Pellagrino Nazzaro - Rochester Institute of Technology

Professor: Pellagrino Nazzaro
Department: History
College: Rochester Institute of Technology
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: EUROSINCE1945
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
The most captivating part of the class is the fact that you are taught by a professor who has lived through part of the history he is teaching.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: MODEU1
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Nazzaro is one of the most boring professors ever. His accent does take getting used to, but that's not a real problem. My problems are that he spends more class time talking about prostitutes than the material, and his 200 pages of handouts are in all capital letters, so you need to hold them far away to actually read them.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: MODEURO
  • 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 is probably one of the best professors at RIT, he has experience in academics like no other. His voice is not always clear, but its not bad. Explains things well, but it can get a little boring. For students with international worldwide understanding his classes are easy, if not make sure you pay to lectures. And be open minded, it will help.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: EUROPHIST
  • 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:
horrible teacher, thick accent,very stuck up, do NOT take this proffessor for modern european history
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: HIST443
  • 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:
After 3 years of being disappointed by RIT, I am very happy to have found a professor that really makes me want to listen to EVERY WORD he has to say in every class. Dr. Nazzaro has truly stimulated my intellect and has honestly given me a newfound interest in academia that I would've never thought I'd have coming out of highschool. AMAZING.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: HIST302
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Crazy, old, entertaining Italian guy. Likes to use overhead projector. Seems to hate and love RIT at the same time. Test questions come straight from the notes. He also gives at least 30 bonus questions each test. Also, if you have good attendance, he will boost your grade. For example, I had about an 87 after the final and he gave me an A.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: MODHIS
  • 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:
Oh my god, this professor made me NEVER want to take another History course as long as I live. So boring, his accent is so intense you can't understand him, his lectures make no sense and the book he makes you buy is one that he wrote. I have to give him credit though, only because he gave me a C and I deserved a D. He was adorable though?
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: MODEURO
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good GOD! Easily the worst professor I've had. Really hard to hear because of bad accent and he tends to scream into his microphone. Doesnt really teach, just goes off on random tangents, generally about how awful americans are. Loved history before this class and hated it with a passion during it. Seriously run if you get this guy for a class.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: HIST204
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
VERY hard to decipher the accent. Grade is the average of 3 exams... no padding if you do bad on one. Must teach yourself from the book. Puts lots of notes up that you must copy down, but they are confusing at times too. If you're not passionate about history or bad with accents, find a different professor. Nice guy, but impossible to understand.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: HISTO302
  • 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:
He's a really good professor. Yes he does have an accent. All you have is 3 multiple choice tests. If you can't read 10 chapters then you suck badly. All the notes are on the overhead. Just copy the notes down. Most of the tests is based on the notes off the overhead. Read the book. He gives you extra credit problems on every test and paper. EASY!
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: EUHISSECT
  • 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:
He has a really thick accent that gets in the way of clarity sometimes, but he'll repeat if asked. Grade depends on the average of 3 multiple choice exams. The 1st 50 questions are worth 2 points each and the remaining are bonus. The exams are over 100. Listen for exams reviews because he usually reads from them You have to take crazy notes though.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: EUROHIST
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I found his class rather boring but, he never assigns homework and it was ridiculously easy. I never got any grade below A+ with only 30 minutes of studying before tests. His tests are only really on People, what they did, dates and books. Each test has 20 bonus questions. I managed to get 110 on the 2 tests and a 90+ on the final.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: MEURH302
  • 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:
Bit of a boring class and lots of note taking. Hard to understand sometimes because of his thick accent, but overall a very jovial man. One of the harder History classes I've taken. Very tough grader and tests can trip you up.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: MODEREURO
  • 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:
Doesn't keep your focus, hard to understand, terribly disorganized, not worth taking any classes with him. Nice old man, but not terribly bright, and pretty belligerent.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: EUROHIST
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This is quite possibly the worst teacher I have had. I am writing this a year from when I took his course, modern european history. He is funny and entertaining, but besides this he should not be a professor. He strays off topic and gives you 20 pages of useless notes a day. Abrasive, unhelpful, organized in a bad way, and hard to understand.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: EUROPHIST
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: EUUS21CENT
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: HISTORY
  • 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:
He threw a chair against the wall one time. That was unnerving. Had a very hard time understanding what he is saying, he's not very clear in his material. I don't like how he graded his tests especially, if you got 19/20 right you got like 5 points, but if u got 20/20 right u got 10 points. That hurt.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: EUROPESINCE45
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Awesome teacher, old crazy italian guy. Makes fun of largely everyone in class. If you know your stuff, his tests are easy. He wrote the textbook, so you can consider him reasonably credible.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: EUROHIST
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Worst teacher ever. If you raise your hand, he will not answer you, he will not answer questions, he is not clear in anything he does, especially his notes. He gets in your face and makes bug eyes at you while going "EHHHHH" because well, thats what he does... As for the 50 bouns points, you only get them if you get every single question right.
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