Phyllis Rozendal - York University (all campuses), Toronto, ON

Professor: Phyllis Rozendal

Department: English

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

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: EN4003
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Phyllis is awesome. If you go to her office, she will help you make your assignments better. She might seem intimidating at first but don't be fooled, she's very supportive and will tell you how you can improve. If you take her Victorian class, get ready to read a novel a week or so. Also participation matters, a lot.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She doesn't post detailed lecture notes every week so it's hit and miss. It's always good to go to tutorial as participation and attendance matter, and if you participate often she will remember you. Bit of a tough marker on individual assignments. You can tell she enjoys what she does which is always nice. I liked her.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• 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:

For a beginners course in EN, its pretty useful; I learnt a lot of things during lectures. On the other hand, as a lecturer, she was pretty monotonous and I can say, the class felt very boring most times. I did not have her as a TA so I don't know what she's like as a marker.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• 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:

only reason why i didn't like this class is because i'm not an english major. she's a nice prof, very helpful and clear, choose her as a T.A leader she'll help out more. don't take this unless you're interested or it's related to your major, i didn't enjoy the class at all, but she's good for first year students. no she isn't an easy marker

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

People bashing her probably failed because they didn't try at all in her class. Sweetest prof I've ever had, was really helpful when you took the initiative to meet up with her outside class, and spoke very clearly. Bit slow at times, but makes up for it with interesting course material. would take another class with her for sure.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Terrible professor. She made the course extremely dull and she's a major feminist. Everything we read was about women's rights, oppression against women, and women being empowered without men. She's quiet, favors female students, is not helpful, and is just really boring.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENG1000
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

This is the best prof ive ever had! She is so sweet and really cares about her students. Did everything she could to help us, as a tutorial leader she was interesting, helpful and an easy marker. Definetly would take another course with her.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• 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:

Clear & concise in her lectures, made everything easy to understand. Assignments werent difficult & neither was the exam. Always willing to help her students and notices effort and dedication. I learned a lot from Phyllis and she's actually helped me become better essay writer. Most importantly she's passionate about the english language.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENG1001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

...doesn't use her mic...

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• 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:

Week one: 250 summary = 10%. Week Two: 250 word paper = 1%. This went on the entire term. 1% assignments with the same amount of work of a 10%. Way too much work for a three credit course. Exam was hard. Loves her poetry so pay attention. Tests are labels as "in class assignments". If you can, switch professors.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENB
• 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:

She is a decent professor, she speaks very clearly, shes easy to understand,she uses overheads and speaks slowly in lectures, gives enough time to make good notes, but found her n the TAs a hard marker,too much stupid small 1% writing assignments when it shud be worth more, dont ever take this course as an elective, only if its ur major

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: APEN1001
• 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:

Clear & concise. Adores and notices student dedication. Very humble and WILL help. Not an Easy marker but will help u get your grade up. Dedication is key to success in her class.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: EN1001
• 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:

she's clear and knows what she's talking about but her expectations can be unreasonable. Her exam criteria is broad and random. The syllabus has things you need to complete, yet she'll email you in the middle of the week with surprise assignments. Also has several assignments that are only worth 1 or 2% but take as much effort as something more

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ASEN1200
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Great prof. Very knowledgeable

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: WRIT1600
• 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:

She's really nice and helpful, especially outside of class. If you do the work, pay attention and ask questions when you need help, you should be more than fine.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: WRIT1610
• 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:

she's a good prof. class work sucks. if you're good in writing or wants to improve your writing, it's a course to take but it can be a difficult course if english is your 2nd language. it's a small class.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: EN1200
• 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:

Great lecturer, has overheads and speaks s-l-o-w-l-y when info is important so you can write it down. Although her TA's are HORRIBLE when she marked my work she was a good marker but was unorganized b/c gave me the wrong grade on my transcript!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ENG4265
• 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:

Phyllis is very kind and understanding and an excellent professor! She is interesting, and the reading list was one of the best one I had in all four year in York. Take any course you can with this professor!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ENG1200
• 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:

LOVE HER!VERY GOOD LECTUROR!!!KEEPS IT SHORT & TO THE POINT, USES OVERHEADS, SIMPLE LANG. IM GETTING AN A & IM NOT EVEN TRYING, HER EXAM IS E-A-S-Y!!!U DONT HAVE TO READ THE BOOKS....JUST USE SPARKNOTES =P I WOULD DEFANITLY TAKE HER CLASS AGAIN!!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: EN4265
• 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:

Phyllis was great. Really helpful and quite generous with her marking. She's very approachable and understands that students are taking other courses as well so if you need an extension she totally understands. This course was heavy reading though, but other than that i loved it.