Michael Coyne
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Michael Coyne
FGSM355 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/12/2025 |
Do NOT NOT NOT take this course if you care about your grades or about learning real skills. Mike and Amanda are nothing but kind and extremely intelligent. As much as they had amazing relationships with their students and were very supportive, being a "teacher" is unfamiliar to them. I am a 4.0 student who also attended roughly 8 office hours and I'm expecting to get my first B. They grade incredibly harshly--in a course typically for sophomores--and do not provide specific instructions to help you perform these assignments to their level of satisfactory. They only provide feedback/comments on assignments and expect you to learn IC writing skills solely based on that feedback. They also never provided examples of what they're looking for. Just because this course is a "seminar," that should not forego the teaching. IC-style writing is a very valuable skill-especially if you intent to pursue a career in intelligence and security, but this class did not teach my that skill. If the instructors TAUGHT you how to, it would have. Again, Mike and Amanda are incredible, experienced, and intelligence people, "teaching" is just something unfamiliar to them. Proceed for caution. |