Reviews of professor Michael Laurence

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Laurence is really funny and chill during lectures, he makes funny jokes. The material is very boring but he makes it fun and I never used the textbook unless it was for the assignments. He also ran my tutorials which was nice when you have questions. The mid term and exam was moderate, he does give hints about what is going to be on them.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mike is a tremendous professor and a case study on how to treat your students with kindness, respect, and humility. In all my interactions with him, I always felt like I was talking to someone who cared about my success in the course. Put simply, he is a must-take for any student, and will be the standard you evaluate your future profs against.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mike is the BEST. Lectures were engaging and the assigned readings were fantastic (I actually wanted to read them)! Super caring/understanding and wants his students to succeed. He made political theory super interesting and incorporated pop culture in assignments, which were really fun and not typical/boring. Couldn't recommend more!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I've taken classes with Mike twice now, and he is a GEM. Literally one of the most genuinely funny and kind profs at SFU, especially in political science. I plan on taking every class I can get with him. He is lenient with extensions and released our final one day early for extra time, and marks very fair. Overall, you'll love him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A fantastic and inspirational professor at SFU. His course was equally fantastic and very interesting. I would highly recommend anyone to take a course with Michael.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
easy class with fair exams, don't but a textbook cause you will never use it. If you study the slides you will be good to go and pass the class with flying colours. Only downside was the TAs marking was very inconsistant and your grade on papers fully depended on which TA marked it