Please tell us what is the one thing you would change about this course? Nothing, the course was amazing! What was the best part of this course? The professor!

Prof. Neer is eloquent. He manages to capture the students’ attention throughout 3-hour lecture without losing us for a minute. I only wish that this course was 6-months long instead of 1.5-months, so we would have had more time to spend on reading his wonderful book list and improving the quality of our research papers.

“Prof. Neer has been teaching this class for 10ys, which allows him to present a wealth of information about this subject and beyond. He is well prepared, updates students with different authors' views on the U.S. military and provoke students to explore beyond the covers of the books' list. He is eloquent. Prof. Neer's experience of living and working overseas adds an international approach to the subject. I think every American should be in his class to understand how the U.S. as a colony arrives as a leading country in the world.”

Robert Neer is king.

I loved the course. It was the perfect balance between presentations, learning, and hands-on experiences that can be applied to the real world. The assignments are challenging, and perfectly related to the course topics.

The professor made this course interactive and very open for students to express their opinions. The presentations and paper that we had to deliver were perfect and challenged us to critical thinking about normal class topics and others that we wanted to discuss.

“Bob Neer neatly adapted the course to cover subjects and themes that we wanted to learn.” “Great professor, very passionate about the subject, goes above and beyond to make the class engaging.” “The field trips were really interesting and the opportunity to learn outside from Hult while completing an assignment. The in-class simulations are also a great way to practice speaking in front of the class as well as preparing a presentation with time pressures. Thank you for all of your knowledge and guidance Professor.”

Professor Neer is extremely knowledgeable, kind, available, and enthusiastic. Without a doubt the best professor I have had at Columbia.

“This is a great course. The reading load is heavy but the books are interesting. Professor Neer’s PowerPoint lectures are brilliant and he facilitates interesting class discussions.”

“A comprehensive, all-around learning experience of the Global History of the U.S. Military.”

“It covered the part of the history that few people would talk about and know. Our class is extremely interesting, and I learned a lot about the history of US military.”

“The course on the history of the United States military offers a comprehensive overview of key events, conflicts, and developments from the Revolutionary War to the present day. It goes beyond surface-level information, encouraging students to engage in critical analysis and interpretation of historical events. By fostering critical thinking and analytical skills, the course enables students to develop a deeper understanding of the complexities of United States military history. I would strongly recommend taking this course!”

“As always, Professor Neer has great classes with excellent insight, lectures and the topics covered are always relevant and interesting. Really enjoyed this course.” “This course has the most interesting topics for us to make presentations and papers.” “I found this class the most interesting one of my semester.” “The final research paper was very interesting to do and the professor is always great at facilitating discussions and helping us in the learning process.”

“The professor explained everything in a way that got us to engage and made the learning experience enjoyable.” “PROFESSOR NEER IS THE BEST.” “The professor, engagement, structure.” “Class conversion (between prof. and students.)” “The best part is that the professor told us that when he asks a question he is not expecting me to have the answer, rather try to explain however I can.”

Professor Neer did an excellent job of communicating to students both in and out of the classroom. While acknowledging the pace and course load were high; he remained flexible to the needs of students. Learning was the first objective and I felt comfortable, and motivated to absorb the course content. He also introduced controversial topics in such a way that did not discourage open discussion and debate. Rather, it was encouraged. He was timely in his responses, offered great feedback, was always available to students (I wish I had taken more advantage of this), and guided students throughout the course ensuring unity of effort and understanding of his expectations. Well done.

I found the material to be refreshing, and the discussions to be intellectually stimulating. I learned new history, new strategies, and new terms and definitions of the United States Armed Forces. I was able to view the military from the outside and apply academic thinking in ways I could never have done as a soldier.

Bob explains concepts well, answers email fast, is always available to us. One of the best professors in the school. He has so much to add to our lives.

Bob explains concepts well, answers email fast, is always available to us. One of the best professors in the school. He has so much to add to our lives.

I loved different aspects of this course, one of them is how the classes were structured, it involved a high peer-to-peer communication and I feel like it was the class in which I have profited from my classmates perspectives the most since I've joined Hult. Another highlight of this class were the real life issues that were placed in front of us and the guidance that Bob gave us to ultimately empower this generation to solve or at least help solve these issues.

Bob truly knows what he is talking about and always had examples which I found particularly impressive and inspiring. He is ALWAYS willing to help. We also had a very student led environment in which he did not provide us the "answers" he made us think of them through numerous questions which I really liked. This course could have just been him teaching about companies in emerging markets and what they are doing but rather we looked at the whole spectrum from defining an emerging market to what empowers or negatively impacts a market. Bob was also always encouraging us to explore our surroundings, offering field trips to see Boston or telling us to call his friend to get more info, or having us go to talks at Harvard, MIT, etc. All of those things are really beneficial to us as students.

Pr. Neer embodied this great American myth of charisma between the professionalism and the friendliness, allowing both to be playful while fundamentally remaining serious. I think that the way he vocally assumed that we were all great and were putting so much effort was for me a way to put even more in it, and be able to find some weight in what I was doing. The content of his lecture was as intense as the readings and this is what I appreciated, more so than the class topic, mostly the challenge to be up to an intellectual standard that was higher but that I could reach more and reach each day. Pr Neer was always available for us. Also, what a great chance to benefit from all the speakers he brought into the class. In brief, the class in which I felt the more challenge, that so because Pr Neer thought that we were so obviously ready to be challenge. "Trust your students and they'll give it to you."

“Prof. Neer masterfully weaved different forms of media together to exploit the remote format's full potential. The course's strength are the strong central topics, excellent readings, and vibrant class discussions.”

“I'll admit that I had absolutely no idea what I had signed up for, Empire of Liberty was the only thing that fit in my schedule over the summer, but I am so glad I took this class. ... Overall, I really liked taking Professor Neer's class and would recommend it to anyone interested in history academically or recreationally.”