Brooklyn College Teacher Ratings: MAJORS
Accounting
Crosborne - he's boring and doesn't teach much, but tests are good.
Davidoff - very bad, hard tests without curve.
Giladi - very good, but tough; frum woman
Lachman - decent, easy
Langer - very good
Mctague - good
Minars - very good
Shoenthal - good
Testa - decent, takes tough Q's from a Q bank for tests, but curves.
Widman - very good
Biology
Basil - very good
Eschel - bad
Forest - bad
Franz - bring a pillow, my cousin says. Also, I didn't like the guy.
Gavin(17)- bad
Godde - good 'n easygoing
Korolyev(17.1)- bad
MaCantee - good, but very strict (and strange)
McGowan(29)- good
Muth - good
Nishuara(17.1)- good
Qehi - very good
Business (See Economics & Business)
Chemistry
Cohen (Irving?) - decent
Davenport - decent (she doesn't explain too well)
Girroto - good, explains well, nice person
Goldberg - bad
Greer - good
Haberfield - good
Howell - extremely tough
Howery - good
Kahanda - very good (Is this mixed up with computers?)
Levine - good
Abassi - decent (hard to understand, but her tests are not bad and she is helpful on exams)
Computers
Ahmed Abd El Al, Networking classes - very knowledgable, very bright guy. Accent difficult to understand, but once you get over it, very good
teacher. Tests pretty easy, HW a bit difficult if you want to do it right, but bearable. Arabic background not a problem.
Ajaz Sana - terrible, pre-req is Hindu 101. Easy ?A? though.
Dipak Basu, Operating Systems - I have never met a man more full of himself. Will work you VERY hard - believes BC should be taught no different than Harvard, except BC students should work harder. Will make fun of you in class if ask bad questions.
Clark - computer architecture - very nice guy,gives good lectures. BUT, assumes you know too much coming into the course, tests and projects are 90% not based on lectures but on a difficult book. Usually does not give tests, only projects and a takehome final, which is a BAD thing - the final is ridiculously hard, most of the class will cheat on it so your score will be lower in comparison if you don't.
Cogan - very good (frum woman, great teacher, lot of work)
Cox - good, workload ok, interesting guy
Cook - very good (teaches well, grades well)
Dexter - decent
Essaffi - good
Etinger - very good
Fenwick - doesn't always explain very well, but gives easy tests
Fleischer - very good (very funny)
Francis - good
Friedman - very good teacher, but a bit hard (frum guy)Shlomo Friedman, Hardware type classes - not a very good teacher, but gives you old test very similar to one he'll test you on. Get a little 'mesorah' going from previous semester tests and you should have every
question he'll ask on your test (different numbers, same style questions). Very nice guy, being frum helps your grade.
Gathos - (CIS 714) aweful
Gueye - easy
Rave Harpaz, programming classes - Fairly good teacher but not great. Very easy tests. Israeli, not frum. Very entertaining guy, good sense of humor. Doesn't usually have much time to give personal help/attention, which can be difficult with programming classes. Still recommended for an easy and somewhat informative class.
Harrow - good - multiple courses, esp. database systems(by reputation) - fair person, fair tests, good teacher, makes you do a lot of work.
Heinsch - good
Husarsky - very good, supposedly less homework than some teachers
Jervis - will strike you down
Kahanda - good, but a bit difficult to understand
Danny Kopec - IT management courses and AI - super nice guy, knowledgable about his own interests, and quite possibly the worst teacher I've ever had in my college career. Lectures are unorganized, scatterbrained, and have little to do with tests, which are usually unfair. Gets intimidated by harder material and frankly has no idea how to teach it - says "Look this up in the book" when he doesn't know what he's talking about, then tests you on the stuff anyway. Makes you do a LOT of work for his own profit, hoping to get his name published with your work.
Langsem - very hard, but fair grader
Leiser - Everyone tells me something different! From v. bad to good.
Efraim Levine, C programming - very smart, knowledgable, good teacher. Tests are extremely thorough, but not necessarily hard. Lots of HW (but normal for programming classes).
Listhaus - decent (lot of work, but easy)
Lowenthal - good (frum, real easy, but you won't learn a lot)
Stephen Lucci, AI - wonderful teacher. Very clear,very knowledgable, very good guy. In charge of AI section of graduate comprehensive exam, gives a review each semester that should not be missed under any circumstances. Big drawback is he will keep class VERY late on a regular basis (we're talking half hour and more sometimes) and tests can LITERALLY go hours overtime. Fair grader.
Mollah - Good for grades, bad for learning. Assigns group projects.
Eric Pacuit, Computer Graphics - might have changed since then, but was a clueless PhD student. Very easy A, very little work. You won't learn a blessed thing in his class - doesn't show up often, ends classes
early, spends class time on stupidities that you don't have to know.
Rankanthawar? - bad
Ezra Rhein, IT management courses - helps a lot to be frum and speak English. Very knowledgable, business experienced, nice guy. Loves classroom discussion and dialogue, to a fault - he is over-talkative, will sometimes keep classes late to finish his lectures.
Fair tests, on the easy side. Lots of projects, but that is the nature of the classes he teaches, not his fault. Relatively easy A.
Scarlatos - she's OK.
Sverdlov - bad (v. bad teacher, but good grades)
Thurm - you'll either hate him or love him, but good overall, 4 SHC - Joe Thurm, Database Systems, Intro to Computers, Advanced applications, others - The most interesting professor Brooklyn College has to offer. Excellent teacher, excellent background in practical applications, makes courses very interesting and applicable to real world jobs. Tests range depending on the course from easy to hard (DB usually hard, others easy - midterm/final 100 T/F). However, very fair - if you make a good case he'll give you credit. Standup comedian, has class in stitches. WARNING - frum Jews, especially girls, may be very offended by his extremely crude, often sexual-based sense of humor
and antics.
Waraporn - bad/decent (hard to understand)
Yanofsky - good (teaches very well, apparently)
Zachos - aweful, stay away
Zamir - Never heard of him, for those who are asking
Ziegler - really bad (though some Juan fellow likes him very much)
Zhou - very bad
Economics & Business
Amoo - good
Arenberg - good (though I just got an unconfirmed negative report)
Battacharya - good for 50.x, bad for 70.2
Bell - sort of decent
Broder - free A
Carrington - gives a book report in 50.1
Cherry - good:a pretty tough professor but lets you bring notes to test (very helpful). Also curves.
Christian - an awesome professor, young, easy and lets you out early
Davidoff - bad
Fox - lame, not good
Friedman - very good
Glieberman - easy as pie (Bus 31.1) esp. if you're ok with some math
Goldberg - bad
Horowitz - very bad
Leibman - good, methodical teacher
Minars - good/very good, but only if you can handle some math
Siaahan - very bad (doesn't really speak English)
Sardy - homework is 70% of grade
Solomon - good
Uctum - decent
Weinstien - very good, easy grader (for Bus 80.1)
Yarmish - very good (at least in BC, in Touro he's a tough cookie)
English
Beckson - very bad
Bianco - decent (hard but good grades)
Brown - very good
Cunningham - good
Devany - good
Dufresne - very good
Dunlap - very good (rated for Core 6)
Fowler - good
Fox - good (a lot of work, good grades)
Gerber - good (easy class)
Goldman - if I stop one person from taking him, my work is done
Grosz - good, fun guy, good teacher
Harrison - good
Hirsch - risky: one person says "British Banshee", whatever that means
Katzer - decent (frum woman, serious research paper)
King - good
Kovacs - good
Limsky - good
Luisi - bad
Masoni - very good
Milbourne - material is all black right's stuff, strict on attendance
Moser - mean person
Officer - very bad
Peroni - bad
Pilgrim - very good (graded for core 6)
Poinsatt - probably grades well, but nothing special
Raphan - very good
Reeves - very bad
Romer - very good (good grader)
Roy - decent
Royce - bad
Schick - decent (frum woman)
Shiselman - very good
Solomon - good
Ms. Telcher - decent (easy class, tough with A's)
Telker - very bad
Vassileva - some good friends of mine REALLY don't like her
Watkins - excellent (cute, fun and an A with very little work)
Zanderer - very good (his class rocks), but it's a bit tough to get an A
Zlotnick - monster
Mathematics
Bouziakova - very good, if you believe my sister or Shmaya
Corzan - very good and a nice guy (rated for 8.1)
Forrester - bad (terrible, but easy tests, rated for Precal)
Gittings - teaches very well, and no surprises on tests
Green - decent
Halpern - decent, or so I hear
Halpert - decent (frum guy)
Hennefeld - good
Hochberg - very, very good; has a small standard deviation; IS frum
Hseih - Not understandable! If you can teach yourself, I guess you're ok.
Huarco - very bad
Kohn - decent
Korzan - decent
Kwak - very bad
Majidi - good, drops lowest test
Marathe - very tricky questions
Margulies - good (very good but hard, rated for Precal)
Matè - bad
Miller - avoid if at all possible
Reisenberg - good, I guess. He sometimes exempts from final.
Rue - good?
Shapiro - I'm sure he was once a good teacher
Shloming - Awesome. Come early the first day; seats are permanent.
Sibner - Is he a really bad teacher? Yes. Will you get an A? Probably.
Snow - confirmed as very bad, I wanted to be sure before writing it
Spatz - good (explains well) and he's frum
Stone - bad
Physical Education
Axen (human physiology) - good teacher must study hard to get the A
Scherza (anatomy) - hard
Yingling (anatomy) - good take her if possible
Physics
Gahemes - very good
Holden - good
Kelly - decent
Kreeger - decent
Lesser - decent
Miyano - bad
Solenza - bad
Tung - decent
Political Science
(See Core 3 teachers)
Currah - very good
Goodhart - decent
Krause - not that great
Ness - decent
Unger - good
Psychology
Alfieri (Lou) - fantastic, very chilled
Birnbaum - very good
Brannon - good
Chanowitz - very good (but boring)
Chaudary - good
Delameter - very bad
Elderyi - decent (funny)
Haas - bad
Halpert - bad
Jorgansen - decent (easy but boring)
Kozbelt - very good teacher for statistics (40.1) although there is work involved, if you keep up with the work you should get the A. He is pretty generous with grading.
Kurylo - decent, but pretty tough (premed students will like him a lot - lots of bio)
Litman - very good
Maran - very good
McDonough - good?
Miles - very good
Osman - bad
Rall - Abnormally awesome
Ribaudo - very good
Romer - decent
Tannazzo - good-very nice and straightforward
Tenenbaum - excellent for experimental
Snadowsky - very good
Urick - boring, but easy
Weinberger (Sara) - great
Weston - decent
Spanish
Sherzer - amazing
Frumkina - decent