Reviews of professor Zackary Wainer

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Don't take unless you are super passionate about mythology and want to devote all your time to it. Class was way harder than it should have been and got no grades back all semester. Lowest grade I ever got at college was his class. He told someone he didn't teach it like an intro class and purposely made it harder even though it was an intro class

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
surprisingly boring and almost made me hate greek myth. a lot of focus on near eastern myth for a greek&roman myth class. no grades are given until the last two weeks of class, and the final is cumulative and ridiculously hard compared to the course. papers are fairly graded but the rubrics are often unclear so see him out of class if you want an A

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The final was not created fairly at all - gave us no topics to focus on. While this is fine for other courses, you can't really do that when you must read over 5 books, including other weekly readings, throughout the semester. Terrible at grading - took over a month to give us grades for our midterm paper (on the last week of classes). Awful course

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Wainer is a great guy, and he is very happy to help you outside of class. However, there were a lot of readings, and many of the lectures didn't go into much detail. Furthermore, much more of the class was dedicated to Near Eastern myth and the purveyors of mythology than I expected. Also, it took forever for graded work to be returned.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Nice prof but would not recommend this class. Lots of reading and too much focus on near eastern myths. Lectures were made up of only unanswered questions and quotes from the reading. No grades were given back throughout the semester. Final was very specific and counted for 30% which is absurd given that other intro myth classes didn't have a final

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nice enough professor, but class was boring and many students fell asleep during it. Sounds fun/interesting, really isn't. Only grade we've gotten back was our midterm paper (he took 6 weeks to grade it). Heavy reading and lectures/PowerPoints barely go over any of what was read. SparkNotes is going to be your best friend in this class.