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Tyra Griffin ENGL250 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 10/01/2024	She is a great professor who is passionate and cares about her students. very understanding and flexible in terms of deadlines. However, if you want to take ENGL250 as an easier elective, I don't recommend it unless you have time to do close readings every other night. It is a super interesting subject, but the class is disorganized, and a few of my friends and I struggle to keep up to date with the readings. There are also no grades and its been a month of class, so I am quite in the dark on how well I am actually doing.
Morgan Robinson ENGL250 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/25/2024	Please take this teacher even for just gen ed credit or fun. This class has been super enjoyable. It is engaging, fairly easy, you can grow as a writer. The workload is comprised of 3 essays and 3 journal entries that all take a lot of time and thought to be completed but are doable and not that bad. Professor Robinson is super timely with emails and happy to help at every stage even when you are late.
Morgan Robinson ENGL250 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/16/2024	The world's best professor. She is very kind, accommodating, intelligent and engaging. She is always down to help you regardless of where you're at in the class. Her lectures are fun and controlled and the class has a chill feel. The coursework is light and doable but make sure not o wait until the last minute or you will hate yourself. I highly recommend you take this class.
Jeannette Schollaert ENGL250 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/23/2023	Seems nice in class and is engaging with good insights. However, she is a terrible grader, the class has a lot of work, and the structure is very unforgiving. She takes up to one month to grade one assignment, does not allow for any edits or re-dos, and is way too strict on grading overall. I do not recommend it.
Jeannette Schollaert ENGL250 Anonymous 04/27/2023	Brilliant, funny, and principled teaching style. Discussions were always insightful and interesting. She makes a lot of space to entertain everyone's thoughts and theories. She makes everyone feel comfortable sharing and provides multiple ways to participate and discuss your thoughts.
Annika Thiem ENGL250 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/06/2022	Kind and knowledgable professor. I honestly learned a lot in this class. It is easy to have interesting discussions in class with her. However, the grading and expectations are a bit unclear and inconsistent. The work was not super time consuming. Would recommend the course.
Jeannette Schollaert ENGL250 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/15/2022	Loved her and this class. The books we read were a little dry that that's just a personal issue, the in-class discussions were very engaging and thought-provoking. Also the workload was pretty light; a few essays, a reading journal, and other small assignments for in-class group work. Attendance being mandatory without a virtual option was my only pitfall but otherwise a pretty fun class for everyone!
Jeannette Schollaert ENGL250 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/16/2022	amazing. uses contract grading and is very engaging in class. she really cares about your writing and ideas and it shows with the kind of classroom environment she has. easy to do well if you are good at reflecting and connecting themes between texts.
Martha Nell Smith ENGL250 Anonymous 12/27/2011	If you come across this class for some reason, let me save you a semester of HELL. RUN THE OTHER WAY! AND NEVER LOOK BACK! I initially thought I was registering for Engl250, not knowing that it was also referred as WMST255- it makes a HUGE difference. I have never regretted a class like this one since I've been at the university. The professor is just a closed minded bigot- if it's not her opinion, a. its wrongs, b. it doesn't matter and c. you WILL FAIL!! No consideration for the fact that students have other classes. This should not be considered a CORE- this is a freaking 400level class, i swear! 3 papers (10%, 15%, 25%), a final (25%), discussion- including random quizzes in disc sec and lecture when she's mad cuz no one shows up to class, or someone leaves early, and 5 discussion posts(25%). T.A.'s are fickle- one minute their helping you, the next, they don't even respond to your emails. Don't even bother emailing the professor-she won't respond.She openly discriminates against the guys in the class, and it's just sick! I'm a girl, and I kept an open mind about women's studies but honestly-it's a bunch of bull, common sense that's spun into nice little themes and lessons designed to fool the students into believing that there's actually some profound thought, and critical thinking going on. The Amount of reading- surpassed all my other classes combined! One of the books we had to purchase- Norton's anthology of literature by women: all I ask is that you look this book up, and see how many pages it has, and I promise you, no page will go unturned!!! Never mind the fact that she doesn't go over half of the lecture slides in lecture, but still holds you accountable. This teacher definitely ruined any hopes of me liking the subject. I'm telling you- RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! Don't say I didn't warn you.
Martha Nell Smith ENGL250 Emily Menase 11/17/2011	Dr. Smith knows what she's talking about, but the whole class seems to have no main message. There is an insane amount of reading including very long critic articles required, and at least 5 pop quizzes are given throughout the semester so you've got to make sure you do the readings. There were so many "themes" in the class and readings that studying for the final (pretty much our only grade next to 3 papers) became very difficult. Discussion class is fun and really helps understand the reading outside of the unclear power points presented in class, but sadly that was only 50 minutes once a week.
Martha Nell Smith ENGL250 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/02/2011	This class was boring, but not as terrible as the other comments make it sound. She does teach one-sided, but it's kind of your fault if you didn't expect that when you signed up for a WOMENS LIT course. Grades depend entirely on your TA, so try and switch to a good one during the first week of classes. There is a lot of reading, but you can definitely sparknotes and skim things and still keep up. Some of the literature is a little graphic, but there is a pretty good mix of readings. It isn't the easiest CORE class, but if you can write decent papers you should be fine. Also, if it is in KEY 0106 like it was last Fall be prepared for some extreme temperatures, it was always really hot or really cold.
Martha Nell Smith ENGL250 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/16/2010	Professor Smith wasn't so bad, although she was almost always late to class. She has really high expectations for her students yet rarely even got through more than 2 or 3 slides in her 10-15 slide powerpoints. And yes, you are still responsible for the material on the other slides. She doesn't grade anything and doesn't respond to e-mails so don't even bother. Basically everything is up to your TA. Definitely make the effort to go to office hours and participate in discussions. I don't really recommend this course, there is so much reading that it is nearly impossible to keep up with. Basically don't take it unless you are willing and have the time to put considerable effort into it.
Martha Nell Smith ENGL250 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/12/2010	Interesting class but not worth it if you are looking to get a good grade. Prof. Smith is very one sided with the information given and if you don't agree then your grade will be greatly affected. 3 papers, each having difficult prompts that you will either understand or you will completely write off topic. We had 2 TAs for the class one was an easy grader and the other was very difficult to please. There are random pop quizzes that start off only in discussion, but once people start not showing up to lecture many were in lecture. She puts the power points on blackboard, but they are hardly notes mostly just general questions of what it is like to read the readings. There is an unbelievable amount of readings that is very difficult to keep up with even if you read a couple each day, the understanding of having other classes is not seen here. The final is based off all of the readings on the syllabus even if we never went over them in class and it consists of identifications, short answer, short essay, and a longer one. Avoid if possible!!
Marilee Lindemann ENGL250 Expecting a B maholouk 01/06/2009	overall she is a really bad teacher. She always gives her opinions way to much and does not even explain anything.

Tyra Griffin
ENGL250

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
10/01/2024

She is a great professor who is passionate and cares about her students. very understanding and flexible in terms of deadlines. However, if you want to take ENGL250 as an easier elective, I don't recommend it unless you have time to do close readings every other night. It is a super interesting subject, but the class is disorganized, and a few of my friends and I struggle to keep up to date with the readings. There are also no grades and its been a month of class, so I am quite in the dark on how well I am actually doing.

Morgan Robinson
ENGL250

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/25/2024

Please take this teacher even for just gen ed credit or fun. This class has been super enjoyable. It is engaging, fairly easy, you can grow as a writer. The workload is comprised of 3 essays and 3 journal entries that all take a lot of time and thought to be completed but are doable and not that bad. Professor Robinson is super timely with emails and happy to help at every stage even when you are late.

Morgan Robinson
ENGL250

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/16/2024

The world's best professor. She is very kind, accommodating, intelligent and engaging. She is always down to help you regardless of where you're at in the class. Her lectures are fun and controlled and the class has a chill feel. The coursework is light and doable but make sure not o wait until the last minute or you will hate yourself. I highly recommend you take this class.

Jeannette Schollaert
ENGL250

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/23/2023

Seems nice in class and is engaging with good insights. However, she is a terrible grader, the class has a lot of work, and the structure is very unforgiving. She takes up to one month to grade one assignment, does not allow for any edits or re-dos, and is way too strict on grading overall. I do not recommend it.

Jeannette Schollaert
ENGL250

Anonymous
04/27/2023

Brilliant, funny, and principled teaching style. Discussions were always insightful and interesting. She makes a lot of space to entertain everyone's thoughts and theories. She makes everyone feel comfortable sharing and provides multiple ways to participate and discuss your thoughts.

Annika Thiem
ENGL250

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/06/2022

Kind and knowledgable professor. I honestly learned a lot in this class. It is easy to have interesting discussions in class with her. However, the grading and expectations are a bit unclear and inconsistent. The work was not super time consuming. Would recommend the course.

Jeannette Schollaert
ENGL250

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/15/2022

Loved her and this class. The books we read were a little dry that that's just a personal issue, the in-class discussions were very engaging and thought-provoking. Also the workload was pretty light; a few essays, a reading journal, and other small assignments for in-class group work. Attendance being mandatory without a virtual option was my only pitfall but otherwise a pretty fun class for everyone!

Jeannette Schollaert
ENGL250

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/16/2022

amazing. uses contract grading and is very engaging in class. she really cares about your writing and ideas and it shows with the kind of classroom environment she has. easy to do well if you are good at reflecting and connecting themes between texts.

Martha Nell Smith
ENGL250

Anonymous
12/27/2011

If you come across this class for some reason, let me save you a semester of HELL. RUN THE OTHER WAY! AND NEVER LOOK BACK! I initially thought I was registering for Engl250, not knowing that it was also referred as WMST255- it makes a HUGE difference. I have never regretted a class like this one since I've been at the university. The professor is just a closed minded bigot- if it's not her opinion, a. its wrongs, b. it doesn't matter and c. you WILL FAIL!! No consideration for the fact that students have other classes. This should not be considered a CORE- this is a freaking 400level class, i swear! 3 papers (10%, 15%, 25%), a final (25%), discussion- including random quizzes in disc sec and lecture when she's mad cuz no one shows up to class, or someone leaves early, and 5 discussion posts(25%). T.A.'s are fickle- one minute their helping you, the next, they don't even respond to your emails. Don't even bother emailing the professor-she won't respond.She openly discriminates against the guys in the class, and it's just sick! I'm a girl, and I kept an open mind about women's studies but honestly-it's a bunch of bull, common sense that's spun into nice little themes and lessons designed to fool the students into believing that there's actually some profound thought, and critical thinking going on. The Amount of reading- surpassed all my other classes combined! One of the books we had to purchase- Norton's anthology of literature by women: all I ask is that you look this book up, and see how many pages it has, and I promise you, no page will go unturned!!! Never mind the fact that she doesn't go over half of the lecture slides in lecture, but still holds you accountable. This teacher definitely ruined any hopes of me liking the subject. I'm telling you- RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! Don't say I didn't warn you.

Martha Nell Smith
ENGL250

Emily Menase
11/17/2011

Dr. Smith knows what she's talking about, but the whole class seems to have no main message. There is an insane amount of reading including very long critic articles required, and at least 5 pop quizzes are given throughout the semester so you've got to make sure you do the readings. There were so many "themes" in the class and readings that studying for the final (pretty much our only grade next to 3 papers) became very difficult. Discussion class is fun and really helps understand the reading outside of the unclear power points presented in class, but sadly that was only 50 minutes once a week.

Martha Nell Smith
ENGL250

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/02/2011

This class was boring, but not as terrible as the other comments make it sound. She does teach one-sided, but it's kind of your fault if you didn't expect that when you signed up for a WOMENS LIT course. Grades depend entirely on your TA, so try and switch to a good one during the first week of classes. There is a lot of reading, but you can definitely sparknotes and skim things and still keep up. Some of the literature is a little graphic, but there is a pretty good mix of readings. It isn't the easiest CORE class, but if you can write decent papers you should be fine. Also, if it is in KEY 0106 like it was last Fall be prepared for some extreme temperatures, it was always really hot or really cold.

Martha Nell Smith
ENGL250

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/16/2010

Professor Smith wasn't so bad, although she was almost always late to class. She has really high expectations for her students yet rarely even got through more than 2 or 3 slides in her 10-15 slide powerpoints. And yes, you are still responsible for the material on the other slides. She doesn't grade anything and doesn't respond to e-mails so don't even bother. Basically everything is up to your TA. Definitely make the effort to go to office hours and participate in discussions. I don't really recommend this course, there is so much reading that it is nearly impossible to keep up with. Basically don't take it unless you are willing and have the time to put considerable effort into it.

Martha Nell Smith
ENGL250

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/12/2010

Interesting class but not worth it if you are looking to get a good grade. Prof. Smith is very one sided with the information given and if you don't agree then your grade will be greatly affected. 3 papers, each having difficult prompts that you will either understand or you will completely write off topic. We had 2 TAs for the class one was an easy grader and the other was very difficult to please. There are random pop quizzes that start off only in discussion, but once people start not showing up to lecture many were in lecture. She puts the power points on blackboard, but they are hardly notes mostly just general questions of what it is like to read the readings. There is an unbelievable amount of readings that is very difficult to keep up with even if you read a couple each day, the understanding of having other classes is not seen here. The final is based off all of the readings on the syllabus even if we never went over them in class and it consists of identifications, short answer, short essay, and a longer one. Avoid if possible!!

Marilee Lindemann
ENGL250

Expecting a B
maholouk
01/06/2009

overall she is a really bad teacher. She always gives her opinions way to much and does not even explain anything.

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