He is a professional in his field, but he can't teach at all. Class completely unorganised, lecture was completely different from textbook chapters he assigned. Stay away from his class.

Again very arrogant, totally unpredictable tests, no flow to lectures, slides and what he is teaching often unrelated. Any criticism and he flys off the handle. Stay away.

Terrible prof. He really screwed up the syllabus, tests were comprised of the most random and useless questions. Lectures were hard to follow. AVOID. I hope he sees this comment.

Terrible prof I've ever had, AVOID.He has no interest in teaching at all, just through info, hardly follow his lecture,which is unrelated to slides.Very arrogant,rude,and tough, not helpful at all. Class completely unorganized, tests unpredictable, midterm graded wrong,essay marked absolutely unfair and poor.STAY AWAY. Only interest was materials.

Not there for his students, would never recommend anyone ever take his class. terrible marker, expects way to much from his students, with unclear expectations for his students. Exam will have a question nothing to do with anything you spent a majority of time learning. If you have him good luck, and make sure you don't get behind on your readings.

Submitted doctors note and he asked me what class its for...????? Also he is rude through emails and barely student friendly

very hard to understand him talking and he powers through his slides incredibly fast rude in emails doesn't stop for questions talks for long periods of time about things he says won't be on the exam

he sucks.

This course is a terribly outdated version of anthropology, paired with a textbook full of poorly pieced together, mostly irrelevant texts. The professor is a good lecturer and a kind person but the content was not at all a good representation of the field of anthropology. I recommend to update the content to reflect current trends in the field.

Don't bother emailing him with questions. He will be rude and won't give you an answer.

I tried to ask question and go to office hours but he was nothing but condescending and disrespect. He was rude, the actual lectures not too bad but terrible if you need some more help understanding certain things

I have been in university for 4 years and he is, without a doubt, the worst prof I have ever had. He invited his own citation style, but tells the class it's APA (which obviously led to a lot of confusion in the TA groups). He only posts some of his slides (he deletes randoms slides after class before posting to CULearn). He's also very rude.

As a prof, his lectures were boring and hard to follow, the midterm was very specific for an introductory course and the assignment expectations were never clear. Beyond that, he is a disrespectful person. Very rude on emails, never available for clarification and does not take blame for his mistakes. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

Terrible prof. He doesnt proofread a single email he sends or discussion he posts. He spelled office wrong for his office hours, always gets dates of things wrong. He confuses students more than anything then when asked for clarification he is rude and tells people to check his slide instead of simply answering the question.

Quite honestly the most useless professor. I've never experienced a class with a prof who could care so little for his/her students. Maybe if he cared more for his classes then it would be enjoyable but it's not. Especially since the term was done completely online, he did not correct audio issues for students and was rude, in all honesty.

Dr. Kilmurray is very unclear with his assignments and grading. He has never given rubrics and often contradicts himself. Many of his assignments were not on the class syllabus. When asked questions, Dr. Kilmurray would often give condescending answers to student questions. Grading/feedback was very unclear and unhelpful, especially for first year.

One of the worst profs I've ever had. There were tech issues, caused by him that he didn't fix despite all of us asking repeatedly-he was inaccessible but tbh no one would want to access him because he is so rude to students. Honestly it felt like he thought he was above us, that he was far too educated and superior to be teaching an intro course.

I lasted all of 3 days in this class before I dropped it. Had no idea what was going on. So many mixed signals. Unorganized and honestly just stressed me out. Maybe we can blame it on the online learning, but with it being second semester, youd think hed have atleast tried to clarify things for us.

To start, the textbook is actually mandatory bc it's written by him but despite this he still forced students buy it during the pandemic when so many ppl are obviously struggling financially. The reason I said it's not mandatory is bc it doesn't count as a legit source on any assignments (not even the final) so only buy once you feel forced to!!

Worst prof I've had so far. My grandfather passed away a couple days before our final essay was due and when I asked for any type fo extension because I wouldn't be able to hand it in because I will not be going to school, he then asked me to provide "proof". I sent him my grandfathers obituary and he then said that th extension is "pushing it".

This course caused me stress and genuine anger once a week. Professor Kilmurray is not well adapted to online learning and makes not only lectures but also assignment criteria something you have to hunt for. Lectures are poorly recorded and unorganized. Examinations and assignments are inconsistent in instruction and little support is available.

Email responses are not proof read, useless, and also childish in nature. Rubric is almost non-existent and vague and instruction are unclear. Feedback is vague as he himself has no idea how to grade based on his 'rubric' which he does not even follow in his grading. Very poor experience with this guy... does not care about his students at all.

Dr.Kilmurray seems to abhor the fact that he teaches first year classes; questions about grading are met with angry and mean remarks. He belittles and is condescending towards students. This class was also inaccessible; no online uploads were allowed for essays, everything was to be handed in person during lectures.

Liam Kilmurray was the worst professor I have ever had and I have never been more miserable in a class. Every single time I emailed him to ask a simple question he answered me like I was stupid. For example he would say unnecessary pretentious words and dumb them down in brackets. His lectures are boring and unnecessary. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!!!!

was no help ever and was just extremely condescending and rude in his emails. I received marks off for handing in an essay late, even though I had approval FROM HIM and he did not fix it. took off literally 25% from the essay, and when I asked why, he gave absolutely no response. had to go through the formal grade appeal process with the uni.

All he did was read off the slides and not teach. He would put 150 words on one slide with size 6 font, spend 5 seconds on it, and not come back to it. Only made the textbook mandatory because he helped edit it and lots of his lectures are copied. He rambles and is passive-aggressive when you ask questions. Uses very dated and mysoginistic terms

Nearly impossible to get a good grade on assignments. Boring lectures which he goes through way too fast making it very difficult to take down notes. He sells his own textbook for 170$. Overall a terrible experience as a first year student

this prof is terrible especially when it comes to assignments,my advice for you reading this is to run away from his class,it will be the best decision you make in university

Do not take this class! So boring, his lectures are just everything from the textbook, and the slides have a bunch of errors. He goes through the slides so fast you can hardly take proper notes, and he's incredibly monotone. I fell asleep a few times.

Had him in Fall 2023 and can confidently say he has been the worst prof I've ever encountered. He is beyond passive aggressive and nearly impossible to reach outside of class. He provided us with zero rubric or requirements for the paper worth 40% of our grade and refused to acknowledge any concerns from both students AND ta's. Avoid at all costs!!

To put it simply, he's rude and does not care about his students. He bases his courses almost entirely on Ireland (I guess that' interesting to some) and seems to use teaching as a way to sell his textbook. Even other professors don't like him. Avoid if possible.

Very rude. I was very sick so tried to email regarding writing an exam later or add the mark to my final. He was very passive aggressive and told me to drop the course as there is no hope for me. The weeks following he would cancel his lectures because he's sick...Take any other professor if you can.

He made us buy his OWN book that was near 200$ and I can't even resell it cuz no one wants it. His midterm questions were extremely since he used class ex, but for the essay he was so rude; he had given us a couple topics, I chose Durkheim & he gave me a 7/20 when I spoke about alot of stuff which I found wild, the class avg was 60 after that.

If you want your grade to be decided by a guy throwing a dart onto a spin wheel then this is your professor of choice. He will not follow his own rubric and guidelines to grade you assignments and will make up new random criteria to justify where the dart landed on his spin wheel.

Actually the worst prof I've ever had. Was naive enough to think these bad reviews were from bad students but truly, this is the worst prof I've ever encountered. RUN from this man. Not sure how he is still allowed to teach since many other profs and TAs have complained about him.