If you are truly interested in learning, I highly recommend you take a course with Prof. Maniquis.

He has inspired me to make learning a lifelong endeavor. I only hope one day I can be as intelligent as him. I am graduating this week, and I am lucky to have Maniquis as my final professor. I don't think he even knows my name, but I view him as an intellectual role model and I recommend more students to make use of the great opportunities for knowledge (and not just academic knowledge! also practical) offered by such a wonderful man.

If you would like a few tips: always think before you speak and speak confidently and proudly in class (but sparingly, and only when appropriate). I imagine a lot of the people who give him lower ratings are probably a little self-righteous and less-inclined to truly evaluate themselves or scared to question their opinions. Maniquis will make you think, and that is a good thing. Overall, he is a really nice guy. Put the effort in, and you will get so much out!

I would not be the same person if I had not taken a couple courses with him (New Testament & 10c) The information he provides is phenomenal. He always makes me think in ways I have never considered and I am so grateful to have met him.

Thank you Professor.

This professor is a true intellectual and he teaches you how to be one. Maniquis has forever changed the way I see the world. He doesn't do the banal way of teaching, which is to explicate a single work that you can get on Wikipedia as most professors do, instead, Maniquis asks you to take responsibility for your own education. He shows you what you need to do, that is, he tells you how to learn on your own. At first this is a lot of work--to look up every single word I do not understand to look up every term I am unfamiliar with but after a few weeks this method becomes invigorating. I am participating in my own learning! I am NOT just a downloading what the professor says. Maniquis is the best kind of education a person can get. His class structure gives you a construct that views the period of time in a cultural way--and you are free to research this on your own and he encourages you to do so and he tells you point blank that his is not he only way to view the period. You can do what he did and read all the original newspapers of the periods and all of the important writings of the period to see for yourself if you agree with him or not. He is fair grader. Work load is manageable. I think he is the best education. Take him he is BRILLIANT and he teaches you. There is an old proverb that says If a hungry man comes to you and you give him a fish you feed him for a day but if you teach him how to fish you feed him for a lifetime.