3.8
Quality3.2
Difficulty53%
Would Retake116
Reviews53%
Would Retake
116
Reviews
Rating DistributionOfficial
5
69
4
12
3
6
2
6
1
23
What Students Say
“She is a very tough grader”
CUL502 - 1.0 rating“I believe she is the worst teacher I had after the teacher I had in university I will not forget her plus that teacher she knew I had tough things and she failed me so I am disappointed why she always said me I do not care I did my assignments even though they had problems but always just zero zero zero to me I do not recommend her at all”
EAC150 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
48%
Textbook Required
25%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-1.02 avg changeRatings by Course
ENGLISH
5.0
(1)BUSINESS
5.0
(1)EAC349
5.0
(1)EAC409
5.0
(6)EAC393
5.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
COMM101
5.0
EAC
4.0
ENG101
4.0
EAC502
4.0
EAC159
4.0
Reviews (116)
She's great! I never wanted to attend class until now. Thanks for teaching me the value of learning.
She is just awesome I do not know what else to say. Weve had some great one on one meetings that have taught me a lot. She is the best looking teacher that I have ever had, I find it hard to concentrate. Simply the best. See you soon. Come to my keg party
A great instructor. She knows her stuff and takes the time to help her students!
definitely one of the hottest and nicest profs i've ever had in Seneca. She's also willing to help all her students...way to go, Penny....!!!!^^
She is hot. Great class and is an easy marker if you attend most of her classes and hand in your assignments on time
One of the best teachers at Seneca! No doubt about that. Always there to help. Very friendly nature with everyone in the class. I wish I had her all 6 semesters!
Phenomenal Teacher, Too Hot
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Very good teacher!
One of the best teacher in Seneca
I dont know why lots of people think she is a good teacher. No doubt,she is kind, but she doesnt know how to teach. No organization.
The most caring and organized teacher at Seneca. Doesn't hurt that she looks like Catherine Zeta Jones either.
Penny! what can you say about Penny.How about amazingly HOT! she is very understanding,very helpful, honest and associates with the students on the same level. You rock Penny.By far one of the best profs we have had at Seneca to date.Wish we could have her for more classes.It's Team Banana we luv u!
You can't ask for any better EAC teacher than she is. She allows you to do an extra assignment just to pull up the mark.
The best English Teacher by far at Seneca, a very helpful and great personality. She marks assignments very fairly. She really cares about her students success and helps along the way. She is a hot one
Penny was the most amazing teacher. She is very helpful and always tries to make it a good experience for her students. If your taking her class your really lucky. She is kind of like a friend very cool teacher. For all you boys YES she is hot she looks a little like catherine zeta-jones
If you expect to get only B, then keep her class.
Amazing teacher. Very helpful, hard marker, but takes the time for her students. Knows her stuff
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Cool Teacher !
AWESOME PROF PERIOD. =D
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AMazing teacher, very BLUNT is very stright up how old is she
TAke her, go to class you will do good.
Great teacher very pleasant and up beat for the morning!!!! If you listen and go to most classes you will pass with flying colours!!
Penny is so hot .... greatest teacher ever...and shes hot
funny, nice and shes HOT!, just go to class and do the work and you'll get an A
IF YOU ARE AN ESL STUDENT, FORGET HER!!!
She likes her job, but her class is so boring.If you are an ESL student, you have to spend a lot of time for this course because she will give you a lot of assignments and she is not very easy on marking them. However, it is not impossible for ESL students to get an A from her.
Gorgeous and easy going prof. Tough on marking, but the course was a piece of cake. No tests, no exams for this course.
Penny is an extremely caring, sweet teacher. If you go, and do the work you will get great marks. She is very understanding and very open to ideas. Had a great time in her class, she made a boring subject interesting. Penny's the greatest!
she is a great tacher! very fun and her class was basically the only one i wanted to go to.
WELL Organized, and well respected. She knows her stuff and loves her job....rare to see!! She is the best of Seneca!! thanks penny great prof
she doesn't give you very high mark
She knows her stuff. Most of the material in this course is actually useful. Not the easiest marker and does demand perfection on every assignment. Just show up for class, put some effort into it and you'll do fine. And she's hot. Bonus.
Amazing professor! Very clear and to the point; loves debates! She a little on the tough side, but a fair marker! Just do your work and you will get rewarded with a great grade!
She's hot. Gets annoyed if you come late. Nice person. Hard marker! Gives weekly readings that are extremely long and hard to understand.Essentially this class was a pain in the but,even for the best students.Only go if you like the fact that she's smokin hot.
Honestly, it's rare to find a prof who really has fun with her students. Awesome Prof, ncie, FAIR, and challenging...u finish feeling like u know more bc she challenges u!!
Honestly, it's rare to find a prof who really has fun with her students. Awesome Prof, ncie, FAIR, and challenging!!
A great Prof. She is fun, lively and smart thanks
Penny may be her name but she is worth more. She is perfect!!! She knows it all yet she wants to know more. She is welcome to new ideas, loves teaching, loves to just talk to her students and just vibe. Best Teacher I Ever Had. I wish I had her again.
Penny is really nice teacher. she always cares for students. She is so cool. she needs perfect work. be regular student and come on time. her teaching style is excellent. Thank you penny...
Amazing teacher, ex-journalism student making her that much cooler and oh so beautiful!
Simply a gifted professor who truely educates and inspires...tahnk you!
One of my best professors at Seneca. She is the kind who doesn't give out marks you have to earn them with hard work. Don't take the course thinking it's a joke or miss her class alot you will fail. Penny is a very interesting teacher, and her lessons stick. I would recommend her class.
Penny is the best teacher i ever had in college. Popular culture was just an optional course for me last semester, but he offered me an interesting experience, I was so enjoyed in her class listening her talking about fun issues and discussing with us. I earned more than I expected in this class. thks
Penny is one of the few teachers that is passionate about what she does. She is very helpful and fair when it comes to work and treats everyone equally. One of the best teacher's I've had!
She's a very sweet teacher, accidentally fell in love with her. Very interesting individual with great personal stories.
She is a wonderful teacher! All the classes with her are very interesting! Students loves her! Just 1moment - she is a hard marker:)
I had a compressed course so the content was overwhelming, however she simplified what was needed and when. I easily understood what was expected. She's very easy going and funny
Penny has by far been my best and favourite prof since being at seneca and this is my 4th and final year. I was in the hybrid course and she was honestly amazing, so understand. If you came to class (on time also and not late) she loved you and you could see it through your marks and everything. Easy marker, easy prof to talk to and amazing person!
I believe she is the worst teacher I had after the teacher I had in university I will not forget her plus that teacher she knew I had tough things and she failed me so I am disappointed why she always said me I do not care I did my assignments even though they had problems but always just zero zero zero to me I do not recommend her at all
She was good but a very tough grader. One can get only 60-70% only. Sometimes it feels like she is partial but sometimes she is all the way so nice. Whatever, she's good and pretty.
A big NO for her. She is a very tough grader. Rather choose any other general course or go for another professor as she won't give good marks. She acts nice in front of everyone but I didn't like her at all.
I hope I never get a professor like this again...
The lowest score with bad Professor
Penny is a great Professor. Yes, she has high expectations but seriously, this is COLLEGE, and for COLLEGE this is an easy course with a fun PROF! I went to George Brown before. Penny is amazing and I love seneca college
The toughest grader that I ever met! The lowest mark that I ever got! Not recommended!
Very good teacher, although she is really tough grader. You gotta participate, read the documents and be ready for classes. Without that, you will have a really tough time. But she worths if you are a good student
Amazing!!!!!
this teacher is terrible.
She is one among the best professors at Seneca. I read the bad comments, if you are someone who is not serious about the course she will be awful. But, if you are disciplined and serious about your studies she is the one. Extremely dedicated, supportive and patient with students. She gives a whole week for work completion which I guess is ample
Liked: interesting readings, makes you read and write a lot. Disliked: she reminds you every single class: "you will fail". She is clear in class, but not at all when grading. Gives you no feedback for improving next time. If you ask her in person, she gives no reasonable answer as to why you got a 5.0/10.0. Glad I had another prof. after break.
NEVER AGAIN!!! TOUGH GRADER!!!!!!! DOESNT MAKE ANY COMMENTS AT ALL IF YOU GET A LOW SCORE!!! NOT RECOMMENDED
AMAZING PROFESSOR AT SENECA! Professor Penny is so caring and nice! She actually cares about her students and I never got bored listening to her lectures. I would 100% take another class with her!
Dont take this course
I took a condensed 7-week version of this class and I couldn't have expected it have gone as smooth as it did. Our assignments allowed us to improve on our writing as Penny gave constructive feedback in addition to the content we were writing about. I wish Penny nothing but the best and hope to take another class with her when possible.
An amazing Professor who actually loves to teach! She is incredible, opens your mind to look at the world through a different lens. Inspirational and amazing
She should work more on her way of approaching to students. Being vague on explanation of grading and assignments.
She was a great prof and held interesting lecture. There are weekly assignments but they were simple and straight forward.
Penny was a good professor. There were weekly assignments, but they were super easy, and the instructions were very clear. She is an easy marker and gives good feedback.
She is so caring for her students. She always tries to help her students .
This is the worst Professor I have ever met in 2021,and even in my life as well I am in an asynchronous class and the activity stream shows no update and when you open that grading sections you must have missed a lot of them.She expects you to pay attention in the class regarding due dates but someone please tell her that its an asynchronous class!
An amazing Professor! BRings current issues into every lecture-makes you see the world through a variety of lenses!
This professor has the worst grading criteria, unclear reason on why you got a bad score, didn't provide accurate explanation or ways of improving. Would not take again!
A pretty awesome Professor at Seneca College. She is very clear as to expectations and if you follow you get great results. Loved having her, wish she taught more courses at Seneca.
A great Professor...just do your work and you will be fine!! It's fun and good readings
lack of feedback just repetition of a fixed text for improving writing !!!!
A lot of work, but this prof. made it so much fun to be online. I loved her lectures and all of her activities..does not make me miss being in the classroom
THE BEST! I wish I could take this course again
Makes you feel ur in the class even though ur not. Best online prof. Thank you!
Her grading scheme is extremely tough
An amazing Teacher! She cares and is so into getting to know her students and helping them.
She is good at getting the class to participate activities. Also, lectures were well prepared and delivered clearly. She does give feedbacks for each assignments, but yet, it is a little bit unclear and tough when it comes to grading itself. Make sure to double check grading rubric as many times as possible, it is relatively hard to get good marks.
she is tough but you'll learn a lot
DONT TAKE HER
She made the class fun and engaging. There are weekly writing assignments but they are short and easy to complete. There are also a lot of videos to watch relating to the topics taught in class along with some articles to read. There were also a few group activities that were completed in class relating to the topics and some class discussions
DO NOT take her course!!! NEVER EVER!!! Have No idea how she graded the assignment! Never get clearly review/guide for the assignments. Hard to get high marks.
Interesting prof. had an assignment due every week. Most weren't hard but some had long passages you had to read. If your viewpoint doesn't match with hers on certain topics you need to be a very good writer as she will look to take marks off.
Penny Mamais only taught first half of this course as it was split into two sections two different teachers. All I gotta say is it was well done and she did great for her part and I was able to understand everything very clearly. Also the marks were reasonable and provided a valid explanation for why she would deduct marks. I recommend!
She's a very tough grader but overall it seems that she's really passionate about teaching. She's very kind
A class I actually look forward to attending.
I regret SO MUCH for taking this course. In first 5 weeks, prof did 2 online lectures and gave 4 assignments. You've to do tons of reading and learn everything all by yourself and put 5-6 hours of work for every assignment to get an average grade. This ELECTIVE course took more time than my MAIN courses. Worst prof/course I've seen in Seneca.
An amazing Prof at Seneca Polytechnic. Loves bringing meaning to her classroom and engages well with all students
Professor Mamais' lectures are amazing!! You will learn so much!! There is weekly homework and readings, but they are very interesting. Moreover, I think people have a misunderstanding, being an elective course does not mean that it is easier or you will not have to do anything, please. Anyway, she is very nice, fun, and knowledgeable. Thank you!
The best! Absolute best there is!
I had Penny for part 1 of a 2 part summer semester..she was super friendly, easy to understand and hilarious! Love this Prof-thanks for a great summer
Fun Prof-super funny and great class engagement
She's a kind and funny professor, I enjoyed her class for the most part. This class is reading-heavy and she gives many writing assignments, if you have a loaded semester I don't recommend taking this class. Participate as much as you can and you should be fine. She takes the use of AI very seriously, don't think about using it in her class.
No helpful feedback, and no encouragement, I don't consider her a good professor for a Gen-Ed course. Unlucky for those who take her course. No hatred, but she is a hard grader. Essays weekly (portfolio). Never feel excited in this course tbh
The professor is engaging and makes the material interesting. Doing the readings and assignments is crucial, but unstuck study can help streamline the study process. Overall, a worthwhile elective if you're willing to put in the work.
Made me like reading and writing! A great Prof who cares about the students! If you can take her media class also...great course
One of the worst professor i have ever met in my life. Because of this professor my overall grade had changed from 4 Dont know how to give a grade
Please do not choose. Most worst professor I have ever met in Seneca Polytechnic. So awful
One of the best! She cares and is so fun!
Don't choose her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too vague, so extra.
Staying away from this professor, she shouldn't be teaching online classes, what a joke. She isn't considerate, and doesn't explain assignments properly.
Not good at all.
So much fun!! A great time always
Professor Penny is one of the kindest and caring Profs at Seneca. She always relates material to current issues. I liked her a lot. Thank you Penny
Penny is amazing. As long as you stay up to date the course is very easy to navigate. Super fun and what a great lecturer. Always keeps you interested!
Penny is my all-time favorite professor. Her lectures were the best and she gave great feedback. I really enjoyed her assignments! I'd love to take another of her courses as she was a very fair and caring professor. I highly recommend her!
The course had very limited class sessions and was mostly online. It was difficult to receive timely feedback during the term, and assignment expectations were not always clear.
An amazing Professor who cares about her students! thanks Prof
Penny is a very good but harsh professor. She expects students to be on time and will call students even if they are late. She also holds an expectation for readings to be done before class and for assignments to be done on time with no exceptions! I found her teaching style to be all over the place and often times I was confused on what to do.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
48%
Textbook Required
25%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-1.02 avg changeRatings by Course
ENGLISH
5.0
(1)BUSINESS
5.0
(1)EAC349
5.0
(1)EAC409
5.0
(6)EAC393
5.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
COMM101
5.0
EAC
4.0
ENG101
4.0
EAC502
4.0
EAC159
4.0