Reviews of professor Trevor Van Damme

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Van Damme is an incredibly intelligent and caring professor. He is well-educated on practically every topic known in the ancient world and shows it with his passion for teaching. Assignments were painless and graded fairly. Easy A if you go to every lecture and take thorough notes. His pop culture references and jokes are the best!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Van Damme is so funny and his lectures are super engaging. He's clearly very knowledgeable and passionate about the Ancient Greeks and mythology. The quizzes are quite easy as long as you pay attention in class, and he uploads all of his slides after every lecture. The final project is very open-ended, which makes it fun.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall, this course was difficult. The course material and also the amount of research needed to be able to formulate great papers is exceptional. Grading by this professor is very strict and not only is it strict but you need to be very very detailed in how you write in order to get a 80%. The lectures were actually super boring, I stopped going

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
trevor is a phenomenal lecturer. he has his little jokes while being very knowledgeable. but the thing about his lectures, is that you dont necessarily need to go to them to pass the course. the course is primarily based on the readings rather than lectures. the lectures simply give context for the readings.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Trevor is very engaging and throws in lots of jokes and commentary that helps the class relate to the content! He has a really great personality that makes him really great to learn from! He also shows great interest in the course and made the somewhat boring aspects very cool!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really enjoyed this professor! Really wants his students to do well, assigns a fair amount of readings/work/assignments and is super friendly and funny. Grades super quickly and fairly and gives very constructive feedback. I would 100% take another course just because he teaches it. Can't recommend enough!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really amazing prof with great lectures. He is very funny and makes the lectures very engaging. Highly recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
TAKE THIS PROF! Definitely my favourite prof at UVic so far. He really cares about the success of his students, is flexible, a fair + quick grader, gives clear criteria and great feedback in order to help improve your work. Deadlines are fair, readings are relevant and not over-assigned and his lectures are fun. Cannot recommend enough!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Trevor is the best prof, if u can take a class with him you should. Makes history entertaining which is super impressive. Such a beauty