Michael Luther - York University - Keele Campus

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Michael Luther - York University - Keele Campus

Professor: Michael Luther

Department: Psychology

College: York University - Keele Campus

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: PSYC4050
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He is so unclear about assignment requirements that the undergraduate office had to intervene twice during the winter semester to advise students on their course options and assignment instructions for two different sections of his course. The course itself isn't even hard but he makes the entire process unnecessarily stressful.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: PSYC4050
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Miss one class? Hell assign a paper up to 10 pg long. Lectures are erratic, jumbled and heavily based on opinion as opposed to fact. Most classes dominated by student presentations, which he interrupts to state his opinions. Wasnt given a single grade all of first semester. To him, if you professionally disagree, youre rude and arguing

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: PSYC4050
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Relies on student presentations for course instruction each week; assigns extra assignments frequently; quirky personality and relies on anecdotal experience and opinions for lecture

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: PSYC3140
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This prof is for those of us who want to learn, not those of us who want to be coddled. Read the comments below and ask yourself whether you identify with the students who express an interest (the high raters) or the low raters who complain about how he doesn't teach from the book and dares to talk about (gasp!) sex and politics.

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: PSYC3450
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lectures have no correlation to textbook material, rambles on during lectures, makes inappropriate comments and 30% of your grade comes from attendance which you can only sign in with a specific coloured pen (changes each lecture) at the end of the class. Read so much and still don't know what I learned. Doesn't post lecture slides/notes.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: PSYC4050
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Prof Luther was a very interesting man to listen to. It was unfortunate to see the class run by student presentations since I personally loved his lectures and material he spoke about. He is also a really nice individual and caring as well if you speak to him outside of class. If you put in the effort, he will appreciate it.

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: PSYC3450
Grade Received: C
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Horrible professeor, very unclear, even mixed up our examination date on the syllabus, rumbles on and lectures are useless

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: PSYC3450
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Avoid this prof if you can! His lectures are nonsensical and his expectations are very unclear. He goes off on strange tangents during lectures and then says to pay attention because everything is fair game to be tested. He often rambles and can say some pretty offensive/strange things. Only advantage is the high percentage given for attendance.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: 3140PSYCH
Grade Received: C+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Have no idea what I learned in this class this summer. He doesn't post anything. NEED TEXTBOOK. His midterm was easy as it was MC from the readings. However, his lecture are misleading and did not prepare us for the midterm and exams. He rambles and jumps. He bumped the classes avg by 16% because so many failed miserably (midterm) Group work also

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: PSY4050
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

A terrible professor. Topics were not what you think you'd learn about in this class. He is hard to reach, doesn't give you a mark until the very end of class. Many students felt similar. He is unclear about what he wants. Topics are not appropriate

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: PSYC4050
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Among the worst professors I've ever had a class with. Instead of leading a seminar on personality, he used the time to ramble on about sex (e.g. sadomasochism), terrorism, and anything that pops into his mind. Please avoid taking the class with this professor if you want to learn about personality. Numerous classmates were also dismayed by him.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: PSYC3140
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I actually really enjoyed his course. For a 3rd year course, he doesn't ask for a lot . 25% of your mark is given for free if u attend and participate in his class which is not hard because he tends to just talk about random relatable and funny stuff. Make sure you do readings, textbook is heavy and he doesn't base lectures off the text .

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: PSYC4050
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

His fourth year seminar is honestly pretty straight forward and simple, only two essays all year and two presentations one in each semester. He can be kind of a wack job but hes hilarious and really nice, he also tosses out extra participation marks all the time which is great. I personally love this class and would recommend it for sure!

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: ABNORMALPSYCH
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

i took this course as an elective during the summer (this past june) what a JOKE! the slides/lectures had nothing to do with the readings. waste of time sitting and listening to unnecessary infoon top of that the book is super expensive and only used for the midterm. would not recumbent unless u have to take the course. must attend lectures!

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: 3140
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 3.5
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

What a super professor and fascinating class. Thank you!

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: ABNORMALPSYC
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

By far the worst prof I have had. I was so excited to take this course and I could not be more surprised how off track the lectures were from the subject matter. He also makes everyone do a group project which he knows nothing about and lets the TAs handle. When I had questions for my TA, they told me to figure it out myself and ignored my emails

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: EDUPSYCH
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Amazing prof! Received good grades in all his classes, very fair marker. Attendance is mandatory in getting a good grade!

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: ABNPSYCH
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:

Exams test on very specific material, if you don't take down everything he says, good-luck doing well on the final. Class was very unstructured and I did not learn much from this class other than some random theories, stupid experiments. Stick to profs that teach out of the textbook

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: ABNORMALPSYCH
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:

He is very smart, nice, and helpful.

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: THEORETICALAPP
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:

Luther is a smart guy. He is very open to exploring different perspectives in the field, and flexible when it comes how you want to approach class assignments (and even due dates!). My experience in the class is if you show initiative and put in the thought and effort, you will do well.

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