It's kinda sad when another prof teaching a different class is clarifying your lectures because you are too vague. Also tends to come across as pompous. Assumes one minute you know everything about the class, the next, nothing. Very un-user friendly.

The worst proff. I have ever had. why they hired him is beyond me?? His lecture notes are unclear, All he does is ask questions in class, so basically your note taking will come from the comments of students. I wonder who the teacher is here?

Teaching ability... he has some?! Ummm no

I began this course excited to learn about a new realm of history. Instead, this prof's greatest asset to classes are his credentials. 20% of the mark comes from our poorly done in class assignments. His marking is fair, but I find him condescending, and he leaves the lecturing up to the keeners.

By far the worst prof i have had at Acadia in my 4 years. He figured he was the only course i had all year, did not teach the subject well and came across as an ass, who was a scholar and not a professor

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Worst prof I have ever encountered and he is dumbing down the history programe. Nobody in class knows what is due or expected, plus he repeats lectures. Not on the same level as other Acadia profs.

WORST prof I have ever encountered. Slamming doors and threatening students is unacceptable, yet is Whidden's way and I was not the only one he did that to. Praying that the university revokes his contract so that more students don't have to endure his very dumbed down classes.

Jamie Whidden, the sight of him makes me squinch inside. I and a few others had a personality clash with him. His teaching isn't good and if he doesn't take an automatic liking to you. Your success in the class is limited.

He is actually incompetent. The only reason I'm in his class is because I need to get my degree. He doesn't actually teach you anything. He just makes you read the text and then discuss it in class. So he spends most the class just asking us for our opinion.

Totally disinteresting, in my opinion. I hated his class and didn't like him much as a prof but to each their own! Wouldn't take a course from him ever again unless I had no other choice!

One of the worst professors I've ever had. Has unclear expectations of students.

Mr. Whidden was unorganized and often late to his own class. The class was taught through the text book with no real lectures or interesting discussions. Probably one of the worst teachers at Acadia...

Dr. Whidden is nice enough but has a bad, disorganized teaching style. I love history and this was my least favourite course taken at Acadia. I can't tell you one thing I learned from his lectures the whole semester. Basically a bunch of random facts that are disconnected. He doesn't explain what you're going to be tested on clearly either.

Very disorganized, does not come to class prepared. Asks way too much (have to upload notes from every class to ACORN for participation). Group work every day doing the same thing. Not clear.

Had I known of Whiddens teaching style, I would never have taken this course. He is arrogant, disorganized and does not care about students. I would seriously recommend you avoid any of his courses if you would like to keep your GPA and enjoy your time in university.

Seems genuinely nice, but lacks organizational and speaking skills needed for teaching. Incredibly floaty, speaks almost as if we all are supposed to know everything already. Unclear to the point of rarely knowing what you are supposed, and every time you enter class being terrified that there was something you were supposed to have done.

This is a terrible class. You deserve better. If you have any pride for yourself and your grades you will turn around now and remove yourself from this course. This will hurt your GPA and your academics. Whidden is a terrible Prof who doesn't care about students and helping them improve.

Prof Whidden has provided me with the worst course experience of all at Acadia University. He is completely unorganized, changes directions all the time and comes to class constantly unprepared. He lacks the skills and empathy of a good professor. If you have the choice of choosing or avoiding one of his classes, I would recommend staying away.

Dr. Whidden is so very disorganized and unprepared that it is impossible to learn anything in this class. Every class just feels like an improvised spiel where you are left wondering what you even learned. Every class is boring and long. It is such a drag. Please stay clear of this prof.

Dr Whidden's class is a mess. There are weekly quizzes where there are more than one correct answer but he only considers one to be the 'best' answer. His lectures often contradict the textbook but he says that when you're being marked to always go off the textbook and not him. What is the point of going to lectures?

Jamie Whidden is a very frustrating professor. He is very inconsistent and often changes what he is looking for every single class. It is very annoying. He often doesn't provide clearly written assignment instructions. When he is marking, it almost seems like he pulls a grade out of thin air, no criteria to back it up! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!

Never have I had such a professor as oblivious to academic rules as Jamie Whidden. He may have handed out a syllabus at the start of the semester but he did not stick to it. He made changes to assignment expectations and deadlines regularly without notifying students. He also doesn't use grading rubrics. His teaching style is one to avoid.

This class was terrible. Avoid Jamie Whidden like the black plague!!

Would never have taken the class had I've known. It's been a boring and challenging elective.

In one class he taught us contradictory information to the textbook and handed out a quiz. There was multiple choice with the answer being either what he taught us in class or from the book. When it was corrected, he said that we dont go off of what he teaches us in class but we go off of what the textbook says. What? That is not fair! Avoid!!!!!!

Jamie Whidden is an incredibly unhelpful prof. Directions were unclear, material was gone over poorly and dully. His lectures did more damage to my understanding that helpfulness. When I went for him for help he did very little. He does not have clear marking schemes. He often comes up with a number in his head without anything to back it up.

Directions unfair, bad grading, unfair prof. Would not recommend

Hes so unclear and unorganized. He changed how the midterm would be written the night before and all the classes we just random class discussions that we pretty irrelevant. He claims that he wants you to think critically and form you own ideas about history but gives poor marks if he doesnt agree with what you say in your midterm or essay.

Speaks fo the entire lecture but doesn't say anything valuable, but expects attendance. Grades don't make any sense, Expect the class to be taught through group presentations, rambles when giving feedback, doesn't speak clearly or loudly, grades are distributed to make you fail the course. I would give u a 0 but that's not possible, so I give u a 1

This class was one of my least favourites, that I wished I could've dropped earlier. All that the class consists of, is doing presentations or formats by the end of the week, and it's just very repetitive. The lectures make no sense, and you get bored pretty easily.

Not very clear during lectures. Lectures almost seemed like you needed to already know the material very well to have a real understanding. He lectures like he's just having a conversation with another academic. Definitely not my style of lecturer at all.

Extremely unclear in directions. On several occasions assigned something, unassigned it, modified the requirements, re-assigned it, and changed the due date within five minutes of rambling to himself. Lectures are an unidentifiable slurry of words that makes trying to understand the material even worse. Avoid this prof at all costs.

No clear methods of grading. We have been receiving asterisks (*) as a grade on assignments, so all I can guess is that we're getting something out of five stars. In a second year University level course. Profs like this make me question my choice of going to Acadia. I recommend staying clear of this prof if you can.

It was easier to understand the course if you just ignored him completely. Lectures are incoherent ramblings at best, and criteria for assignments can change at any moment, for better or worse.

Whidden is a straight up bad prof. Weekly assignment readings were way too much work. He asked questions to which there was no answer to in the readings. Didn't really ever give a lecture. We had to do a book review, answer a 20 question assignment on the book and then do the term paper and presentation during the last 4 weeks of classes.

He is by far one of the WORST professors at Acadia. Doesn't teach a single thing. Random incoherent ramblings. Wish I dropped day one.

Boring and dry. Doesn't teach. One of the worst professors I've ever had. Jumps around different topics and rambles. We're all confused.

do not take any of his courses. he is the worst prof I've ever had. he is confusing and doesn't really teach. you also never know what your grade actually is.

What a disaster. The level of disorganization was unacceptable. The open refusal to provide an outline/rubric for the paper, presentation, & paper left many of us confused. I didn't appreciate the attitude my peers got when asking for clarification. He has lost his passion, which is sad because he is knowledgeable, but the class suffers for it.