Graham Cogley - Trent University

Professor: Graham Cogley
Department: Geography
College: Trent University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: MANY200
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I had Graham for geomorphology, Quaternary geomorph, glacial geomorph, glaciology, and geology, but years ago (like 25!). I learned more from him than anyone about the concepts and have used them in my teaching university courses since. Research shows that drawing diagrams (which we did) is an effective learning approach for having concepts stick.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ALL101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
NO interest in actually teaching his students. Any one who takes his classes must be prepared to teach themselves. While he has considerable knowledge of GIS, he cannot seem to figure out how to use MyLearningSystem and prefers archaic tiny overheads?? Rants off topic, ZERO structure to lectures. I think he spent too much time in the Arctic.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG441
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Do the readings, put in some effort, and you can learn a lot from Cogley. One of the best profs I had.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG256
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
feel like he talks down to students, doesn't explain things in a language which we, as students, can understand easily.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG256
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
brutal in every way possible
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: UPPERYEAR
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
How can you complain when you have an encyclopedia teaching your class. If you go to him for help, he will make sure you understand and correct you work if you have it done before the due date. Best dry sense of humour. Put in the effert right off the bat and you will succeed.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Worst attire... cold attitude. Seemingly unable to want to help... however, at the end of my university career, he actually started to become interested in helping me out. He only seems to appreciate when you put in extreme effort. Best quote ever... "The Earth's mantle is like the skin on a pudding." He used it almost ever lecture for a month.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I took this class thinking it would be interesting... It would have been if it had been another prof! He sucks! He was unecesarily rude, he made you feel like you were stupid and had no desire to help. I wouldn't recomend him if he was the last prof on earth.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG256
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Id rather stick a fork in my eye then take a Cogley class!!!
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very tough, seems not to care about students. He thinks it is the students fault if they don't understand
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG240256
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
and 341. Hard to get an A on assignments unless you "further the understanding of the topic". Thats a direct quote!
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He may know everything about geomorphology but he knows NOTHING about teaching. He gave impossible assignments with no explanation and little relevance to the text. He would appear to get off on watching students fail.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: GEO240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Oh my goodness. Sucked the life out of every lecture.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: GEO240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is one of the most worst profs ever. I find his lectures very difficult to follow because he goes of topic all the time. If you do go to him for help, he makes everything even more complicated.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: GEO256H
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He doesn't know how to make his class interesting... I fall asleep in it all the time, not matter how hard I try to listen. His exam was very hard and didn't really seem to really cover the material that was learnt.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: GEO240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
he will not be helpful, he's off in another world, he can not explain things from more than one angle
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: GEOG341
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
traditional style of teaching, very intelligent
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