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Julia Steinberg HNUH288C Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/23/2025	Professor Steinberg is knowledgeable and clearly passionate but I really didn’t love the way she teaches this course. So many unnecessary readings and assignments were very redundant, and you’d get docked points for things that weren’t clearly indicated in the rubric. At no point did I feel like anyone was put in a position to empathize with pro-life sides or consider what compromises between opposing sides would look like— which I think is a missed opportunity to just exercise critical thought, and made the class boring. Really the only time we had energized conversation that provoked thought was occasionally during student-led portions of discussion. I found that lecture was not engaging, but missing it or discussion would lead to docked points. The oral exam was also incredibly out of pocket (asking for specific stats that were not emphasized at all in class or mentioned on the study guide, like having to remember what percentage of U.S. counties have an abortion clinic??). I think she's smart but needs to be more empathetic with students + learn how to make the class way way more engaging
Julia Steinberg HNUH288C Anonymous 12/21/2025	Okay the class was fairly easy, but she is not a great professor. I attended a panel that she spoke on and she was very knowledgeable about the content so I took this class, but she is not a great professor. She has a very monotone voice which causes you to space out. She will then get upset if you are not paying attention. She loses her train of thought constantly and so everyone just kind of looks at each other most of the time. Honestly, there isn't much to talk about for a WHOLE semester when it comes to abortion, so it became very redundant. The TAs were great, they would understand when we had concerns, and they would bring them up to Steinberg. The term project was not well-thought through. There were two sections (one big lecture that would split into two discussion sections). We had to create a TED Talk with an assigned partner. My partner was not in my discussion group and not even in my discussion section. She was in a completely different section than me, which made it harder to communicate and get the project done. The final was an oral final which I did not enjoy. The TA just read me a written question and I would respond. At that point, just given me a written exam. For discussion, you talk to your same discussion small group throughout the whole semester and your group leads discussion twice (which is actually way easier than it sounds). Also, we had name tags, but it didn't seem like she tried to get to know anyone besides the same three people that would dominate conversation. The TAs on the other hand immediately knew my name when they came to my discussion group, and would try to talk to everyone. Overall, the class was easy, but she was not a good professor.
Julia Steinberg HNUH288C Expecting an A Anonymous 12/03/2025	This course was an easy A. Lectures were kind of boring. Professor Steinburg and the TA's were super nice though. Overall I recommend this course.

Julia Steinberg
HNUH288C

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/23/2025

Professor Steinberg is knowledgeable and clearly passionate but I really didn’t love the way she teaches this course. So many unnecessary readings and assignments were very redundant, and you’d get docked points for things that weren’t clearly indicated in the rubric. At no point did I feel like anyone was put in a position to empathize with pro-life sides or consider what compromises between opposing sides would look like— which I think is a missed opportunity to just exercise critical thought, and made the class boring. Really the only time we had energized conversation that provoked thought was occasionally during student-led portions of discussion. I found that lecture was not engaging, but missing it or discussion would lead to docked points. The oral exam was also incredibly out of pocket (asking for specific stats that were not emphasized at all in class or mentioned on the study guide, like having to remember what percentage of U.S. counties have an abortion clinic??). I think she's smart but needs to be more empathetic with students + learn how to make the class way way more engaging

Julia Steinberg
HNUH288C

Anonymous
12/21/2025

Okay the class was fairly easy, but she is not a great professor. I attended a panel that she spoke on and she was very knowledgeable about the content so I took this class, but she is not a great professor. She has a very monotone voice which causes you to space out. She will then get upset if you are not paying attention. She loses her train of thought constantly and so everyone just kind of looks at each other most of the time. Honestly, there isn't much to talk about for a WHOLE semester when it comes to abortion, so it became very redundant. The TAs were great, they would understand when we had concerns, and they would bring them up to Steinberg. The term project was not well-thought through. There were two sections (one big lecture that would split into two discussion sections). We had to create a TED Talk with an assigned partner. My partner was not in my discussion group and not even in my discussion section. She was in a completely different section than me, which made it harder to communicate and get the project done. The final was an oral final which I did not enjoy. The TA just read me a written question and I would respond. At that point, just given me a written exam. For discussion, you talk to your same discussion small group throughout the whole semester and your group leads discussion twice (which is actually way easier than it sounds). Also, we had name tags, but it didn't seem like she tried to get to know anyone besides the same three people that would dominate conversation. The TAs on the other hand immediately knew my name when they came to my discussion group, and would try to talk to everyone. Overall, the class was easy, but she was not a good professor.

Julia Steinberg
HNUH288C

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/03/2025

This course was an easy A. Lectures were kind of boring. Professor Steinburg and the TA's were super nice though. Overall I recommend this course.

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