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Would Retake115
Reviews75%
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ANTB15 - 4.0 rating“One of the best lecturers at the school for sure”
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Attendance Mandatory
89%
Textbook Required
33%
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Reviews (115)
i think Larry is a great teacher! he always makes jokes to do with sex that get everyone in the class laughing...the course is pretty easy, and Larry teaches it with a lot of clarity. Also, many girls in the class think he's really cute... :)
He's so funny he almost makes me wet my pants! Lectures are very entertaining even though it's 2 hours long
Larry you are the best prof I have had yet to this day... I think the way you teach is really great and... keep up the sex talks ;) haha :) I ... umm must confess that I think that you are cute and well... look at the sign I put up ;)
Definately one of my favorite classes this year!
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Very entertaining
love his class and love him!!
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great prof
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Absolutely the best class of the year, Larry is the best prof. and he makes me wanna wake up and come to class....
This class is my favourite class ever. It's so interesting listening to Larry. It's the one class that I could/would never fall asleep in. Plus, if you study the material, you can do quite well.
LARRY RULES!!!!!! Plagues was the best, tho the final assignment is killer, it was a really enjoyable time, definitely recommend this class to everyone :) Thanks Larry, for being so wonderful!
well, you'll enjoy it even if you're not enroll to his class...
sooo awesome!
Excellent prof overall. Amazing lectures.
BEst Prof EVER!!!! lol LARRY UR MY HERO! OLD MAN + FUNNY STORIES = MOST ENJOYABLE COURSE
LARRY WAS AN AMAZING PROF, HE MAKES THE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE WORTHWHILE. ALL PROFS SHOULD LEARN A THING OR TWO FROM HIM.
MY FAV PROF EVER!
hehehe... Larry i love you(r lectures)! =P
By far one of my fav. professor. He is the best. There is nothing not to like about Larry...he is funny and understands us. Of all my classes, I am more willing to and happy to attend his class.
Larry, you're the best! Very funny and wickedly smart. A fab course.
Larry is the best prof in the world! he cares about his students, he has no problem making us feel good about ourselves and proud of the work we have done! he's actually motivating me to work hard! i'm going to miss his lectures so badly!
he's nice and sweet but the lecture is so boring...too bad,eh?
Larry is the most enthusiastic of all professors i have come across in my 4 years at UTSC. I wish I took his courses in my first year. Larry, if you ever read this - THANK Y0U for making the university experience a positive and enjoyable one!!
Larry is a sweetheart!! The lectures are sooo much fun and interesting! But the final exam is hard!!!
What could be more enjoyable than learning about deadly diseases with possibly the funniest man at the UTSC campus!? We'll all miss Larry's jokes and stories! Thanks for making me want to come to class!
really care for students and his humour made the lecture intereting
Best Prof I've had so far.
Too hollywood like
Larry was the best prof I had first year. Really knew how to connect to the students.
I can probably say that he's the best professor I have ever had (next to Leanord). He showed a genine concern for the well being of the students, and he demonstrated enthusiasm while teaching the course. This was the first course that I have never skipped. Amazing prof!!
Hes real fuuny and makes his class fun
Larry is nice guy. Tell nice jokes. Make me happy. Look like Pope. Funny little man. I Love you Larry. Best Friends Forever!
Amazing teacher. was very clear, as well as funny, and always went out of the way to help people.
hez soooo cweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet hehehe...
Larry is the absolute best! He is sooo nice and funny! We all luv you Larry!!! Please don't retire anytime soon, what will we do w/o u?
One word, FUNNY ^^
haha what can i say about this prof. he's cute, he's funny, and he's so sweet =] tho his lectures can be a lil slow.. but hey.. who cares? he makes things super easy for us to learn. he actally reviews in class with us! amazing!
Larry is the BEST!
Larry is the best prof I have, he is the one that teaches the best, and points out all the important stuff to study on exams, he actually waits until we right down what he says. He deserves more credit then we can actually give him!! Larry is the best!!!!!!!
Larry is the most amazing teacher on earth...not olny does he make things interesting but he cracks a lot of jokes. He makes it worthwhile to come to class. Larry is very inspiring and he puts his heart and soul into evey lecture. I gurantee if you take any of his classes you will experience a semester you will never forget.
You ppl need to be careful b/c his final is VERY hard. Ppl who wrote it had their marks drop 20% (OUCH!)
Larry is the best prof. i've have ever had!!! He makes you feel so comfortable and makes learning easy!! All profs should take a HOW-TO-BE-MORE-LIKE-LARRY 101!!! Seriously!
He does alot of pointless stuff, and also he's really slow
I cannot think of anything bad about Larry, he's simply the best. I don't understand why people would complain about his silliness when he does that just to make us feel comfortable with him! People nowadays are so hard to please!
In 4 years, the best prof I have ever had. Very interesteresting and insightfull. Passionate! Absolutly lovely!
I LOVE LARRY!! HE WAS MY BEST PROF IN YEAR 1 AND THIS COURSE WAS THE BEST COURSE I TOOK. IF YOU WANT A GOOD GRADE AND LOVE LEARNING ABOUT HEALTH AND PEOPLE, I RECOMMEND YOU TO TAKE THIS COURSE!! YOU WON'T REGRET IT!! LONG LIVE LARRY!!!
I absolutely love Larry! Very easy going and helpful!
Larry is the most kind and humourous professor who makes you feel like you want to be in class! He knows his stuff and delivers it in a very interesting manner! I recommend this course to anyone and everyone. Maybe if you sit in the front row he will also give you $10 like he did to somebody in our class...Thanks for the great experience Larry if
Not the greatest prof in terms of teaching, but EXTREMELY fair and easy going!
& ANTB56. TRUST ME HE'S AWSOME. I LOVE this professor, he's the reason I love going to class. I take every course he teaches without a second thought. He's so helpful, cute, energetic, WISE and interesting. You'll love him :) I recommand all these courses with him & anything else he teaches. You won't find a professor better than him on this planet
terrible.bad text material. did UofT actually approve it??? full of mistakes obviously not edited well. missing info-including factual that he was notified about but did not tell class. spelling and grammer atrocious. not acceptable in printed text for $85. lame computer game that was disorganized-more money put into the music than the quality.
He's a nice guy and very easy going. But he uses that as an excuse to being unorganized and scatterbrained. His exams are not a good way to evaulate what you have learned because they are poorly written and his actual lecture material is very small, but only because he always goes off on a tangent is the lecture 3 hours long.
Great professor. Hilarious, too.
Great prof...one of the best...yet needs to get organized..but very cool...great class...too bad its not offered after this year...sadness
Very funny and very cool.
Hilarious guy.
Gives 7% away just for attending tutorials. Great prof.
i cant lie, the guys a joker!
awesome awesome prof... hes a great lecturer.. makes u wanna go to class and listen to everything he says.. gives a story for each slide so that u will never forget anything he says.. i recommend his class for every1 ... too bad this one wont b offered again
Most amazing prof, teacher, GURU..yes that's the word! I watch his lectures online and sometimes I regret not actually attending his lectures in person (& not because he gives out money). He maybe a little on the older side but he is the type of person that I'd make an effort to get to know and be friends with. He simply has an amazing personality.
I love Larry's lectures, he is such a fun guy. Althought i found the midterm was a bit more detailed than what I expected...
Although a light hearted approach to teaching is always appreciated, he manages to interrupt class CONSTANTLY for the most inocuous nonsense. Moderate pragmatism is necessary. Also, he writes exams with very ambiguous questions that don't seem to have a logical answer (many agree).. I studed extensively and didn't manage to even get decent marks.
He makes ambiguous case in triangles look like a joke.
Funny guy - the majority of the TA's are horrible though
Super funny. I like his grandmother jokes
LARRY ROCKS!!! and btw to the guy who hates the TAs, they work so hard and are better than any TAs at UTSC, especialy debono, hesa hotty
i found him to be very reasonable i'd recommend him to anyone....great lecturer
AWSOME!..good times
umm ya not such a great course to take.Larry's ok as a prof if you like a lecturer to ramble on about unrelated things that are pretty funny.His notes are great though.Overcomplicated things for himself with the course [re:computer game,assignments].Would've been awesome if it was structured like PSYA01.Nothing significant to gain from this course
Awesome prof! Makes the 2hr lectures go by fast with jokes and anecdotes! Course material is interesting and very easy! Be careful when it comes to assignments though, they require a lot of work but if you do leave it to the last minute it can be done...I started the night before at 10pm and finished just before it was due the nxt day at 5pm! lol
He was a great professor, always kept the class awake...for the most part...Best prof I've had whole year!!!
He's a great prof, the best @ utsc where he's really concerned abt his students. I ddn't like his assignments however, they are huge & cause alot of stress in a compressed timing & I ddn't like his final. They are long T/F & detailed & difficult compared to the midterms. He's da best interpersonal & enthusiastic prof @ UTSC tho! Got 2 lov him
Excellent professor. Very fair and his lectures are interesting and funny. never boring. but his courses do tend to be hard and contain lots of assignments and projects. but he tries to make everything interesting for the students and explains everyting so it is easier for the student to understand and not too hard in carrying out the research.
Very laid back, nice, understanding and excellent teaching style. The only complaint is his tedious assignments take up way too much time to do.
This is NOT a bird course if you dont have a science background. I took this course because I assumed this was a bird course, but there is ALOT of work to be done. I ended up with a 58% my lowest mark. However alot of other students performed well. Overall his classes are very entertaining as he talks about his life exp. Approachable friendly Prof
Larry is awesome. He makes the classes worth going to. It's just the textbook I had a real problem with; it wasn't good exam material in my opinion. But he's a great guy. If he was still teaching it, I'd recommend Plagues and People as a good first year course.
Larry is just awesome...I did very well in this course, the book was like a novel! It was fun to read and the game was so cool..it's a shame he isn't teaching Plagues anymore :(
One of my favourite Professors... Even though I am not in Health Sciences. He is a very down to earth individual and very entertaining. He really takes care of students in the first year courses.
Larry was the best prof ive ever had!! He is so interesting when he teaches. This health studies course he taught was the only class that I actually WANTED to go to.
Loved the videos and lectures. Easy to follow and very amusing. It's too bad he's not teaching the course anymore!
Crazy guy
I love this guy, the best prof a student could ever have. Great insipration to students. I look forward to attending his lectures
I do well in every course I take with Larry. It isn't necesaarily true that the material is extremely easy, but Larry makes the material interesting, and he tries to engage every student in the clas. If you are ever struggling to decide which courses to take, pick on that Larry is teaching. It will be interesting, and there will be many jokes.
A very kind prof and i think many students ofen take advantage of his kindness. However, Larry's exams are sooooo HARD!!! He is a nice guy but screws you over on the exam!!
He's a nice prof. Very funny in his lectures putting jokes here and there to lighten the class up. His assignments are not easy but its possible to get a good mark with effort. The final is NOT easy, have to really study for it and mc is tricky. Advice: don't procrastinate.
awesome
LOVE! Amazing prof. Learned alot. Exams are kind of trickey but he gives you alot of hints during lectures so it is crucial to come. Very energentic and his jokes just lighten up the material. Great class! definatly made my semester enjoyable
hes a funny professor, but his exams ARE NOT EASY! Ive taken many courses with him and each one of his courses requires LOTS of work. If your thinking of taking any of his courses as an elective think again.
Amazing prof, and incredible person. He is so funny, and keeps the class interested in the material. He actually makes learning fun! I have nothing but great things to say about him!
I usually dont rate profs but i had to rate him. He is sucha sweetheart and so nice! He gives hints on his lecture slides on what will be on the exam verbatim. Assignments take some time to complete. Excited to take his C level course! Loved his teaching style.. encourage everyone to take it even as an elective GPA boaster for sure. :)
He commented on my iphone during class. It was so embarrassing and funny.
Hilarious professor. T.A, Lianne Tripp is the least bit helpful and does not explain concepts well. Course would be more beneficial to students with a T.A who cares about the students.
My favourite professor at UTSC by far, takes the time out to talk to students about their problems course-wise and program/longterm, funny, makes his lectures light and easy to sit through, infectious personality, no textbook required and all readings posted, super understanding of students' needs, Hope to take many more with him! Seniority shows!
One of the best lecturers at the school for sure. Loved the course, but he makes you work for it! The tutorials tended to confuse me more, but Larry always cleared things up. Highly recommended. Got me interested in medical anthropology.
Best. Prof. Ever.
Prof. Sawchuck is the nicest professor on all of U of T and I am confident saying that even though I haven't met most of the others. His quirky jokes are entertaining and sometimes a little dark, but amusing nonetheless! I am honoured to have taken four classes with him :)
Great prof ! BUT.. 7/10 assigned readings were all based on Gibraltar. I mean, sure, it's his research.. but 7? Cholera, tuberculosis, Influenza.. All Gibraltar. The course would have been better if readings were variable. After reading two articles, all of them just became kind of monotonous 'Gibraltar 1865, Gibraltar 1885, Gibraltar 1918' ...
absolutely amazing. lots of opportunities for bonus marks. if you go to each lecture there no way you can do bad in this class. make sure he knows who you are
LOVE YOU LARRY. Seriously, prof. Sawchuk is not only an incredible professor, but he's the sweetest human being when you get to talk to him outside of class. He's super accommodating and I just hope I get to take more classes with him. But yes, make sure you actually go to his office hours, you won't regret talking to him. :)
This man is the sweetest, kindest man on the planet! Great professor, well versed in the subject he teaches, and absolutely adorable! I love you to the moon and back Prof. Sawchuk.
OK lets be clear this is NOT an anthropology course! this is a GENETICS course! All you will be learning is diseases and how to do punnet squares based on disease. His exams are not a cake walk! He will ask you very small details from every slide. You will read 13 really dense articles that you need to know everything for exam!
He's very funny and nice. However, I found most of his lecture quality to be lacking as he always tended to get off subject. Lianne on the other hand was not very accommodating when it came to extra help and she's a pretty tough marker.
Very entertaining prof, and cracks the funniest jokes! His exams are hard and you really need to know the material. Assignments are straight forward and not bad.
Prof. Sawchuck is an excellent lecturer. To do well on the midterm its important to actually do the assigned readings. The first few assignments are marked on completion and the final assignment can be a little challenging so make sure you get extra help on that. The final exam was fair. Sawchuck covered some of the assigned readings in lecture.
the professor is nice, funny, and very approachable but lectures were all over the place and the material was dense and needed to be covered in detail for assignments and exams. Did not like teaching style, he was more concerned about making jokes and being friends with students than trying to teach the class. Good Luck!
very chill prof. he jokes a lot. motivating prof makes u want to learn
While I think Larry is funny, know's what he knows, and caring to students, I think he has a lot to improve on. He was the one who said, "It's not easy teaching," and he isn't wrong on that one. His teaching style is misguided in terms of what we need to learn and what he presents to us, as he is constantly seeking validation from us to like him.
Larry is the most caring prof I've ever met. He makes sure you understand the material before moving on and always tries to find a way to relieve stress off students' backs. Attending lectures is a MUST because there are no set weekly slides; he just lectures from random slides that can sometimes take weeks to finish or half an hour. Overall, easy.
HANDS DOWN one of the best profs I've had in all of my undergrad. not only is he extremely easy, (all the exam is lecture based) he is genuinely caring and wants everyone to do well and constantly gives out bonus marks. he wastes a lot of time goofing off but its so worth it because he's so kind. I'd be weary of the assignment the TA marks it
Honestly. Larry is such a sweetheart. You need to go to lectures to do well on the exams. His assignments are pretty easy and straightforward.
The best prof at UTSC. People need to better appreciate his sense of humour. Not only are his lectures incredibly engaging, but he is also extremely intelligent, informative and such a nice person. Highly recommend all his courses!
Larry taught the fourth year course ANTD16, and I have never been more relieved that I didn't miss attending any of his lectures. His lecture slides rarely relate to his actual lecture, so figuring it out on your own is out of the question. That said, he was a great professor! He encouraged participation and was very helpful if you ever reached out
Prof Sawchuk is one of my favourite profs! His lectures are very interesting and he is very funny! I would highly recommend others to take his courses. He seems to care a lot about students too. He is also very fair.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
89%
Textbook Required
33%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
A-
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Stable
+0.02 avg changeRatings by Course
HLTAO1
5.0
(2)ANTC03
5.0
(1)HLT
5.0
(1)HTLA01
5.0
(5)HLTA10
5.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
HLTA01H
4.0
HEALTHANTHRO
4.0
HLTD02
4.0
HLTA01PLAGUES
4.0
HLTA
3.5