Grant Russell - University of Waterloo

Professor: Grant Russell
Department: Accounting
College: University of Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A nice person, but a horrible professor, one of the worst in SAF. Taught myself the whole course, did NOT learn through him.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • 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:
Worst course I ever taken. Hes nice but he's a horrible professor
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
If you participate in class and practice past exams, it's easy to ace the class. He is a great prof! Most people brush off the class and end up doing poorly.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
great prof!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Let me begin by saying that Grant Russell is a very nice man. However, he is unquestionably the worst professor in all of SAF. He often makes mistakes when taking up problems in class, and is completely out of touch with how students absorb and learn the material. I'd write more if the character limit was longer. Please, please, please retire!
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Well-meaning. Good things about him stop there though. Extremely disorganized. Often has no idea what he is doing in regards to assignments, since he often structures it on a whim. Exams are rather hard.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very helpful professor! If you go to his office hours, he knows you care and will motivate you to do well. The textbook problems and class notes help, but definitely focus on past exams! :)
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
If you stop in at office hours, you'll see that he truly care about your success and will motivate you. Course content is intimidating but extremely organized on ACE making it easy to follow. Self taught style as lectures goes off topic often, go through topics yourself and do practice midterms. You can write in the textbook but don't rely on it.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • 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:
Also had him for AFM 482. Worst prof ever. Has tenure so no matter how bad his teaching is, students won't be heard. Lectures and textbooks are useless. Midterms and finals are amazingly hard. Final was was bell curved by 20%. Horrible teacher. Please retire.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Russell was interesting during the first class when we got to know him. Since then it was downhill from there. Flips through slides quickly making time to talk about gibberish. Textbook + slides + assignments = useless for the exams. Avoid him the old man at all costs.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Funny guy, but his teaching ability leaves much to be desired. Assumes students know the information and rapidly flips through slides (leaving us lost), assigns participation grades almost randomly (ppl who don't show up get 8/10?), and his exams are pretty unrepresentative of class work. The book is essentially useless, study past exams to do well
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very interesting prof, but midterms and finals are brutal. Mostly saved by the bell curve.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • 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:
Always have funny stories to tell to the class, very irrelevant to the course material/exam. Go to class for entertainment, don't expect to learn much.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: AFM121
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
AMAZING PROF!!!
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: 131
  • 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:
Professor is a joke. Don't expect to learn much.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • 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:
The only reason this guy is still teaching here is because of his tenure. I agree with the other AFM 481 comments below. Also, telling the same stories as in AFM 131 is lame.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • 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:
Exam was poorly designed to test students' knowledge about the course and there were frequent significant errors throughout the exam. Classes were not helpful most of the time. Instructions for assignment were not clear. However, he takes great interest in the accounting faculty.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The guy's a joke. Nuff' said.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: AFM481
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Never replies to emails. Lectures are useless. Does not say when assignments are due and expects us to do them before 'the' due date. Tells us component should take only a minute,leaving the class to believe it is not worth much or anything at all but ends up being worth a significant percentage.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: AFM131
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great guy! Corny jokes but how can you not love this guy. He really cares about his students! tough to make material interesting but he does his best. Watch out for midterm though! Fair marker - bell-curved midterm. But after midterm gets much easier.
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