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Fiorenza, Giancarlo

Cumulative GPA: 4.00/4.00 with 13 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 4.00
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 3.77

Art and Design Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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ART 212 Freshman Grade Earned: A Elective 2:17 pm, Mar 26, 2013 Report Evaluation		Professor Fiorenza is awesome. Interesting lecturer, fair grader. Easy and interesting class to take as an elective, I had a great experience.

ART 111 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 1:56 pm, Feb 13, 2013 Report Evaluation		This guy has the easiest tests ever. You just need to study the examples he gives you for a little bit and you should have no problem. Don't really have to go to class. Grade is 3 tests and they are all easy.

ART 111 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 5:03 pm, Dec 17, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Fiorenza is great. It's a straight-forward and easy class. If you go to class everyday you wil get a B- or so. If you do a little studying you'll get an A. He makes art history fun and interesting and is a great in class. Definitely recommend

ART 111 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 5:20 pm, Dec 3, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Fiorenza rocks! Even though art class was from 8 to 10 pm at night every day, it was my favorite class to go to and I looked forward to it. You don't need to buy the book if you go to class...you really don't need to do anything as long as you GO TO CLASS. All you have to do is go to class and pay attention in lectures, and you'll get a good grade. 3 tests, all lecture-based, if you pay any degree of attention in class you'll learn a lot and be able to get A's on all the tests. He is really really nice and his lectures are super interesting - I've never been interested in art before but I learned so much and I enjoyed it a lot! Definitely an amazing teacher, one of the best teachers I've ever had.

ART 111 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 3:12 pm, Nov 29, 2012 Report Evaluation		Giancarlo is a super nice guy who is very passionate about Art and tries to make the subject as interesting as possible for his class. The lectures are long, but he tries to break them up, gives us breaks, and tells stories. His tests are pretty easy, just look at the study guides online and you will be fine. Don't buy the book, I never used it. Dr. Fiorenza's class is definitely a good choice for a G.E. If anything.. his name is Giancarlo Fiorenza. Does it get any better for an Art professor?

ART 111 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 12:23 pm, Nov 26, 2012 Report Evaluation		Very straightforward class, easy to understand. He is very passionate about the subject. You do NOT need to purchase the book as long as you come to class and pay attention. The tests are very fair. Overall a great teacher, great class, easy A as long as you put in the time and effort.

ART 111 Junior Grade Earned: A General Ed 9:36 am, Mar 12, 2012 Report Evaluation		Take him! He's super friendly and passionate about his teaching! You have to go to his lectures to see what will be on the test. His lectures are interesting! He gives helpful study guides. So far, only three tests on multiple choices. Super easy!



ART 371 Sophomore Grade Earned: A General Ed 5:11 pm, Jan 4, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Fiorenza is great. Friendly guy, easy grader, interesting lectures. Tests are all writing-based, but as long as you write something coherent that remotely resembles what you talked about in lecture, you will get at least a B. Not a bad option for a GE.

ART 111 Sophomore Grade Earned: A General Ed 11:05 pm, May 17, 2011 Report Evaluation		Fiorenza is one of the most passionate teachers at Poly! Such a wonderful class!

ART 111 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A General Ed 10:29 pm, Mar 28, 2011 Report Evaluation		Very interesting and easy course. Teacher is super nice and clearly knows a ton about the material. I would recommend this class to anyone.

ART 111 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 9:27 pm, Feb 27, 2011 Report Evaluation		Definitely love this professor; he is hilarious and while the lectures are long and can occasionally be tedious, he tries to break it up with jokes and stories. The midterms (3) are easy if you take notes and do some of the reading. He puts a study guide up online at the beginning of the quarter so you can print it out and fill it in during class as many people did. Personally I found that taking notes in class then reading over the parts he tells you to in lecture was enough so there's no need to go crazy and do all of the reading. I read everything and way over studied, as did everybody, for the first midterm and got a 100 on it and toned my studying down for the second and third midterm and still got 100s. There is no final in this class, just the third midterm during dead week. You get to watch several movies in this class which is fun and he asks the class questions and is very nice because most of the time there is no 'right' answer and he makes you elaborate which is really helpful for understanding what's happening. The midterms are scantron and he puts the first part of the test, painting/sculpture/building identification, on the projector and gives you about two to three mins to answer each before going to the next slide. He is very nice if you need more time on a slide but it's the kind of thing you either get immediately or not and I never had any problem with him changing the slide too quickly. The second part of the midterms are on the sheet that has the questions from both part one and two. About thirty to forty questions so it's definitely worth taking extra care on each question as there aren't many. I really enjoyed this class and didn't mind that it was two hours of lecture. I recommend him for this fine arts GE!

ART 111 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 12:21 am, Feb 20, 2011 Report Evaluation		SUPER EASY CLASS! simply go the lectures, take good notes, review your notes and you will get an A. There is no need to read the book or even purchase it. This class is pretty interesting especially if you have been to Italy or plan on going... The renaissance section was very interesting. THe lectures for the most part were boring but if you want an easy class take this!

ART 111 Sophomore Grade Earned: A General Ed 10:12 pm, Dec 7, 2010 Report Evaluation		Professor Fiorenza has been one of my favorite professors here at Cal Poly. He explains all of the information very clearly. There are three tests that are lecture-based and you will do very well if you go to class. His passion for the subject makes his lectures interesting and fun to attend. I would highly recommend this professor -- he is fair and just overall a good guy!

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