George Tourlakis - York University (all campuses), Toronto, ON

Professor: George Tourlakis

Department: Mathematics

College: York University (all campuses), Toronto, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The worst prof that I have had in the two years I have been at york. He may be knowledgeable but does not know how to teach. He teaches like we are already supposed to know what he is talking about. Also, he wrote the book for this course so his book is useless too.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Don't expect to just breeze by this course... you're going to need to do a lot of extra work

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He's totally out of touch with teaching. He rattles off abstract terms and theorems like they're common knowledge. He refuses to use slides, online notes, or even a mic regardless of classroom size. And of course, he wrote the course textbook, which is a densely packed mess of his own invented jargon.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

WORST PROFESSOR. AVOID HIM. Not accessible, disorganized, confusing textbook and lectures, there aren't any additional resources:( Only positive side was he is knowing well on content that he teaching, but this won't pay off as he making us so confuse.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He's a good prof but his material is hard to understand. His book is not good for new students as its quite confusing but overall as a prof hes a solid 4.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I'll admit the way he presents material isn't always clear, but his explanations are in-depth and cover the complete concept, which is something very few profs achieve, he is also generous with grading, but you have to do examples outside class to succeed, if you depend on the prof to do many examples and simplify course material, don't take him.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Good opportunity to practice skipping through and guessing, paragraph by paragraph, not sentence by sentence. That's the only way to understand him. Abstract, him, not this course. But he's knowledgeable, know his stuff very well, just bad at making them clear. He's willing to answer questions and he does reply emails in time!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: Audit/No Grade
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Yeah, good luck taking this course and passing with better than C with only his lecture material and textbook. You won't understand what he is saying unless you put extra effort to find out what he is talking about.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The ONLY reason he is just teaching in York is he is tenured prof and He CAN impose his views on EECS faculty, He doesnt know how to teach, not respected among students, Dont take any courses with him, try not to deal with him at all ,even for administrative stuff.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Doesn't know how to teach. He takes easy material and makes it ridiculously hard. His lectures are so confusing and hard to follow. The textbook, which he wrote, is impossible to understand. Only survived by handing in assignments which may or may not have been done independently. At least he cracks a joke once in a while... AVOID!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Avoid taking any course with him , I didnt like his personality at all.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Confusing lectures, and also no lecture notes online, only in class. The textbook he uses is actually his own and is kind of confusing as well, so I would avoid taking this course with him all together.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Poor lectures, not recommended:(

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

His lectures are scrambled, but he does a good job explaining concepts. Make sure you reread previous lectures notes before attending the next lecture since he does use previous concepts very often and you will be lost if your not familiar what hes talking about. This isnt a bird course, dont expect a good mark if your not going to apply yourself.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

His accent is really hard to understand, No slides or lecture note to study , skeptic personality, Disorganized, Text book is hard to understand (you have to study several times to get the idea of what the course is all about.) , awful lectures.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The guy has definitely put a lot of time into this subject, but he is just not meant to teach it in my opinion. For some reason he uses very different terminology not found in other logic textbooks (he wrote the textbook). The saving grace in this class was that the assignments were worth 30%. A quarter of the class still failed though.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Prof. Tourlakis' lectures and material are indeed confusing, and hence required more time and effort in studying the course contents. However he meant well: he aimed to make us understand the real meaning and concept of logic, not just doing calculation. Students indeed has to put in more effort to understand the stuff he is trying to teach.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Avoid taking this course with him. He explains everything in the most difficult way to understand. He uses his own textbook which is complete garbage, and his tests are difficult.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He's funny but if you don't know the foundation & theories, you might as well skip his class. His notes dont make much sense and he doesn't have powerpoints. You can't even search things up on the internet bc he makes up the theory names himself. His book is excruciatingly difficult to understand lol good luck.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH1090
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Takes simple concepts and makes them 100 times harder. His accent is hard to understand and he is very disorganized. His textbook is slightly better than him but it looks like it's just throwing a bunch of information at you. The good news is, his assignments are very similar to ones from the past.