Matto Mildenberger

25 reviews
Group projects Lecture heavy Get ready to read Skip class? You won't pass. Amazing lectures Inspirational Lots of homework Clear grading criteria Caring Accessible outside class Tough grader Participation matters Gives good feedback Respected Graded by few things EXTRA CREDIT
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ES177 . 26 Days Ago

really engaging and interesting lecture though could be a bit more organized. if you get A's on everything else, you can fail the final and still get an A.

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POLS15 . A Month Ago

He did a great job at making the course content understandable and digestible, and took relatively dry concepts and made them interesting! Grade consisted of section attendance, 3 problem sets (one could get replaced by an optional 4th set), midterm and final. Work with TAs on the problem sets, go to class and office hours and you'll be fine.

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ES177 . 10 Months Ago

Professor Mildenberger really knows his stuff, even if he's not always the most organized guy. His ES/PS 177 is very evenly split between envi and poli sci material. If you don't show up to lecture, try to get the notes from a classmate, because his slides give you very little to go off of. And get ready to talk/collaborate in section!

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ES177 . 11 Months Ago

Had him for ES/PS 177, and he clearly knows and cares a lot about what he teaches, and balances the material well between poli and envi sci. Our section was participation-heavy, with group presentations and roleplay activities. He's not the most organized prof out there, at least he wasn't for my quarter, but overall, good course.

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ES177 . 1 Year, 17 Days Ago

He was a good lecturer, interesting class. three 500 word response papers, a section presentation, and a final with extended response questions and you could choose which questions to answer.

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POLS177 . 1 Year, 23 Days Ago

Prof. Mildenberger is smart and delivers the course content smoothly. He knows both qualitative and quantitative stuffs and it's really enjoyable to attend his lectures for anyone interested in political studies. His lectures are nearly elegant proses to be honest. Many nuanced points and inspirations popped up in lectures! Clear grading as well.

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ES177 . 1 Year, 1 Month Ago

I absolutely LOVED this professor. I am an ES major and it was the most interesting class I've taken. the response papers helped digest the material. He truly cares about what he is teaching and thoroughly explains information. He doesn't post slides with words on it, so you need to go to class.

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POLS15 . 2 Years Ago

Prof. Mildenberger is super smart and really kind. He wants people to understand the material. He doesn't talk too fast so you have time to take notes. The class is hard, but since you have to take it to get into the major, I think he does a great job making the statistics material clearer to understand. He's one of the best in the dept.

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POLS177 . 4 Years Ago

Prof Mildenburger is nice but doesn't put anything on his slides so it's difficult for visual leaners because you can only listen to his voice. Also, it is kind of hard to follow him bc he goes into a lot of examples of dif countries and doesn't explicitly say definitions of things. Lot's of dense academic journals that were not really necessary

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POLS15 . 4 Years Ago

He was a really nice and accommodating guy. He pushed back our problems sets for POLS 15 multiple times so we had more time to work on it. Pretty challenging class but he was good at explaining.

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PS15 . 5 Years Ago

The lectures were not always congruous with the coding problem sets so you either had to defer to your TA or work it out independently. The professor was super nice but sometimes he would say he would give us a certain amount of time for an assignment but then forget to actually honor it. Still, he was generally pretty accommodating and lenient

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POLSCI15 . 5 Years Ago

Lectures were boring and difficult to get through. Learning to code via zoom wasn't the greatest experience. Highly recommend working in groups.

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