Reviews of professor Gillman Payette

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Horrible dont take this class HORRIBLE PROF

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He was wonderful. Hes brilliant and you learn so much from being in his class. Honestly, one of my favourite classes of my undergrad.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Our class was based on many papers, and a couple exams. The papers were easy to write if you were keeping up with the weekly reading, however he managed to make our open book final exam impossibly difficult... Other than that he is a very nice person and personally made me giggle every time he surprisingly swore in a lecture

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
just save yourself the trouble and stress please

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gillman is absolutely the worst professor I've ever had. Has a history of making finals impossible to the point where most of the class fails, which he did with our class. Told us prior to test that he thought it was too easy, and then our class got a 41% average on our open book final! Then he fixed our grades to cover up his mistake. Beware!!!!!!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lots of work is based on reading the material and then discussing it with assigned groups in the next class. Class discussions are interesting and engaging, but papers are annoying and time consuming. Hes a hard marker but genuinely is not too bad of a professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His classes are group-discussion based and is very engaging. He is extremely helpful and super nice if you have questions and is very approachable even outside the class times. His grading criteria is clear and helpful when writing assignments. Explains a lot of the material through podcasts on Moodle which are lifesavers!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy, enjoyed his class

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I really wanted to like him. He took the time to remember everyones names and was an interesting person. That being said, he had many flaws. The questions discussed in class were anything but thought provoking and his midterm was so unattainable that almost everyone failed it. According to him it was to "bring down the class average."

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is hilarious, very entertaining! His format for the class is less than ideal. You answer questions for the chapter before class and talk about them in groups then as a class. If you don't understand something it is hard to gain understanding by listening to him talk to other students sometimes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
how can a professor show up and not teach? look no further. he makes attendance mandatory. since when is uni high school? you come to class and he leads a group discussion which he calls "teaching"

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible prof, and terrible setup of this course. Lectures are 100% based off of student responses, no clear-cut answer to the questions. I finished the course but am still confused about everything. Very awkward to meet with, does not give clear answers. Very tough grader, and has too many errors with moodle. Emails basically everyday from him too