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David Sartorius HIST339A Expecting a C- Anonymous 01/26/2021	He does not tell you a single grade throughout the entire semester- no way to tell your stance in the course nor measure your progress. Excepts way too much from his students, especially during a pandemic, and can be outright rude when there are differing opinions between him and the students. He used the pandemic to justify being behind on grading, but would rarely give out any extensions or accommodations for students who had been personally impacted by COVID. There was one student who had to get an emergency surgery one week and they asked for an extension on that week's work and he responded that it would be more convenient for him if she didn't get an extension. So clearly no empathy towards his students. Some interesting readings though.
David Sartorius HIST339A Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/22/2020	this dude is the absolute worst. he doesn't tell you what he expects or the parameters then he will take off based on parameters he makes up after the fact. he's the worst professor I've had at UMD as a senior & he assigns a project to add to Wikipedia & takes Wikipedia as a reference.
David Sartorius HIST339A Anonymous 12/04/2020	One of the hardest and most stressful classes I've ever taken at UMD. Not sure if this is a problem he only had with online teaching, but he refused to update grades at all. When you were lucky enough to find out your grade on one single assignment, it would be a vague letter grade. The assignments never made any sense. Especially the final wiki project. Some of the readings were interesting, and a good professor could have ran with them, but I never felt like he taught me anything. He also just is not very empathetic and accommodating at all.