Reviews of professor Michael Caie

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Michael really made this course much more difficult than it needs to be. His TAs (who I will not name) are also absolutely brutal graders. Half the class usually gets a score of between failing to D+ for the tests, and the other half gets As. There is nearly no in between.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is a review for Prof. Caie's half of PHL232, a two-part course. Prof Caie's lectures are fairly clear and do a great job of presenting the material so you don't have to read all of the readings to succeed. My only complaint is that he uploads slide PDFs where each transition is a separate slide.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lecture slides are absurdly long with a new slide for every single point (over 100 slides each lecture). He also just reads exactly what's on the slides for the lecture so it's a little pointless. Overall though, he gets the job done so it's not bad.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Man could be an auctioneer, he talks so fast. He reads off his slides but doesn't post them. Flies through slides, and unless you type at 300 words per minute you're not getting everything. Save yourself the grief and spend your time doing and understanding the reading instead of going to class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Had him for two classes this year, the first was great and in my opinion he was one of my favourite profs, taught with a lot of clarity and explained ideas thoroughly.  This term he barely teaches and has a really negative and demeaning attitude towards his students when they speak to him 1on1. Would not take a class with him again for this reason.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not a very great professor for a course like this. His explanations are something you will have to review and constantly look over, this is made both difficult and a burden through his organization of lecture slides. Lectures are also very dense and gone through in an extremely fast manner if you are not to his pace then getting lost is very easy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I don't really feel like his lecturing itself helped me learn anything, he essentially just reads the slides, and anything he says that isn't on the slides is an extra example. Slides posted were indeed insane, he makes them 110+ slides long when they could easily be more around 30 slides.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
There was class participation in a class of over 200. Very hard grader. Lectures were disorganized and confusing. Would avoid taking.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Made complicated ideas very understandable, with clear & simple slides that always tracked what he was saying.