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Patricia Greenspan
PHIL341 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/29/2017 |
I'm not saying that Professor Greenspan isn't bright or anything, but she is definitely one of the weak links in the philosophy department. Her lectures were incredibly boring, and loaded with her interpretations of the material rather than purely the material itself. She clearly had something against men. She regularly ignored their contributions and attempted to subtly belittle them while giving clear preferential treatment to the women of the class. Overall, would not recommend. Boring lectures, not great at conveying material, hard grading, bias toward students. |
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Patricia Greenspan
PHIL341 Expecting a B- aarzack 01/08/2011 |
Professor Greenspan's lectures are dry, boring and incredibly verbose. She teaches the class as though she was giving a seminar to a classroom full of philosophy professors. She teaches from a power point that is posted online, so lectures are almost completely pointless. In order to get an A, you just need to follow slides at home and attend the weekly discussion section, which is a godsend. Despite the dry and boring lectures, however, Professor Greenspan is incredibly friendly and more than willing to try and help if you ask. She makes an honest attempt to learn names. Expect HEAVY reading for this course, with chapters of rather difficult reads assigned for each lecture: Hume, Kant, Mill, Rawls, etc. Lane, the TA, was funny, helpful and a fair grader. I thoroughly enjoyed discussion section. Perhaps the best aspect of this course is that the Professor avoids off-topic questions that some overzealous philosophy students seem to spew. Take this course as a Philosophy Major, but not as an elective or advanced core (its not as interesting as it seems.) |