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Very approachable

Good lecturer - very entertaining

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Interesting and funny lecture. Nice professor and a good impersonator.

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makes boring subjects interesting and fun

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really good lecturer

easy class...nice guy

Excellent lecturer, caring personality

His intro 100 class made me switch majors to Pol. That says it all

excellent prof...funny...easy to follow...final exam a bit unfair

awesome lecturer and keeps u interested

he is like a cartoon. boop pop shoop!

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in year 17BLAHBLAHBLAH ~~~~~~~~~~~

superb! wish there were more teachers like him

Best teacher yet, hilarious, extremely intelligent, I switched to pol b/c of him

three words:awesome awesome,and Awesome-great at gettin material across and easy

Funny, interesting, great prof

Andy is fun, but a 10-15 page paper in your very first semester is kinda dumb

Looks like trotsky

Extremly funny class and very knowledable, very hard marker

Andy is the best prof ever! He is so funny, brings up really interesting current events and is a fair marker. I would take his classes over and over if I could :)

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Wonderful professor. Very entertaining and informative.

He always ads a sense of humour to the lectures. Unlike other professors I won't mention...

really funny, nice, gave a great intro to pol sci which made me want to continue in this field...my fave prof so far...

awesome to ease into first year studies. i love his dances!

ANDY KICKS ASS

great prof...funny...always dancing around...but i find the course hard...probably cuz poli sci is just not my kind of course...

Great Guy... E-mailed him before semester started.. E-mailed me right back! Squits a lot when he talks, but that's just his enthusiastic self! Surely you should take the course with him, he's WONDERFUL!

Best prof I've had so far. Lectures were always interesting, and more than just regurgitation from the text. Andy is hilarious, and his stories help students to understand the concepts. Very nice, very eager to help. Definitely would take him again.

the best prof ever... so funny...take this cours with him if you can , he is great , you have lots of fun, i'm sure!!!

Great and funny prof, the T.A. was hilarious too, made dry subject interesting. Tough paper marker, but fair.

Andy is awsome at lecturing~! It was a tough course since I am not familiar with politics but I learnt a lot from this course... The midterm m/c was tough (class average was 2/5)... but the final was easy~! It is a course worth taking~!

Hilarious. And very adorable. Enjoyed his stories of growing up in South Africa. I did well on the essay, and MEH on the midterm. Which i hear is strange b/c his midterms are supposed to b easy, and his essays hard. ADORABLE MAN!

this guy is one of the best teachers at SFU. highly recommended, easy to listen too, very enjoyable.

An excellent lecturer. Marking standards are pretty high; grades are not scaled on a curve and grade cutoffs are strict (no rounding up). Exams are marked very hard with a C average obtained. My T.A.--David--was fair and not out to get us, unlike others.

He is a really witty and funny lecturer. His marking was really though. Be prepared to do your best on the midterm because it takes a lot to get a good mark!

took this prof for pol 100 last semester, and loved him. took 221 b/c of him this time, and hated him. lectures were boring, confusing and long-winded, midterm was impossibly difficult. prof lost all his humour from before. saving grace was the ta, kathy.

Uh, just a feedback on the comment (below), females do not like him b/c of his looks. He is not great looking. He's a funny guy, makes poli sci interesting. I would give two thumbs up for this course!

Very informative and funny lectures. But can't really laugh when I see my final grade. Majority of the grading depends on your writing. Take him if Essay writing is your strength.

one of the best Pol profs at sfu. Friendly, funny, and not too difficult (if you know the basics).

He's an awesome prof! Very helpful and friendly!

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easy tests if you have a nice TA. the tests were really fair with a couple mc's followed by an essay. but the essay was very easy if you studied that topic. entertaining class and great prof

Has a great sense of humour and lectures are never boring. Is a fair marker...is always willing to help

Awesome prof and wicked lectures..hes also a very fair marker

he's a good prof. did not hear many rants about hating his professorship and teaching. i thought he quite enjoys teaching. very funny and made a dry class much more interesting. can be serious if he wants to be. if i had to take this class again, i would definately do it with him and a great ta. Valerie.

Nice, reasonable guy who's got teaching down to an artform. Very paritcular on papers so make sure yuo get someone to look over your paper for mistakes. Fair marker, and recommended overall.

Interesting prof. Interesting class. Repeats important terms. Multiple choice is a little tricky.

I had no interest in politics but with that in mind, the lectures were pretty good. Even though he is quite a bit older than me, I will be the first to give him a hotness rating. His personality is just cute!!

never had any experience with poli sci. he made it very interesting. great prof.

He's a wonderful professor but he pushes you, so be serious about the material and make sure you analyze your readings before you even think of coming to class. AND you MUST come to class.

Professor Heard is great at what he does. Classes are interesting and he's obviously knowledgeable. Also a nice guy with a good sense of humour.

Very interesting professor, very helpful and quite funny. I liked this class a lot, and look forward to taking another one with him soon. "You're all sheep!"

Gotta love em, gotta love em

One of the best Professors in the Poli-Sci department...what else could a student ask for??? hes helpful, intelligent, funny, and makes the class enjoyable!!!

Dr. Heard is amazing. Great personality, takes stuff that is dry as chalk dust and keeps you awake. Just fantastic. His TA's on the other hand....lets just say that I don't care about hockey...

The best first year prof I had. Knew what he was talking about. The TA's were also helpful. The midterm was a bit hard with attention to detail. He knew what he was talking about and the TAs did an amazing job of taking it to another level. Great first year class.

Dr. Heard is great. Takes what is possibly the most boring material ever prepared for a university course and makes it interesting. Love the jokes. He can actually keep you awake while talking about 'constitutional conventions.' TA's are...adequate.

Hated the course, loved the Prof. He's super nice and willing to help any student, For my most hated class he makes it bearable for sure. Oh and he's really lenient about the term paper topics as long as you talk to him about it - which is a bonus for any student who has had to write about a topic they know nothing about!

AWESOME class and amazing prof! He was very funny. So animated and passionate about politics. I love politics too, but I can see how even the most typically apathetic Canadian youth would find Andrew interesting. I hope I have him again in my future courses.

Read the chapter content beforehand. If you have little knowledge of what you are going to learn, you are probably not going to understand quite a few things easily. Read the textbook and if possible, read materials relating to the topics. This will help. He's a pretty nice professor. But don't ever consider cheating on the writing assignment.

extremely fair proffesor final exam is no suprises if he talked about or emphesis on it or even told you its gonna be on exam great prof really helpful have recording for lecture and posted notes and ALSO internet quizzes for review for each chapter take him gpa booster

Just finished my final, AWESOME professor. Tests are fair, interesting professor, little assignment, gives all the hint u need to know for final and midterms. His TA Ann is awesome!

Amazing prof! Very clear and passionate about his work. His exams were very on-par with his lectures and he gave very helpful hints as well. Overal, I highly recommend him. His TA Melissa D. was just as amazing and helpful as he was!

Great prof and great lectures. Lectures are also recorded, which I found helpful for studying. Read the chapters in the txt that he wrote, as he focuses on those. I had a great TA, Ann, and she made tutorials interesting. She gave us lots of great hints & tips for the exams. Exams and paper were not hard, if you go to class you'll be fine!

He is just so great! He is super entertaining and I really miss his lectures. I basically know all the stuff in advance, but even if you care just the least about politics it really shouldn't be too hard to do well. Amazing!

Had Prof Heard for half the semester. Very fun guy! Makes a totally dull subject bearable. He outright gives hints during lecture of exam material to help out. Tutorials were very helpful & TA's were great. I'm not a polisci student and this course has convinced me to never be one, but if I had to take another polisci course, it'd be with Andy.

Dr. Heard is a delight! His lectures are very enthusiastic and helpful, and he gives very good examples which make the material easy to understand. He also answers any questions you ask during class. He wrote one of the chapters in the textbook for the class, so he knows the material very well.

I took this in distance education so I never actually sat through his lectures but his study guide was well written, clear and interesting for the most part. The TA (Allen) was a complete doorknob though. He is unclear, doesn't answer your questions and is a unreasonably hard marking. Heard seems genuinely nice though and seems to love his job

Need to attend classes or listen to lecture recordings to do well. I had no interest in this topic whatsoever, but at least his teaching style was good and at times he is quite entertaining.

Pretty fantastic. This course was easier than I expected, and Dr. Heard's clarity and humour made it all the better. I recommend this class!

Poli sci 100 and 101w uses (word for word) the exact same powerpoint slides and the exact same workload. So take 101w for the w credit and take it with Andy because he's awesome. You can tell he genuinely enjoys the subject, he's hilarious, and his charisma is infectious. I plan on taking my next poli sci class with him!

Great prof. I'd highly recommend him. I'm even registered for another course with him. He's super clear and the tests are very straight forward. Textbook not really a necessity, his powerpoint slides cover it.

Gives in depth notes, and puts them online. Also posts an audio of the lecture online, so there is really no point of going to lecture except for the fact that he unnecessarily expands on the points on his power point and goes on and on for about half an hour per slide. He is approachable and pretty funny. I do recommend this class.

Pretty much don't even need to go to lectures since he posts the PP slides and audio recordings on canvas. Textbook is barely needed since tests are almost 100% based off the PP slides. Had a 15% participation mark in tutorial. But they're so boring. And my TA is whack at marking papers. I'm certain if I had another one I'd get a better mark on it.

ok as the other said he is very nice guy, the subject is easy overall. my main issue was the TA, I don't know who he chose his TAs, almost everyone dislike his TAs. Good class but not an easy A or B+. If you are not interesting in pol $ want goodgrade don't take it

Dr. Heard was one of the best profs I've had at SFU. I didn't do as well as I wished I did in the class but he made boring material, not so boring. I would recommend! But don't expect an easy mark. There is only 4 marks throughout the semester, so keep on top of it!

Great professor!

Lots of reading but not overly dense.

Great professor with clear explanation of topics in lectures!

Took POL 101W online w Heard. Good guy, gives helpful feedback, & course is pretty clear overall. Although as others have pointed out, marking on essays is tough for a 100 level class so it's not an easy A. For tests, he won't tell you exactly what to study but they midterm & final are pretty straightforward. You'll likely need the textbook.

excellent lecturer. he wants you to do well, but will make you work your ass off for it. he's also super tough on papers, so be sure you triple-check your writing. other than that, I retained most of the information he taught during class, and seriously helped me build a vital fundamental knowledge base for upper-division polisci courses.

Amazing lectures. Really funny guy. Very knowledgeable and definitely prominent in his field. He does grade fairly difficultly as others have noted and the paper is pretty long but not too bad. His tests aren't too bad; all written from a pool that you can choose from. He records his lectures Audio/Video/Slides which is nice.

Heard is a really funny professor who definitely knows a lot about what he's teaching. Exams are really fair, and he records lectures and puts them online if you're sick. The term paper is lengthy, with a lot of research requirements, but it's not that bad. Grading is a bit harder than usual, but not crushing. Overall, a good prof for POL221!

Andy Heard is a great professor, he does his best to make dry course material interesting. He also records his lectures and posts them to canvas which is extremely helpful when studying! He really cares about his students, 10/10 would recommend.

He is able to make the Canadian constitution incredibly interesting given how dry the content is. Dr. Heard takes the time to make the content understandable by providing many examples that can even be used on exams. He really took the time to reconstruct this course and he did an excellent job.

Probably one of the most pleasant person you will ever meet. Manages to make super dry content enjoyable. Also really appreciate that he records lecture

Hilarious guy who manages to make the Canadian Constitution/politics fun. Definitely knows his stuff. Provides thorough lecture notes and lectures well enough that you can fill them in more and not need the readings at all (I didn't even buy the books). Paper is long but manageable.

He reminds me of Tigger. He is so friendly and makes learning about constitutional law very entertaining and easy to understand, which is impressive given the complexity of Canadian federalism and constitutional interpretation. Graded fairly, recorded lectures, but messed up both our midterm and final, so that was slightly frustrating.

One of the best profs at SFU. Caring and tries to make the class as interesting as he can. Posts the lectures online as well so you can re watch before the midterm or final.

Professor Heard was amazing! He was very kind, approachable, and easy going, but also provided good feedback and fair grading. He provided really great insight to class topics and kept the course interesting. I would love to be taught by him again!

Andrew was an amazing professor. He's very caring about his students and want everyone to succeed in his class. His exams are very heavily based on lectures and readings. I would take another class with Andrew again.

One of my favourite POL classes so far. Gives great additional feedback on assessments when you request it. You must work hard for your grade but I believe Prof Heard is a fair grader over all. Assessments are lecture and textbook based. Overall I really enjoyed the material in this course as well as the professor.

One of my fav poli sci profs. His class is not that much of a workload but keeping up with the readings/lectures is necessary as it will be a lot to cram for if you do not. I found his marking to be fair and he was always willing to help students if they needed help.

Andy is a tremendous professor. He is enthusiastic about the material and makes learning politics a delight. He is approachable and knowledgeable with plenty of experience. He explains tests and papers thoroughly and makes lectures interesting and enjoyable. Would definitely recommend.

Very personable, clearly passionate about students and politics. Releases crosswords which are a godsend to study from. Workload is heavy, attend every lecture, start essays EARLY as he does not guide you on it. Exams a little unfair as they require loads of extra reading. My favourite class out of the semester. Great guy!

The course was blended as lecture were online and tutorial was in person. Dr. Heard was very accommodating during the term for my circumstances. His response time was fast. The lectures were informative, engaging and interesting. Assignments and exams were fair. I highly recommend.

Great prof! Though this class was blended (online/in person). I had few struggles with the materials and assignments given. If you have the chance definitely take a class with Andy!