Jen Meyer
6 courses · 30 reviews
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Super easy homeworks and exams once you learn what he wants from you. A nice enough guy, but holds some interesting opinions and lectures can get dry. Just show up to class and be ready for cold-calling and you'll be fine.
6/10/2024
2 or less hrs/week
This class was so much fun and the professor is so engaging. Its super easy and there isn't a lot of work associated with it, especially in the second half when you start working with partners on the HW assignments. All the tests are online too which is nice. Attendance is mandatory, but you can kind of just do other work during the class. The professor is super nice and cares a lot about what he does and the students, and is super knowledgeable and will just go on fun tangents. Its kind of like a podcast where you just go and listen and learn. Great class!
5/18/2024
He has some interesting opinions and class is lowk boring. Attendance makes up a small part of the grade, but you can still get an A without showing up. Class is super easy once you get the hang of what he's looking for in hws, but I wouldn't recommend taking it if u don't need to.
5/9/2024
Suppose you need to take a course where the US, NATO, EU, and all the other Western institutions, that's your course! The guy seems to hate all the Western democracies...nIt is probably the most useless class I have ever taken. Luckily, it's an easy course; the exams are takehome, and nothing done in class is helpful for what is required for exams.
3/25/2024
Jen is not your professor, she is your colleague & mentor in writing.She is not rubric-based, she focuses on your growth as a writer.Her love for writing & working for students is like a disease: it'll infect you. The course is reading heavy, introducing you to many kinds and styles of writing. Flexible w/ deadlines. Genuine effort+participation=A
2/7/2024
The Roman Republic had a clear structure and clear expectations. Pretty reading-heavy, and did have in-person quizzes - attendance is graded but going to lecture is necessary anyways since the slides typically don't have much information. Overall achievable, straightforward, and interesting if you like the history
12/27/2023
Really loved Prof. Meyer! Obviously very intelligent and knows a lot both inside and outside of his field! He is the first professor that I have come across that I believe sincerely respected the students in the room. That was refreshing! Really glad I took tech writing with him!
12/24/2023
Very caring and funny guy. Reminds me of my grandpa. Attendance is required and instead of providing a typical rubric, he goes over the grading criteria during lecture, so you have to take notes and pay attention if you want to do well on the assignments. This class is relatively easy in terms of content but will take up a lot of time (6-12hrs/wk).
12/9/2023
Jen was engaging, kind, and extremely helpful. The class is very reading heavy and at times can be a lot of work, but she gives very helpful feedback and wants her students to succeed. She's extremely understanding and flexible. She expects each student to try their best, but is flexible in how final drafts/pieces look. Learned a lot overall
11/13/2023
Meyer is very understanding with extensions and is willing to help whenever possible. Great guy, recommend
4/10/2023
Professor Jen Meyer is amazing and clearly wants her students to succeed. She offers extensions as long as you ask in a timely manner and gives extra credit opportunities. However, there is a lot of reading for the class, and the class is very discussion based. So, make sure to be prepared and participate, she enjoys that.
12/22/2022
The guy is...sick. If you want to hear why Russia was right to invade Ukraine, then sure, go for it. If you have a working brain and aren't infatuated with dictators, this is not the class for you.
10/1/2022
I agree with some of the comments here. He does go on tangents, his homework is easy, and he has opinions you might not hear from other professors in the department. But during my time in his classroom I also find him very well-traveled and well-learned. I find some of his arguments diverse, refreshing, and based on facts.
3/9/2022
Boring lecturer and has questionable opinions, but homework is easy to get the hang of bc the structure is the same and he gives us past submissions as examples to work off of. Attendance is only a small % of the final grade, so I didn't bother showing up, just reviewed lecture slides and got an easy A.
12/11/2021
Not strict at all; wants students to do good. Simply try and you'll be good.
11/23/2021
One of my favorite teachers. I switched into her class the first day of school because she truly loves her job and students. She is extremely helpful with papers and is extremely easy to talk to. She understands the stress students go through. She most definitely adapted to Covid in the most efficient way and better than any other teacher.
12/18/2020
This class was an enormous amount of time. It was just him espousing his own (bizarre) opinions, which students occasionally refuted, and which he then defended in the face of all logic.
2/1/2019
Uninterested in debate, dogmatic, forces his own opinions on students. Class is laughably easy, most of his lectures are totally irrelevant to the subject he's supposed to be teaching.
1/15/2019
Great Professor who cares about students, and really wants you to get the concepts!
10/3/2018
Probably the easiest class I've taken at WashU. The exams are open-note and essentially identical to the ones he's given in previous years-- he gives you access to all the backfiles you'll need, so just look them over a bit and you'll be set. Homework is extremely simple too. I think he's a really nice guy, but admittedly the class is quite boring.
9/3/2018
He cares a lot about his students but he's not the best lecturer - gets boring and confusing and long. If you show up to class and try you should get a good grade though.
8/28/2018
The best professor during my four years at WashU. Just print out all the prior exams and bring those to the midterms and you'll get an A very easily. Homework is also very easy. Wish every professor could be like him so that I can get a perfect 4.0.
4/23/2017
Wouldn't have to show up once all semester to pass the class if he didn't take attendance every class. Class is a joke. Homework assignments are literally vocabulary quizzes and tests are open note and repeated from previous years. WashU needs to force him to retire, he's like 80.
3/5/2017
That this is a required course for business school students is quite honestly disrespectful of the value of students' time and money. Attendance is required, not at all by material, but by the fact that he has an attendance sheet at the beginning of class. Wasted 6 lectures defining comparative/absolute advantage. Course is insultingly pointless.
2/12/2017
Class is very easy to get a B or B+ with no effort and an A with decent effort. Boring lectures but only 6 easy assignments all semseter so it makes this class not time intensive at all
4/10/2016
Class is a joke. He's a really nice guy and loves to talk after class/during office hours, but his exam is recycled year to year. If you have any brain at all, you should be able to ace the class with no effort.
3/16/2014
Loves the material, very knowledgeable but sometimes hard to understand.
3/19/2013
The material isn't difficult, but he doesn't make clear what he wants on tests, his grading policy is arbitrary and he won't consider appeals for regrading. Also a terrible lecturer, most people stop going to class a few weeks into the semester.
4/9/2011
One of the most worthless professors at WashU, constantly wandering off subject during lectures, many lectures introduce very little new material. He once spent a whole class explaining what a tariff is, somehow going no more in depth than a definition
12/27/2010