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She was by far my favorite professor this past semester. Email responses are super fast, turnaround on papers was lightning speed, and she was super flexible with students. She is one of those professors who is open to new ideas, too, so she won't judge you if you share an answer with the class that is either wrong or wasn't what she expected.Rate My Professors ↗
The class is a piece of cake. Lectures are pretty much useless. Discussion section was useful. The final project was easy but there was minimal guidance. The rubric for the final project was given out after most people had completed it which is frustrated because it was video project. She a big too carefree. Nice lady though.Rate My Professors ↗
This class lacked rigor. Discussions were often banal - general reactions to the readings, or "how we felt," rather than pointed and intellectually useful. Organization was haphazard. She should challenge students more.Rate My Professors ↗
I learned nothing.Rate My Professors ↗
This was a class I was excited for, but the overall experience was very poor. There is no organization to the class: changed reading schedules, work on a final project she hadn't entirely created yet. Also her lectures are very confusing. Everything feels like a tangent and its hard to know what's important. At the very least it was easy.Rate My Professors ↗
She was very disorganized and her lectures were basically pointless. I could have not gone to any of the lectures and I would have been perfectly fine, seriously. The final project was a joke because it's an online assignment where we make a website. Lady, this is an English class.Rate My Professors ↗
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ENGL 805 covers selected works of eighteenth-century literature with an emphasis on literary and cultural background.
No offering record · Spring 2018
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Spring 2016–Spring 2018 · limited sampleDistinct courses recorded per term
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