were generally pretty good and then got better by the last half of the semester when students understood the themes more. He also was always accessible before or after class to discuss papers.

Daniel Richter
HIST329Q

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/19/2024

Professor Richter is super nice, but his lectures are super disorganized and essentially just stream of conscious. This works for some profs, but not for Richter. It was almost as if he was insecure about the quality of the class: every class, instead of actually discussing the readings, he’d ask us “what did you think of the readings because honestly I’m not a huge fan so I want your feedback.” But we’d never actually discuss anything about the content or material. There was just no engaging discussion in the class. It’s really hard to describe, but the classroom environment was just kind of pathetic to be blunt. By the time we were a month in, hardly anyone came to class discussions because of how useless it was. On the bright side, the class I took with him was easy to do well in as long as you’re used to writing papers. But the mean grade on the paper assignments on ELMS actually was not that high, so he may not even be that generous of a grader, just beware. With that being said, he is a nice guy and as long as you participate in class, he'll take notice and want you to do well.

Daniel Richter
HIST329Q

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/16/2024

This dude is just bad. Screws over his own people too.

Daniel Richter
HIST329Q

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/14/2024

One of the worst run classes ever. No rubrics and lectures are incredibly useless. He rants about nothing. You will learn everything through the readings. Honestly just terrible.

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