Chris Godsil - University of Waterloo

Professor: Chris Godsil
Department: Mathematics
College: University of Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: CO342
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lectures are a bit scattered and notes are very sparse (course notes and in class) but was always available for questions and helped me a lot in writing assignments. Assignments were somewhat challenging but midterm and final were fair.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: CO444
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Godsil is equal parts brilliant and frustrating. Has an encyclopedic knowledge of the material, but goes off on crazy tangents. Doesn't write much on the board, prefers to prove by ranting. Talks very fast. Almost never proves anything formally, just sketches it. He knows what up and is a very interesting person, but he's really hard to follow.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: MATH249
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Teaches extremely fast (skips a lot of logical steps) even though material is highly nontrivial. Fair midterm but rather difficult final exam. Course notes are also terse -- why not remove all the material that isn't taught, and use the extra paper to provide clearer proofs and so on?
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: MATH249
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A nice person and expects a lot from his students. The closest mathematician in mannerism to G.H. Hardy in Waterloo. The midterm was very fair, but the assignments were challenging. Expect to spend a lot of time on them, and learn a lot if you start early.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: MATH239
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The class was alright, but he goes on to tangents that you have no clue how he got onto them; it gets confusing. On the plus side, he's very knowledgable and seems to know what he's talking about. His exam was long and difficult. I wouldn't recommend him if there's a better option, but sometimes you have to pick the best of several evils.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: MATH249
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great class - Lectures were awesome. Midterm and Final were fair but assignments were really difficult and time consuming. Lectures DO get better - difficult to understand at first - possible because of accent however after time its reasonably easy to follow. Course very entertaining and small class helped atmosphere.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: MATH135
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Godsil is the man. I actually find this stuff interesting when he teaches it. Very good professor, really knows what hes talking about
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: MATH135
  • 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:
If at first you don't like this prof, give him time. With his accent it sounds alot like he is mumbling at first, but it gets better and easier to follow. He really knows his stuff and teaches the course very well. Though most of his notes are right from the text, he gave detailed descriptions.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: MATH135
  • 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:
What's this guy doing teaching MATH 135? He seems like a really smart guy, and it seems wasted teaching us about GCDs and congruence. Has an accent, but an overall good lecturer. Very approachable.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: MATH135
  • 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:
Teaches well and is funny
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: MATH135
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good prof..but with very difficult acsent. Teaches well though!
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: CO330
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Knows his stuff. Always available for help.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: CO230
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
High standards. May not be good for weak students.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: MATH235
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
knows his stuff, but assumes you know more than you do
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: MATH239
  • 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:
Accent and writing can be difficult at times. Course is worse aspect.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: MATH239
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
better than Schellenberg I guess...
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: MATH239
  • 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:
Not a very useful prof. I switched to Paul's but he is no good either
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: CO
  • 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:
I dont know which prof is worse between Godsil and Schnellenberg... but they are both not good.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: MATH239
  • 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:
Made a hard course even harder. Smart guy, but hard to understand (g'day mate), and pretty dull.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: MATH239
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's the man!
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