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Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting an A Anonymous 05/30/2024	I enjoyed Dr. Madhavan's class and I felt like I learned a lot. Dr. Madhavan clearly cared a lot about what she was teaching and she was very knowledgable. While I had a positive experience, I wouldn't recommend this class to you if you aren't passionate about social justice or reproductive justice; You'll likely find the class un-engaging and with too much work (for an honors class). My one criticism about the class is the rubrics. I found the rubrics to be very vague, and the grading often didn't follow the rubric. Other than that, I had no issues with the class.
Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting an A Anonymous 05/26/2024	I enjoyed Race, Reproduction, and Rights and I felt like a learned a lot. Dr. Madhavan was very knowledgable and clearly cared a lot about the topics she was teaching. However, I would only recommend the class if you’re passionate about social issues and social justice. Otherwise, you’ll likely find the class difficult, un-engaging, and not worth the effort required to do well. A critique I have of the class is that the grading and rubrics for assignments were often vague, and the grading didn’t really align with the rubric. Other than that, I had a positive experience overall.
Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting an A Anonymous 05/25/2024	I found Dr. Madhavan’s class very interesting and I feel like I learned a lot. While I enjoyed her class, I would only recommend it to those who enjoy learning about social issues. Otherwise, you will likely find the class difficult and un-engaging. My feedback would be that the rubrics and feedback for assignments were often vague. It also seemed that grading didn’t follow the rubric we were provided. Other than that, the class was perfectly doable if you paid attention and completed all of the assignments.
Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting an A Anonymous 03/27/2024	Dr. Madhavan is extremely knowledgable about the course content, but she was unable to explain the assignment clearly enough. It was very unclear what the assignment entailed and how to complete it and when asked, she didn't seem to answer the question that was asked. We also had 2 "midterm" papers, 1 final paper, 1 final presentation, and a final exam, which seemed excessive for an honors course, given that the other honors courses did not have a final project AND a final exam. Also, when asked by the class for a rubric or details of the final exam format, she got frustrated with the class and resorted to a very minimalistic rubric that she hesitantly agreed upon. The assignments towards the end of the semester definitely could have been spread out a bit and perhaps she could have taken a little bit more time and consideration in explaining the assignments to the class.
Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting an A Anonymous 01/29/2024	Dr. Madhavan is passionate about the subject and is knowledgeable about stratified reproduction. There wasn't too much work in the class, there were several weekly readings and a required discussion post every week. There were 3 response papers during the class and a final Op ed paper and presentation. I enjoyed the thought-provoking discussion in the class, and it made me think more about marginalized communities in healthcare. It was one of my favorite classes last semester, and I looked forward to going to class. The bad reviews in this class are mostly attributed to people disagreeing with Dr. Madhavan's policies and workload. Some feedback I have is that the class could have encouraged participation in a better way and made it more flexible for students to discuss their opinions.
Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting an A Erniebubba 12/23/2023	She was absolutely terrible. She barely gave any work throughout the semester, then decided to give us a final project and a final exam. The only honors class that had an exam. She made the class difficult for no reason and got annoyed at us when we asked questions about assignments. She truly did not look out for us and did not care about the students at all. Do not take this class.
Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/22/2023	does not make the class engaging whatsoever, reads off of slides, gives little direction and feedback on final projects, will only review half of your work, does not follow the grading of the rubrics
Sangeetha Madhavan HNUH288B Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/22/2023	Dr Madhavan is a very unique professor. Of course, like most professors, there are pros and cons. One pro is that she is passionate about what she teaches. However, there are cons. She doesn't explain instructions clearly on assignments, which can make you lose a few points. She assigns long readings that can interfere with other classes if you're full-time or have a job and she picks on people who don't want to contribute to class discussions, which makes people uncomfortable, especially regarding these hard topics. Some possible things to expect are three essay papers, three scholarly readings every week, one presentation, one op-ed, and a final exam. If you're as passionate as Dr. Madhavan, this class might be for you.
Nikita Viswasam HNUH288B Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/07/2023	Worst TA I've had. She grade extremely harshly and then gives no feedback on why. When asked for feedback she usually gives a two word answer that doesn't help in any way and then gets annoyed and snarky when you don't know what to do for an assignment. Absolutley awful

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/30/2024

I enjoyed Dr. Madhavan's class and I felt like I learned a lot. Dr. Madhavan clearly cared a lot about what she was teaching and she was very knowledgable. While I had a positive experience, I wouldn't recommend this class to you if you aren't passionate about social justice or reproductive justice; You'll likely find the class un-engaging and with too much work (for an honors class). My one criticism about the class is the rubrics. I found the rubrics to be very vague, and the grading often didn't follow the rubric. Other than that, I had no issues with the class.

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/26/2024

I enjoyed Race, Reproduction, and Rights and I felt like a learned a lot. Dr. Madhavan was very knowledgable and clearly cared a lot about the topics she was teaching. However, I would only recommend the class if you’re passionate about social issues and social justice. Otherwise, you’ll likely find the class difficult, un-engaging, and not worth the effort required to do well. A critique I have of the class is that the grading and rubrics for assignments were often vague, and the grading didn’t really align with the rubric. Other than that, I had a positive experience overall.

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/25/2024

I found Dr. Madhavan’s class very interesting and I feel like I learned a lot. While I enjoyed her class, I would only recommend it to those who enjoy learning about social issues. Otherwise, you will likely find the class difficult and un-engaging. My feedback would be that the rubrics and feedback for assignments were often vague. It also seemed that grading didn’t follow the rubric we were provided. Other than that, the class was perfectly doable if you paid attention and completed all of the assignments.

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting an A
Anonymous
03/27/2024

Dr. Madhavan is extremely knowledgable about the course content, but she was unable to explain the assignment clearly enough. It was very unclear what the assignment entailed and how to complete it and when asked, she didn't seem to answer the question that was asked. We also had 2 "midterm" papers, 1 final paper, 1 final presentation, and a final exam, which seemed excessive for an honors course, given that the other honors courses did not have a final project AND a final exam. Also, when asked by the class for a rubric or details of the final exam format, she got frustrated with the class and resorted to a very minimalistic rubric that she hesitantly agreed upon. The assignments towards the end of the semester definitely could have been spread out a bit and perhaps she could have taken a little bit more time and consideration in explaining the assignments to the class.

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/29/2024

Dr. Madhavan is passionate about the subject and is knowledgeable about stratified reproduction. There wasn't too much work in the class, there were several weekly readings and a required discussion post every week. There were 3 response papers during the class and a final Op ed paper and presentation. I enjoyed the thought-provoking discussion in the class, and it made me think more about marginalized communities in healthcare. It was one of my favorite classes last semester, and I looked forward to going to class. The bad reviews in this class are mostly attributed to people disagreeing with Dr. Madhavan's policies and workload. Some feedback I have is that the class could have encouraged participation in a better way and made it more flexible for students to discuss their opinions.

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting an A
Erniebubba
12/23/2023

She was absolutely terrible. She barely gave any work throughout the semester, then decided to give us a final project and a final exam. The only honors class that had an exam. She made the class difficult for no reason and got annoyed at us when we asked questions about assignments. She truly did not look out for us and did not care about the students at all. Do not take this class.

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/22/2023

does not make the class engaging whatsoever, reads off of slides, gives little direction and feedback on final projects, will only review half of your work, does not follow the grading of the rubrics

Sangeetha Madhavan
HNUH288B

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/22/2023

Dr Madhavan is a very unique professor. Of course, like most professors, there are pros and cons. One pro is that she is passionate about what she teaches. However, there are cons. She doesn't explain instructions clearly on assignments, which can make you lose a few points. She assigns long readings that can interfere with other classes if you're full-time or have a job and she picks on people who don't want to contribute to class discussions, which makes people uncomfortable, especially regarding these hard topics. Some possible things to expect are three essay papers, three scholarly readings every week, one presentation, one op-ed, and a final exam. If you're as passionate as Dr. Madhavan, this class might be for you.

Nikita Viswasam
HNUH288B

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/07/2023

Worst TA I've had. She grade extremely harshly and then gives no feedback on why. When asked for feedback she usually gives a two word answer that doesn't help in any way and then gets annoyed and snarky when you don't know what to do for an assignment. Absolutley awful

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