what an AWESOME prof!

excellent prof

very clear lectures write down everything

great prof

Well he looks a lot like Al Borlin from Home Improvement. Very good fellow.

Great Prof, one the best

Hypest prof I've had in 3yrs!!!!!!

repeats a lot so you can take good notes, but you really have to know your stuff

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Brilliant Prof !! 2 thumbs up, N, he does look like Al Borlin

Hype prof. Very easy to take notes and very informative.

Great professor! Very clear, very professor like in his posture

Great Prof, a little dogmatic. Neolib=Bad, yet he gives very clear arguments

He really knows what he is talking about, solid prof.

very biased in approach to POLS, yet very informative

great prof,repeats everything 800 times but write it all down

Very proffesional man. He's born to teach.

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awesome prof, highly knowledgeable. Al Borlin's twin!

its tool time...very good prof

Best prof ever!! Amazing lectures. Very interesting.

clear lectures, knowledgeable, it's Tool Time!

Best prof ever, keeps lectures interesting

Excellent prof, talks at the right pace, doesn't give you useless information. Writes important points on the board. Makes a dry course interesting.

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incredible prof, has great lecture, good pace and writes stuff on the board.. made political economy interesting

Excellent lecturer, very knowledgable. Willing to answer questions, and the exam and essay were fair but good

great prof. lectures can be a little dry sometimes, but that's the nature of the material. exams and course breakdown are fair.

a very good lecturer. One of the best profs i've had so far! Highly recommend others to take his class.

Probably the best professor overall I have had. Clear and helpful in lectures, and keeps things relatively interesting. Just do not get George as your tutorial leader.

one of york's best

wicked prof...just great. he really made me enjoy politics and realize that i actually GET IT. went from a D in october to B+ by april, my first ever A on an essay!!! great ta's too...his lectures just make SENSE, notetaking is easy and organized.

The best Prof I ever had. He keeps everything interesting and easy to understand.

SLOW DOWN.

Good prof.

POLS 1090, POLS 2100, POLS 3145 - Smardon is in my opinion the best prof I've ever seen at York. His lecture style is metered, comprehensive and detailed. You can't help but absord every word he says. Strange to say, but I actually love his lectures.

I will leave York with the opinion that he was one of the best Prof's I had. He frequently repeated the important material.

Excellent Prof

He is a good prof. He explains things very clear. Makes this class very easy to understand and more enjoyable than other prof's might. This course can be boring but he does explain it very well for us to understand what we need to know.

GREAT TEACHER, BUT DONT GET MIKE AS UR T.A.! HE IS A **** AND DOESNT KNOW WAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. HORRIBLE T.A.!

Overall, I found the course to be excellent. Professor Smardon was excellent, as was the T.A., Michael Stewart.

Prof. Smardon is amazing! I took intro to Pols back in 2000 and he was an awesome person! the teaching assistant for intro to pols Sabine Neidhart was awesome as well.

very clear and understanding

lectures are very clear, and he explains the material well.

I had no knowledge of politics etc before this class. Great teacher, helped make things clear and didnt overwhelm students with information. Only stated what was important

Awsome prof!

MOST AMAZING PROF!! helps with any problems, willing to listen and actually attempts to understand you problem; very clear in lectures no more words to describe his amazingness

Great prof!!!

amazing lecturer ever, repeats points for clarity, very pleasant man! very understanding and knows his info. recommend u take his courses ! susan one of the T.A.s fo rhtis course was also amazing

great prof, very interesting lectures

excellent - lectures interesting, straight forward, clear. assignment good, TAs good. I really recommend him. he made me love canadian politics

This is the best teacher I have had to date. Extremly clear lectures, slow and only the important details. TAs know what they are talking about and there was a good progression to the class. Would highly recommend...

Not a poli-sci. major, took the course as elective but WOW!! Almost made me want to change majors. That's how impressive this professor was. Not the most exciting lecturer, but very interesting and VERY organized. If you attend class and take even mediocre level notes, you'll have no problem passing

I loved this class I was a part of a Advanced Credit program at York as a high school student and I was worried if I'll survive university even though I don't have any uni experience sincec I was a high school student when I started but wow I loved the lectures & everything was straight forward

greatest prof in poli-sci. Always willing to help. Lectures are clear and concise. Excellent prof.

He's real clear, but he sounds like a BOOK! His exams are not as hard as he makes them sound.

Wonderful Prof. very clear in his lectures,i agree he sounds like a book,but thats what makes his lectures all the more fun!Great prof!

Prof Smardon KNOWS how to give a lecture

he knows how to give a lecture...v good lecturer

He is an excellent lecturer.

The God of teaching.

great prof! thouroghly goes through all readings in lecture. make sure you take good notes! exam was moderately easy.

Boring lectures, but overall he is a very fair Prof and his exam was fair. His essays are also fair - because we got to pick our topics!

Smardon is very articulate when he lectures. He reinforces main concepts and repeats important ideas before moving on. The pace of his lectures allows you to take A+ notes and fills in the confusion from the readings. If you take amazing notes for this class, you probably won't have to do much readi

He is such a nice professor and made the course interesting. If only my TA was as good as him it would have been my favourite course of the year.

Very clear, great prof, a bit vague in exam format and content

He's the ideal professor in that he covers all material that you could possibly need for your essays. His exams are also easy because they are open ended, and allow for a lot of freedom in how you answer them. No need for textbooks as long as you have a laptop, or take notes verbatim.

Awesome Prof! Lectures at a perfect pace, allowing you to take down pretty much whatever he says word for word. And if you happen to miss anything, don't worry he'll repeat it again and again. He cares about his students and is extremely helpful. T.A.'s were also really helpful.

Very nice and slow talking, easy to take notes from. Nice and Simple

he makes everything soooo interesting....LOVED HIM...HE DESERVES HIS PROF OF THE YEAR AWARD...GO SMARDON!!

Very good lecturer. His lectures are clear and simple and to the point. His exams are straight forward. A memorable class overall.

Smardon was an awesome prof. All of his lectures were clear and interesting. As well, his readings were interesting and relevant to lectures. The exams were very straight forward, meaning if u did the course work there is no reason u shouldnt do well on the exam. I would highly recommend Smardon and the course!

i took a class with him my first year and although i wasn't very informed on many of the topics covered in class, the manner in which he lectures makes it easy for just about anyone to learn and to gain the ability to form opinions about current issues. love his class

He knows what he is talking about, he gets the point across with great clarity and at the end of the day, even if you didn't know anything about the topic you will come out learning something. Obsessed with Keynesianism and Neoliberalism. Really fair and has a good style of teaching.

This professor has got to be the best one. He is amazing. He makes stuff that is boring and hard to understand really simplified and his lectures go through everything in a chronological order and by the time he is finished you will feel like you pretty much have everything you learned that day down-packed. His exams are really fair also.

Very clear and easy to understand. Tends to be repeatative.

He is a very informative prof, and knows exactly what he is talking about. I went into this class with no background of the course topics, however his lectures help you learn everything you need to know. The exams and essays are pretty straightforward as well.

awesome prof...wish more were like him

Exceptionally better than Klassen. Provides good incite, explains well and tries as best as he can to make the class recover from Klassen in the first semester. Occassionally has a good laugh and is very welcoming, kind of looks like a little teddy bear in a sweater.

Best prof ever!! Very organized, knows what he's talking about, and does his job!!!!

It was a double intensive course in the hottest summer. We were given the basics for an array of inter-disciplinary programs such as economics, law, social sciences ...

Extremely enthusiastic of the course material, always willing to answer questions during and after lectures. Did it during summer, so this 6 credit course was compressed into 3 months, but he made it VERY easy to follow along course concepts. Just do the readings and get a good TA, and you should get a good grade, and a vast knowledge of politics

Uses the chalkboard instead of powerpoint notes which can get a little confusing to follow chronologically, but his concepts are crystal clear, his explanations of theory is accurate and concise, and he presents the material from a very logical, organized historically chronological perspective. All tests in the same straightforward format.

He was a very boring professor, but he wrote all his notes down on the board which made studying for the exam much easier. It's an introductory course and he does a good job at it. Read the textbook and its an easy A.

As almost everyone has said here, he uses the chalkboard so get ready to take notes. Get a seat close to the front if you have bad eyes like me. He goes at a reasonable pace, and answers questions for those annoying enough to ask in a lecture. Really sweet guy overall. GET A GOOD TA - they will make or break your grade. Exams are easy.

Ended up doing pretty good in the class despite the fact that I never attended lecture. Lecture notes are almost completely useless for the exams but can be a bit helpful for the essays. Exams are super easy. He's a nice man and is also very helpful.

Pretty good prof. Writes every thing on the board and by every thing i mean every thing. Grading pretty much depends on your TA. Easy A.

very nice professor. goes at a reasonable pace and explains the materialessays very well

He is a great lecturer. I really enjoyed the material and lectures and I am a science major. One midterm (20%), one essay (30%), participation mark (20% -just attend tutorials) and final exam (30%). The readings do take some time and are moderate, but pretty interesting. However, the concepts are easy to grasp.

Not the most interesting classes ever, but attendance is necessary to understand the material. He was helpful and wrote everything he said on the board, which helped.

Very good prof overall. Highly recommended.

Writes everything on the blackboard and bases his tests off of what he writes on the board. Very fair and predictable tests. You don't need to do the readings in order to do very, very well since he spoon feeds everything you need to know. Missing class is not a good idea for this reason. No Moodle or Powerpoints.

Bruce is an amazing professor who really enhanced my overall interest in politics. He writes all of his notes on the chalk board and then this is the information you are tested on. His exams are very easy as long as you copied down all of the notes from the chalk board, thus making attendance mandatory. Bruce really made this course enjoyable!

Bruce is an amazing professor with a widespread comprehension of politics and business relations. He writes down all of his notes on the chalkboard so as long as you come to class and copy down everything he writes, you will be set. He only tests his students on the chalk board material so once again, attendance is definitely mandatory.

Professor Bruce Smardon is very knowledgeable about all topics relating to politics and business. He writes everything down on the chalkboard so as long as you show up to class and copy his notes, you will do very well. The midterm, final exam and major paper is all based strictly on his notes so once again, make sure you copy everything he writes!

Doesn't use technology (moodle, direct email), relies on TA's for communication regarding course dates, all lectures done by hand on chalk board no notes provided, very simple & easy content to follow

Enjoyable content, relies on the T/A's

Bruce is a great professor. He based this class around a discussion format, and all discussions are on the readings. Students are required to summarize two chapters for the semester and discuss them in class, which is helpful for the rest of the students in understanding content. As long as you attend class, it's easy to follow. Would take again.

Lectures are 2.5 hours. Constant note taking. Amazing professor and teaches the material really well!

Professor Smardon explains concepts clearly. He doesn't use any power points or moodle, and writes his lecture notes on the board, which is a problem if you miss class. Your grade mostly depends your TA, but if you go to lecture and use the lecture notes as a study/essay guide, the class should be an easy A.

Solid lecturer and learned good stuff from taking this course. If you show up to tutorials, do the readings, study for the exams, and take time with the two term papers, you're destined for an A or A+. I recommend even non-poli-sci majors take this course. It's straightforward and you'll be happy with what you take away from this course at the end.

Such a great professor! I had to take this class twice with him, due to the strike but he made the class very enjoyable! When I first took his course I was an EN major, after his first class I knew for sure I wanted to do Poli Sci. Attending lectures isn't necessary, but he does go over key concepts likely to be on the exam in the lectures.

Incredible prof, go to lectures and youll do great

Great class, very straightforward and easy in general. The professor only writes notes on the board but overtime I stopped going to class at all, buying the textbook is an absolute must and will do you better than only relying on his lecture notes.