If you have any sense do not take ENG 270. We never spoke about the materials we read; he talked more about how he's scared to drive and scared of fireworks. Maybe try taking acid before you take the course because he's got such messed up ideas of the world that nothing he says holds any value. Oh, but he will tell you how to get high off of Halls.

The wierdest class I have ever taken. It was supposed to be themes of popular fiction, which he then changed to themes of sin and death. At the beginning of the semester, I did the readings, but soon found that his lectures had nothing to do with the course material, or was very loosely based on it. Hard to understand but did good in the class!

Oh dear...he should not be teaching. He needs to write. Drop acid, come to class, and you might be right there with him. I feel this has been a waste of time and money. He is a great person but a horrible teacher. I wouldn't even call him a teacher. It's just awful.

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DO NOT TAKE A CLASS W/ HIM! Depspite what others say about him being edgy and cool, he is unorganized and boring. A really nice guy, but shouldn't be teaching b/c he isn't very good at it. Likes to talk about himself and neglect course matterial during lectures, if you can call them that. Sorry to anyone in his class reading this.

He is really into himself and not into class material. He claims he is taking a stand against the standard but really he just can't teach. I learned a lot about Carl Peters but absolutely nothing about American Lit. which is what I signed up for. If you like to learn about Carl Peters and not about literature, I recommend him!

He is just about the strangest teacher I have ever encountered. I dropped the class immediately after he made us read about "Billy the kid with the small prick." He does not know how to teach and he is obsessed with his two favourite authours, who happen to be friends of his.

Don't be fooled! Peters presents himself as edgey and different but really he is just a bad teacher. If that is edgey and different, I want my $500 I paid for the course. Really, he should be writing, probably about himself. That is all he really talks about anyway. You learn a lot about Carl Peters but not much about anything else.

The most usless teacher in the entire school. Is very hard to undersatnd, and goes of on tnagents about nothing. makse you red lectures that have no relevnece to the modern world. Over all Carl Peters is usless, stay away, and save yourself the grief of listening him talk randomly about nothing

It is hard to decipher what is being said through all the ummm's and uhhh's that he says while he is trying to prove a point. An english professor should not be saying those words as often as he says them!

The WORST teacher I have ever had in my life. The material is fascinating but his presentation is cluttered and confusing. He is not clear on expectations, assignments, or essays. I do not recommend this professor for anyone who wants to learn something.

This guy is a moron. He talks himself in circles and passes out his own writing for us to read which as utter rubbish. Ignores assigned texts and talks about himself incessantly. The fact that he was multiple degrees means nothing except that he was adult ADD. Avoid him like the plague if you want to actually learn something in English 105 at UFV.

What a moron! This guy is completely crazy, actually full-blown nuts. Has no clue how to teach, lecture, or guide students. He's ridiculous. Don't take him. You will regret it.

Super super hard. sorta annoying too. wouldn't recommend

This guy is a whack job! we spent the entire course looking at noble prize lectures which are very boring. There were multiple essays assigned in which I focused all my attention to one noble lecture on every assignment and still got good grades! This prof is unclear on what he wants and changes criteria with little to no warning often.

Do not, under any circumstances, take this teacher for English 105. He is incomprehensible, illogical, and ludicrous. The material he presents is uninteresting and unimportant, yet he demands high revere for its content. He lauds philosophical pointless discussion. AVOID him if you want to learn anything practical, purposeful, or logical.

Treats students as if they are children and shows zero respect.

Literally the WORST teacher I have ever had, he makes abstract comparisons between two works and doesn't explain how they relate, he just expects you to know. He assumes knows what he is talking about but makes no sense. He also hates modern technology so contacting him via email is a pain!

Carl Peters is a petty...petty man. He takes things personally and holds unprofessional grudges towards students. He is clearly a disgruntled man who is not putting his "four degrees and doctorate" to good use, and trust me he will brag about those accomplishments.

Worst teacher I have ever had. He would rather talk at you and does not take anything you say into consideration. Why are you teaching modern fiction if you hate books? AVOID!

Worst teacher I have ever taken in my life. His type of teaching English 105 is hell and I have not learned one bit about english and grammer for essays and papers because its necessary for my future to know English very well. If you want to just watch holocaust night and fog, charlie chaplin style, and helvitca font videos then go right ahead :(

1 of 2 If you seriously want to learn english and english is your second language please don't take him waste of money and time and depresses you a lot. I have to take English 105 again because I didn't learn anything about English and its my 6th language its important for business career the University does not audit or look over this guy...

Worst teacher I have ever taken in my life. His type of teaching English 105 is hell and I have not learned one bit about english and grammer for essays and papers because its necessary for my future to know English very well. If you want to just watch holocaust night and fog, charlie chaplin style, and helvitca font videos then go right ahead :(

The worst teacher I have ever had. It is an effort every week to force myself to go to his class. Sure, he sometimes has something interesting to say, but it's extremely rare. He rambles about himself and his opinion for most of the class, rarely saying anything relevant to the material. I would never take a class of his ever again.

This teacher is awful. Makes me feel stupid when emailing him, very disrespectful. Marks work based on his emotions, clearly unfair. Cannot, and should not be a university prof. PERIOD.

Carl is a very... different prof. He draws his assignments from the Nobel Lectures - which he admits are extremely challenging. His assignment outlines may be clear, but the papers needed to be read are extremely dense (ESPECIALLY for a 1st year uni student). He talks in circles and is incapable of giving a straight answer. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

Feedback was poor. Clearly allowing outside work stress to enter into class time. Grading and feedback made little to no sense and seemed to be based on whim. Extremely hostile to some classmates.

No, just no. Don't even think about it.

No, just, please trust me. Don't even think about it. Stop thinking of it.

carl is a nice guy but not a good teacher esp for first year students! he doesnt allow you to work with different material only sticks to nobel lectures and his marking style makes no sense! he wants everything to be perfect aka just like his work. gets off topic very easily and his lectures are very dry i would not take him again

Avoid his class at all costs, his assignments are extremely tough being that his readings are nobel lectures. He doesn't talk about anything but himself in class and goes off topic often.

He rambles, the whole time. If you are good at English you will do well but honestly it was SO boring every class and he is very unclear about every paper he assigns. Does not teach you the proper way to write university papers at all, if I handed my papers to any other prof they probably would laugh because the format is just random.

Talked insesently on how an informed opinion is the only opinion and then immediately followed that with weeks of his own biased and uninformed opionons. For an academic writing class I would argue we haven't learned a much structure at all.

Carl assigns massive papers to the class with minimal explanation or in-class coverage. Only about half the class is actually spent on relevant material. The other half, he spends ranting about his political opinions. Books and computers had to be put away, for mandatory viewings of The Comedy Network. He doesn't explain himself, and grades hard.

DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASS WITH HIM. Has no structure to his lectures, just rambles on about stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the class, ZERO chance of getting a good mark as you will have no idea what his grading is based off, very poor feedback, all round horrible class. !!!!DO NOT RECCOMEND!!!

Terrible instructor. Gets off topic very easily. Poor lectures and a waste of time. You can even skip class and you won't miss a thing. He literally just talks about nonsense throughout the class and on the last 10 mins, he would rush through the important facts we actually need to know.

Gives lots of feedback- but much of it is unclear. He spent most of the classes talking about his own opinion, and while lectures were interesting, they were not helpful for a first year student. He did not give clear grading requirements, nor did he explain how formal written work should be done.

Do NOT take this class if youknow what is good for you. Worst class I have ever taken. The most boring lectures EVER (you literally show up, sit in a chair for 3 hours while he talks about himself, his opinions, & his obsessions. E.g. Bob Dylan) Extremely hard marker. Very rude. Has sent me and several classmates very nasty emails. Should be fired.

This has been my least favorite class since starting at UFV. You wont learn much when it comes to English, yet he expects you to write brilliant essays by the end of the semester. This was the lowest grade I have received in university so far. I would not take his class again.

Worst prof I have ever had! He is a hard grader, and when I asked for feedback, help and suggestions on a poorly graded essay he told me he didn't have time to help, and he has already graded it. I don't think he is an appropriate person to be teaching entry-level English. His lectures are mostly about himself and his own accomplishments.

Allows students to submit drafts to check over them but leaves unprofessional and rude comments. Lectures were always off topic and did not have anything to do w academic writing. If you dont already write at a university level you are screwed. More like a philosophy class than English. waste of money. Marking criteria very vague no clarification

He doesnt make sense when he talks, tries to sound smart, biased.

POSTMODERNIST ALERT Dont know whats worse, his teaching or his writing. If you want to learn, find another prof. He also grades fairly tough, but on inconsistent criteria. Fails to read your work correctly, misses classes for personal reasons while expecting exemplary attendance, answers questions with unhelpful tangents... as bad as it gets.

Although Carl is passionate about what he teaches, he often forgets he is trying to teach a subject and tends to talk about topics that are not relevant to the class. There are quite a few papers you have to do and he is very picky when it comes to marking, the comments he writes back to them come across as very rude. Expects a lot for first year.

Doesnt understand it's an intro to formal writing, didnt teach much in the way of the course material. Also cited a book he wrote as a credible source to referance. I heard he made a student cry in one of his courses, but I dont know

He talks about himself a lot and he can be hard to follow; If you are already a good writer, you should succeed in his class but if you struggle with English I would not recommend to take his class. Though he is very passionate about writing, he doesn't really teach in the class. It's basically just lecture after lecture about utter nonsense

Carl is very passionate about English, but expects everyone to be just as passionate as he is. He is very opinionated to the point where you feel uncomfortable. I had to create quotes to read in the beginning of every class so i wouldn't go insane. Very tough/unreasonable grader. Do not take him if you have other choices.

As an ESL (English is second language) student. I have a hard time just to understand normal English. I was hoping to learn the basic of writing in this course but turn out I learned psychology, political and others topics which are not related to writing. Not recommended for ESL students unless you are EXTREMELY confident in your writing.

PLEASE AVOID. Carl is not a teacher, he is a self-absorbed rambler. Hours and hundreds of dollars spent to obtain no new knowledge or constructive feedback. He refused to provide a grading rubric and all correspondence with him via email or office hours was a genuine waste of my time. First time getting less than an A in a class and worked hard.

Very poor instructor. Of my 4 years at UFV he's by far the worst professor I have had. Marking criteria is very unclear and there is no real way to improve your grade. His lectures are useless for the course and for your grade. Many other fairer English professors you can take for 105 and other first year English courses.

I took his English 105 course, an intro to 'academic writing'. It is not an intro what so ever. He does not teach how to write, he just assigns papers. Feedback on assignments are very vague. He says things like "keep reading and writing, you'll get better." and then slaps a solid %70 percent on it. No one in my class got higher than %77. :/

Carl LOVES to hear the sound of his own voice. He has a ton of stories, but gets lost in the sauce. He rambles on about who knows what, and classes are not very engaging. He grades way to hard for an intro English course. Throughout my entire time at UFV, my worst grade was in his class, and I am now in my third year.

One of the most unorganized teachers I have ever experienced. He doesn't have regard for students who struggle with learning and only seems to focus on those who excel and understand the material from the get go. Already great at English and don't mind reading a lot of rather boring material? Go for it. Just not much is actually taught here.

WORST class I have ever taken. He gives horrible feedback, and marks as though we all have English PhD's. The class's highest score was a 74%. I am now a senior, and his class was the hardest I have taken in my four years. do not taken this class.

I had to take this as a freshman, i absolutely hated it, acts like everyone is going for a PHD in English. Hes super unhelpful with questions regarding assignments.

I am very disappointed that I took this class and paid money to do so. As this is an intro to writing class I expected to learn ways to improve my writing, however, that was not the case. When questions were asked I was often left more confused then I was prior. Grading felt random and lectures were never helpful. Feedback was often plain rude.

avoid at all costs. If you don't already have a PhD in English or an accomplished author do not expect any good marks or even helpful comments.

Absolutely terrible. Worst instructor I've had at UFV or anywhere. Every class was spent listening to Carl go on tangents completely unrelated to the course. And then there was the class where he forced us to watch a gruesome hour long video about the holocaust... in an english class. His grading is also all over the place and very inconsistent.

Although he is very nice in person, he marks really hard and is very blunt about mistakes in assignments. Cried a few times reading his feedbacks

When I say awful... I mean AWFUL! I can't believe Carl still has a job teaching. Having a PhD doesn't make you better than everyone or give you the right to treat everyone else like total garbage. Get over yourself and get a new job.

Garbage prof so many better options for Engl 105 at UFV. Lectures are useless as he just rambles about random stuff. Took 1/2 a lecture once to talk about his step dad.

Pros: Flexible due dates, fairly fast e-mail replier. Cons: Lectures were not helpful and had nothing to do WHAT he required from us. Very hard grader, I've personally never heard anyone get over a 75% for an essay, so the bar is set really high(too high, I would argue). DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD GPA.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS after my semester I plan to email him and maybe someone else at ufv to write about how he was so terrible. He is teaching a class with kids that are just exiting grade 12 english but he is expecting an english scholar to get good marks on the essays. please listen to these reviews and dont let him to belittle your english skills.

Carl had the audacity to blame our inadequate grades on us for not taking notes during his lectures, where he goes on useless tangents about things completely unrelated to the course. I attend his lectures hoping we might actually learn something eventually, but we never do. I'm clearly delusional. I try my hardest not to fall asleep in his class.

The absolute worst professor ever. I regret taking this English class. L Prof.

If you want to reach a new level of stress and confusion for 4 months then this is the course for you. If you are thinking about it - stop thinking about it. Just listen to me. Please.

Do not take this prof if you care about your GPA or your sanity. His essays aren't difficult but Carl will not give you above 75% and his comments aren't useful and often rude. Nothing productive ever happens and you don't learn anything. Only good thing is flexible deadlines. My class went from 30 to 5 students by the end, that's saying something.

I have very few positives to say about Carl Peters, so I'll begin with those: he is clearly passionate, and a great speaker. His course reader is well constructed. However, he is an extremely harsh marker with unrealistic expectations for an intro English course. His criticism was unhelpful and lectures often turned conspiratorial. Uncomfortable!

He is extremely difficult. This class was taken by me two years ago and he is still by far my worse prof to this day he only talks about himself and is quite rude and inappropriate with marking. We had a group chat of 50 ppl it got so bad.

you can't get higher than 70 and some assignment go unexplained. There are random readings that have nothing to do with assignments. Overall a very messy course that you have to guide yourself through.

Worst professor I've ever had the displeasure of taking. Tough grader & doesn't provide clear expectations for coursework. Doesn't teach anything related to academic writing. Prepare for deranged conspiratorial rants, horrible advice which will damage your writing skills, and a tanked GPA if you take this class. How does this man still have a job?

Kind in person, not so much in emails. It was basically a class on Carl Peters. He told us that he doesn't care about typical writing conventions (and would bring up Bill Bissett in every class), and sometimes he will also purposely mispell things. Then he'll mark if you don't follow the conventions correctly. I learned nothing about how to write.

Extremely rude when grading papers online, would often give out his own writings for students to read and analyze. He gave me the worst grade I've ever received in an English course. He did not treat ENG105 as an entry level course.

Never ever take this professor. He is awful

not recommended

First semester of university EVER. I am a very anxious person and have lower self-confidence, still have a month left of the course. I used to pride myself on my writing ability, always receiving high A's in English and on essays. Carl has a way of making you feel worthless with such cruel "feedback". His lectures are hard to follow.

He thinks that if he is a writer then everyone is a writer

if you're not an author don't take this course. All my essays were graded as a C- and if i was lucky a C+. in his "Lectures" all he does is ramble about his niece, wife or other very off topic thing. ONLY TAKE IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE, not how to write an essay!! is not a first year course.

He simply does not teach. He will show his own writings and talk about why they are so artsy, unique, and how they break conventions, then dock marks because we do things that don't adhere to strict rules (rules that he never laid out). - Never had peer reviews - Gave no chance to submit drafts - Would ramble incoherently for most of a lecture

He talked down to me and berated me for emailing on the weekend, asking a question. I literally cried because he treated me so poorly. Worst professor I have ever had! Don't take his class.