easy course, but he is the best cure ever for insomnia, who heard of a video talking about a guy who made a brain surgery to a worm? If you want to sleep i guarantee his class

This guy is pathetic and the course is a disgrace for the history department. MAKE IT STOP!!!

THIS GUY SUCKS!and i'm being generous, misspells all the time, speaks in paragraphs not sentences. he's a smart@#* that doesn't know anything. he's not a history prof in any way. his writing skills are at a grade 8 level, if that. tries to sound smart by using intellectual phrases. Starts class late

Wow, that was a waste of 65 hours of my life.

Is the history department so desperate for money that it puts on such a course? This was an absolute waste of my time. The T.A.'s made this course beareable. This guy is dull, uninteresting and uninterested in students, this guy should be lecturing in Antartica. I think this guy commits a fraud when he picks up his pay check. NEED I GO ON?????

History doesn't "suck ass" if it is taught well. This class is NOT taught well.

one word: BORING

even if you sit in the first row, you won't hear him

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Hands down _THE_ worst prof i've yet encountered in my university career. This man will argue with you if you go to see him about getting unfairly-lost marks on the midterm, even if you have his very own classnotes in your hand. and often enough it will end with you being told to go sit down. i'd say avoid him at ALL costs, but you really can't.

Paces constantly & drones on in this self-satisfied voice that makes you want to go up there & smack him. Bored me to tears - literally. Never answers questions he's asked. Come to class 5 minutes late when an assignment's due, & he takes marks off. Only talks about tech, never society or enviro. Not near enough space to express how much he sucks.

BORING. Worst prof I have ever had. Lectures are useless because you can't stay awake to hear them, the assignments are marked unfairly, he is not approachable, if you are 5 minutes late he will take a lot of marks off of an assignment and he repeats himself a lot. I think he told us to staple our assignments every single class! AVOID HIM

Classes are boring and totally USELESS! Just read his class notes and slides. Topics way too broad, yet nothing is emphasized...kinda lost during studying. Has a crazy, random seating plan for the midterm. Study the old assignments and midterms for the midterm. On your own for the exam...

Long-winded, hard to understand, goes off on tangents...Monday night class and he finally started to talk about an important subject once everyone was packed to leave!

PIRE PROF AU MONDE ENTIER.Sa façon de corriger est complètement fourrée et votre moyenne va chuter de 50%.Impossible à écouter.Toujours en retard(mais enlève plein de points aux travaux remis 5 minutes après le début du cours).Baveux.Vous allez vous aracher les cheveux de la tête.Je vous supplie(les larmes aux yeux)de ne jamais prendre ses cours.

One of the most boring and WORST professors I've ever had. He has a lot of knowledge about World History, but it is no use because he does not know how to transmit to the students. What's more : he doesn't put ANY EMPHASIS on ANYTHING even if it's critical to your understanding of the topic, he speaks with the same monotonous voice. AVOID HIM!!

worst prof ... someone should fire him

NE PRENEZ PAS UN COURS AVEC LUI! FUYEZ! Il est honnêtement épouvantable, affreux, abobinable et juste laid! Il enseigne mal, c'est plate, pas claire, il répond pas à nos questions. Absolulument horrible. Quand j'ai vu les ratings en septembre, je pensais que les étudiants avait été trop harsh mais non, tout est vrai.

Avoid this prof AT ALL COSTS! One of the most boring people to ever teach. Doesn't know how to transmit what he wants to say. Keeps his classes in until 10:15 PM on Monday nights. Don't take any courses with Trudel!

completely awful prof. do NOT take his classes.

If I ever write a movie, he will serve as a model for the role of a puffed up, pompous university professor. He's an ok marker, but in order to last through his lectures you need nerves---and ears, and eyes, and butt cheeks---of steel.

worst prof ever

He was aweful!!!!!!

Putting aside the fact that this course has absolutely no use for us as engineers, the prof makes it more boring.. We barely learn that much material in our engineering courses and we have to memorize so much stuff in this course and there is no use for it in our life even if we remember it. At least he could make the exams easy so people dont just

"Annnnnnd so on" is his favorite sentence

The worst professor I have ever had. I'm in 4th year taking this as an elective- sounded interesting. This man has single-handily ruined the class within 10 minutes of lecturing. Monotone, pretentious way of lecturing. He will not move around; he will not change his expression; and he will refuse to make anything interesting. Avoid if you can.

Absolutely worst prof in the world. Such a pompous, unhelpful, righteous man, it's almost unbearable to sit through his class. He's also very unreasonable. My uncle passed away and I had to miss the midterm for the funeral and he claimed that a death certificate wasn't enough proof that I was at a funeral! He wanted a friggin' family tree to prove that I was related to my uncle! Ridiculous!

Trudel, if you're reading this, take note in how many comments are the same. You truly suck as a teacher, and the way you flaunt yourself isn't really giving to your advantage either. Get another job; you're ruining our educational experience at the university. Admin. should take note in this pathetic teaching style and get rid of this man for good

To all engineers choosing between this history class and the philosophy class, take the latter if you value happiness in your life. This prof is beyond horrendous. Avoid if given the slightest chance. I need not say more.

I dislike this man more than I have ever disliked a professor before. Never take his class. This man should be fired from the school for his methods and style. Pompous, unlikable man. The WORST professor at the University in all of my 4 years of being here.

BORING AND DRY

One of the worst teachers I've ever encountered. He is rude, boring and dry. If this wasn't a mandatory class for my program, I would have dropped it long ago. I beg of you, please avoid this professor.

Wrote his own textbook. Made all assignments, midterms and finals based off that textbook to make money off his students...

Worst class. He has interest in irrelevant knowledge and people. You have to read and write about uninteresting and irrelevant essays and criticisms that truly non-accomplished or famous people have written. He finds these things fascinating but they truly aren't and he doesn't help students by making it more interesting.

This was a HISTORY course, not physics, not philosophy. Why we need to understand and describe physics theories makes no sense. Why is he taking attendance? After several students asked for weeks for him to post Powerpoint slides, he still refused, until 2 days before the exam. I have never had a worse professor. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

THIS IS THE SINGLE WORST PROF AND CLASS THAT I HAVE EVER TAKEN. Read the reviews and thought "meh, it can't be that bad." It was worse! Please save yourselves from hell and do not take this class.

Worst prof ever. Extremely dry, he wrote his own textbook. Wasn't helpful at all and he spoke down to students. Really regret taking his class.

Wow. Is all I can really say. His lectures are dry, all the info is just a regurgitation of his textbook. He assigns a book he wrote and it is needed to complete the assignments, must be making a pretty penny off of students. As a history major I found it was unlike any history course I've ever taken, geared towards students in other faculties.

Awful. A student asked him to clarify a concept, and he said, 'I already explained that.' Having a PhD doesn't make you a good teacher.

Do not take a class with him unless you feel like getting talked down to. His lectures are dry and basically just rambles the entire time. Don't ask questions because he feels as though you should know everything he is talking about. Hopefully you have a TA that you can go to for guidance because he's not approachable. Just don't take this prof.

As a business student wherein taking this SOC course was mandatory, Trudel is LITERALLY the worst. He's condescending, strict to a comical degree and an utter joke among all Telfer students. After the first day of class attendance dropped to 10 people. He prompts discussion in the class but then what you say is wrong if you dont agree w/him

Jean Louis Trudel, where to even begin. Although the class has the potential to be really interesting, Trudel butchers the time period and makes it difficult to understand what is even important. The tests are so difficult, even if you answer a question fully you might still get 0/5. He cares more about the tiniest details than real events.

Unclear, unhelpful, overall not good

He just reads of powerpoints and it's so boring not recommended. And he will intentionally mark down your grade if you don't go to class.

RUN! The worst professor i've ever had. I read all these comments and thought it couldn't be that badTRUST ME, it was the worst experience ever.

Just don't. In the event that you do: tests are all based on the powerpoints, you don't need to understand the material, you just need to be able to spit it up. Don't buy the textbook, it's so boring you won't read it anyways. You aren't really missing much by skipping class as long as you actually do go over powerpoints and study them.

You'll get a decent grade only because his tests are multiple choice, true/false and 5ish short answer. You won't learn a single thing and you'll be miserable/ stressed. He is impossible to follow in class and isn't specific with what you need to know (you need to know trivia) so it's impossible to study. AVOID, especially if you want to learn.

His lectures are not engaging and even when you try to take notes a lot of what he says doesn't make sense, it almost seems like stream of consciousness. I liked that we had small assignments which helped boost my mark but make sure to follow format strictly (I lost 10% for not stapling). Read the text and watch youtube to understand things better

Never take this class again, Trust me, I can not even understand his class. the average for this class is B, but most of students only get C or C+ on it. Moreover, be ready to buy his book online, if you decided to take his class. All the solution can be found in his book.

Worst prof I've ever had. Please do not take any of his classes. I'm not exaggerating.

Talks down to students, his answer is always right despite the fact that he encourages discussions, and is so strict about formatting that he takes marks off for spelling, grammar and not double spacing assignments. He also purposely lowers your grade if you do not attend lectures which are so dry, you'll be asleep in minutes. Avoid at all costs!

This man is an absolute failure of an academic! He is awful. Definitely the worst professor I've ever had. He is very condescending toward students, his lectures are extremely boring, and he loves to fail students. Please do not take his class, you WILL regret it.

If history is your major, don't bother taking Technology, Society and Environment class. If you're interested in engineering, maybe. As a professor, he's not bad, but gives off a God Complex vibe, as in his word is law and how dare you question him. Work load isn't tough, but asks vague assignment questions based on minor details said in class.

This prof does NOT remind me of Tobias Funke off of Arrested Development. I did not find this class worthwhile. As a poli sci major his HIS2129 course was not required for me, but regardless it is not a good elective course for any faculty if taught by Trudel. I did not receive feedback from assignments, and his class was not enjoyable.

Avoid taking HIS2129 if taught by Trudel; if it's Kranakis, you should be good. I'm in engineering and understood most of the content, but I can't imagine taking his course if I were in any other program. The textbook for the class was written by Trudel, and is fairly useful. However, his lectures are dull and he comes off condescending most times.

Please avoid taking whatever classes Trudel offers. This man should not be a teacher and has a clear lack of interest in the content. He reads from the powerpoints and does not add value to the content. He is not a historian, he is a science fiction writer. He should not, and cannot, teach.

A very boring class and a very boring professor. I've taken other history electives but this was my worst so far. I read his background and he's a sci-fi writer, so it makes sense that he often seemed lost in his own course content. I feel he learned the subject matter the day before we did, and he was very condescending to a few students in class.

Where do I start? When I had questions about the course he would shrug me off and tell me to "read the book". Try emailing him? Have fun waiting for a response. This was one of my required electives and I had a friend say it wasn't so bad, but I did not enjoy this class.

My worst experience in a class. I still think about it and get stressed out. He set up the course by place rather than chronologically so there was so much jumping around. The entire class was him talking at us in run on sentences that got off topic so was almost impossible to follow or stay interested. If you want an A you'll have to work for it.

If I could give 0, I would

I wasn't sure what to put for attendance. It's usually not mandatory but today he had a temper tantrum because 90% of the class didn't bother showing up and started taking roll call for the first time.

This course is really large minded and the content is pretty interesting, BUT the teacher does not really talk to the class but rather talks for his own in front of a class. When asking questions, or responding to questions, he often uses a impertinent tone, you loose motivation quite fast to listen.

If I could give a 0 rating I would Longest 3-hour lecture of your life Poses questions to class even though no one has done the readings and will continue to ask until he finds someone Bad grader on hw, only feedback I got was "needs more detail" even though I fully answered the question Midterm and final aren't that bad (need more characters!!)

Wish I never took his class

Easily one of the worst profs I have had and the semester has Barley begun. Spend all lecture basically talking to himself and is a very poor at getting information across. Not helpful at all during office hours because he makes you feel even more dumb for asking the questions. Only taking this course because its part of course sequence.

Terrible prof. The class seemed interesting at first but turns out it was absolutely dreadful. Three assignments, a mid term and exam, not that bad but the three hour lectures are a killer and he is very boring.

Do not take his class. I did not pay attention to the bad comments about him when I should have. He asks such specific questions but yet asks you to remember over 400 slides plus all of the readings. Nope.

He deserves all the comments and rating on here. Also he forces you to buy his own textbook which is frustrating itself. He needs to align the course expectations with the fact that it is a 2nd year intro to history course not a phD history class, most students taking it have never had a history course; it is unfortunate he has not adapted yet.

I have had tough classes and tough professors through my university career. But believe me when I tell you - this guy is absolutely terrible. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS. Makes you buy his own textbook, extremely disorganized slides, ridiculously hard assignments where you cant find the info in the slides. STEER CLEAR AT ALL COSTS.

I went into this class cautiously optimistic despite the ratings on here. I didn't pick this professor, he was assigned to the class. I can tell you right now, he deserves all the ratings on here (from 1-5, he has 1.5, thats 12 perc. He's vastly lacking the competence to teach online and he is absolutely rude and arrogant. Drop. Switch. Skip. Run.

I hated this course so much. The lectures were dense and dry and his voice was like that one teacher from Farris Bueller's Day Off (you know the one). Honestly, I think the only reason I passed the course with the grade I did was because I can write a good paper.

I did not enjoy this class. It was very dry and boring during both the lectures and the readings. He was not very friendly when answering questions or emails or about giving extensions either. He wasn't very clear for his grading structure and if you were to make a small mistake such as in your footnotes, there went half of your grade on your paper

An easy A, but his lectures were super tedious. At least we got plenty of freedom to choose topics for our two term papers, and those were fairly short and easy to write.

He expects you to provide answers from a select set of predetermined answers for his open-ended assignments. Even if your answer is cited from reliable sources, and answers the posted question correctly, if it's not exactly what he expects, you won't get ANY credit. A history course should be open to new information if well argued and cited.

This prof gives the worst instructions on assignments to the point where half the class has no idea on the grading criteria. The lectures are long, boring and honestly a pain to attend. I cannot wait to be finished with this class and avoid any class with this prof ever again. Avoid him if at all possible.

Harsh grader, really focuses on tiny little details that no one notices, like an extra space in a citation. He asks a lot of questions in class, and even if generally speaking you have the correct answer he won't necessarily acknowledge it unless you have the same wording he does. Lectures are boring and monotone, readings are really long.

I was warned about this prof. This is the worst prof I've had for any second year course. He doesn't answer emails most of the time, and when he does they are very late as well as rude and abrupt. His inflated ego makes it so you can't say anything (no matter if you are right) because he won't acknowledge it if you don't word things exactly his way

Professor Trudel adds too many sophisticated words in questions that you take more time to decipher the question than doing the actual homework. The three hour lectures are monotone and if you need help, he responds in a rude and condescending e-mail. You need to study the lectures to a T. The exams are fine. Would avoid him for future classes.

His class lectures are boring, the class was based around the Chicago Manuel. he's a harsh grader. I got a 60 on an assignment because my argument was "too weak" but when I disputed it he admitted he didn't know the topic personally enough to actually say it was bad and said I was allowed to continue with it but didn't want to change my grade

IF you eng student you will give you hard time to do well in this course , he treats us as a history major students. avoid him if you are not history student.

The worst professor at this University. Makes you purchase his crappy history book that he wrote and bases the entire course around that. He marks extremely tough on assignments especially if you don't buy and reference his book. Not sure how he is still employed at the university after all of the complaints against him.

Only returned 10% of the final grade before the final exam.

I do not recommend taking this course with Professor Trudel. And I would certainly avoid taking any other course with him.

Over all i found this professor dry at best and awful and worst. It's now August 16th and we still haven't received the midterm results or the third assignment results. Avoid this professor if you want to keep your sanity not waiting for grades.

Jean-Louis Trudel, the JLT, is definitely a tough grader, got a B+ by jilting my way through the course.

Another slide reader, no conversation or unique analysis in lecture. Forces you to buy his expensive textbook to do the assignments. He doesn't like to answer questions in class and is rude. Open book, online exams that are similar to assignments. Gives readings, they're semi-long and his writing is boring. He doesn't check if you did them.

Dr.Jean-Louis Trudel's lecture has nothing to do with his Assignments and the only reason he is here to teach you this lecture here only because he is trying to sell his goddamn book "Technology and Environment in North American History"

This prof is extremely boring and his lectures are long and uninteresting. He claims for you to have to change the answer to put in your own words, but when grading you are penalized for not using a word for word answer of what he said or is in the textbook. You are forced to buy his own textbook as he's just looking to make money off of you

Tough grader, lectures are dry, rude to students, and makes you buy his own book so he can make money off of students.

do not take class with him --

I gave this one a "Hilarious" cuz it's hilarious how awful this guy is. I get it not everyone can be an excellent teacher but this guy is clearly in it for the money. He made his lousy textbook mandatory so that he could sell it to us all and hes a tough grader even if it's a mandatory 2nd year class. I wish there was 10x speed too he talks slow.

Very strange professor, record attendance in class but not clock in and do not name names, purely random. The exam is also very strange, and the score after the exam is very slow and the score given is very low.