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Laura Rosenthal ENGL311 Anonymous 02/20/2012	Professor Rosenthal is great. She is so excited and passionate about the texts that she teaches. The reading schedule can be pretty rigorous (especially with texts like Paradise Lost) but she's a fairly easy grader when it comes to the two essays. ENGL311 is a good course, but like I said earlier, you're going to be reading some long (and sometimes boring) texts that take a lot of sifting through to understand. She never gives reading quizzes or anything, but if you don't finish the reading, then you're going to be beyond confused during class.
Michael Olmert ENGL311 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/28/2010	B.S. class. He talks too much about irrelevant things, and none of it was intersting. AVOID THIS CLASS AT ALL COST UNLESS YOU ARE A VERRYY INTO BRITISH LITERATURE!!! Worst class ever for me. And hope you do not end up with the worst TA to ever exist.
Michael Olmert ENGL311 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/23/2010	Olmert has a cult of personality that has grown around him, and I can't really understand why so many people like him. His lectures are so peppered with tangents that it's hard to tell what's important, the readings were stuffy and boring, and he blatantly plays favorites in the class. Don't expect to be called on much if you're not in Olmert's little club of followers who have already taken a class with him. Also, for the tests, he basically expects you to memorize dates, names, and ESPECIALLY his ideas. Admittedly, he knows the time period and its literature very well, but that's no reason to quash individual interpretation of the works. This class was a very cursory , reductive overview of 18th century literature. Good for people who don’t really like to read or come up with their own ideas.