William Wood - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Professor: William Wood

Department: Fine Arts

College: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

What a boring, pompous, fatuous, self-involved drone! Delivers lectures like he's on autopilot. If you dare ask him a question he reacts as if you broke his concentration or something. Goes out of his way to be rude and uncongenial at all times and has a snotty put-down ready for every occasion. Everything about this man is dull and deplorable!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

Bill Wood personifies the dictionary definition of the word "supercilious": 1.Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

Bill's smugness and arrogance is simply unbearable. It is my fervent and dearly held wish that I never again have to look at that bland smirking face or listen to that obnoxious sneering voice for as long as I live.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

Quite possibly the most loathsome person I have ever had the dire misfortune to know. It didn't matter what anyone said to him, he was invariably snarky and mean to that person in response. What a horrible jerk this guy is. I wish I hadn't met him or taken his class.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I can't stand his superior attitude. He perpetuates all of the worst stereotypes about academics-i.e he is a jaded, stuck-up prima donna who is forever whining about how everyone and everything is beneath him. If he hates teaching and students so much I don't understand why he doesn't just quit and get a real job. We'd all be better off if he did.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Smug, conceited, pretentious, and very rude to students.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lectures are so boring: he talks like an embalmed zombified automaton. And he clearly delights in mocking students whenever he can. Has a mean, rotten attitude. It's ironic that some people here call him "intellectual". If anything, he is a complacent, snobbish obscurantist who only acquired his professorship through nepotism and abject sycophancy.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

There is really nothing special about him or his class. You won't learn much because he doesn't know how to explain anything that he hasn't already mechanically memorized. He is a rude snotty know-it-all jerk who does not care about students. He is only in it for his pension and for the sick joy of lording his intellectual arrogance over others.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Avoid Bill like a bad skin rash! He's a mean-spirited intellectual bully without a trace of decency or charm. Truly a dwarf among pygmies in his field.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

A truly depressing and dispiriting class. Bill Wood is living proof that art critics are little more than crabbed, parasitic haters and self-aggrandizing, small-minded insurance adjusters. If you take his poisonous attitude to its logical conclusion, the only pragmatic question that applies to art (or ANYTHING!) these days is "What's the damage?"

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ARTH300
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Really confusing, bad at teaching, not very nice either. He just likes to listen to himself talk and talk and talk. And he overwhelms each discussion with his boring pedantic navel-gazing blather. He does not respect students' questions or opinions even when they are relevant to the seminar topic. I would not take another course with him.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

He's so sneeringly arrogant it puts you in a state of shock. I was stunned by the mind-boggling intensity of his rudeness. While some may be bowled over by the mechanical precision of his sponge memory, it's really just a cheap showoffy stunt that is meant to intimidate students. Such pretentious B.S. is typical of this man's soulless vanity.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ART341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

How I would like to get back the 13 weeks and the $400 that I wasted on this dreary soul-crushing class. How I hated this prof and his belligerent insulting attitude. He tries to impress everyone with how smart he thinks he is by running his mealy mouth nonstop. He also puts people down so that nobody else can get a word in edgewise.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ARTHI341
• 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:

IF YOU LOVE POSTWAR ART, THEN FOR GOD'S SAKE, DO NOT TAKE BILL WOOD'S CLASS! He has dedicated his life to militantly destroying your interest and passion for the subject. If the deadening monotony of his overstuffed lectures don't succeed in making you feel suicidally depressed and desolate, his unconscionable malice toward students certainly will.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

A terminally boring, pompous windbag and a hateful bully. Wood takes this obnoxious, pretentious, know-it-all attitude about everything and never stops bloviating and pontificating. If you ask a question or make a comment in class, he will viciously browbeat and demean you for it, and then try to hold you up to ridicule in front of everyone else.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ARTH300
• 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:

Repulsively arrogant and rude. Just don't bother with his class. He's not worth it.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very interesting class, but it would have been nice if he was not so rude and treated everyone who did not know everything BEFORE attending class as a blithering idiot! This guy really is insensitive and mean to students, unprofessionally so.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

His endless droning pomposity would be downright laughable were his elitist attitude not so insistently hateful and offensive. He's a lazy, shallow, narcissistic, money-grubbing hack academic who only got into the education racket to gratify his vanity and his RRSP account. In his class, students exist merely for his idle amusement and ridicule.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• 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:

I think the brown-noser comments on this site are probably written by the profs themselves. Did someone say that Wood "may come across as a cold fish" and that he "only seems arrogant"? Ugh! He IS a cold fish and he IS arrogant! He couldn't remember your name if you doubled his salary. SO unhelpful outside of class. I want HIM to refund my 'W'!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ARTH341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Knows his material well enough but seems to intensely dislike teaching. His lectures are overly content-dense and do little to facilitate learning. His lectures are monologues - questions and discussion are not encouraged.