Reviews of professor Stephen Penner

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is caring, knowledgeable, and emphasizes the importance of learning and listening to different perspectives and ways of living. He is amazing, I would take his class again 100%

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Penner is a tough grader and doesn't provide great feedback on tests/papers, but I found that if you participated every now and then he'd ease up and wasn't so intimidating. 
Not sure about his other classes, but for IS1017 his lectures were all over the place and hard to follow.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Despite this being a first year course, he expected everyone to have prior knowledge of Indigenous groups (he's not Indigenous himself) and was condescending if you didn't. Rude to students who didn't give the answer he thought of. Disorganized. I'd recommend taking this course with a different prof if you want to actually get something out of it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Grades really easy. His lectures have way too much information in them and I think out of all the classes he only ever finished his PowerPoint maybe twice. His expectations are unclear for assignments. He said certain information should just be "common knowledge" so he did not bother reviewing them or even teaching them to begin with.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Penner's lectures are unstructured, hard to follow, and have little to do with his exams. He encourages participation but is condescending if you are wrong/not as knowledgeable as he is. He gave an outline for the midterm w/ specific things to understand/memorize, none of which were on the exam. He often forgets to post slides or posts them late.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND, has a very large ego and was very rude to certain students in the class. Did not give proper instruction then would take marks off for reasons that were unclear. The class can be relatively easy if you want to argue every grade and study everything from all the lecture notes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
(Took HIST-1009 not IS-1017). Prof clearly has a big ego. Expects you to just know things he hasn't even mentioned, will throw out new terms and not explain their meaning because "we need to ask what they mean if we want to know". Grading is all over the place (get 100 on one thing and 50 on another seemingly identical thing). Do not recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
stephen honestly is an amazing professor. while i do agree his slides can be disorganized, he truly does care for his students and wants them to succeed. if you're struggling on a concept hes always available to offer help and gives really good feedback on tests/assignments. if you do take 1016 IS, just make sure you pay attention in lecture!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took a class with him a year ago and to this day I still don't like him. The course material for me wasn't that bad because it was either things that I learnt in high school or that I could google. He was very condescending to students and to be honest didn't seem to care if anyone was actually learning or not. Also group projects in this age??