My favourite professor by far. A little intimidating at times, but only because he doesn't let you get away with vague statements. Heavy on the "effort" mark, which is sensible in a small section, so don't expect to skid by without ever attending a class. Be respectful and contribute to discussions and the class will likely be your favourite, too!

Definitely a helpful professor that made the uninteresting material interesting, while also covering a wide range and depth of literature. Definitely knows his stuff, and can lecture well. Helpful with questions or concerns, very approachable.

Wonderful Professor. Dr. Ullyot's enthusiasm and passion for 16th Century Literature is contagious; he's an encouraging Professor who facilitates an excellent learning environment. Though brilliant, Dr. Ullyot is down-to-earth and very helpful and approachable--he genuinely treats all his students with respect and deserves nothing less in return.

Wonderful Professor. Though brilliant, Dr. Ullyot is down-to-earth and very helpful and approachable--he genuinely treats all his students with respect and deserves nothing less in return. This class was challenging in a very positive way--it helped me improve in reading/writing/understanding not only 16th century texts, but literature as a whole.

Good enough prof, personally I cant stand poetry but I still did alright in this class manily because of the partcipation marks for tutorial. Just know the terms from the Lennard book and thats bout it, can bluff your way through the rest. Don't bother going to class, unless you actually wanted to take this class

This was my third class with Dr. Ullyot, and not by coincidence. His teaching style is as good as it could be given the material he has to teach. Cracks the occasional joke, is very approachable, assignments are research-heavy and time consuming, though he marks fairly. Effort required.

Awesome prof! He always actively engages the class in discussions that are interesting and insightful. Passionate about teaching. My favourite class by far :)

I took this class last year. Dr. Ullyot is utterly brilliant. Few times in our live are we graced with a mind that challenges our own to expand; Dr. Ullyot is one of these people. I highly recommend taking a class with him. Despite what others have said, if you work hard and get help when you need it - you certainly will benefit.

I didn't LOVE this class, but some of the other comments are rather ridiculous, in my view. I found Michael to be fair and engaging, but the course material elementary and basic - but necessary for a 1st year class. He did the best he could with the class size and content, and it was obvious he put a lot of effort into the class. :) I recommend him

a requirement for english major or minor and it was really easy. as long as you do your work and go to tutorials you will do good. it is a easy 200 level course and this professor knows his stuff and was very smart.

Great prof, he is difficult to contact outside of the lecture though. Very friendly and approachable. I am bothered by the use of unimportant readings and twitter posts. Heavy workload, is genuinely interested in understanding his students. Very great guy.

One of my favorite professors. Very friendly, approachable and helpful. Made me interested in Shakespeare and able to understand it like I never though I could. I highly recommend taking a class from him.

Great prof. I love that we were graded on twitter. This class is great if you put in some effort. Shakespeare is not as difficult as everyone always says/thinks/acts like. Just calm down and annotate.

Amazing Professor! You may not like Shakespeare but Dr. Ullyot is so engaged he makes you want to be too! His TA's were really good too. I would recommend Ullyot to anyone and I will try to take as many English classes as I can with him!

Prof. Ullyot was okay. I found that class dragged on and we didn't cover much of the text in lectures (although we did in tutorials).

He is an amazing prof and I'll be sure to take more English classes with him in the future. I found him to be a very easy marker. I thought I did terrible on the exam (as a didn't meet the page count for anything!) but somehow ended up with a 73%. His TAs are great as well. Highly recommended.

Ullyot's going a great job of integrating technology into the class room. He was super clear and his tests and exercises were fair and helpful. I highly recommend him.

AMAZING professor. He is by far the most enthusiastic English professor I have come across and has a unique approach to Shakespeare. If you love Shakespeare, English, or an English major: taking a course with Ullyot is practically mandatory. I can hardly wait until fourth year to take another class with him! (203, 205, 411)

GREAT prof. It's obvious how much he loves teaching in the way that he takes a huge amount of his own time to thoroughly explain every aspect and expectation of his assignments. He puts in ALOT of time and effort so that students can do well. My second class with him, its clear if you put in the time, he rewards the grades.

I absolutely loved this class, and Ullyot is awesome - he's funny and brilliant. The readings were really cool and his lectures were always fun and interesting. He's very laid back and his grading scale is insanely easy (80% is an A-). Recommended!

Such a helpful prof! He is very interested in getting your feedback as a student, and really loves to teach. I highly recommend him to anyone who is majoring in English at the U of C!

Good guy who is trying something new in a field that is starting to feel stale. Well-spoken and knows how to engage people. Class sometimes felt like he bit off more than he could chew. Cares about his students and expects them to care about their work. Recommended.

Ullyot is an awesome prof! I will say that you don't really need to go to the lectures because all you do is discuss the readings and nothing that's said will really help on the exams or papers. But I do recommend going because his discussions are engaging and interesting. Highly recommended for English majors.

Amazing prof, brilliant, and highly erudite. Understands Shakespeare amazingly well and makes it fascinating to learn. He's a true believer in education and really values your ideas and thinking, challenges your assumptions and helps you grow.

Shakespeare was required for my English degree, and I'm so glad I took it with Ullyot. The semester I took it he decided to make the focus on Shakespeare and film, and it really enriched my experience. The group project was a lot of work, but it ended up being one of my favourite projects throughout university. A very enjoyable class.

Overall, Michael is a good prof. He clearly cares about the quality of his teaching, since he makes all expectations clear and posts a number of writing tips on his website. Grading seems fair enough. The reading list is quite long, but do-able. He makes good use of D2L.

Love this prof. He seems to genuinely care about his students, and offers a decent grading system (work hard enough, you can get an A). However, he can be a little slow to update D2L, reply to emails etc. Selects novels that are very interesting. I'm not an English major but I fell in love with English in Michael's class.

Dr. Ullyot is hilarious and enjoys teaching. Only a few assignments in the class. he always discusses the grading criteria for every assignment in class so you will have a clear understanding. Slow to upload lectures so attend class if that's what you want, otherwise just read your books and do assignments. Easy grades if you put in work.

Ullyot is a fair marker. He's also a really chill guy whose lectures I found enjoyable even though I'm not particularly fond of Shakespeare. There's a group project in this course that is a fair amount of work, but it'll be enjoyable so long as you plan ahead and communicate with team members. Take home final hard if you didn'tkeep up with readings

Funny, relatable prof. He wants to see everyone successful. I would attend this class if you want to do super well because he gives you lots of insights of quotes that will most likely be on the final. Mad my 8 am English class more enjoyable. Doesn't mark insanely hard but definitely need to put in effort to do well.

One of the best classes I've taken. Dr. Ullyot has extremely engaging lectures, mostly in a Socratic format - he poses a question, the class discusses. Not many profs can pull this off, but he creates such a great classroom dynamic people will vie for their turn to speak. He is passionate about what he teaches and encourages you to be as well.

Great prof! Really cares about his students and makes it easy to understand what is happening in the storys read. He emails back quickly, and gies out of his way to help his students. If English isnt your strongest class, he is a great prof to have.

He's a great prof if English isn't your strongest subject! He's a fair marker, and definitely does not make your entire grade based upon just essays. The discussion post are weekly, though they are just completion marks. He's a great professor and definitely makes English as an great gpa booster!

Great prof! Accessible outside of class and willing to help, as someone who is not necessarily good at English I find Dr. Ullyot to be one of my favourite professors.

Dr. Ullyot was such an awesome prof to have for ENGL 253.02 (poetry) this past semester. GO TO CLASS, post in slack and do all the stuff that he says to do to get a good grade on the participation report. Readings were so much fun and there was some great discussion. Tutorials were a tad bland. You NEED the textbooks. Very fair grading!

He is such a nice professor and really fair with grading. This class (with Dr Ullyot) is great for students that need an option course in English. I would take any of his classes in a heartbeat and I have taken three courses from him so far.

I am shocked by all of the negative reviews for Dr. Ullyot. He is really such a nice prof who is very passionate about what he's teaching. He made 'moving online' easier as he incorporated podcasts into the lectures and was extremely helpful with shifting deadlines. His lectures were very interesting and I learnt a lot about Paradise Lost.

I feel like I took a totally different class from some of my peers; if you followed what was expected of you (which was very well defined) it was generally an easy grade and I found him to be smart and engaging. Different strokes, I guess! I also had a family death during the term and he was super accommodating, which I greatly appreciated.

This was a great intro to some classic works - I found Dr. Ullyot's podcasts to be really helpful and the requirements/expectations well laid out. I would like to add that he did not end up changing the final (as is alluded to in other posts) even though he had every right to; the entitlement from some of my classmates was downright embarrassing.

Dr. Ullyot shares a lot of useful resources for us to succeed in his class and he is evidently very passionate about English. I found his grading scheme to be fair, he was always organized for class, easy to get into contact with, and treated his students with respect.

Dr. Ullyot helped me to appreciate poetry significantly more than I did before this class. While the majority of the class focussed heavily on poetry, we read two novels as well. He was very passionate about what he was teaching and he made the material easier to interpret. While he is a tougher grader, his rubrics and expectations are clear.

Dr. Ullyot is a great lecturer and this class was very manageable. Although rubrics are occasionally unclear, he marked assignments fairly. The amount of participation required was daunting, but not completely unreasonable. However, I found the assigned texts to be a bit limited in diversity (in era and authorship) for a survey course.

He was super helpful outside of class and his lectures weren't too bad either. He seemed to be super passionate about the books and English in general which was both good and bad. Assignment guidelines were super clear too and he explained it more in or out of class if needed. His lectures were also engaging as he often asked your interpretations.

Seemed like a cool dude. Went to maybe 5% of the classes, only went in for exams.

253.03 was my easiest class yet. Ullyot's books are interesting, he goes over them in class, and he tells you important passages that you then write about on the test for an A+. People on here dislike that he talks a lot, but if you go to every class, read on time, and write down what he says, it's a guaranteed A. I loved this class!

The lectures provide all the info you need to succeed in the exams, which are ridiculously easy (open book, you can bring in any notes you want + the books, as long as everything is a physical copy). His grading criteria is clear & he's an easy marker. Him and TA are available outside of class. I'm taking a course with this prof again next year :)

ENGL 305 was not listed, class was not 307 I took 305. Prof Ullyot was extremely fair, gives good feedback accessible outside, highly intelligent knows content, caring, inspirational, quite witty. Attending not mandatory but highly recommend taking notes in class verbasum- Underline text discussed and write next to it exactly as he says for exams

305* While I felt the final was a bit much to do in the time given, the rest of the course was super interesting thanks to Dr Ullyot! He clearly cares deeply about what he is teaching and just as much about his students, could not recommend enough!

Professor Ullyot's lectures can be a bit rambling, but engaging if you stay focused. The exams are manageable with the open-book format and good use of the textbook. I found unstuckstudy helpful for exam prep alongside my class notes.

Professor Ullyot was amazing! Not sure where all these negative ratings are coming from because that wasn't my experience at all. He was organized, entertaining, passionate, and intelligent. The lectures were captivating and I was excited to attend every class. The exam was pretty tricky considering the time given, but fine if you read everything