Reviews of professor Michael Carpenter

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Awful monotone prof whom consistently fell behind in his own class leaving just two days at the end of term to teach an entire section of the course. Takes 1.5 months to hand back a mere 1500 word paper, an did this two times, both of which he consistently lied about when hed actually get the grade back. Grading is beyond arbitrary. Do not take...

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Michael is great! He is so engaged in the material and makes lectures seem so fun and interesting! Readings are also very manageable.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Carpenter was passionate about the subject he was teaching, but he was a hard marker with little feedback even after taking 2 months to mark. The final, worth 40%, included 15 mc and 3 short answers including how an author organized his chapters rather than the actual content of the course. The tests seemed like a trick to bring down the average.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While I do not use this site because it does not seem like an effective method for evaluating instructors, I was reminded to recognize Dr. Carpenter when registering for courses next summer 2021, on of which will be a seminar course taught by him. Dr. Carpenter is an outstanding instructor at the UVIC and deserves an award for teaching excellence

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Michael possesses profound expertise in world politics and clearly articulates each topic without bias. His lectures are good but they are basically summaries of textbook chapters, which reduces the need for attendance. Regardless, I highly recommend Michael's courses as I have learned a substantial amount. A somewhat tough grader but he is fair.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures were a little dull, he would regularly go on tangents that weren't entirely relevant to the course. A lot of readings that you weren't tested on but were mandatory.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This instructor demonstrated professionalism and competence in teaching the course. Michael is very intelligent and an expert in his field. Michael just needs to adopt the following mannerism in order for student(s) to feel welcome rather than intimidated: 1)"Receptive and open to questions" rather than responding in a condescending tone.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Michael is the best professor I've had. He is super keen on keeping his lectures connected to branches of what the primary topic is. I have learned the most from him and I highly recommend taking POLI 103 with Michael.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Michael knows his stuff! But I noticed his views are one-sided in his lectures and attitude toward some of the students in his class was shocking, like not vert polite, aside from these things, he's an avergae professor

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor if you are a leftist / are not Jewish or Israeli. Guise of being unbiased is almost more dangerous than an outright radical stance because it is easy to be fooled. His explanations of Israel leave out such important information about the Jewish/Israeli experience you'd think he's getting paid by Al Jazeera.