Michael Finefrock - College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Professor: Michael Finefrock

Department: History

College: College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENGL101
• 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:

Michael M. Finefrock (12-31-39 to 12-6-09) born in Arkansas City, KS, son of Meryl K. Finefrock and Thelma V. Jacobson. Served as a Navy Lt. in the Middle East 1961-1965 as a translator of Turkish. Earned his A.B. from Brown University & in 1976 his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Was a specialist in Russian & Middle & Near Eastern History. RIP

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: HIST227
• 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:

Health doesn't seem to be the best-put the time in and you will succeed. Not an easy A-very bright, knowledgeable. I enjoyed the lectures. Seems tobe preparing us for hard work and the rewards will come. Cool guy!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Finefrock Passed away this weekend. We will all miss him and we are glad that he is resting peacefully. The only reason why we believe he still taught is to keep himself alive. he would crack corny jokes before class..made us all giggle..We will miss him so dearly and we will never forget him. R.I.P... we love u

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: HIST245
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Finefrock has many serious health issues which prevent him from being an effective teacher. He loves the subject, but his lectures are from notes written in 1965, and you basically have to teach the material to yourself. Tests are impossible.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• 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:

A pretty nice guy, likes to joke around with the class, but his lectures are all over the place and he's extremely hard to follow. His tests are identification/essay and only cover a fraction of the material. It's impossible to know what to study. Don't take this class.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Do NOT TAKE FINEFROCK. impossible to follow, impossible to get a good grade unless you teach yourself. Spending this much money to go here and having to teach yoursef is pointless. AVOID AVOID

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: HIST245
• 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:

In my opinion this professor is the human equivalent of ambien. Whereas a black hole sucks light from the Universe, Dr. Finefrock sucks interest and aspiration. He is a detriment to the College of Charleston. If you are thinking of taking a course from him... DON"T.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

this man is a great person, but his teaching structure is out of tune. . . he stays in no order and often coughs extremely hard, interrupting lectures. . . One time he coughed so hard he farted

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: HIST102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Run, run fast.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: HIST277
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Finefrock is a charming and funny guy but is quite difficult to follow in a lecture. He does not encourage questions. He does not stay in any real order, which is very important in History. Everything you for this class is on you. He is not a lot of help. Read and come to class. Take notes! Take him if you are up for the challenge. I learned tons

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: HIST102
• 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:

It is easy to become overwhelmed in this class you don't put in much effort and expect any easy grade. I have to admit I was frustrated before I realized this teacher actually expects us to read and understand the material. If you are just looking for an easy A, this is not the class to take but if you actually want to learn, he's pretty cool.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: HIST276
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Those who rate him poorly probably do not put in the amount of work necessary for the field of study in general. He separates the wheat from the chaff no doubt. Listen closely and take notes - you must synthesize the material yourself. So, if you?re easily frightened by history do not take, but if you like a challenge -he comes highly recommended.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: HIST102
• 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:

awful. awful. awful. You will not understand ANYTHING. And he also is allergic to basically everything that moves so he'll start literally hackling during class. It's disgusting. I strongly advise you DO NOT take him. awful.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• 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:

dont take him...runnn

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: HIST276
• 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:

Nice guy I guess, but wow what a terrible professor. Impossible to take logical notes (in a history class this is very bad), NEVER encourages questions, just sits and reads from his notes. Both boring and difficult, which is a brutal combination. I wouldn't recommend this class.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• 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:

You'll be graded on is tests and random quizzes. Tests are all essay with a review sheet of about 100-200 terms you'll see eight of them on there. All he does is lecture with an occasional song. He gets into these coughing fits every day. He'll finish talking about a subject one class move on then say later on that he forgot some little detail.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He is a nice guy, but... His lectures go very fast and it's hard to know what is important. He gives random quizzes. For the tests he gives a study guide with 100+ terms. If you know the terms you might do well on the test. I ended up getting a D in the class because I gave up studying half way through the semester I was so pissed.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: HIST102
• 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:

He's very unhelpfull, everytime I asked him a question I always got an unclear answer. Be prepared to get a study guide with 100 terms only a few days before the test, then spend hours (BETTER YET DAYS) on it only to find things on the test that were not on the study guide. GOOD LUCK if you take this Professor...YOU'LL NEED IT!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: HIST101
• 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:

He manages to make a very interesting subject extremely boaring. Highly recomend NOT taking his class. Its not hard to make a decent grade but plan on doing it all yourself because he is not an effective teacher.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: HIST102
• 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:

Prof Finefrock is awesome. He is very helpful and really nice. Great guy!!