William Tyrrell

School: College for Creative Studies
Department: Foundations
Location: Detroit, MI
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The majority of these comments are about a different teacher at another school I think. The classes I had were at CCS in Detroit. they were focused on the elements and principles of design and the how to apply them to projects in the Woodshop and metal shop and broken down model shop. NO SHAKESPEARE HERE!
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The majority of the comments are about a different teacher at another school. The classes I had were at CCS and about the elements and principles of design and the how to apply them in the Woodshop and metal shop. NO SHAKESPEARE!
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Pros: NOTHING
Cons: it's impossible
HORRIBLE!! YOU HAVE TO READ SHAKESPEARE!!!
TYRRELL IS OLD AND MEAN
i went to the first day and have never had a worse class
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Cons: Drones on and on, abruptly ends class
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Pros: An interesting, funny prof as long as you understand his humor. He also gives a study guide, without it, the exams would have been impossible to pass.
Cons: Hard exams.
Hard grader.
Talks at you quickly, leaving you wondering whats important to take note of.
Is intimidating when asking a question, not a very people friendly type of guy.
If you're looking for an easy IAH class, don't pick this one. This has easily become my most difficult class this semester, and I took it to be a blow-off one. This prof expects you to know the material as well as he does, and he's been studying it his entire life.
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Pros: very interesting prof, great to listen to and breaks down hard greek works very well.
If you ask him for help, he will help you
Cons: Lots of reading and writing
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Honestly Tyrrell is a great prof. At first i didnt like him but that was my fault. I've noticed that the people that dont like him or think hes a bad prof are the ones that don't listen to him in class or dont even come to class. If you are looking for an easy IAH this isnt it, but if you like greek culture and history hes a very good prof. If you're will to go to class and listen you will do well. His tests are mostly essays and he gives you the topics they will be on a week before exams, and basically if you write what he told you in class, you dont even have to spin his words or give your own input, you will get high marks. That being said if you try to bullshit him and have no knowledge of the subject he won't even hesitate to give you a 0.
So overall i loved him his lectures are interesting and very informative. Theres one term paper and no restrictions on what you can write as long as it has something to do with greek culture/history. He doesnt care about attendance or in his words how you do in this class but is absolutely willing to help anyone that asks. Hes pretty damn funny too.
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Pros: If you read the material the exam questions are not difficult.
Cons: There is a lot of material and he moves very quickly. Grades very hard and will not talk to you about improving grades
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Pros: The material is easy.
He explains things thoroughly.
He is very comical.
Enjoyable Class.
Cons: He sometimes gets of track with lectures.
I enjoy this class and Prof. Tyrrell.
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Cons: Have no idea what he is talking about. There is no way to do well in this class.
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Professor Tyrrell teaches an extremely difficult class. That being said, the material is more difficult than his grading. He grades fair, is available for questions, teaches well and clear. The first day of class he'll try and scare you. He'll continue to be stern and cold throughout the first 4 weeks. Work at getting to know him. Develop a relationship with him. Find your role. From my angle, he respects the students that stick with it. Do the work you can. Study for the quizzes, ask questions, and take risks. He is crude, harsh, and callous. Don't give up or in. Learn to appreciate him as a good teacher. Don't expect him to be kind or understanding. He is, only on his own terms.
Develop relationships with your classmates and form study groups. Find the support you need in them. You're all in the same boat and are looking for the same thing. Go to every class if you don't do consistently well on the quizzes. You will be just fine. Keep pluggin' along.
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I actually had him for CLA309 but it isn't listed.
I really liked Prof. Tyrrell. He was really interesting and knew his way around the subject so well. You have to do all of the reading in the class to succeed but he tried to space it out pretty well.
All of the exams are essays. There are identification, short answer and essay questions. He gives you a list to choose from so you don't have to do them all. He will also tell you that he doesn't give out study guides, but he actually does. They are pretty much exactly what is on the exam.
If you have never had a prof that lectures with out the board or a power point, this might be a hard class for you but I thought it was useful. He talks A LOT and its all really interesting. He loves to answer questions, as long as they aren't stupid.
I got a 97% in the class. What helped was doing all of the reading, taking great notes, going to class everyday and studying with a group of people in the class. Sometimes its hard to catch everything in the lectures and having other peoples notes really helps out!!
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Professor Tyrrell is pretty intense - but if you stick it out through the whole semester and figure out a good way to memorize the material then his tests really are not that bad. He always uses sentences that we have seen before or that contain words we've used a lot so the translations weren't too bad.
Although he blatantly states that he doesn't care if you learn it or not, he's one of my favorite/most memorable professors I've had in 4 years at MSU.
This is not a blow- off class, or a good 4 credit elective if you are taking other demanding courses.
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Prof. Tyrrell is a hard person to grade. He really wants his students to learn Latin, but he is really a hard grader, which makes some of his students give up. Latin is a lot of work, but I don't feel he assigned enough for us to really learn the lessons. He leaves it to the class to determine the pace of the class, and when some exams are. He also let us opt out of our final exam if we didn't feel it would help our grade to take it. Overall I would say he is an excellent professor teaching a difficult class.

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