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Robert Chiles HIST355 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/03/2026	Would never post on Planetterp but I will for Doc Chiles! Genuinely the best professor I have ever had. In all of his classes, if you simply show up and pay attention, you will learn. There are no tricks to these classes. He forces you to learn and comprehend the material without stressing you out with a bunch of coursework. This makes the class fun and enjoyable. Please take his classes. I simply could not recommend a professor more highly than Dr. Chiles.
Robert Chiles HIST355 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/08/2025	Professor Chiles is simply the greatest lecturer I've had at UMD and probably ever. This is the second class I've taken with him and through both classes his standards have never and I expect never will drop. Coming from someone who's very into history and minoring in it, but who was quite uninterested in American history, Professor Chiles managed to get me incredibly engaged going from the Antebellum period and the civil war to the turn of the 20th century. My main piece of advice is that you'll definitely need to take some good notes as there are weekly discussion posts that you're expected to engage with that are based around those. His oral midterms and final exams are a setup that I hadn't experienced before this class, but became not only far more enjoyable then written exams, but incredibly enriching and something I've looked forward to for the past two semesters. Professor Chiles is also a very engaging conversationalist and dedicated to his craft and his students. Overall no matter what class you take with him you can't go wrong and I can almost guarantee it will become a quintessential part of your time at UMD for the better.
Robert Chiles HIST355 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2024	Dr. Chiles is by FAR the best professor I have had at UMD. His lectures are engaging and always interesting. I have trouble maintaining focus a lot during 1hr15min lectures, but in this class I don't think I had this problem a single time. I also don't think I've ever seen so many people come consistently to a class where attendance isn't taken -- that's just a sign of how genuinely good of a lecturer he is. Seriously, this seems to be what he is meant to do, and I hope to take many more classes from him because I had the best experience in this class.
Robert Chiles HIST355 Expecting an A+ frankMiller 12/21/2023	What do you expect? It's Chiles! Can't really go wrong with him. Several of my classmates took several classes of his, some of them multiple in the same semester.

Robert Chiles
HIST355

Expecting an A
Anonymous
03/03/2026

Would never post on Planetterp but I will for Doc Chiles! Genuinely the best professor I have ever had. In all of his classes, if you simply show up and pay attention, you will learn. There are no tricks to these classes. He forces you to learn and comprehend the material without stressing you out with a bunch of coursework. This makes the class fun and enjoyable. Please take his classes. I simply could not recommend a professor more highly than Dr. Chiles.

Robert Chiles
HIST355

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/08/2025

Professor Chiles is simply the greatest lecturer I've had at UMD and probably ever. This is the second class I've taken with him and through both classes his standards have never and I expect never will drop. Coming from someone who's very into history and minoring in it, but who was quite uninterested in American history, Professor Chiles managed to get me incredibly engaged going from the Antebellum period and the civil war to the turn of the 20th century. My main piece of advice is that you'll definitely need to take some good notes as there are weekly discussion posts that you're expected to engage with that are based around those. His oral midterms and final exams are a setup that I hadn't experienced before this class, but became not only far more enjoyable then written exams, but incredibly enriching and something I've looked forward to for the past two semesters. Professor Chiles is also a very engaging conversationalist and dedicated to his craft and his students. Overall no matter what class you take with him you can't go wrong and I can almost guarantee it will become a quintessential part of your time at UMD for the better.

Robert Chiles
HIST355

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/12/2024

Dr. Chiles is by FAR the best professor I have had at UMD. His lectures are engaging and always interesting. I have trouble maintaining focus a lot during 1hr15min lectures, but in this class I don't think I had this problem a single time. I also don't think I've ever seen so many people come consistently to a class where attendance isn't taken -- that's just a sign of how genuinely good of a lecturer he is. Seriously, this seems to be what he is meant to do, and I hope to take many more classes from him because I had the best experience in this class.

Robert Chiles
HIST355

Expecting an A+
frankMiller
12/21/2023

What do you expect? It's Chiles! Can't really go wrong with him. Several of my classmates took several classes of his, some of them multiple in the same semester.

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