Mark Arnason - University of Waterloo

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Mark Arnason - University of Waterloo

Professor: Mark Arnason

Department: Computer Science

College: University of Waterloo

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Nice guy, vague at times, memes a lot

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He's a nice guy and a decent lecturer. His handwriting is pretty undesirable though. He loves to talk about his experience and does it a bit too much at times. He also is not very clear in his financial analysis. His class is not too exciting and he is a little lazy at times. He doesn't pick on people in class usually. Make sure you run the numbers

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He marks you on participation every single class... but he takes up 90% of the time talking about his own experiences??? So many students will have their hands up to give input (AND GET MARKS) but he disregards them starts sharing his own stories. Not a fan of the marking scheme, he's very knowledgeable and likes to show that off.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: AFM433
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He's an average professor but his voice his pretty monotone and his enthusiasm leaves al ot to be desired. Then again it's hard to make the course he teaches really interesting so I can't fault him.

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Mark is a great guy & a great lecturer. He is knowledgable and knows how to apply course concepts to real-life scenarios to help students understand. However, he was very unclear on what he wanted for the midterm and exam, and that is where many students seize to like him. Although you believe you may have gave good answers, you will be surprised.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: AFM433
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Great guy, his course made my spring semester a lot more tolerable. As a non-traditional SAF prof, he's not too hard on students and he also acknowledges that were being buried by constant work and stress each week. The course itself could have been much more difficult, however, he made 433 a "just do your work and you'll be fine" type of course!

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: AFM333
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He is vague about his midterm and final expectations so don't be surprised if you get a much lower mark than you expected.

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Over-simplified when teaching, giving instructions or providing information regarding tests, and then the test or presentation would arrive and he'd pull out all this criticism and criteria to be tested so beyond the scope of his teachings. Actually gave me a 0 on one of my answers on the midterm, had to show it to him and prove it was 100% correct

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Lectures are interesting, he knows what he is talking about. Textbook readings are not necessary, just study his slides - they are very comprehensive. The only problem I had was that his guidelines and instructions for tests/assignments were vague, he would want you to touch on things but wouldn't explicitly state this losing marks.

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.5
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I had a problem with his tests. Our first midterm almost no one left early and were there till the last minute working away - he basically said "too bad you didn't allocate your time better" but in reality, the test was just too damn long & criteria was NOT clear. Assigns low grading weights to group stuff (2.5%) so you cant bring up your mark.

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Great prof

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Lectures are interesting, great professor. Would highly recommend.

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.5
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Would never take again.

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This course was very interesting! It was worth going to his lectures. The course consisted of a midterm, a group project (fun), and a final exam. His tests consisted of short answer questions about important concepts in each of the chapters. As long as you study and do the work, you should do well. Overall, I think he was an awesome professor!

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: ARBUS301
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.5
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He used to work at IBM. He does a good job at explaining globalization, due to the insight he learned at IBM. If you disregard his slides and just study the textbook you can do a good job, like how IBM does as a job on the global market. His stories are pretty interesting and you will learn a lot about multinational corporations, such as IBM.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: COMM400
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Course was good, but Mark needs to tell entrepreneur presenters not to advertise their businesses - as students don't really care. Should focus on explaining their entrepreneurial journey and the start-up process. Courses like this on the startup process are better at other uni's such as Stanford.

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: ARBUS101
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.5
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This class was definitely a waste of time, prof is really boring to listen to, hard to concentrate. Heard enough about how he worked at IBM back in the day. Only reason to show up is for clicker questions.

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: ARBUS101
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.5
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

If it weren't for the clicker quizzes nobody would've gone to class. Since we do go, it's him going on and on about his experience at Deloitte while 200-ish first-years are streaming videos on their laptops. You can't study for Clicker or exam questions, as they are mostly common sense (Bob Sproule's interpretation of it anyway). Good luck, kids.

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: AFM131
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

bird course, just review from high school

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: ARBUS101
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.5
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Also AFM 131, this prof literally put me to sleep. My group members and I spent our classes on facebook chat and competing in Tetris tournies. If you can get Sproule instead, he is MUCH better. Exams are stupidly hard, not like practise ones given at all.

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