Eugenia Lao

This professor has taught: CLAS170, CLAS317, LATN101, LATN102, LATN120, LATN201, LATN302, RELS170

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Eugenia Lao LATN302 Expecting a P JDPORT89_1 04/30/2026	As a student at The University of Maryland I had Dr. Eugenia Lao as a Professor in three semester courses: Elementary Latin I and II, and a course on the Roman poet Ovid (302) in which we studied his works. I found all three courses to be well-organized and intellectually stimulating. Dr. Lau proved to be an outstanding Professor who genuinely cared about her students. The Elementary Latin courses were both informative and challenging. I learned a great deal in both of these courses. The syllabus was excellent. Dr. Lao’s instructional methods included recorded lectures that I found fascinating and well-organized. The lectures presented Latin grammar and syntax in a very interesting way, often sprinkled with humor and fine visuals. Additionally, Dr. Lao hosted a lively zoom session each week in which students worked on oral translations focusing on improving their understanding of Latin grammar and vocabulary. During these sessions I found Dr. Lao to be helpful, patient, and extremely professional. The Ovid course involved students translating original Latin text and understanding the nuances of this Roman poet. Dr. Lao demonstrated a significant knowledge and enthusiasm for the material we covered in class. In short, this class was both educational and fun. Finally with respect to assessments and homework I found Dr. Lao to be fair and always capable of providing positive feedback to me. I highly recommend any of Dr. Lao’s courses to serious students of Latin and the Classics. Jonathan Porter 4/28/26
Eugenia Lao LATN101 Expecting a B+ JDPORT89_1 04/29/2026	As a student at The University of Maryland I had Dr. Eugenia Lao as a Professor in three semester courses: Elementary Latin I01 and 102, and a course on the Roman poet Ovid in which we studied his works. I found all three courses to be well-organized and intellectually stimulating. Dr. Lau proved to be an outstanding Professor who genuinely cared about her students. The Elementary Latin courses were both informative and challenging. I learned a great deal in both of these courses. The syllabus was excellent. Dr. Lao’s instructional methods included recorded lectures that I found fascinating and well-organized. The lectures presented Latin grammar and syntax in a very interesting way, often sprinkled with humor and fine visuals. Additionally, Dr. Lao hosted a lively zoom session each week in which students worked on oral translations focusing on improving their understanding of Latin grammar and vocabulary. During these sessions I found Dr. Lao to be helpful, patient, and extremely professional. The Ovid course involved students translating original Latin text and understanding the nuances of this Roman poet. Dr. Lao demonstrated a significant knowledge and enthusiasm for the material we covered in class. In short, this class was both educational and fun. Finally with respect to assessments and homework I found Dr. Lao to be fair and always capable of providing positive feedback to me. I highly recommend any of Dr. Lao’s courses to serious students of Latin and the Classics. Jonathan Porter 4/28/26
Eugenia Lao LATN102 Expecting a B tfrantz 04/29/2026	Took Latin 102 in Spring of 2025. I enjoyed how much effort Dr. Lao took to connect Latin vocabulary, grammar, and history to current events relevant to students.
Eugenia Lao LATN101 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/29/2026	When I took Latin 101 in Fall of 2024, Dr. Lao was extremely helpful, dedicated, and empathetic towards her students. I had never taken Latin prior to that point, and she was absolutely a fantastic professor to introduce me to Latin. She was very willing to adapt to what students needed to learn best, and made it a point to reach out for student feedback frequently. Fittingly, she runs a very democratic classroom, in my experience! I myself am an education major, and I find myself very inspired by my experience with Dr. Lao's class. As both a student and and educator, I could imagine few better teachers. Thank you so much!
Eugenia Lao LATN101 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/28/2026	As a student at The University of Maryland I had Dr. Eugenia Lao as a Professor in three semester courses: Elementary Latin I and II, and a course on the Roman poet Ovid in which we studied his works. I found all three courses to be well-organized and intellectually stimulating. Dr. Lau proved to be an outstanding Professor who genuinely cared about her students. The Elementary Latin courses were both informative and challenging. I learned a great deal in both of these courses. The syllabus was excellent. Dr. Lao’s instructional methods included recorded lectures that I found fascinating and well-organized. The lectures presented Latin grammar and syntax in a very interesting way, often sprinkled with humor and fine visuals. Additionally, Dr. Lao hosted a lively zoom session each week in which students worked on oral translations focusing on improving their understanding of Latin grammar and vocabulary. During these sessions I found Dr. Lao to be helpful, patient, and extremely professional. The Ovid course involved students translating original Latin text and understanding the nuances of this Roman poet. Dr. Lao demonstrated a significant knowledge and enthusiasm for the material we covered in class. In short, this class was both educational and fun. Finally with respect to assessments and homework I found Dr. Lao to be fair and always capable of providing positive feedback to me. I highly recommend any of Dr. Lao’s courses to serious students of Latin and the Classics. 4/28/26
Eugenia Lao LATN101 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/23/2025	I took Latin 101 back in the fall and really liked the course. Prof. Lao was very helpful and in depth with the material and I feel as though I learned a lot. I earned an A.
Eugenia Lao LATN102 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 04/29/2024	This is the worst professor I have ever had at UMD. I had taken Latin in high school, so the content was nothing new to me. However, I am lucky if I end with a C+ because her teaching and assignments are so misleading. She accused several of her students of cheating on homework despite giving us the answers for the assignments then saying that it was an "outside resource" and left us all with over 18 zeroes on assignments with only 4 weeks left in the semester. When I went to her office hours asking her to give me at least partial points back for work that I did that I could prove with the sufficient notes I took on the homework, she was unwavering in her decision and gave me a hard no. She also said that it was something she had found students to be doing in previous semesters, and that the only way to fix it would be to move the class from online to in-person. If this was a previous problem in other sections, 1) why wasn't the homework adjusted to be foolproof after the first incident? and 2) why must this section suffer as a result of inadequate and misleading directions on homework? As someone with a 3.7 GPA and this potentially being my only C I will ever get in college, I am disappointed and disgusted to say the least. DO NOT TAKE HER, her class took a severe toll on my mental health this semester. And to the Department of Classics, maybe take a look at these reviews and do. better.
Eugenia Lao CLAS170 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/19/2023	she is a hard grader, incredibly unorganized, gets lost in her thoughts, lowkey does not know how to teach, do not take her class, despite the interesting material she somehow found a way to make it the MOST BORING CLASS EVER
Eugenia Lao CLAS170 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 11/30/2023	She is a very hard grader and in class discussion, she does not accept any one else's ideas just her own.
Eugenia Lao LATN101 Anonymous 04/12/2023	I withdrew from her course back in the fall of 2022. She called me lazy and stupid in an email when all I did was double check my answers in the back of the book. She suggested that I withdraw from the class because I am too dumb to "catch up from cheating". She threatened to give me an XF on my transcript if I did not drop the class even though all my advisors agreed I did not cheat. She is a terrible professor and I highly recommend never taking her.
Eugenia Lao LATN101 Anonymous 10/25/2022	I dropped her class after she scheduled a zoom with me after our first assignment was due in a 101 level language class, basically called me mentally challenged, and suggested I take another language. It was a speaking assignment for a dead language that I've never spoken before and she assumed I was mentally challenged instead of learning a new language. do not take her class.