Jacques Barbier - University of Ottawa

Professor: Jacques Barbier
Department: History
College: University of Ottawa
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
When he says the exam is going to be "obscure" and difficult, he's not lying...funny guy though.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very interesting teacher! Knows his stuff very well and teaches interesting material. Very funny.!
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Interesting guy, good sense of humour. Was an optionnal class for me, so not a particularly high interest level, but not my worst class by any stretch.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: CLA2170
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Decent professor, but kind of an oddball. He'll mumble under his breath for five minutes and then suddenly start yelling at the top of his lungs. The way his class is structured was a little odd, not following a very clear chronological order. When it comes to the exams, your textbook is your friend.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: HIS1120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I'm sure he is a great guy, but his classes were dull. He is sort of loony. He talks really quietly then yells randomly. His tests and assignments are fairly easy though. I am a history lover, and he made me hate that particular class.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: HIS1101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's a really great guy, but unfortunately I'm going to have to say that he's not a very good professor. He goes on incomprehensible tangents quite often and I'm always bored by the first half hour of class. I've basically taught myself everything. Warning though; don't count on your notes to study for the exams. The mid-term was all from the text!
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This Prof is an interesting guy. I liked him. He always had a satirical sense of humour mixed in with smart jokes only half the class could get. He seems like a hard-ass. But he marks really fairly. Don't need to use the book during the year, but know the terms and themes for the final. Exams tend to be easier than you think compared to the lecture
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2107
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
People who got bad grades basically deserve them. And the guy saying that he is biased towards Spanish students does not know what he's talking about. Read the book, and listen to his lectures, which are quite interesting for culture and history. Very fair marker and very helpful if you ask him to clarify something after class.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: HIS5122
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He has a whole range of interesting funny stories to tell, but he is biased with the grades. Great knowledge on Spanish and Latin American history!
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2391
  • 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:
He's very unorganized, but his lectures aren't bad. The lectures can be easy to follow, but only if you read the texts.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • 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:
very disorganized
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • 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:
very hard to follow, could learn more from a textbook, hard to get a hold of outside of class and often very forgetful, course itself is not hard but asks obscure questions, take the class just not with him....
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He knows the topic extremely well, but trails off and often does not make sense. He's blunt and takes no bs. The lectures are good, the structure and organization of the course though is horrible. We have a midterm on Tuesday and no one knows where to start. He needs to be clearer in his lectures or give us more direction.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: HIS1120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good prof. Lectures were interesting, if not a little hard to follow. The text was infinitely helpful, and the exams were easy.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: HIS1101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very lively and interesting prof. Hard marker, but at least he doesn't assign ponitless tasks. Students want to learn, not do useless busywork.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2391
  • 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:
Unclear assignment requirements
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: HIS2170
  • 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:
Not a bad guy, kinda frightening though. You can get by without ever going to his class. He jumps around too much in his lectures, and goes off on useless tangents. Technically he's retired, but U of O is too cheap to find someone else, so he's back.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: HISTANDTHEORY
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
An amazing Prof. His lectures are really hard to follow right up until the last 15 min, when everything starts to make sense. Difficult marker. Abstract teacher. Tough exam!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: HIS1120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very good old fashioned prof. His lectures are not exciting but keep you up, and his exams are jokes!!! This historian gets all my respect.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: HST350
  • 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:
hes big and smelly and i dont realy care for his yellow shorts
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