Reviews of professor Ilyan Ferrer

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Believes grades are "arbitrary" and marks extremely tough as a result. Group project heavy. Course load is intense and "lectures" are discussions based on readings.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you put the work into it, you got a good mark. The podcast assignment may seem intimidating, but it's a good experience to have. Afterwards, Ilyan took a chance on my interests and got me involved in a research project for my benefit. Ilyan was a very supportive and engaging professor. Thanks for everything, Ilyan!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He uses other professors silde shows and lecture videos and expects you to already do the lectures before attending the real class were it is treated as a discussion and does not overlook the real syllabus. He is a tough grader and the quizzes didn't reflect the lecture videos because it wasn't his content. the notes i had were not helpful at all

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prepare to teach yourself as this professor during all lectures goes off topic and doesn't teach. It is just a discussion class about the thousands of readings you have to do which is all the tests are on. Lecture content barely used in quizzes and doesn't help you if you ask because he thinks "helping you to get a better mark is arbitrary."

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Forgetful. Barely responded to my emails.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy, but does not teach a lot- most of the SOWK 1001 content is built off the asynchronous material and not the mandatory classes, which were more discussion groups than anything else. Not a very interesting course either, but to be fair the subject matter itself is a bit dry. Grading guidelines not very clear, extremely reading-heavy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ilyan is a great professor who really cares about his students and their learning. Completing a podcast for this class was a challenge, but he did not expect anyone to be a tech-genius and a lot of help was provided. I enjoyed the experience to learn something new and have his support throughout the journey. Thanks Ilyan!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Rubrics were a "suggestion" that he didn't want you to follow (but didn't tell you) . He's the only prof that expected non-tech students to create a podcast. He took WEEKS to get assignments back to us, which was detrimental to the quality of the next ones. He ALWAYS contradicted himself and seemed to forget that when he marked our work. AVOID HIM!