COM LIT 2CW
Survey of Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century
Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1C or 4CW. Study of selected texts from Age of Enlightenment to 20th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Goethe, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, M. Shelley, Dostoevsky, Kafka, James Joyce, Garcia Marquez, and Jamaica Kincaid. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2019 - If you're looking for a Writing II GE, literally any GE would be better! If you want to get publicly shamed in front of an entire lecture hall for not doing a reading, this is the class for you! This professor literally did this to some students in the class and made them leave in the middle of a lecture. This is her main tactic to ensure you do A LOT of reading for each lecture. As for the grading, it is 50% for 2 papers and 25% for participation and 25% for the final paper. The grading is all about the TA so you better pray to get a good one or you're in real trouble. Her lectures are literally her talking for an hour with no slides or any visual aids. If you aren't an auditory learner, good luck! For those who must take this class as Comparative Literature majors, I'd look to another professor to save yourself the pain.
Spring 2019 - If you're looking for a Writing II GE, literally any GE would be better! If you want to get publicly shamed in front of an entire lecture hall for not doing a reading, this is the class for you! This professor literally did this to some students in the class and made them leave in the middle of a lecture. This is her main tactic to ensure you do A LOT of reading for each lecture. As for the grading, it is 50% for 2 papers and 25% for participation and 25% for the final paper. The grading is all about the TA so you better pray to get a good one or you're in real trouble. Her lectures are literally her talking for an hour with no slides or any visual aids. If you aren't an auditory learner, good luck! For those who must take this class as Comparative Literature majors, I'd look to another professor to save yourself the pain.
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One of my favorite professors. She's really nice and makes the class interesting even to us engineers/south campus people. The books and stories we read (Dracula, Translations, etc.) were pretty good. This might depend on the TA, but grading is very easy with 40% A's and 50% B's.
One of my favorite professors. She's really nice and makes the class interesting even to us engineers/south campus people. The books and stories we read (Dracula, Translations, etc.) were pretty good. This might depend on the TA, but grading is very easy with 40% A's and 50% B's.
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If you're a pre-med like me and care about you're GPA, do not take this professor for Writing II. I worked my ass off this quarter, but I just got a B. I was thinking I was in the A- to A range though. The grading is collective work between the professor and TA's, so I doubt there would be an easy/lenient TA. Otherwise, if you don't mind getting a B, go ahead and take her because the workload is normal and she is nice as well as the TA's. But damn... I'm pissed
If you're a pre-med like me and care about you're GPA, do not take this professor for Writing II. I worked my ass off this quarter, but I just got a B. I was thinking I was in the A- to A range though. The grading is collective work between the professor and TA's, so I doubt there would be an easy/lenient TA. Otherwise, if you don't mind getting a B, go ahead and take her because the workload is normal and she is nice as well as the TA's. But damn... I'm pissed
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Fall 2022 - Professor Levitz was super kind and I really enjoyed her lectures. The slides were a bit overly packed with information sometimes but she posted them so you could always refer to them afterward. Workload wasn't that bad, it was 4 total papers with each one (in order) being worth 15%, 20%, 25%, and 30%, plus 10% for participation in weekly sections. Since there were TA strikes, the fourth paper was modified so that it was based on any story that we had read before and our final grades were curved up (so A- would be an A, B+ would be an A-, etc.) You could get away with skimming/not reading readings that we weren't writing papers on as long as you were prepared for what your TA had prepared for section.
Fall 2022 - Professor Levitz was super kind and I really enjoyed her lectures. The slides were a bit overly packed with information sometimes but she posted them so you could always refer to them afterward. Workload wasn't that bad, it was 4 total papers with each one (in order) being worth 15%, 20%, 25%, and 30%, plus 10% for participation in weekly sections. Since there were TA strikes, the fourth paper was modified so that it was based on any story that we had read before and our final grades were curved up (so A- would be an A, B+ would be an A-, etc.) You could get away with skimming/not reading readings that we weren't writing papers on as long as you were prepared for what your TA had prepared for section.
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