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Christopher Donald RDEV350 Expecting a B- Anonymous 02/03/2025	Thi guy is a joke. He doesnt teach you anything useful to the course. All he does is push off teaching to guest speakers and picks at you on your development proposal project every class. He doesnt grade anything and loves cold calling people for no reason. Class feels very hostile all the time. And your final grade is based on vibes, he just hands out a grade at the last day before grades are due with no explanation or breakdown. He doesnt know how to work his own canvas page and theres no structure for this class. Class is an automatic B or B- for the average student who doenst suck up to him Take this at your own risk (also hes easily the worse rdev professor ive had my entire 4 years here, avoid him if you can trust me)
Christopher Donald RDEV350 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/23/2024	Overall the class is a little unorganized however, Christopher Donald is very knowledgeable and has good insight into the industry. I must say I already learned a lot from him and he's definitely a good lecturer. The class has frequent guest speakers and is pretty easy since most work is group/project work. He's a funny guy too he likes to call out people sometimes which is the only downside but overall a solid class with a good professor.
Christopher Donald RDEV350 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/12/2024	This guy is hilarious, he called a guy with a tattoo "soft" on the second class Class is very discussion/conversational base and casual Your grade is mostly from group projects so picking a good group is important He's part of some estate development board in DC and he really likes to bring that up in class
Jesse Saginor RDEV350 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2024	Very nice professor he loves to talk after class and get to know how students. Always replied to my emails in a good time frame, projects and presentations were easy as long as you paid attention to his directions and feedback.
Jesse Saginor RDEV350 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2023	Kind professor, class runs long and often times monotone but he tries to keep it interesting. Fall 2023 was his first semester at UMD but overall assignments were weekly Memo Case studies, a development proposal essay once a month, and a final proposal presentation. The essays were definitely lengthy and graded pretty strictly but if you write professionally and pay attention to the briefs and feedback, you’ll be fine.
Marcus Ervin RDEV350 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/18/2023	The GOAT. Amazing professor. Super nice. Brings in great guest lecturers - from people who do real estate for Google to local architects. The class was not stressful, but I learned a ton. Even organized multiple optional class field trips for us.
Marcus Ervin RDEV350 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/15/2022	One of the most outstanding professors I have ever had. As an architecture student, he understood my busy schedule because of the studio classes I have as long as I was clear and upfront with him. The guest lectures he brought in were super interesting and personable as well as great potential internship opportunities if one wished to pursue them. Writing reports are certainly not my strong suit but a quick email with what I had was enough for him to tell me what I needed to do and make it that much more simple. Overall a great man and a phenomenal connection to have in the field of real estate development.

Christopher Donald
RDEV350

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
02/03/2025

Thi guy is a joke. He doesnt teach you anything useful to the course. All he does is push off teaching to guest speakers and picks at you on your development proposal project every class. He doesnt grade anything and loves cold calling people for no reason. Class feels very hostile all the time. And your final grade is based on vibes, he just hands out a grade at the last day before grades are due with no explanation or breakdown. He doesnt know how to work his own canvas page and theres no structure for this class. Class is an automatic B or B- for the average student who doenst suck up to him Take this at your own risk (also hes easily the worse rdev professor ive had my entire 4 years here, avoid him if you can trust me)

Christopher Donald
RDEV350

Expecting an A
Anonymous
09/23/2024

Overall the class is a little unorganized however, Christopher Donald is very knowledgeable and has good insight into the industry. I must say I already learned a lot from him and he's definitely a good lecturer. The class has frequent guest speakers and is pretty easy since most work is group/project work. He's a funny guy too he likes to call out people sometimes which is the only downside but overall a solid class with a good professor.

Christopher Donald
RDEV350

Expecting an A
Anonymous
09/12/2024

This guy is hilarious, he called a guy with a tattoo "soft" on the second class Class is very discussion/conversational base and casual Your grade is mostly from group projects so picking a good group is important He's part of some estate development board in DC and he really likes to bring that up in class

Jesse Saginor
RDEV350

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/22/2024

Very nice professor he loves to talk after class and get to know how students. Always replied to my emails in a good time frame, projects and presentations were easy as long as you paid attention to his directions and feedback.

Jesse Saginor
RDEV350

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/21/2023

Kind professor, class runs long and often times monotone but he tries to keep it interesting. Fall 2023 was his first semester at UMD but overall assignments were weekly Memo Case studies, a development proposal essay once a month, and a final proposal presentation. The essays were definitely lengthy and graded pretty strictly but if you write professionally and pay attention to the briefs and feedback, you’ll be fine.

Marcus Ervin
RDEV350

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
02/18/2023

The GOAT. Amazing professor. Super nice. Brings in great guest lecturers - from people who do real estate for Google to local architects. The class was not stressful, but I learned a ton. Even organized multiple optional class field trips for us.

Marcus Ervin
RDEV350

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/15/2022

One of the most outstanding professors I have ever had. As an architecture student, he understood my busy schedule because of the studio classes I have as long as I was clear and upfront with him. The guest lectures he brought in were super interesting and personable as well as great potential internship opportunities if one wished to pursue them. Writing reports are certainly not my strong suit but a quick email with what I had was enough for him to tell me what I needed to do and make it that much more simple. Overall a great man and a phenomenal connection to have in the field of real estate development.

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