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Tyra Griffin
ENGL234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/08/2025 |
Professor Griffin is very nice and very passionate about what she is teaching but you could tell that it is not her #1 priority. She canceled class I'm not joking at least once a week, which makes the class super easy but you also aren't really learning. She is very engaging during discussions but that's about it, grading actually takes forever and I am still waiting for October grades back and we have a week left in the semester. There is a weekly assignment every week about the readings from that week but they are very easy and if you show effort and some understanding of the themes you will get a 100. Overall super easy Gen Ed and I recommend taking it with her. |
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Tyra Griffin
AAAS234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/20/2025 |
Professor Griffin is a cool person, but the course itself isn't a great experience. She has only put grades in once, and the semester is over in less than a month. She doesn't really "teach," either. She dumps 40+ page readings on you to have done in two days every class. We then have a discussion, and apparently, how much you engage in the discussion affects your grade, but engaging becomes difficult when you have other things in life that prevent you from sitting down for 2 hours to read every day. Also, the class itself is disorganized and disorienting. She would cancel class quite frequently. In fact, she did so about 3 times within the first 3 weeks of class. She has also only been on time once throughout the entire semester, even when class was online. If you want to have an easy A, don't take Professor Griffin. However, if you want to take African American Literature in general, I would also seek another instructor because this class is hardly educational. |
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Tyra Griffin
ENGL250 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/17/2025 |
Lengthy readings every day and be prepared to have class discussions every single class. She would cancel class a lot because of emergencies so it was nice to not have to go. Overall, I would recommend as a fairly easy gen ed. |
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Tyra Griffin
ENGL250 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 10/01/2024 |
She is a great professor who is passionate and cares about her students. very understanding and flexible in terms of deadlines. However, if you want to take ENGL250 as an easier elective, I don't recommend it unless you have time to do close readings every other night. It is a super interesting subject, but the class is disorganized, and a few of my friends and I struggle to keep up to date with the readings. There are also no grades and its been a month of class, so I am quite in the dark on how well I am actually doing. |
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Tyra Griffin
ENGL234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/22/2023 |
I really liked how much freedom there was with writing assignments, but the class wasn't very well organized. I think this was just because it was one of her first classes, but grading took actually so long that I didn't have 3/6 of my grades in by the time finals were over. A lot of the time it was kind of unclear what she actually wanted from assignments, but she was very responsive to emails and stuff so its not hard to get clarification. She's also very engaging with her students and clearly cares about the subject a lot. Would definitely recommend, she's only going to get better as a professor. |
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Tyra Griffin
AASP298L Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/15/2023 |
Tyra is a Super enjoyable professor and was a pleasure to work with. Her class discussions are the most interesting parts of the class and will leave you with something to think about/consider for days. She is always easy to work with and does not want to make anything too complicated. I'm happy to say I actually learned quite a bit during her class and challenged myself She's great, please don't stress her out!! :-D |
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Tyra Griffin
ENGL234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/04/2023 |
Tyra is an AMAZING professor and even more just a great person! I took her course as a gen-ed and loved it. She tells us that she teaches her students in a way that she would've liked to be taught as an undergrad. Almost all of the ENGL234/AASP298L classes were discussions based upon a reading that was for homework. With our readings there was also a digital journal that she had us keep where we took one/two quotes from the reading and deeply analyzed it (in 0.5-1 page) offering what we INDIVIDUALLY thought of it - it wasn't a review or a thesis-based thing; we had a lot of freedom as students in our writing. This was similar in our final paper/essay - we had freedom to write about any reading/text of our choice and deeply analyze it similar to the digital journal. I think this freedom that she gives us throughout the class allows us to explore some really deep and dense concepts. I was able to truly indulge with the text and grappled with some very amazing topics - I learned so much about African American history, literature, and culture in her course. I'm sure students will be able to take away a lot from any course that they take with her. She also completely understands that we procrastinate sometimes and life occasionally gets in the way...she's open to give extensions or offer academic support when students need it. There is a decent amount of reading in this course that I took with her (on average 40 pages twice a week so 80 pages) but that is expected with any english based course. Please take a class with Tyra if you can!! She is the best! |