Don Dawson - McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Professor: Don Dawson

Department: Economics

College: McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• 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:

Second worse professor in econ at Mac. No consideration for students. Test questions are an absolute guess. Why is this man even allowed to teach? Class averages around 60%.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• 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:

Course has nothing to do with economics. Courseware is worthless. He says it changes like 40% each year but all the articles are like 10 years old. It will take like 4 times the amount of work you thought if would to get a high mark. He can literally ask anything that he said in lecture. About 75% of his questions are face palm worthy

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• 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:

Bad prof, so lazy canceled 1/3 of 830 lectures with no notice given, no online resources, course material is garbage as well useless and uninteresting sports trivia, he also grunts while he talks A LOT!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• 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:

Lazy, Test Questions are like trivia questions, no class website/electronic resources, Not a bird class as everyone thinks it is!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ECON1B3
• 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:

summer 05, he didn't really seem to care to make an effort maybe because he was retiring.. althought i did well in his class, material did not make sense at all until i took the intermediate level micro

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ECON1B03
• 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:

lazy prof

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• 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:

Lazy prof. Tests ask obscure, pointless questions - focuses more on sports statistics rather than economic concepts. Terrible course - not easy, not interesting, not useful.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: 2P03
• 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:

Too fast. Obscure questions. Lazy and misses classes.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Smart guy but has flaws as a teacher. Goes fast thru material. Skips a lot of classes, which I wouldn't mind if he had a website to let us know. Course is not hard but there's a lot of info to retain, names, dates, numbers...study and you should be ok. Interesting class!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• 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:

good prof..if you need help he's available..just need to study from lecture notes..tests are based around them...anyone can end up with a good grade..

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• 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:

He lectures way too fast and asks the most obscure question for his tests.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very interesting class.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 2N03
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Went to all the summer classes. Made the mistake of studying from the courseware instead of the lecture notes. Just studied lecture notes for final, went from an 8 to 11.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: 2N03
• 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:

averaged in the 60s during the semester, went to every class, made all the notes - ended up with an A!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ECON2P03
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

If you're a varsity athlete you're set, he's the team councellor for football.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ECON1A06
• 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:

rushes through material fast and often cancels classes and lets us out early... instead of going through the material slowly and thoroughly...

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ECON2PO3
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He still cancelled class 5 or 6 times. He coughs way too frequently. It's simple though: go to class and you'll get a good mark. It's hard to respect a prof who enjoys wrestling so much and knows so little about the topic he's teaching.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: 2N03
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

good prof, easy if u go to class as everything is contained in lectures

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ECON1A06
• 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:

goes really fast, cancels class very often...

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ECON1A06
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

GOOD GUY