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Rachel Singpurwalla PHIL310 Anonymous 11/15/2024	Be carefully if you are taking her course, she grades extremely harshly and makes 70% of your grade based on midterm exams and final. I’m not even sure how you can score well on the exams as I have been to all lectures, studied the slides she’s given, and done everything expected yet she gives very unpleasant exam grades. Take any other PHIL course instead, you will not receive an A in this course as she is very stingy with the grading.
Christopher Masciari PHIL310 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/23/2022	Good lecturer and laid back. Is a tougher grader but not out of line at all. Weekly quizzes, a term paper, and short answer style midterm/final. I skipped almost every discussion section and a number of lectures and still felt that I had a good understanding of course material (he almost always recaps the previous lectures material at the beginning of class). I think he might be leaving UMD after this semester.
Christopher Masciari PHIL310 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2022	Not a great professor. While he's very laid back, which guarantees you at least a B for any decent effort, I was expecting more. He gives bad and lazy feedback, takes forever to post slides, and then randomly gives bad grades on essays/exams with barely any feedback to show for it. He's a nice guy at heart, but I wish he was a bit more professional.
Christopher Masciari PHIL310 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2022	Fantastic class. Mr. Masciari is super understanding and is gonna do what he can to help you learn. Fair grader, fair workload, fair expectations, and is just a good guy. You will learn a lot from this class. I recommend going to lectures and discussions as they really help you understand the material and it will elevate your grade if you do so. Some of the concepts can be hard to understand if you try to crunch them all in toward the end of the semester or when big assignments are due.
Rachel Singpurwalla PHIL310 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/28/2022	You SHOULD take PHIL310 with Rachel. Rachel is the best philosophy teacher I've had and one of the nicest and more understanding professors I've had. Structure - Every week you read a text and answer reading questions, write a 300 word discussion post, and respond to a discussion post. There were quizzes after each unit (Socrates/Plato/Aristotle, etc.) which you could find the answers in the slides if you just crt-f. No midterms and the final was just writing a paper that goes more in depth into a topic. The paper could be a podcase/Socratic method paper/or pretty much just anything you want and was really easy. You should be getting an A in this class and you can always asks for an extension if something comes up. Lectures - The actual content of the class is really interesting and she does a really good job at explaining it. You really end up learning a lot.
Michael McCourt PHIL310 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/18/2019	its great to see somebody so happy to teach what theyre teaching. great prof
Michael McCourt PHIL310 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/18/2019	Amazing professor. Super welcoming and accommodating and really wants to teach. Extremely fair grading.
Rachel Singpurwalla PHIL310 Expecting an A standard 02/02/2009	Professor Singpurwalla was amazing. There are very few professors that not only know their stuff, but are actually good at teaching it. She is one of them. She explains the material in such a thorough way that there is no way NOT to understand. She also reviews at the beginning of the next class so if you're not there, you can know what you missed, but if you were there its a nice reminder. If any effort is put into the class, and you know how to write, you will get a good grade.

Rachel Singpurwalla
PHIL310

Anonymous
11/15/2024

Be carefully if you are taking her course, she grades extremely harshly and makes 70% of your grade based on midterm exams and final. I’m not even sure how you can score well on the exams as I have been to all lectures, studied the slides she’s given, and done everything expected yet she gives very unpleasant exam grades. Take any other PHIL course instead, you will not receive an A in this course as she is very stingy with the grading.

Christopher Masciari
PHIL310

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/23/2022

Good lecturer and laid back. Is a tougher grader but not out of line at all. Weekly quizzes, a term paper, and short answer style midterm/final. I skipped almost every discussion section and a number of lectures and still felt that I had a good understanding of course material (he almost always recaps the previous lectures material at the beginning of class). I think he might be leaving UMD after this semester.

Christopher Masciari
PHIL310

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/22/2022

Not a great professor. While he's very laid back, which guarantees you at least a B for any decent effort, I was expecting more. He gives bad and lazy feedback, takes forever to post slides, and then randomly gives bad grades on essays/exams with barely any feedback to show for it. He's a nice guy at heart, but I wish he was a bit more professional.

Christopher Masciari
PHIL310

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/19/2022

Fantastic class. Mr. Masciari is super understanding and is gonna do what he can to help you learn. Fair grader, fair workload, fair expectations, and is just a good guy. You will learn a lot from this class. I recommend going to lectures and discussions as they really help you understand the material and it will elevate your grade if you do so. Some of the concepts can be hard to understand if you try to crunch them all in toward the end of the semester or when big assignments are due.

Rachel Singpurwalla
PHIL310

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/28/2022

You SHOULD take PHIL310 with Rachel. Rachel is the best philosophy teacher I've had and one of the nicest and more understanding professors I've had. Structure - Every week you read a text and answer reading questions, write a 300 word discussion post, and respond to a discussion post. There were quizzes after each unit (Socrates/Plato/Aristotle, etc.) which you could find the answers in the slides if you just crt-f. No midterms and the final was just writing a paper that goes more in depth into a topic. The paper could be a podcase/Socratic method paper/or pretty much just anything you want and was really easy. You should be getting an A in this class and you can always asks for an extension if something comes up. Lectures - The actual content of the class is really interesting and she does a really good job at explaining it. You really end up learning a lot.

Michael McCourt
PHIL310

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/18/2019

its great to see somebody so happy to teach what theyre teaching. great prof

Michael McCourt
PHIL310

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/18/2019

Amazing professor. Super welcoming and accommodating and really wants to teach. Extremely fair grading.

Rachel Singpurwalla
PHIL310

Expecting an A
standard
02/02/2009

Professor Singpurwalla was amazing. There are very few professors that not only know their stuff, but are actually good at teaching it. She is one of them. She explains the material in such a thorough way that there is no way NOT to understand. She also reviews at the beginning of the next class so if you're not there, you can know what you missed, but if you were there its a nice reminder. If any effort is put into the class, and you know how to write, you will get a good grade.

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