David Zimmerman - Simon Fraser University

Professor: David Zimmerman
Department: Philosophy
College: Simon Fraser University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Wonderful Professor! Very interesting lectures and very interesting guy.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120W
  • 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:
Going to lecture is useless, he emails all the lecture notes and babbles on in lecture. Skipped two major units (4 weeks) because he wasn't comfortable teaching them (Terrorism and Torture). Extended Abortion and Euthanasia way too long and TAs did not hold their marking to criteria.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
David made his effort to explain the materials and tried to let us think some moral issues. This course is not hard at all..although some people say there's an essay. But the answer for the essay topics was on his notes! If you read through his notes, you'd not get any problems writing the essay because the notes tell you what you need to respond.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very good prof! Responsible, interesting, and fair. Highly recommend him!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Highly recommend Dr. Zimmerman! Very good lectures, NOT boring at all. Interesting course material, and a very responsible professor. Will definitely be taking more courses with him in the future.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL241
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Absolutely delightful. An entertaining man teaching a soft course with no final? Perfection. Great facilitator for discussion, plus he wrote and photocopied all our notes for us!
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: PHILLOTS
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Took many classes with Dr. Z because they were always entertaining and I could count on a good mark. Fun, fun classes! Really nice guy, too, amusing at parties/mixers. Highly recommend taking his upper year courses. He doesn't enjoy teaching the 100s so doesn't put in the effort.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL451
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Amazing prof .. glad he came to Canada
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120242
  • 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:
great prof.... most open minded in the philosophy department. Generally very agreeable and cordial. Looks like Nietzsche.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Not the greatest prof ive ever had. His lectures are interesting but confusing. Knowledge gained in course was minimcal and not useful at all. Very nice guy, moderate prof.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL241
  • 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:
I don't understand all the comments on his being boring and having crappy notes. He was so animated, had great class discussions, and the notes helped make things much clearer.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • 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:
this course is not too bad when you take it with him. he's a very approachable prof when you need questions answered. the class itself is boring but the content is quite straight forward and easy! it's an easy A!
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • 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:
Very monotonous voice, I fell asleep at least once per class. Both midterm and final gave not enough time to finish for the amount of questions. He's a bit of an airhead, as the class and TAs were always correcting him. The only good thing about him is he can moonwalk.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lec are fairly interesting, though sometimes it is hard not to fall asleep. his notes are crap, typos all over and he admits to typing them up the hour b4 class. midterms and final are long, and though the questiosn are fair, i didnt do too well on them. enjoyable if you can write well.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL241
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • 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:
omg... this guy is super super hard and cunfuzzling. messes up with his notes every single time. it seems like he writes his notes just before the classes start or sumthin. always always has a mistake. midterms were easy but finals were killer. really needs to get rid of his monotonous speech... zZz
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
i agree, staying awake in that class takes quite a bit of effort. his notes are crappy and his lectures consists simply of reading the notes outloud, but with a bit of elaboration that sometimes (but n ot always) help with understanding the material.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
The class is a bore. I fall asleep at the half way point every class. He can crack some jokes once in a while but I didn't find myself understanding ahything unless I look back at some notes. He also doesn't not know how to put notes up online properly.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL120
  • 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:
i tried staying awake. i tried. my friend once woke me up 5 times in one lecture, but i kept falling asleep. and i had plenty of sleep on the night before that day.
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