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Thomas Moser ENGL302 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/16/2025	Prof. Moser's a fantastic professor. Several people stayed past the end of the final class to hear him say a bit about the final course he'll be giving before retiring, ENGL402 (Chaucer) in the Fall, which he described as reading the Canterbury Tales in the original. His knowledge and passion are evident. He's kind and works with students, extending many due dates. You're treated as a person but also an adult. You're encouraged to read closely and think deeply, but you're helped by class discussions that go from literal to abstract. His style is neither priggish nor dull. He'll entertain alternative readings, lengthy diversions or fun facts. If you can show up each class having read and willing to talk, striving to go beyond vague or obvious generalities, then you'll have a good time. I'm surprised people mention grading difficulties. The workload seemed light: 2 ~1200wrd response papers, 2 ~1200wrd take-home exams, weekly t/f 10 question quizzes and weekly ~200wrd discussions and weekly reading of <100 pages on avg. Discussions had 9/10 lower quartiles. Attendance just required you show up and talk some. The midterm's low-med-high was 68-86-105, response #1 was 68-86-100 and response #2 was 65-87-110. No one chose to do response #3, which was an opportunity to replace your lowest response paper grade. He definitely doesn't require you write informally. I did no such thing.
Kellie Robertson ENGL302 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/12/2025	This course is way too hard and literally destroyed my GPA. A 50 percent curve had to be put onto the midterm because everyone did so bad. She proceeded to tell us that it was our fault when it clearly wasn't if everyone did that bad. She refused to take responsibility for it and now has made the final the sam formal plus an essay and told us she's not going to curve it this time. Do not take this class unless you want your GPA to be ruined.
Thomas Moser ENGL302 Anonymous 05/06/2021	He's definitely a good professor and pushes you to think very deeply about medieval literature. The class isn't flat out easy though, maybe because I took it online and I didn't know much about medieval lit until I took the class. It's definitely challenging (heavy reading): weekly quizzes, weekly discussion boards, two response papers that are due before you actually talk about the text in class meaning you have to read the book or text and write a paper on it in advance (which was a bit of a shocker but it was fine once you get used to it), two other essays (midterm and final), and then two short discussion leader "papers" (only like 300 words).
Thomas Moser ENGL302 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/13/2010	This class is easy. You only have to do 3 short papers, 1 long paper, a midterm and a final. I have taken many ENGL classes that assign much more writing. He is really into what he teaches, and doesn't beat around the bush. He will flat out tell you that the characters "fuck like bunnies." Overall, a fun guy and an interesting class. I would recommend it.

Thomas Moser
ENGL302

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/16/2025

Prof. Moser's a fantastic professor. Several people stayed past the end of the final class to hear him say a bit about the final course he'll be giving before retiring, ENGL402 (Chaucer) in the Fall, which he described as reading the Canterbury Tales in the original. His knowledge and passion are evident. He's kind and works with students, extending many due dates. You're treated as a person but also an adult. You're encouraged to read closely and think deeply, but you're helped by class discussions that go from literal to abstract. His style is neither priggish nor dull. He'll entertain alternative readings, lengthy diversions or fun facts. If you can show up each class having read and willing to talk, striving to go beyond vague or obvious generalities, then you'll have a good time. I'm surprised people mention grading difficulties. The workload seemed light: 2 ~1200wrd response papers, 2 ~1200wrd take-home exams, weekly t/f 10 question quizzes and weekly ~200wrd discussions and weekly reading of <100 pages on avg. Discussions had 9/10 lower quartiles. Attendance just required you show up and talk some. The midterm's low-med-high was 68-86-105, response #1 was 68-86-100 and response #2 was 65-87-110. No one chose to do response #3, which was an opportunity to replace your lowest response paper grade. He definitely doesn't require you write informally. I did no such thing.

Kellie Robertson
ENGL302

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/12/2025

This course is way too hard and literally destroyed my GPA. A 50 percent curve had to be put onto the midterm because everyone did so bad. She proceeded to tell us that it was our fault when it clearly wasn't if everyone did that bad. She refused to take responsibility for it and now has made the final the sam formal plus an essay and told us she's not going to curve it this time. Do not take this class unless you want your GPA to be ruined.

Thomas Moser
ENGL302

Anonymous
05/06/2021

He's definitely a good professor and pushes you to think very deeply about medieval literature. The class isn't flat out easy though, maybe because I took it online and I didn't know much about medieval lit until I took the class. It's definitely challenging (heavy reading): weekly quizzes, weekly discussion boards, two response papers that are due before you actually talk about the text in class meaning you have to read the book or text and write a paper on it in advance (which was a bit of a shocker but it was fine once you get used to it), two other essays (midterm and final), and then two short discussion leader "papers" (only like 300 words).

Thomas Moser
ENGL302

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/13/2010

This class is easy. You only have to do 3 short papers, 1 long paper, a midterm and a final. I have taken many ENGL classes that assign much more writing. He is really into what he teaches, and doesn't beat around the bush. He will flat out tell you that the characters "fuck like bunnies." Overall, a fun guy and an interesting class. I would recommend it.

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