Paul Tiessen - Wilfrid Laurier University - Waterloo

Professor: Paul Tiessen
Department: English
College: Wilfrid Laurier University - Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: FS251
  • 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:
Paul Tiessen was the BEST! So helpful and fun and innovative in his teaching methods. Sometimes he would go on rants about Hitchcock, and he talks so intelligently that you feel left behind. Overall, amazing.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: FS245
  • 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:
Awesome Prof. He's kind of a mad scientist but for film. If you go into his class with an open mind you will have a great time, cannot say enough good things about the guy.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PS275
  • 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's like a mad scientist but instead of being crazy about science, he's crazy for film. It was hilarious watching him teach us about Hitchcock. I thoroughly enjoyed his class. If I had completed the formal essay, I probably could've churned out a B or B+.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: FS253
  • 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:
Great prof and extremely intelligent. However, give him the respect he deserves or you will be punished. Good guy but he seems like he has seen way too many movies.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: FS242
  • 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:
I had him first for FS102 and I thought the guy was simply nuts. However, I took FS242 with him the following year and he proved to be a much better prof in a smaller classroom environment. He really stimulates ones capacities for thinking about and analyzing films. Great, quirky sense of humour, highly approachable, and modest in his expertise.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: FS256
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Probably my favourite prof at Laurier. He's incredibly intelligent, makes hilarious comments in class and is very modest. I'm going to take as many opportunities as possible to have classes with him in the future.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: FS242
  • 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:
He's a great professor, he cares about his subject and his students, he's hilarious and overall one of my favourites at Laurier.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: FS242
  • 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:
Dr. Tiessen is the ultimate professor, complete with the sweater vests and the patches on the elbows. He's quirky, and his lectures are somewhat pointless but good to go to nevertheless. If you study for the tests you'll easily pass with a good grade. He's definitely better in smaller classes so don't judge him on his larger classes like FS102.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: FS242
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Had him for FS102,only went to the first & last lecture. I needed 242 as a requirement and when I saw he was the prof I almost dropped it. HOWEVER, he is a genius. If you go to his lectures if you really listen, you will find insightful information. Instead of being annoyed by his antics,laugh. He is actually funny, in a not trying to be funny way.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: FS102
  • 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:
This class was good for a laugh every week. Tiessen is very passionate but extremely hard to follow. Has a lot of quirks -- try not to laugh too hard in lectures you may get called out. Tests are incredibly easy.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: FS102
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Tutorials in this class were great. But the lectures were very philosophical and didn't seem to have much of a point. We constantly re-watched films and by the course people stopped coming to class. Seems to be a brilliant man, but not the greatest prof.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: FS102
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
very passionate about film studies and is very approachable and has an easy going teaching style. also very funny, although not meaning to be most times
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: MANY
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's a wonderful prof! Only the stupid 1st year kids don't appreciate his brilliance.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: FS100242252
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I love Dr. Tiessen. He's my favourite prof, definitely. He opens up minds!
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: FS102
  • 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:
Did not give good lectures. Movies were decent, but he talked about nothing for a long period of time.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: FS102
  • 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:
I think he would be a great prof if he concentrated on what he is actually saying. It is difficult to actually find info out of his lectures though and hard to concentrate when it doesnt seem like he is. He moves around strangely quite a bit in his lectures and often has his eyes closed.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: FS100
  • 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:
Intelligent man. Problem is he has no concept on how to impart information. He repeats information in the belief that he is expanding upon the basic information when in reality he is only repeating what has already been stated. Better off doing research.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: FS101
  • 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:
I love how Tiessen opens up the lid to his mind and lets the class explore his thoughts and analysis on the films we watched in class ('the rich diet'), he was all over the place but reminded me of an Opa - lovable and intense. He is worth listening to!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: FS100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I have no idea what he talked about for the past three months. At all.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: FS242
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Pretty c00l class.. Didn't do too well on the project but will miss it!
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