# THOMAS MASSNICK — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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| UROLOGY   | 5     |
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## instructor

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### name

THOMAS MASSNICK

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### last observed at

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### ratings

#### review count

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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## term

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## reviews

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    "comment": "All you have to do is show up half the time. Most grades are essays and they are mostly graded on completion.\nEasy A, would take again.",
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    "comment": "Great professor overall! Pretty boring and bland personality in class (especially for the morning), but overall, great person, easy grader, and I recommend having him as a professor. ",
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    "comment": "He was a chill guy. He is understanding if you need to miss class, just don't do it so often obviously. He also gives good feed back which is helpful. I recommend Thomas over all the other professors I've heard about",
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    "comment": "Very nice guy and understanding. Highly recommened ",
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    "comment": "Tom's content is really engaging and he does a fantastic job of working through and presenting text analyses. I found all the papers to be enjoyable to write, and all the assigned readings/screenings were great. He's very clear about tests and paper guidelines. Keep up with the readings and pay half attention in lecture, and you'll do fine.",
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    "comment": "As with most literature classes I have taken he seemed relatively naive to the fact that people do not do the readings. He summarized the readings well though and presented topics clearly. He encourages participation, and is overall not a terrible teacher if you need to take a literature class.",
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