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Daniel Richter CINE359C Expecting an A Anonymous 08/03/2024	Professor Richter's Disaster Cinema course is an enjoyable elective. It was the first film course I've taken and made me what to take another course that he teaches. Very nice professor and was generous with deadlines.
Daniel Richter CINE359C Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/08/2023	Fun class, good professor. Somewhat of a hard grader but allowed a rewrite.
Daniel Richter CINE359C Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/08/2023	This is a very easy class and the professor definitely wants everyone to do well. I recommend Prof Richter.
Daniel Richter CINE359C Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/19/2023	The course is interesting and pretty easy but Professor Richter kinda sucks. Discussions are pretty lackluster and repetitive so by the end of the semester, no one attends. He also is horrible at replying to student emails and the way he grades is insane. He will throw low grades on papers without leaving any comments and when trying to email him to learn why the paper grade is low, he will ignore emails. Since there are only four grades for the class and the papers make up 75% of that it is important to give students feedback. It feels like he didn't read any papers and threw a dart to determine student grades, he makes it pretty obvious he doesn't care. TLDR good course, bad professor.
Daniel Richter CINE359C Expecting an A- Anonymous 06/10/2022	Took Prof. Richter's Disaster Cinema in Spring 2022 and thought it was a cool class. He is a very smart guy and definitely valued everyone's opinion in a way that was unique. I liked how he organized the themes of the course and also thought all of the movies he picked were really good. His teaching style was definitely laid back, but overall I thought it worked well. I am planning to take another class from him since I think class participation is key to how the class goes.
Daniel Richter CINE359C Anonymous 05/18/2022	Pretty underwhelming. Every class felt... treading water-ish? Like, I'm not sure exactly what the goal was. He didn't have us watch ANY scenes during class time (I never expected full movies to be shown in class but the other film classes I've taken have had students watch and then examine one or two scenes together each class), so discussion fell flat. I wasn't sure what he was looking for in the ten minutes set aside for "scene analyses" since as I said, we never watched any scenes in class with our group + there was no rubric. Nobody knew what to do or talk about. This problem was made worse because we learned nothing of film techniques, camera work, mise-en-scene or anything related to film. Instead, he based the class entirely around various themes. It felt like any real lecture material dried up within 15 or 20 minutes of each hour and 15 minute class. All in all, it felt very bare-bones and by the end of the semester attendance had dwindled to maybe 25-30%.

Daniel Richter
CINE359C

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/03/2024

Professor Richter's Disaster Cinema course is an enjoyable elective. It was the first film course I've taken and made me what to take another course that he teaches. Very nice professor and was generous with deadlines.

Daniel Richter
CINE359C

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
11/08/2023

Fun class, good professor. Somewhat of a hard grader but allowed a rewrite.

Daniel Richter
CINE359C

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
11/08/2023

This is a very easy class and the professor definitely wants everyone to do well. I recommend Prof Richter.

Daniel Richter
CINE359C

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/19/2023

The course is interesting and pretty easy but Professor Richter kinda sucks. Discussions are pretty lackluster and repetitive so by the end of the semester, no one attends. He also is horrible at replying to student emails and the way he grades is insane. He will throw low grades on papers without leaving any comments and when trying to email him to learn why the paper grade is low, he will ignore emails. Since there are only four grades for the class and the papers make up 75% of that it is important to give students feedback. It feels like he didn't read any papers and threw a dart to determine student grades, he makes it pretty obvious he doesn't care. TLDR good course, bad professor.

Daniel Richter
CINE359C

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
06/10/2022

Took Prof. Richter's Disaster Cinema in Spring 2022 and thought it was a cool class. He is a very smart guy and definitely valued everyone's opinion in a way that was unique. I liked how he organized the themes of the course and also thought all of the movies he picked were really good. His teaching style was definitely laid back, but overall I thought it worked well. I am planning to take another class from him since I think class participation is key to how the class goes.

Daniel Richter
CINE359C

Anonymous
05/18/2022

Pretty underwhelming. Every class felt... treading water-ish? Like, I'm not sure exactly what the goal was. He didn't have us watch ANY scenes during class time (I never expected full movies to be shown in class but the other film classes I've taken have had students watch and then examine one or two scenes together each class), so discussion fell flat. I wasn't sure what he was looking for in the ten minutes set aside for "scene analyses" since as I said, we never watched any scenes in class with our group + there was no rubric. Nobody knew what to do or talk about. This problem was made worse because we learned nothing of film techniques, camera work, mise-en-scene or anything related to film. Instead, he based the class entirely around various themes. It felt like any real lecture material dried up within 15 or 20 minutes of each hour and 15 minute class. All in all, it felt very bare-bones and by the end of the semester attendance had dwindled to maybe 25-30%.

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