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Ralph Bauer ENGL430 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/21/2011	Dr. Bauer is extremely smart and the lectures are very insightful which was surprising since the readings were so long and dry...which brings me into the content of the class. The required reading for each class can be extremely hefty at times. There were a few weeks where the reading was eight hours (I read every single word), no exaggeration. The texts are also very boring narratives; if you like conservative Americans talking about conservative American things then this is definitely your class. Take the class, and you will learn a lot of vocabulary, history and you will adopt a new perspective on reading American texts.
Ralph Bauer ENGL430 Expecting a B HJB 09/18/2010	My rating would be lower but this guy is so incredibly nice. He really knows his stuff. I learned more about history sitting in his literature class than I did in some high school history classes. This was a 400-level class, but I still think he expected too much from us reading wise. They were painfully long at many points during the semester. Over 100 pages a week was not out of the ordinary. The text had really small print too. He will call on you even if you don't raise your hand so try not to go to class unprepared. Every few classes we would have to answer a question and turn it in. It was a class about colonial literature, but it focused too much on Spanish colonization for my tastes. We didn't get to people like Franklin until the last few weeks of the semester. He gave nice leeway on paper due dates. I'd say he's a tough grader too. He required us to argue our points from a rhetoric perspective as opposed to thematic elements. I definitely did not give this class supreme effort and still managed a B. Oh yeah, our mid-term and final were open notes and open book, but they were still intense. He required you to remember a lot of information about a lot of texts and then compare them to one another.