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Besel, Richard

Cumulative GPA: 3.45/4.00 with 11 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 3.55
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 3.36

Communication Studies Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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COMS 332 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 8:32 am, Jun 12, 2012 Report Evaluation		Besel is a good teacher and makes material very clear. He's good at putting the concepts and lectures into easy lists. Daily readings are sometimes complicated but he explains the main ideas in lecture anyway. He gives two tests (multiple choice/short answer) and one short hw assignment. The class is structured around writing a 12 page paper, with the first half of it due around midterms. Each week's readings are on a new method for doing the paper.

SPC 330 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 6:59 pm, Jan 4, 2012 Report Evaluation		Dr. Besel was an excellent teacher for this course. It was one of his first quarters teaching Classical Rhet, but he did a great job. Come to class and PAY ATTENTION & TAKE NOTES! His tests are going to be directly from his lectures. If you take good notes, you will have all the answers for the test, he doesn't throw in any surprises. Also, do the readings. He will expect you to know them when you come to class, and if you haven't done them, you will be lost in the lecture. This is by no means an easy class, but come prepared and you will do fine.

SPC 330 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 1:26 pm, Dec 9, 2011 Report Evaluation		I've always thought that Besel was an awesome teacher, and this class was no exception. The content could have the potential to be really boring, but he presents it very well and makes it actually really interesting. Two papers, two exams, 25 percent each. Besel is a fair grader and is always willing to help. Definitely go to his lectures and read beforehand.

SPC 322 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 1:05 pm, Apr 21, 2011 Report Evaluation		Basically exactly what the post below said. Everything on his tests is basically based on his lectures, but you definitely need to do the reading to get a full grasp on the concepts. I really enjoyed this class, and Besel is great. The paper takes a lot of work, but going to his office hours will really help you.

SPC 322 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 6:04 pm, Mar 16, 2011 Report Evaluation		This class is very straight forward. there is one text book. The o'keefe book is dry. There are online articles --read them and take good lecture notes. there are essentially 2 midterms. the final is NOT comprehensive. Each of the tests are worth 25% of your grade. and consist of 30 multiple choice questions. Study. the other 50% of your grade is a term paper. Besel asks you to come up with an experiment that has never been done before this takes a little creativity. The paper is 10 pages long Besel tells you about it from the first day. Through out the quarter --He will drop hinds and ideas for the end of the quarter so pay attention and jot it down. Because there are only 2 tests and a paper you have a to be on top of the readings and come to class. Besel is a really smart guy and knows what he is talking about.

SPC 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 3:51 am, Feb 12, 2011 Report Evaluation		Great teacher, very fun class. Speeches are not too hard, but you will only get an A if you can recite most of your speech from memory, otherwise you will probably get a B assuming you do everything else right. Midterm and final were fairly easy, but make sure to take notes when he lectures on things that aren't in the book because these tend to end up being a majority of the short answer questions on the exams. Other than that, very easy-going, very approachable. I highly recommend taking COMS 101 with Dr. Besel.

SPC 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 2:10 pm, Dec 29, 2010 Report Evaluation		This class is not bad at all if you are just trying to get the general ed out of the way. If you want to learn a lot about giving speeches you will have to be self motivated. He doesn\'t grade too harshly if you just go up and read off a paper as long as you wrote a pretty good speech and did the research he asks for. The tests are easy as long as you do the reading.



SPC 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 11:48 am, May 20, 2010 Report Evaluation		This teacher is amazing! MY favortie Cal poly teacher so far. He is very clear on his tests, and the speeches are extremely easy. He grades them really easy, so you can basically just read off your paper. Definately take him over any other class for coms 101. He is awesome!!!!!

SPC 435 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 9:52 pm, May 10, 2010 Report Evaluation		Besel is by far the best teacher that I have had at Cal Poly. He is extremely helpful and understanding. My computer crashed and I lost my final paper, and when I e-mailed him three hours before it was due, it was completely understandable and gave me an extension. The class was really enjoyable and all of the discussions kept my attention, plus, he even showed the class how WOW worked...keep in mind, the class was full of girls who were unfamiliar with the game. GREAT TEACHER:)

SPC 101 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 7:42 pm, Feb 16, 2009 Report Evaluation		I took Besel because it was the best time available for COMS 101. I had not heard anything about him, and I cannot say how lucky I was to get Professor Besel. The class was very relaxed and there was not much work other than reading a chapter a day and four speeches. The tests were very manageable, and I would definitely recommend taking him because I would take him again if I get the opportunity.

SPC 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: B General Ed 11:31 pm, Jun 18, 2008 Report Evaluation		how can he teach communication when he sucks at communicating. what a joke

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