Professor
Michael Scroggins
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Summer 2025 - I took Soc Gen 5 with Scroggins in the Summer Sessions and recommend this Professor for anyone who is an HBS major. You do weekly discussion posts on the week's assigned articles and pay close to these articles because the prompts on his essays will require you to cite them for full credit. Our essays were online, but I had a friend who took him in the Fall of 2024 and he said his midterms/finals were in-person essays. He is a fair grader and offers extra credit. I believe the extra credit assigned to us was to listen to a podcast and submit a two page reflection on it. His lectures are pretty easy to follow and I don't find him to be a boring Professor. He is the opposite: enthusiastic and expands on the slides rather than reading directly off of them. I recommend attending his lectures because the slides are mainly bullet points and when you are preparing for his midterms/finals, it is difficult to really grasp on the themes he covers if you just look at his slides. His slides are mainly pictures with brief bullet points and quotes from the readings. Attend his lectures and read the articles and you should be in good position to succeed in his class.
Summer 2025 - I took Soc Gen 5 with Scroggins in the Summer Sessions and recommend this Professor for anyone who is an HBS major. You do weekly discussion posts on the week's assigned articles and pay close to these articles because the prompts on his essays will require you to cite them for full credit. Our essays were online, but I had a friend who took him in the Fall of 2024 and he said his midterms/finals were in-person essays. He is a fair grader and offers extra credit. I believe the extra credit assigned to us was to listen to a podcast and submit a two page reflection on it. His lectures are pretty easy to follow and I don't find him to be a boring Professor. He is the opposite: enthusiastic and expands on the slides rather than reading directly off of them. I recommend attending his lectures because the slides are mainly bullet points and when you are preparing for his midterms/finals, it is difficult to really grasp on the themes he covers if you just look at his slides. His slides are mainly pictures with brief bullet points and quotes from the readings. Attend his lectures and read the articles and you should be in good position to succeed in his class.
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Winter 2024 - Professor Scroggins was a great professor for this cluster. His lectures are very engaging and his portion of the tests are not too difficult. I would recommend taking detailed notes during lecture for the test, but other than that not too many negative comments about the professor. If you sign up for the cluster you don't really have a choice to take this class, so don't worry, professor Scroggins is a great professor and you're in good hands!
Winter 2024 - Professor Scroggins was a great professor for this cluster. His lectures are very engaging and his portion of the tests are not too difficult. I would recommend taking detailed notes during lecture for the test, but other than that not too many negative comments about the professor. If you sign up for the cluster you don't really have a choice to take this class, so don't worry, professor Scroggins is a great professor and you're in good hands!
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Spring 2025 - I took Scroggins for the Biotechnology and Society: Business of Biology cluster seminar, and I would recommend it. The workload was very manageable and I'm pretty sure he gives anyone who puts in the effort an A. The class was based upon readings, discussions, and a term paper. Every week, there were assigned readings and people to discuss the readings. Simultaneously, throughout the quarter, we were supposed to write a 12-page term paper on a topic of our choice. Time wise, it was all very manageable and often interesting. He also ended the 3 hour seminar an hour early every single week. It was very easy and satisfied a lot of credits so I would recommend it.
Spring 2025 - I took Scroggins for the Biotechnology and Society: Business of Biology cluster seminar, and I would recommend it. The workload was very manageable and I'm pretty sure he gives anyone who puts in the effort an A. The class was based upon readings, discussions, and a term paper. Every week, there were assigned readings and people to discuss the readings. Simultaneously, throughout the quarter, we were supposed to write a 12-page term paper on a topic of our choice. Time wise, it was all very manageable and often interesting. He also ended the 3 hour seminar an hour early every single week. It was very easy and satisfied a lot of credits so I would recommend it.
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Fall 2023 - This class was genuinely interesting and also a breeze. Grading is divided into 4 main components: a paper topic 2-pages due Week 4, a rough draft (8-12 pages) due Week 7, a final draft (12+ pages) due finals week, and a participation paper (2 pages) due by the end of the quarter detailing how you participated. There are also weekly discussions on lecture material but they're super easy and not graded themselves but included in the participation paper. For the main paper, you can also opt to do a project, either solo or in a group. The grading was easy and reasonable and the assignments were a bit daunting but since it's all you have to worry about all quarter it is totally manageable and the professor and TA give great feedback on your paper draft.
Fall 2023 - This class was genuinely interesting and also a breeze. Grading is divided into 4 main components: a paper topic 2-pages due Week 4, a rough draft (8-12 pages) due Week 7, a final draft (12+ pages) due finals week, and a participation paper (2 pages) due by the end of the quarter detailing how you participated. There are also weekly discussions on lecture material but they're super easy and not graded themselves but included in the participation paper. For the main paper, you can also opt to do a project, either solo or in a group. The grading was easy and reasonable and the assignments were a bit daunting but since it's all you have to worry about all quarter it is totally manageable and the professor and TA give great feedback on your paper draft.
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