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William Mosley
WGSS291 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2024 |
Professor Mosley is nice, and it was great having a Black queer professor. However, the course was very vague, and they didn't consider other viewpoints. We mostly focused on the Black and queer experience, which felt limiting. The workload was too heavy for a 200-level class, and you need prior knowledge to do well. |
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William Mosley
WGSS291 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/13/2024 |
Dr. Mosley is a great guy, truly. He is very knowledgeable, and class discussions he holds are very enriching and nice. His debates are also a lot of fun!! He also has some great stories to share and the media and material we go through is so well-picked and applicable. However, is a bit of stickler for participation, and there seems to be a bit of an unnecessary attitude at times. The readings he assigns can be incredible hard to understand and academic jargon-y, which make it difficult to participate in class if you don't really know what the readings were saying to begin with. If you are on the shier side too, this might also be challenging for you. Participation is also completely subjective on his part, and you can still try to say things, but he is ultimately the judge of if it really counts as participation. He can be very fun in class and his assignments are interesting, but it can definitely be stressful (especially with your grade) to do well. For a 200 level, elective, introductory class, the readings are far too advanced (coming from someone who is in a liberal arts/social sciences degree and does a lottt of reading), and the participation element of class is frankly taken far too seriously. I get wanting students to engage in discussion, but there will naturally be a few that don't say as much, for lots of different reasons. Having it deeply impact your overall grade is ridiculous. I had a great time in this class overall, but these shortcomings are definitely major points of improvement that should be worked on. |
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William Mosley
LGBT200 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/05/2023 |
Prof Mosley is a really cool person who seems to care for his students. He does events like the costume ball where we dress up and compete in groups for Halloween which was fun, and we also did Tarot card readings during class which I also enjoyed. As much of a great person he is, he sucks as a teacher. He really picks favorites and would always value one classmate's opinions over everyone else's. Participation is important, but I rarely got a chance to speak due to him picking the same people consistently. I would also email him to genuinely ask for advice on assignments, and he would brush me off and tell me to ask my TA instead, which felt like a punch to the gut since I wanted to hear what he had to say. We had five response assignments due over the semester as well as a midterm and final paper. The response assignments are graded out of five, but some classmates got sixes and sevens, which made no sense because we were never told that was even a possibility. He also announced these scores to the class while a department head was there so it felt superficial when we were asked to clap for our two classmates and it appeared as though he was doing it to make himself look good. He also told us to fill out our student feedback survey for his class and If the feedback was bad he would consider switching schools. Maybe consider learning from the feedback first sir??? Fun guy, not so fun professor. |
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William Mosley
WGSS291 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/09/2023 |
He isn't a bad professor, just not the best. He makes sure the class/ discussion aspect of his class is fun, but his assignments are pretty misleading. The class also isn't assignment heavy and is out of 100 which means every assignment counts. Another thing is attendance is mandatory along with contributing to the discussion which can be hard at times to contribute to because everything doesn't relate to you. |
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William Mosley
LGBT200 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2022 |
This professor created a wonderful environment for conversation, and I learned a lot from my peers and the discussions we had that took up nearly every class time. However, they were very disorganized and unclear about lots of deadlines and grading criteria. They expressed halfway through the year a different attendance policy than what was on the syllabus. They also graded attendance based on their 'memory' which was kind of unusual. Though it did not effect me personally, most students were upset. |
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William Mosley
LGBT200 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2022 |
big agree with the first review. by far the most reading out of all my classes which is weird especially considering on the first day, he agreed with students saying they were hoping it would be a light/fairly easy INTRODUCTORY class. Confusing expectations for the main assignment - weekly papers since he doesn't grade them and we never met the TA. a 500 word limit but everyone would usually go over 500 words because there was just so much content and readings to cover/analyze. The class discussions were genuinely interesting and i learned a lot from them but i just wish we didn't have to go through a mountain of reading and a professor with a bad attitude at times. he seems better to talk to as a person but as a professor.......no. i remember one time when people were hesitant to start discussing a really difficult reading, instead of asking more guiding questions or trying to break down the text for us, after about a minute of silence he said "y'all need to get your shit together" and went on about how we were not taking the class seriously enough, this was in the 4th week of class like late september. then people spoke up but it was really awkward. literally called us his guinea pigs since this was his first time teaching at UMD. some changes were made throughout the semester so i can only hope he gets better from here. proceed with caution. |
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William Mosley
LGBT200 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2022 |
Professor Mosley is a very cool person and this is not an attack on their character in any way. However, this class was a bit of a mess. For one, the readings during the first few weeks were around 50 pages each and some days there would be up to four of them. For a 200 level that was already a lot. Additionally, the grading system for our weekly assignments wasn’t clarified until over halfway into the semester. I liked the discussion style classes a lot, but oftentimes for me and other classmates I talked to, it felt like if you were saying anything that disagreed with Professor Mosley the environment would get a bit hostile. If you take this class be prepared that they are very opinionated and often present these opinions as facts. I also would’ve liked a bit more diversity when it came to lessons, as we spent a lot of time talking about the black-queer experience, but only one say on the Latinx experience, and didn’t discuss any other intersectional identities. |
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William Mosley
LGBT200 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/23/2022 |
He has a nice demeanor but the course is not what you'd expect from a 200 level course in terms of reading. We're talking 40-50 page readings expected twice a week from the student, which for an introductory level elective is a bit silly. The class also presupposes a certain level of political and cultural knowledge that coming in you were trying to get to begin with. The discussion is nice but be prepared for a disorganized class structure you will have to cope with and trial and error your way to success because the syllabus doesn't agree with the most common type of assignment's instructions. I get this was his first time teaching this class at UMD but he's taught it many times else where, it just seems like a bullshit excuse and I know things could be much more well put together than they are here. (Also make sure to attend class, 3 classes missed drops a letter grade which wasn't specifically listed in the syllabus in Fall 2022) |