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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/11/2025 |
I say im expecting an A and thats if the TAs don’t take off stupid points on his writing assignments. Everything is online, exams, quizzes, etc. I don’t understand the grading of any of his assignments. I tried to get some points back on one and the TA offered the most vague reasoning as to why I lost points (it didn't make any sense at all). This class is extremely boring and long but you will pass. Probably shouldn't be the first choice of prof but take if you need to get SOCY100 done. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/07/2025 |
Malackany and the TA's have the most insane grading rubric and don't even say why. It feels like they take off random points just because they can. The class is so boring and his voice is super monotone like everyone else says. Luckily, the exams are all online and you have 24 hours to do them, but my grade shocked me every time. For a 100 level class, the grading is way stricter than it should be. Don't take this class for the sake of your gpa. |
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Christopher Malackany
Anonymous 05/07/2025 |
As a 100-level course, it is not a challenging course. There are a couple of writing assignments, that, as long as you follow the rubric, are quite straightforward. The same can be said about the quizzes and midterms (which are all multiple choice and online). However, the lectures are incredibly boring and monotone, with random participation assignments, which meant you had to come to class, despite everything relevant for the exams really being in the textbook. I would not recommend this professor if you must take SOCY100. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/05/2025 |
I agree with all the other reviews. Prof is severely monotone and hard to pay attention to. TA's grade super harshly and grades have no rhyme or reason. Exams are online which is nice but Prof is so strict on deadlines. Just not worth taking |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/30/2025 |
The class overall isn’t that difficult, like everyone else said the quizzes and exams are all alone. Writing assignments are a little annoying but not too bad. The chapter based questions are what get you. You have to write 2 original questions based on the chapters/leftures, and one of the TA’s (Abirami Venkateswaran) grades SEVERELY harshly. I’m talking taking off 3 out of 5 points for absolutely zero reason. It kills your grade. The class itself isn’t even that bad, but they grade it way too harshly for a 100 level class. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY227 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/28/2025 |
I took SOCY100 asynchronously with Malackany over the summer and the course was crazy easy, however, after taking SOCY227 with him in person, I don't have many positive things to say about this guy. Not a fan. Extremely boring lecturer, and while he posts his lecture slides, it doesn't matter because he has unannounced participation assignments that you must be in attendance to do and cannot be made up. Exams and quizzes are online, but the questions are written in such a way that they are intended to trip you up. And since they are online and timed, there is no way to ask clarifying questions. He has an incredibly strict late work policy (50% deduction on anything submitted even just a minute late) that he is not willing to negotiate. The TA grades the writing assignments and the discussion questions, so these parts of your grade are dependent on how picky your TA is. Mine was pretty picky during the beginning of the semester, which didn't set me up ideally for the remainder of the semester. The textbook readings are lengthy, and most graded assignments are based on them, so you can't get around doing the readings. There are no opportunities for extra credit, curves, or 'lowest score(s) dropped.' He also completely changed the course schedule a month into the semester, which caused a lot of confusion with due dates and required assignments. I personally will not be taking any other classes given by this guy and wouldn't recommend him either. Not an easy A, so most definitely do not take if you are looking for a GPA boost. Because of the wildly harsh late policy, if you're late on even one assignment, your grade isn't even based on how well you grasp the content (which is contradictory to the point of grades). I wouldn't even recommend it as a fun or mildly enjoyable sociology class -- I'm a crim major and a socy minor and can't even say the content is that interesting. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/20/2025 |
Actually such an annoying class. So many assignments and they are graded so harshly. Honestly, the worst part of this class were the unannounced participation assignments worth 15% of your grade, meaning you actually had to attend every lecture, which were so boring. Only redeeming quality is that the exams are online. Solid choice but take someone else if you can. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 02/05/2025 |
This class was an easy standard level course. The professor is very monotone and quiet, so it is difficult to hear him unless you are sitting directly in front of him. He also is very strict with his late policy. I was sick and had a doctors note, and he only excused me from one assignment thats was submitted late even though I spoke to him in class, as well as emailed him. He has little to no sympathy, so if you are having personal struggles or any reason for not attending class or submitting something on time, good luck. He does do random attendance as well, so going to class is also mandatory. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY105 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/24/2025 |
He's a nice guy but my goodness he's really boring during lecture. I heard from some of my friends who took this class with other professors that they would try to engage the class or people would have conversations with one another or discussions about topics. I would’ve loved that type of model, but unfortunately Dr. Malackany just drones on for 50 minutes. The only reason most people go to lecture is because he does this thing where although he doesn't take attendance every class period, he has these random in-class exit tickets where you watch a video in class and you need to respond to the video with your thoughts on an index card. He doesn't announce ahead of time when he's going to do this so you just basically have to go to class every time unless you want to risk missing that assignment because you can't really make it up. 50% off any assignment that is submitted after the due date. After 72 hours, you get a zero. Pretty harsh grading. There was a TA who does some of the grading, who I personally think is really nitpicky. I remember I got a 13/15 because I didn't separate a paragraph into smaller chunks but whatever. The writing assignments are graded a little nitpicky. I don't know who it is whether it's the TA or the professor, but I feel like someone has the "I don't give out A's or 100s" type of mentality, which is pretty annoying. Exams are done online. You have until the end of the day before 11:59 pm to complete the exam from when it’s opened. The first exam was relatively easy. The second exam was pretty difficult in my opinion. The final exam is also done online. You have 2 hours to complete it. It’s still 60 questions about, and it’s NOT cumulative. There were only about 4-6 chapters of content on the final exam. The exams have 60-65 questions 75 minutes to complete. All multiple choice. You have weekly quizzes where you have five questions to answer in five minutes. Multiple choice. Writing assignments where you watch a documentary or movie and give your thoughts on it. Discussion questions, where you read from the online textbook, and create a question based on the reading. You do have to follow a rubric but there’s example questions posted on ELMS. No sort of dropping of lowest grade on an assignment or grade curve/bump. Your score is as is. |
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Christopher Malackany
Expecting an A Anonymous 01/13/2025 |
Deathly boring class for such an interesting topic. Attendance is pretty much mandatory since he can drop a participation assignment that can obliterate your grade if you don't do it. You could get a friend to write your name on participation assignments when you're not there. Lectures are recorded but they're kinda hard to listen to because he stands 5 feet away from his mic and so you just end up hearing people in the classroom moving around. You have occassional writing assignments and quizzes along with exams. He makes you watch some documentaries for writing assignments so just watch until you find a certain topic you can just keep on ranting about for 2 pages. Everything is pretty straightforward and isn't too difficult. You can probably get away with spending 2 hours weekly on this class. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2024 |
Fall 2024 Good professor. Boring teaching voice but engaging lectures. Unannounced participation assignments (graded on completion) during lecture so make sure to attend. Holds random Zoom lectures whenever he needs to pretty often which was nice. Almost weekly homework (textbook chapter reading + 2 discussion questions graded on completion due before class), 5-question online quizzes based on readings (heavy on vocab and concepts), and occasional writing assignments (6 total). 2 online midterms and final is non-cumulative (basically the third midterm). I ended with the exact final exam grade that I needed to end with an A — my biggest grade tankers were some of the quizzes and the writing assignments as the TA grades them pretty harshly, taking off 2-4 points on each assignment except two. Very approachable and kind, strongly recommend him!! |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 07/04/2024 |
Fall 2023. Great professor. There is a little more out of class work than expected for a 100 level class, but it isn't too bad. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/18/2024 |
The exams are fair, and based on lecture notes and the textbook. There were some questions from videos, but Dr. Malackany makes an effort to make sure we watch them by creating assignments based on them (Writing assignments). I'm not really that into Sociology, so I didn't find the content very interesting, so I wouldn't say that the professor is boring, I think I'm just disinterested, but the course is fair as long as you put effort into submitting assignments on time. Also, Dr. Malackany is very responsive to emails if you miss class, and he posts lecture recordings - I never had to use them but I know some people found them useful. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/11/2024 |
I second the other recent reviews on here. Professor Malackany is very kind, agreeable, and clearly well educated on the subject. The class structure is straightforward and super organized. At first I didn't know how to feel about having to watch documentary episodes for some of the written assignments, but he chooses very interesting films that ended up teaching me a lot about how sociology is integrated into the world. I enjoyed this class! |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/23/2023 |
I liked this class a lot, Professor Malackany is very kind and passionate about what he teaches. I found his lectures to be interesting. The course load was very manageable, and you can miss most lectures without penalty (although sometimes there are 5-point participation assignments.) Each class he goes through slides that are already posted on Canvas, which only covers some of the content you will be tested on. I didn't realize how important reading each chapter of the textbook was until the first exam, so I would say read/skim each unit as you go through the content in class. Each unit also comes with an online 5-minute 5-question quiz that you have 3 days to complete. All of the exams are 50 MCQ online, including the final exam which is not cumulative. In addition to this, there are multiple writing assignments based on either critical thinking or documentaries assigned to watch outside of class. The TA grades them on content, not completion. Five or six lectures were switched to Zoom, which made it a little harder for me to focus on the content, but I really enjoyed the in-person lectures and did well in the class. I would recommend Malackany's class to anyone who needs a gen-ed or is interested in Sociology. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/07/2023 |
Dr. Malackany is your standard 100-level social science professor. Class was highly organized with fully online exams, weekly reading quizzes, short writing assignments (based on external readings or documentaries), and short participation assignments. All of the media and real-world examples were pretty outdated but still applied to the concepts. Lecture was always recorded and slides were always uploaded prior to class. His lecture style is pretty boring especially since the connections weren’t current and he didn’t get through a lot of slides in class. Be prepared for an odd textbook. The textbook had a section where the author blamed public school teachers/administration for why American students' performances are suffering and not the fact that schools rely on test scores for funding. The textbook also had a section complaining about how school shootings aren’t that big of a problem and cited data that was cut off in 2014 (right before shooting rates spiked). Overall the class was easy and a great way to get your gen ed, I was just confused as to how an interesting subject like sociology was made so lackluster/boring. If you’re actually interested in sociology I’d take a different professor. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY227 Expecting an A naonic 09/18/2023 |
This class was actually really enjoyable. There's a lot of reading, but it's somewhat interesting. Lectures are not mandatory (except for a few days he dictates on the syllabus) and you can still get an A if you skip a few lectures. Most of the assignments and exams are pretty easy. Overall, I liked this class and feel like I learned a lot of interesting stuff. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/23/2023 |
Dr. Malackany was super kind and understanding and you can tell he cares a lot about sociology. The course structure is super traditional, and the exams were multiple choice and super easy. However, his lectures could be kind of boring at times. Overall this class was an easy A with a light course load, and I'd recommend it for a gened credit. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2023 |
The class itself is pretty easy - we are given a good amount of assignments to help boost our grades. But this class was actually so boring and there was no motivation for me to ever go. He does a good job explaining the concepts but is not engaging at all. Overall an easy gen-ed but if you are looking for an interesting sociology class this is not it |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/03/2023 |
For an intro level sociology class, this class sucked. His lecturing was quite boring and he would talk in a monotone voice. Almost impossible to pay attention and stay focused in that class. His lecture material doesn't always coincide with the textbook. There are almost weekly textbook reading quizzes that are short but good grade boosters. Overall, this class was really really boring and I would never take it again. |
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Christopher Malackany
Expecting an A Anonymous 04/19/2023 |
such a boring lecturer |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/02/2023 |
Malackany definitely tried to explain the content on his slides thoroughly. However, it became tedious listening through zoom for his online class. His quizzes were the most tricky component of his class. The limited time and true/false questions that did not pertain to his slides were definitely challenging. Most terms and definitions were in the textbook but they didn't help much for the test questions. Surprisingly quizlet material helped more. Was a so-so class, had an abundance of information and did not retain much. I would recommend choosing another course for the gen-ed or elective. |
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Christopher Malackany
SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/13/2022 |
Professor Malackany cares a lot about sociology. I took this class online and felt it was very easy. The class assignments are very easy, most of them involved watching a video and answering two questions. One question would be specific and the other would simply be what did you like most. The tests were very straight forward with a mix of multiple choice and true/false. On test days you are given the entire day to start the test so you can pick a time that works best for you to take it. There were also quizzes that were easy. You have 3 days to take a quiz so there is a lot of flexibility, but once you start a quiz you only have 5 minutes to take it. All lecture slides are posted before the lecture. You can miss this class without an issue about making up work or missing information. |