Rachel Waugh

This professor has taught: CMLT275, ENGL101, ENGL101H, ENGL101S, ENGL271, ENGL272, ENGL352, ENGL388V, ENGL498, WGSS275

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Rachel Waugh ENGL391 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 07/03/2024	She is so amazing. Her class is well-structured and easy to follow. She doesn't make it overwhelming for students. She gives you a lot of time to complete assignments. She responds quickly and gives you helpful feedback. Take her if she is available.
Rachel Waugh ENGL101 Expecting a B- tchin1 12/26/2023	Course: There was a good amount of writing and discussions. The writing for liberal arts majors is really light, but for STEM majors it is pretty heavy. The discussions are pretty easy. Just make sure to turn in your assignments and don’t push them off until the last minute. Breakdown: - Assignments (31), 50%, consists of discussions, quizzes, and other miscellaneous assignments. Put in the effort and you should have a high grade on these assignments. - Research Project (11), 50%, all of your essays, final websites, and work towards your research project is here. These take a while and the essays are pretty long. Your final paper should have 20 citations, 10 of which are scholarly. Final paper should be 8-10 pages. You work towards it, but it is a lot to do. Make sure you work on it consistently and start early, otherwise you will be up until 3 AM doing your paper. Professor: Super super sweet! Has a fun British accent and is really good at keeping lectures engaging. She often will make jokes in class that everyone likes. Her class was only 1 time a week for me on a Thursday, her Tuesday class was online and asynchronous. She responds to emails relatively quickly, and her TA’s are very helpful and responsive! Would recommend anyone to take her class!
Rachel Waugh CMLT275 Anonymous 05/13/2023	Hands down one of, it not the BEST professor I've had! She's super sweet and she makes sure that everyone her classes feels comfortable and included. She's also very flexible and understanding when it comes to her assignments and deadlines so do not hesitate to ask her questions when you need help on something! I will say that there is quite the amount of reading (this semester, we read 8 books) and this is a very discussion based class, so try to participate! All in all, the work is very doable and you will not regret taking this class and having her as your professor.
Rachel Waugh CMLT275 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 03/01/2023	Super sweet professor. I recommend taking her if you can.
Rachel Waugh ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/07/2023	Rachel is so sweet I can't even begin. She grades everything for completion, is quite lenient with deadlines, has a reasonable workload, cancels nearly every Tuesday class (it's a TTH course), teaches well, and provides good feedback. All and all, the perfect teacher.
Rachel Waugh ENGL101 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/26/2022	Nicest professor ever! She is very lenient and understanding. She gives a 100 on essays as long as you have an appropriate writing style with good content and as long as you put in the effort (I got a 100 on all the essays). She has an "ungrading" system where if you do all the assignments, you end off with a B+. To get to an A-/A/A+, you need to do 1/2/3 extra assignments which include writing short letters to someone, making a short presentation, designing something relevant to the semester's theme, etc. (All of them are relatively easy. I did 2 assignments b/c an A is worth the same as an A+ in terms of GPA). Not sure if all her classes are like this, but get a BLENDED LEARNING section. 2 classes per week for english where 1 is office hours and the other one is class. I only had to go to ENGL101 once a week and that was amazing! I did spend a lot of time on English this semester but that's b/c it took me time to write the essays since my topic wasn't really researchable even though I was interested in it. PICK A POPULAR RESEARCHABLE TOPIC THAT ACTUALLY INTERESTS YOU.
Rachel Waugh ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/12/2022	Professor Waugh was great! She's super understanding and sweet and was always quick to respond to emails. We only had in-person classes once a week, so she used the time we had wisely and the content was always interesting. She does an un-grading policy which means if you complete your work properly (discussions, 5 papers, quizzes, and other miscellaneous assignments) you get a B+, and then you do 1-3 boosters in order to get either an A-, A, or A+. For the boosters, we had multiple options like posters relating to the class topic, a poem, etc so it was easy to do all three. Overall, I enjoyed this class and would recommend Professor Waugh to anyone taking ENGL101!
Rachel Waugh ENGL101 Anonymous 11/30/2022	Wonderful professor and great TA's. Good lectures and very merciful grading. The class energy is cozy, like you get to know everyone but in a low-stress kind of way. We had a semester theme (climate change) and wrote 5 papers, going from a small summary to a 3k word final paper. Three of the papers were connected (a research proposal, a paper arguing counterclaim, and a paper arguing your claim). I also loved the half online/half in-person structure. I'd highly recommend, especially for STEM majors.
Rachel Waugh ENGL101 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/08/2022	The sweetest and best English professor I have had in my life! The class was 1 day asynchronous on Tuesdays and 1 day in-person on Thursdays. She was very understanding with her students, she frequently extends paper deadlines if the class expresses a need for them. As long as you submit assignments before she grades them, she won't mark them late, and even if it is multiple days late she would only take off 10-20% if you do not submit them on time. Class time typically consists of the class discussing current events, her teaching some terms and strategies for your papers, and peer reviews. Her papers are the primary focus of the class and are graded very generously, where she focuses on the structure, organization, effort, and completeness of your paper. This is honestly amazing because many English teachers typically have subjective biases and grade papers unfairly if they do not like what you say. Prof. Waugh is amazing and gives very insightful advice on writing and is one of my favorite teachers at UMD.
Rachel Waugh ENGL498 username 10/25/2021	Had her for ENGL498 virtually; an excellent creative writing professor. She was very helpful during workshops, both with her own comments and making your classmates respond adequately.
Rachel Waugh ENGL498 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/17/2021	I have had her for both ENGL352 half in person-half online, and ENGL498 all online. Out of the professors I've had for workshop so far, she is the best. We get ample time to discuss each other's work and the workload is reasonable. She is responsive to student concerns and grading is easy. On the subjective side, she seems to really understand your writing and doesn't shy away from telling you what you should be doing differently. Her humor is great as well.
Rachel Waugh ENGL101 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/08/2020	Professor Waugh is a great choice for ENGL101. Her class was half online/in-person, which was really nice schedule-wise; the class ran pretty similarly to other ENGL101 classes (pacing), and the grading was relatively fair. I think the main plus about the class was Professor Waugh. She's always very pleasant and is willing to meet and talk with students about any issues in class. She was very understanding during the coronavirus pandemic and adjusted the class schedule to lighten the course load for her students. You honestly cannot go wrong with taking her course!