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Natalie McGartland
HDCC208B Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/11/2025 |
One of the most passionate and empathetic teachers I've encountered during my academic career. She consistently asked for student perspectives, which helped guide the syllabus and made the class engaging throughout. In particular, her inclusion of varied interdisciplinary perspectives left me feeling equipped to apply ideas from this class to other academic subjects. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her! |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/11/2025 |
This professor and class were PERFECT for a first-semester freshman like myself. It is light, reinforces how to actually write a good essay, and Nat was a very friendly and easy-going professor. Nat cares about her students. She has great young energy, and she's very approachable. My only downside is that, because of how easy-going the class is and that ENGL101 does not grade on attendance, what started as a 30-person class became 5-7 people showing up for the last month and a half. It's not that big of a deal, but it definitely lowered the incentive to come to class and made the days boring. But overall, I would highly recommend this class and Nat if you want to get a GenEd out of the way and don't want to have a challenging class. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/11/2025 |
one of the sweetest, funniest, and kindest teachers ever. currently a freshman at UMD, and she's made my first semester here better than i would've ever thought. although this class is a genED (that many already have experience with through APs or IBs), Prof. Natalie's class definitely helped me improve my writing skills. please take her for ENGL101 or any of the courses she teaches. * light grader, stress-free, understanding, fast email responses, hilarious (in a mostly corny but great way nonetheless), and she's extremely chill. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/09/2025 |
Has to be one of the best professors at UMD. Super chill. Super light grader. Actually teaches well. Accepts late work for full credit. Makes English the least stressful class on your schedule. Absolutely take her if you can. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL290 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/10/2025 |
Nat is hands down one of the best teachers I've had at UMD. Her class was super chill, but at the same time, I actually learned a lot. We got to work on really cool projects that were both fun and meaningful, and she made the material engaging without it ever feeling overwhelming. If you get the chance to take a class with her, do it. She's amazing. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL290 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/07/2025 |
Nat is the best professor! Very understanding and fun. As long as you do the work with some effort/interest, you'll be fine. Almost all assignments were done in class, and a few of them were done on your own time, but they were very doable! Overall, 10/10 highly recommend! |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL295 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 10/02/2024 |
I took ENGL295 last Spring with Nat. The class was great and this professor was great. Generous and accommodating grader. A significant amount of creative liberty is granted for the projects, both individual and group-based. Class is discussion heavy but the discussions are fun and exciting. Despite the class being almost 3 hours long, the class did not feel boring or sloggy. Can be a little disorganized or chaotic at times but it was her first time teaching that class and she manages to set it back on the rails fairly smoothly and quickly. Highly recommend. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL295 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/31/2024 |
I took ENGL295 for one of my gen ed credits with Natalie. This was her first time teaching this course, but all things considered it was a good experience. Our assignments consisted of discussion board posts, short essays, and digital story projects. Pros: - Lively discussions: A portion of our class was about discussing readings and other digital storytelling methods. These discussions were pretty insightful, and I would say I learned something from all of them. - Fun projects: One of our projects involved us making a digital story. We were given plenty of freedom in choosing how our story went and presented it to the class. Another project involved us creating remixes. I enjoyed being able to have a lot of freedom in our expression. - Fair grading: As long as you completed the discussion posts and produced something that took some thought and effort for the projects, you are getting an A. This class is very stress free. Cons: - Occasionally unequipped: Some class sessions did not go to plan. For example, we had a class where a certain software was not functioning as expected so we couldn't fulfill the assignment that day. However, Nat managed the course expectations fine despite this and found other solutions that worked. I don't anticipate this being much of a deal if she teaches this class again. Overall, this class was a good part of my education and an actually fun and interesting gen ed. I would highly recommend taking ENGL295 with Natalie. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL295 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/07/2024 |
HALT: TAKE HER!! Nat is a sweetheart!! If you get to take her please do, she's very down to earth and is so caring towards her students. Super light grader and very understanding. She's also very silly, we had a class on Oculus headsets and she let us draw penises and play Beat Saber, 10/10. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL295 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/07/2024 |
donsent blame students for class projects falling apart. |
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Natalie McGartland
ENGL295 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/07/2024 |
Honestly a super awesome teacher and very invested in our learning and making the class entertaining. A good class to come to after stressful assignments. First and only class at UMD where I got to talk about supernatural mpreg in a class. |