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Natalie Zervou

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Raw average: 3.27/5 from 11 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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DANCE 168
Quality 3/5Difficulty 2/5
pretty chill class, but is entirely busy work. there are 4 zooms a semester and besides that you just complete weekly assignments that do not take too long.
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DANCE 168
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
This is good class to take as it discusses clear aspects of society. Natalie discusses topics clearly and unbiased so that people can understand issues.
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DANCE 168
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
Watch lectures and take lots of notes and you should be fine for quizzes and discussion sections and posts. Tough grading on journal entries where you have to summarize two hours of lectures and readings into 250 words or less.. which is quite difficult. Can be easy enough if you put in the time, but it can be a lot of time for a humanities class
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DAN168 · course not matched
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
Terrible professor. Does not care about her students. You will not get the grade you want in this class. Not easy or accommodating.
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DANCE 168
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
Overall, this class was terrible. The graders are very hard and unreasonable. Every week you write 200 words to explain a whole week of lecture and then the grader marks you off so much if you miss anything, when its impossible to add it all. Natalie is not accommodating and does not care what grade you get. Very liberal class.
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DANCE 268
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
Took this for an easy A. Achieved it, but worked for it w/time. Quiz ?'s come right from lecture videos. I took notes on all lectures and it helped A LOT! Weekly summaries get annoying - rewrite notes from lec & you're good! 3 papers/performances. Be willing to do busy work. Nice lec was online & 4 online discussions/semester via webcam.
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Classes with Natalie Zervou

DANCE 365

Dance History Ii: Directions and Issues of Contemporary Dance

3 credits

Survey of dance history from the 1960s to the present, focusing on aesthetic ideas of modern dance, components of contemporary dance, and trends relative to underlying philosophies through research, video, and discussion.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 97.0% A/AB (n=33 letter grades).

Natalie Zervou

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027DANCE 365Dance History Ii: Directions and Issues of Contemporary Dance
Spring 2027DANCE 699Independent Project
Spring 2027DANCE 999Independent Project
Fall 2026DANCE 200Writing the Moving Body
Fall 2026DANCE 699Independent Project
Fall 2026DANCE 762Research Methods

Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.

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