Joel Martineau - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Professor: Joel Martineau

Department: English

College: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENGL100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Attendance is mandatory, and totally eliminating "to be" is a bit inane, but he will improve your writing! He is a great man and will ALWAYS help you and edit your papers if you ask. He tells a lot of personal stories, but I didn't mind them. If he wasn't retiring, I would take another course with him.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENGL112
• 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:

TERRIBLE PROF! don't take his class, you have to go to all of his classes. His markings are terrible and strict. Take diff. profs' ENGL 112.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENGL478
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Martineau is full of himself. All he likes to do is talk about his experiences on his boat! He says outrageous and inappropriate comments about race and gender. Yet, he ironically teaches postcolonialism. He doesn't even read your writing, it is all graded on personality! He is awful.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENGL112
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Martineau teaches so that it is all about him. He has favourites and makes snide comments if you are not one of them. The verb "to be" must be eliminated. He also assists students to write class materials in a way which is (sorry I said it) detrimental to those who don't. Narcisstic personality disorder diagnosis of him, anyone, anyone?

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENGL110
• 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:

If you want to learn why Joel is awesome, knows more than you do, and how to completely erase the word "is" from your vocabulary, this is the course for you. I expected a university education from this course. Instead 60% of every class was spent on things any uni student should have learned in highschool. (attendance, procrastination, reading ect)

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENG112
• 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:

Worst prof I've had in undergrad.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENG110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

terribly boring, gets personally offended when students don't attend, speaks inappropriately about women and race, never discusses the text and instead focuses on formatting (which he teaches incorrectly) and active voice, CONDESCENDING, most class time is devoted to monotonous personal stories and reading extremely slowly to the class. DO NOT TAKE

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENG112
• 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:

I started off on the wrong foot by missing two out of the first three classes and from there the class became a nightmare. No matter what I wrote or how much I participated afterwards Mr. Martineau seemed bitter, resentful, and condescending. He is by far the worst professor I ever had -- although his bad image is partially my creation

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENGL001
• 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:

I went to about 5 of Joel's classes, he is the best teacher ever. His texts are interesting, and very different from the normal kinds of text that the typical teacher picks. These are all award-winning novels. He is VERY approachable. After his classes, I have become a world-class writer. MUST take his courses. A Wonderful person as well.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENG110
• 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:

If we really want qualified professors,we should offer more constructive comment,not too personal, so professors can learn from our comment. Joel is an approacheable professor. Even though I didn't get a great grade, I think he is a fair marker. He encourages students to write and teaches how to write well. I become interested in English a lot

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENGL220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Worst Prof I've ever had. Found him rude and condesending. I did not sign up for a writing class and that's what he taught. After the first week half the class had dropped. The class was supposed to be English 220 - British Lit and he decided to make it a writing class. We were graded on writing instead of ideas. No Discussion encourged. Stay Away.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENGL100
• 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:

Talkative,useless,disappointing,a waste of time.I learn even better by myself.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENGL222
• 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 Teacher! Easy to approach to...he's one of the few profs who will teach students HOW to write a paper. Very helpful!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENGL222
• 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:

Worst prof I've ever had. Focused on how to write, but didn't seem to care about the texts at all. We studied the covers of the texts more than the actual content. Much of his lectures were simply anecdoctal stories about his life - completely irrelevant. Went to all the classes and only got a B+. Also, he sweats way too much. Very dissapointed.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENGL221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He's perfectly friendly and an easy marker, but he fails to understand that he's supposed to be teaching literature, not entry-level essay-writing skills. Will spend two hours of a three-hour class ignoring the course subject and going over the importance of topic sentences. Take him if you want ease, not if you actually like the subject.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENG222
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very helpful with writing; willing to thoroughly edit and proof-read papers before they are due. However, it is difficult to excel in the class (hard to receive over a high A minus). Other than that, classes are reasonably enjoyable with a focus on academic writing rather than a discussion of literature.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENGL112
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Great Prof; Nice person; Loves UBC; Loves Teaching. Teaches you useful things about writing(if you want to learn). Do exactly what he asks you to do; WORK HARD for his cl****es. It pays off.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ENG478
• 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:

Very involved teacher, obviously loves his job and works hard to accommodate students. Only problem is that he seems to be a little too fond of his own writing style, which he advocates strongly, while grading poorly alternative writing techniques. Hard to excel, or fail, in his class... and easy, mediocre B+.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ENG112
• 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:

Very caring & approachable prof who did everything in his power to help students succeed. Treated us like professionals and did not try to put himself above us. Lots of time to write papers and exam topics given beforehand. Thoroughly profreeded papers before marking them. Good transition for high school students. Gave me confidence to succeed.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENGL112
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Don't take with him. Won't let you use any form of "to be" in an essay. Teaches you like you are 2 years old and don't know anything. Someone with English as a first language will be bored. Repeats things over and over and over and over. Has a large ego. If you excelled in English in high school, pick another prof who is sane and will challenge