Michael Dyer - University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Professor: Michael Dyer
Department: Business
College: University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Professor was very passionate about the subject but I felt as though lots of material featured on exams was not covered in lecture.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Fin 221 isn't an easy class and Prof Dyer just makes it worse. It's difficult to understand what he says in his lectures since he mixes sentences together and doesn't really explain why he's doing something. He makes mistakes during his lectures which makes them even more confusing. Wouldn't recommend taking his class.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Prof. Dyer is a good professor. I enjoyed his humor and I thought the coursework was reasonable. You should read the textbook and do the practice problems to succeed. Some course topics were a bit dull, but it's Finance so that is to be expected. Overall, I would recommend Prof. Dyer and FIN 221.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
So much homework and lecture and reading and there will still be things on the tests that you haven't heard of
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: C+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Awful prof. Not responding emails and ignoring you in office hours. Very lazy.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Very bad at explaining things. I have gotten almost all a's my life and I worked my butt off in this class to get a b. He is too focused on the Simpsons and Futurama to actually explain the topics. Not sure if he is the only professor for the course, but avoid him if possible.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: C+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dyer was easily my worst professor this semester. His lectures are not helpful, and you end up having to teach yourself a lot of the material. The excel projects are long and graded harshly. I was 2 points away from a B, and he refused to round my grade up.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Pretty average professor. He did a good job teaching. The Exams were hard but fair. If you go to class do the homework and study you will do fine in this course. The guy is a little quirky but. He is great but isn't bad.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Lectures are not useful. Have to learn everything on your own.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dyer's 221 class is very content heavy. I wouldn't say that he's the best at teaching the information, but between his lectures and some hefty studying of the material on your own, you will do well in his class.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dyer is the man. He is quite an interesting character but usually makes me chuckle and makes the lectures interesting. I personally think lectures are useful because he walks through example problems. The class overall is challenging if you dont have any background in stocks and other financial knowledge. You have to invest your time for a A.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The quizzes are extremely hard. You can take detailed notes on every chapter and still miss out on a few questions. They're an hour long, so 2 minutes per question, and there's a lot of reading involved for many of the problems too, so that just adds to the stress. The material itself isn't that bad, it's just the time constraints that really hurt.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Prof. Dyer is quite a character... be prepared to get bombarded with Simpson references all semester long. Lectures are useless- he always goes on tangents and doesn't explain much of the content. It was super frustrating that the class required iClickers because you'd be forced to sit through 80 minutes of rambling to get the participation points
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Love Dyer. Not very great at teaching but he's hilarious in class. He is very reasonable with his tests and makes sure that they are very similar to the practice tests. He is also super understanding with curves and curved the class multiple times when people did worse than expected.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
One of the tougher classes I have taken. Dyer is a fine professor and is really like your average college professor. The tests are pretty tough but that was the worst part about the class everything else is pretty manageable.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
The class was outlined at the beginning as to what was expected. Dyer provided videos before each week which clarified everything that he went over in lecture. A lot of this class is teaching yourself outside of class so find a group of friends and it's an easy A.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Some tips to be successful in this course: 1. Using Chegg while doing your homework 2. Make sure you understand the exam of previous semesters 3. Just ignore the professor and learn by yourself, it will be easy if you follow his lecture videos online 4. This course is not very tough as long as you are smart.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Nice guy but terrible professor. His lectures are often just him repeating what is covered in his online pre-lectures videos. The online homework is just awful because it doesn't take the best score and the problems often ask about things that aren't covered in class. Tests are very difficult and you will probably need to teach yourself everything.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
BAD PROFESSOR.... TEST DIFFICULTY VARIES A LOT EACH SEMESTER
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: FIN221
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
This class is SO hard. Do not take it on campus if you are not going to be a finance major. We have pre-lecture videos that Dyer makes and they ultimately never make sense as someone who has never taken a finance class before. Exams arent curved and are decently difficult. UIUC needs to re-evaluate having this as a business core requirement.
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