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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2024 |
All things taken into consideration, she is a great professor. The only thing I would say is I wish her teaching style was more engaging. I am super interested in philosophy but not a philosophy major and I found myself getting a bit bored in her class not because the topics weren't interesting but because of her teaching style. But she does seem to care about students. Also she allowed notes on the exams and some extra credit opportunities. |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2024 |
Amazing professor! She wants everyone to succeed. Very small workload (one short reading [which you can skim] and 3 small paragraphs per week, graded for completion). The exams are curved and some questions are dropped depending on how many people missed it. She built the syllabus to be "fail-friendly" so you can do poorly on all three exams and still get an A. She'll actually start emailing you if you bombed an exam, providing links to study material, office hours, and encouragement. The material itself is pretty difficult. Her vocabulary is extremely high and it occasionally feels like you're having simple math explained to you by Shakespeare. Every philosophy major I saw, though, was jumping up and down with love for her, so I guess it depends on your enthusiasm towards philosophy. Shoutout to the TA (Xintong Wang)! Super kind and knowledgable. |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/14/2024 |
for an introduction course this class is great, get you used to some common concepts in philosophy |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/13/2024 |
She explains everything really well, both she and the TAs are great to talk to if you are actually into philosophy. There are many options for you to improve your overall grade if you don’t do really well in the exams. Again, if you really are into philosophy, take this class, it’s food for thought. |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL100 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/30/2024 |
This professor might honestly be one of the worst professors I have ever come across in all my years. her arrogance and strict policies make me believe that she is teaching this course for the sole purpose of lowering everyone's GPA. The course content is so difficult that even the TAs find some of the content to be difficult. If you are considering taking this class as a gen-ed, don't. |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL100 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 10/30/2024 |
PHIL100 with Professor Schechter is way harder than a 100-level gen-ed should be. She treats it like an upper-level major class. Technology isn’t allowed in class, and she doesn’t let students take their exams back. She guards everything like they’re nuclear codes. I would highly recommend picking a different gened. |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL100 Expecting a B Anonymous 10/28/2024 |
Class is interesting but not easy if you are not a philosophy major. I would not recommend taking this class as a gen-ed. |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL408L Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/18/2024 |
cool professor, very knowledgeable and smart. The content is cool, but I think her structure and assignments suck the fun out of the content. I wish she left more time and space for class discussion instead of forced group work. Pretty easy class though, and she gives great feedback. |
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Elizabeth Schechter
PHIL408P Expecting an A Anonymous 08/24/2023 |
The course was fine. Interesting stuff and the prof knew how to get a discussion going. The thing is I didn’t feel like I was actually learning that much because the discussions were so poorly structured/designed and they took up So Much Time. It seemed like the prof basically used discussions to cover up her lack of preparedness. Mind you this was a 400-level course but she came in with the attitude of trying to get us to discuss very superficial stuff; that really discouraged me from doing the readings. |