Allan Fenigstein - Kenyon College

Professor: Allan Fenigstein
Department: Psychology
College: Kenyon College
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: PSY101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
WARNING STAY AWAY!!!
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Prof Fenigstein is fine if u make an effort to pay attention to his lectures. Sure, the content can be dry and there is lots of info to learn, but he is enthusastic about the subject and explains concepts very thoroughly. Also, he's great to talk to if u go to review sessions. Listen to the lecture and stay off ur laptop and u'll be fine lol
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
The fact that I am doing this review in his class can't be a good thing... Boring doesn't even start to describe the class. As I look around one kid is watching Shawshank Redemption, another is on Instagram, and one is playing games on his computer. Be ready to hear a lot about "yumans", "norons", and "yuuge" or "eNORmus trowma".
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC344
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
so amazing!! you have to pay attention in class because he is lecture heavy on exams, but totally worth it in the end!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: SOCIALPSYCH
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Horrendous. Teaches 5 minutes of material in an hour and a half, touts his questionable and often actively offensive beliefs, and is unfathomably boring. Is often literally factually incorrect. Makes it incredibly difficult to see your tests and contest grades, doesn't seem to know what's on his own tests. Grades essays completely at random.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: PSTCH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. There are many good professors at Kenyon. There is no reason at all to take a class with him. Horribly boring. But if you want a gpa booster it is a decently easy A.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: INTRO2
  • 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:
Don't take this class. Material could be interesting but he makes it unbearable. Class is boring, does not rely on book but on his personal beliefs. He is unable to answer basic questions. Testing makes no sense.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: INTRO3
  • 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:
Avoid at ALL costs!! You will learn nothing and it will be the longest hour and a half of your life.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: INTROPSYC
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Honestly one of the most boring environments on the planet. 100% lecture based, but none of the info from lectures is on the test. tells you to read the book outside of class thats the whole class. Teaches based on his beliefs as a psychologist dismisses all other types of psychology as irrelevant. i considered majoring until i took his class
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He does not care about is students, doesn't seem to know them by name. Class consists of dull lectures.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Nice guy, but dryer than dust. Seriously, those who do not doze off sometime during the semester have nerves of steel. Oftentimes it seems as if he cares more about his own research than he does his students. Office hours seem nonexistent.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC102
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
When I'm in his class, I feel as if I am attending a philosophy class instead. He's very detached, doesn't really know what's going on, and rather pompous, in my opinion. I was surprised to see that the chair of the department of psychology was this HORRIBLE of a professor. I was disappointed in the quality of class.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC344
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Fenigstein is a nice guy. But that doesn't make him a good professor. His class is completely lecture-focused even though he thinks its discussion-focused. He just likes to hear himself talk. The class was interesting but he was not. Repeated himself a lot and does not use the book.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC325
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
he is horrible
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: SOCIALPYSCH
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Well.....Not the best professor ever, but he really cares about the material and his students. Don't go out of your way to take it, but you will get something out of it if you do.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: 101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I didn't like the class when I took it, but damn I did learn alot and it was because of the way he lectured/graded.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCHOLOGY
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This guy is an under-rated gem in the department. His big city character rubs some the wrong way, but it's only his manner of speaking. Once you understand that, you realize that he is a great guy and totally kicks Levine's ass at being cool outside of t
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: SEXUALBEHAVIOR
  • 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 claims to want to discuss topics but really just wants to lecture. He can't listen to viewpoints different from his own. He writes ambiguous and unclear test questions. Boring lecturer. Sociobiologist. Students will comment on something they think or ha
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: INTRO
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
great prof- ppl may struggle in his class if they do not have good study habits. if you came from a below par high school his class may be an adjustment re: work/class decorum/expectations. he isn't as lenient as some depts/profs are... but it is for yr own good- not because he is a bad prof.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: PSY
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
buckle up!! Tighten up!! This isn't a game or anything like that. Great teacher!! He takes control of the class and these days we need people like this... Im tired of these little kids getting what they want. Its about time!! This guy rocks!!
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