Barry McClinchey - University of Waterloo

Professor: Barry McClinchey
Department: Sociology
College: University of Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Online quizzes are ridiculously difficult, it really depends on your luck. The textbook is super dry, not helpful at all, and everything seems to be the same. The quizzes will bring your mark down but the assignment was pretty easy. Lectures are very dry and hard to follow. Lectures are repetitive about the same theories.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
The teacher was interesting sometimes but he would go into rants about things that weren't really relevant. The tests were completely random too, most of the content was from the fine print of the textbook, not about major topics.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
LIKE LIKE LIKE!!! AMAZING LECTURER AND TEACHER!! was very interesting to listen to him, even though the lectures were long. Very dedicated to his subject. Makes good jokes, I MEAN IT!!! WOULD DEF RECOMMEND HIM TO EVERYONE!! 1010
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is passionate and I enjoy listening in on his lectures. His examples are interesting but I would enjoy this class more if it was split up into 2 lectures. The tests are hard, and require you to study from the textbook as well as the lecture slides. Assignments are easy and essentially boost your mark. You need to be in class to get full notes.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: 101
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He seems passionate, but just too rehearsed to be enjoyed.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Beats around the bush and is therefore hard to understand what point he is trying to make. The answers to questions in class were also vaguely responded to and thus not clarifying anything. Long lectures. Everything in class is the same as found in the textbook
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: SOC201
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
His victimology class was pretty interesting. The midterm was decently hard but he marks the papers fairly easy and there is leniency with which topics you choose. Definitely take this class!
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lectures are very boring and long. He teaches right out of the textbook, literally taking exact definitions. Online tests were tricky, he asks for little details that don't really test your knowledge, same with the final. Probably one of the worst profs I have had, avoid taking this course with him if possible.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Don't bother attending his class. All the tests and exam are taken straight from the textbook. Just read along every week and you'll actually be fine. His lectures are vague and not remotely descriptive enough to be useful for studying. NOT A FAN.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Slides were verbatim taken from the textbook. Everyone had a hard time staying awake during the lectures. Barely any information was addressed that wasn't in the textbook, so you honestly could read and skip the lectures. All of the exams were ridiculous. He would often test on something that was in the textbook for only one or two sentences.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Took this class for SOC 101, most boring class I've ever taken. Prof is a funny guy but you have to read a lot (almost the entire textbook). The tests are based on very specific quotes and such from the textbook - it's very hard to remember everything you read from a 700 page textbook.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Get ready to memorize every quote and caption from your textbook. If you have this guy for Soc 101, get out unless you love textbook readings
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • 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:
DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: SOC370
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Course is not a reflection of your knowledge. Even if you memorize the entire textbook there's no way around the delusional proff that tests you on things that dont even make sense.The final exam was a bunch of quotes that youve never seen before that you need to correlate with theories. Also,he never answers emails in full, TA is even worse.AWFUL!
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: SOC370
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The worst!Quizzes are verbatim from the textbook however you are tricked into believing the wrong answer is correct. Definitely not a reflection of your knowledge more a course about figuring out where he will be sleazy next! The final exam was probably the most difficult that I have ever written.6 random quotes that you had to expand on :S
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
You can tell that he tried to make the class interesting but he's very monotone and it was an extremely boring class. There's a lot of textbook reading that you have to do since the online tests are all textbook info. There's really no point in going to class since he makes his notes from the textbook and it's also a really long class
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SOC370
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Probably the slimiest course I have ever taken. The on line quizzes are straight from the textbook, however are worded in such a way that you are tricked into believing the wrong answer is correct. The lectures are beyond the definition of boring. The textbook is so rigid and does not capture the reader!Assignments are so useless and irrelevant!
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: B-
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
terrible, just terrible. Text book is a must. Monotone.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • 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:
I really like the prof, funny guy. Keeps the lectures really interesting, which you have to attend since he doesn't post the slides on Learn. The online tests were pretty fair... if you read the textbook readings and lecture notes. Exam was also pretty fair, I mainly just read the textbook though.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: SOC101
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
You do not have to attend this class. The prof literally makes his slides straight, word for word textbook. As long as you read the textbook, you'll be fine. Also, his midterms are all online. Very easy to do well on those without trying.
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