Ivan Jaworsky - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Professor: Ivan Jaworsky

Department: Political Science

College: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PSCI355
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Amazing prof, taking my second course with him! I love how his teaching method is kind of old school and he's def a great speaker. Plus, he's just a genuinely nice person! Unfortunate that he's retiring next year.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PSCI250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He is a nice man. But oral presentation needs to be tightened. Meaning he needs to get to the point and be more organized. He rants for 30 minutes before each class which he should probably stop. Do the reading and you will pass, no need to go to class. He is kind of funny. Would not take again.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PSCI353
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Entirely based on readings - easily could skip every class and pass. Goes on long winded rantsnot about course. BUT to make up for his boring, random approach, he is an easy marker.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PSCI390
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor has a wealth of knowledge and holds long classes--this may account for boring/monotonous accusations from other reviewers. However, Jaworsky is an extremely helpful and personable prof, probably in the top 10% of profs I've had. Midterms easy to do good in if you memorize and he gives very helpful paper feedback if you see him.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PSCI250
• 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:

Prof makes you take pointless notes in class that you won't need to know on exam. Exams are brutal. He takes random sentences from assigned readings (which can be up to 450 pages long) and makes you fill them in. Ex: "The___is stable"(?!?!). Studied over 30 hours for each midterm/final, and marks don't show it...they're avg. Don't recommend class.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PSCI250
• 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:

Jaworsky is a nice guy and he is friendly but his midterm surely wasn't. It was literally next to impossible due to the format of it. There were about 140 questions which students had to answer with one word or a phrase. Good luck to anyone who is taking this class with him.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PSCI253
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Very nice professor. Friendly to students; class is relaxed and he often makes really funny jokes about russia. Fair grading.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PSCI253
• 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:

Super nice professor. Recommend attending class as he gives tips all the time. He's really enthusiastic about the material and tells great jokes.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PSCI253
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

very knowledgeable and competent but the course is unbearably difficult such that it is very unstructured and I had to look through immense amount of text to find a few seemingly unimportant yet important arguments

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PSCI253
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Great class, really interesting topics and lectures... too many online articles to read in addition to textbook... it would have been nice to get the term paper mark back before the exam though! :p

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PSCI364
• 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:

Overall decent. Is a nice and relatively helpful guy, but the course wasn't as good as I had hoped. Midterm was hard and was based almost entirely on memorizing names, dates, etc. Exam almost exclusively focused on course readings rather than lecture notes. However, he was very generous with the essay-marking.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PSCI364
• 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:

I don't recommend this class at all. Very tough and lectures are extremely boring! Dont take if u want a deceNt grade or class

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PSCI364
• 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:

This guy is actually useless. Most boring and monotonous professor I have ever had. I feel like he doesn't even know what he is talking about. Readings were interesting, however no relevance to the actual test. Test was an unfair and useless test of knowledge. Too bad this uncharismatic and incompetent teacher taught a course which had potential.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PSCI253
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

While his lecturing style is not overly spectacular, the content was very interesting and easy to listen to. IMO he didn't need to add fireworks because the content of the class was sufficiently engaging.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PSCI364
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

lectures are boring, i was not inspired at all, i am writing my term paper right now, and i i dont care at all, about this topic, or this course... i still think that ethnicity is quite interesting, but this course did not really have much of interesting or enthusiasm in the topics... very very dry would be a good way of describing the course

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: POLISCI110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Pretty good lecturer, but never uses and kind of visual aids so sometimes it is difficult to discern his main argument. Overall, good prof.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PSCI253
• 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:

He's very helpful and very understanding. His lectures are clear and he does repeat some things a lot...but it only reinforces your learning.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: RUSSIA
• 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:

An OK prof. Russia is interesting all by itself, and the textbook was OK. Overall pretty fair, but he's really disorganized and likes to repeat himself a lot. He was often unprepared, cut the classes short or canceled them. No major complaints, but I probably won't take another class from him.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PSCI364
• 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:

Hard to stay awake in his classes, but he's a really nice guy, fair marker, etc. Recommended!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PSCI456
• 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:

The most helpful and caring prof. at UW. He knows his stuff and provides excellent guidance with essays and presentations.