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Devin Entrikin
PLCY288W Expecting an A Anonymous 05/31/2025 |
Professor Entrikin is a nice guy and quite a good instructor. I don't think he's been teaching long enough to build up his confidence as a lecturer, which is a shame since he's fairly engaging. He often opts for small group discussions on talking points that could be more succinctly explained through a lecture, which really slows the pace of the class down. The class is overall quite easy, though the readings are somewhat unnecessarily dense. |
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Devin Entrikin
HACS208P Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/21/2025 |
Devin is a nice person, but this is the most boring class I have ever taken at UMD. He also very obviously picks favorites and grades those favorite students less harshly. The lectures and curriculum are disorganized and each of his slides will have a vague question on it with a bunch of pictures of question marks everywhere and then he will go off on a tangent about the topic without getting to the main point. He also grades very unfairly for the writing assignments. He wants a very specific "policy writing" style and never explains it, but instead, makes us do the assignment, writes comments, and has us decide what policy writing is. But after that, it became very obvious that he was never actually grading any of the essays he was assigning us, but just uploading it to ChatGPT and asking it to rate it out of 10 for the grade and copy pasting the comments onto canvas, so people only got 8 or 9 out of 10 on it. Additionally there was barely any good study material for the midterm. |
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Devin Entrikin
HACS208P Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/16/2025 |
Very boring dude. I hated coming to class, only took to finish LLP requirements. He grades super picky |
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Devin Entrikin
HACS208P Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/13/2025 |
He is very kind and clearly wants students to succeed, but the lectures are incredibly dry. It often felt like reading a textbook out loud—except slower. When you get to class, be prepared to fight off sleep. The biggest issue is the grading on writing assignments. He is super picky about being concise but makes the word count so longgggg. |
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Devin Entrikin
PLCY288W Expecting an A Anonymous 05/09/2024 |
I took this class in Spring 2024 as an elective for public policy. I enjoyed this class & Instr. Entrikin is an excellent instructor! The class was enjoyable and not necessarily difficult. If you are into humanitarian law, human rights law, and international criminal law, I would highly recommend this class. Super amazing class and instructor! Expect an in-person mid-term exam, final presentation, and a paper-like take-home final. The in-person mid-term overall was the hardest for the class, however, I received an A. |