Ryan Frazier | PlanetTerp

Information	Review
Ryan Frazier GVPT200 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/01/2024	Pretty nice guy and not a super tough grader although classes can get repetitive since it's almost always a lecture in the same format every time
Ryan Frazier GVPT200 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/26/2023	I had Mr. Frazier as a professor for GVPT200 over the winter term. Although he is definitely not a people person, he is in behavioral sciences for some reason! At the beginning of term, he said there would be a half hour to an hour of work a day, which seemed reasonable, but in reality, it was more like 4 hours each day. His syllabus is fully weighted on the exams, which represent 70% of the grade. If you messed up on one, there was no mercy, you just have to take the L, despite your hard work. The other 30% was on essays; these were very time consuming, yet he only put ONE comment on the whole paper. It did not seem like he cared much about the course or the students, choosing to record lectures and have us do HOURS of work. I would not suggest wasting your time off in his class for a B, and then coming back in the Spring with lower grades and no rest. I would not recommend him nor take any of his classes again.
Ryan Frazier GVPT200 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/24/2023	Had him as my professor for GVPT200 Winter semester. Mr. Frazier was great, would recommend him especially if you're planning on taking this course during the winter semester (I would recommend doing so, it's pretty easy: 3 short papers and 2 exams, and the course content consist on pretty basic IR concepts + lots of textbook readings which can be hard to balance with other classes). While I took this course asynch, Mr. Frazier was great with keeping lectures straightforward and as brief as possible (it was primarily him explaining textbook readings and going a bit more in-depth which I found to be helpful for exams), his grading and exams are fair and he's relatively timely at posting grades (at least for the winter semester, had essays + exams graded within a day or two). He also responded extremely quickly to questions I had regarding essays which I appreciated, so would highly recommend!
Ryan Frazier GVPT200 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/16/2023	I had him for the Fall 2022, and I believe this was his first time teaching alone so props to him. The actual class was quite boring, basically just copying down slides but the slides did seriously help on the exams (which were always online and open note, even the final). You normally read one or two articles each week for the discussion post on Thursday and the discussion post reply on Friday. Discussion posts are about 10-15% of your grade so that's an easy bump. Exams are weighted 20% or so each, but they aren't bad at all. Most are multiple choice with one or two short answers that he goes over in class if you pay attention. There's a research project also weighted 20% but as long as you don't totally procrastinate and use your notes from class, it's not bad. This class was one of my easier ones and Frazier knew what he was talking about, definitely recommend.
Ryan Frazier GVPT200 Anonymous 02/21/2022	I had Ryan as a TA for Todd Allee during the Fall of 2021. Discussion sections were helpful and he seems to genuinely care about his students. He'd usually start by reviewing a few important topics from lectures earlier in the week before going into a discussion activity for the day. These were sometimes discussions as a class, group activities, games, etc. The assignments could be a little difficult but I think he was applying a rubric created by the professor. Ryan always left detailed comments on assignments to make it clear why things were scored a certain way. Be careful with writing assignments because he does pay attention to writing quality.

Ryan Frazier
GVPT200

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
02/01/2024

Pretty nice guy and not a super tough grader although classes can get repetitive since it's almost always a lecture in the same format every time

Ryan Frazier
GVPT200

Expecting a B
Anonymous
01/26/2023

I had Mr. Frazier as a professor for GVPT200 over the winter term. Although he is definitely not a people person, he is in behavioral sciences for some reason! At the beginning of term, he said there would be a half hour to an hour of work a day, which seemed reasonable, but in reality, it was more like 4 hours each day. His syllabus is fully weighted on the exams, which represent 70% of the grade. If you messed up on one, there was no mercy, you just have to take the L, despite your hard work. The other 30% was on essays; these were very time consuming, yet he only put ONE comment on the whole paper. It did not seem like he cared much about the course or the students, choosing to record lectures and have us do HOURS of work. I would not suggest wasting your time off in his class for a B, and then coming back in the Spring with lower grades and no rest. I would not recommend him nor take any of his classes again.

Ryan Frazier
GVPT200

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/24/2023

Had him as my professor for GVPT200 Winter semester. Mr. Frazier was great, would recommend him especially if you're planning on taking this course during the winter semester (I would recommend doing so, it's pretty easy: 3 short papers and 2 exams, and the course content consist on pretty basic IR concepts + lots of textbook readings which can be hard to balance with other classes). While I took this course asynch, Mr. Frazier was great with keeping lectures straightforward and as brief as possible (it was primarily him explaining textbook readings and going a bit more in-depth which I found to be helpful for exams), his grading and exams are fair and he's relatively timely at posting grades (at least for the winter semester, had essays + exams graded within a day or two). He also responded extremely quickly to questions I had regarding essays which I appreciated, so would highly recommend!

Ryan Frazier
GVPT200

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/16/2023

I had him for the Fall 2022, and I believe this was his first time teaching alone so props to him. The actual class was quite boring, basically just copying down slides but the slides did seriously help on the exams (which were always online and open note, even the final). You normally read one or two articles each week for the discussion post on Thursday and the discussion post reply on Friday. Discussion posts are about 10-15% of your grade so that's an easy bump. Exams are weighted 20% or so each, but they aren't bad at all. Most are multiple choice with one or two short answers that he goes over in class if you pay attention. There's a research project also weighted 20% but as long as you don't totally procrastinate and use your notes from class, it's not bad. This class was one of my easier ones and Frazier knew what he was talking about, definitely recommend.

Ryan Frazier
GVPT200

Anonymous
02/21/2022

I had Ryan as a TA for Todd Allee during the Fall of 2021. Discussion sections were helpful and he seems to genuinely care about his students. He'd usually start by reviewing a few important topics from lectures earlier in the week before going into a discussion activity for the day. These were sometimes discussions as a class, group activities, games, etc. The assignments could be a little difficult but I think he was applying a rubric created by the professor. Ryan always left detailed comments on assignments to make it clear why things were scored a certain way. Be careful with writing assignments because he does pay attention to writing quality.