Julie Allen - York University (all campuses)

Professor: Julie Allen

Department: TBD

College: York University (all campuses)

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MODR1760
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Prof. Allen is kind and easy to access outside of class. She is very helpful in emails and is generous with deadlines during this pandemic. She is a tough marker from what I can tell as of now, but we only have 1/4 grades back and already completed the final assignment. I just wish she would provide us with our grades in a more timely fashion.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MODR1760
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Attendance is important & she will call out students who rarely participate. Tests contain material from the textbook AND from class. If u don't understand smthing, ask her and she will explain thoroughly. Good prof but lectures can be long & boring depending on the content that week. Also the course is almost done and we only have 1/4 grades back.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MODR1760
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She's a good & kind person but as a prof, she fails big time! She often makes unnecessary passive-aggressive comments towards students, regularly late to lectures, never gives marks back on time, is not clear in instructions of assignment unless you ask her what she exactly wants on the paper. Several times, she's canceled lectures 1 hour before.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PHIL2075
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

DrAllen is actually very kind individual. Her lectures are funny & informational if you listen. She released a List of the exam short answers to study for. Majority of your marks for Phil2075 depend on your TA so if they mark easy, you will be golden! Textbook isnt necessary because its just a compilation of Ethics papers that available online.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MODR1760
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I believe the course was meant to be fairly easy and straightforward. However, the professor has failed to return anything back by the end of the course and it leaves students confused as to where they stand in the course. Otherwise, the professor is very boring and attendance is mandatory to receive your 20% participation grade.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MODR1760
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Monotone, hard, all essays. You won't get grades back and you'll be bored.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MODR1760
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She is inefficient when it comes to getting grades back, it is the end of the semester and she still hasn't marked a single thing we have done. Due to this there is no feedback whatsoever. It is very dry. For detailed instruction you should come to class because she taught things that aren't in the textbook. Wouldn't recommend this course with her

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MODR1770
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I found that the material she taught in lectures did not align to what was supposed to be taught in the course. Her lectures are very intense, so boring and super difficult to keep up with. I'm definitely not dumb but I would not recommend anyone to take this course if you think its a bird course - it is not a bird course, especially with her!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PHIL2070
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Really great content and planning .... The course flowed like a waterslide from ancient Greek to angry britts in 6 weeks. There was a lot of writing (wouldn't be except the course was condensed) but it made sense and there was a lot of room for flexibility in topics. Great course would take it again

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PHIL2070
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

All the exam/assignment questions were based off things we didn't go over in class to force you to do the readings (which were long) so there was no benefit to showing up for lectures, which were dry and dragged on. TAs had to teach us everything we were going to be graded on. All the readings can be found for free online if you just Google them.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PHIL2070
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Bad prof, boring, monotone. Her voice is very harsh and the way she talks comes off as aggressive. She uses sparknotes to teach... word for word, and quote for quote. The two TA's who were assisting her in the course knew more about the course material than her. The course was very disorganized, and instead of moodle she uses turnitin

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PHIL2070
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Her voice is absolutely terrible. Easy to fall asleep in her class. Her lectures are overall pretty boring. I used to enjoy philosophy, but her class was just awful. Learning more from the T.A. then I do her.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PHIL3020
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Prof. Julie Allen has a clear and understandable teaching style. This class consisted of two in-class tests which were average difficulty, and two essays. She allows students to miss ONE out of two tests for a valid reason without any documentation, and provides a make-up assignment. A very fair marker; my grades were always higher than I expected.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MODR1770
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Shes an ok prof. you better have a clear head and re-read the textbook to understand it. you need to understand the materials rather than just memorize whats in the textbook. its pretty easy however the last paper was confusing to do because her outline for it was confusing. But she will help you alot if you just ask her for help.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PHIL1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Prof. Allen is very monotone and boring to listen to in lecture. For a first year PHIL course this course in my opinion is intense. On the plus side she missed a ton of classes so our exam had less on it. If you can't write essays do not take this course. Basically 100% essays. And TA's make it or break it. Too much info for a 1st yr course!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PHIL4070
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Julie Allen is one of those 'old school' professors whose sole intent seems to be to get the students to learn the required material. Although she is a genuinely nice person, there is no room for ignorance in her classroom. I've taken two classes with her at York and I would take more if I could.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PHIL1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

She is a very monotone speaker making lectures very boring.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: PHIL1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She does explain some of the concepts pretty well, by using analogies. Though it is hard to follow when there is no lecture slide to focus on the material. My TA was not very good, she doesn't really help us understand the readings that much.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MODR1760
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

A great professor. Explain the doubts using simple examples for better understanding. I took this full year course in 1 semester. Recommend this professor for this course

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PHIL1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Her voice is difficult to focus on.