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Colleen Jaurretche
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Fall 2016 - Professor Jaurretche is a great professor. Coming into college as a freshman and being worried about my writing skills, she made the class and the art of writing fun and easy. Definitely would recommend taking her. Selling "The Big Sleep". Txt msg me at **********. If you think I already sold it, I probably still have it, so shoot me a message.
Fall 2016 - Professor Jaurretche is a great professor. Coming into college as a freshman and being worried about my writing skills, she made the class and the art of writing fun and easy. Definitely would recommend taking her. Selling "The Big Sleep". Txt msg me at **********. If you think I already sold it, I probably still have it, so shoot me a message.
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Winter 2017 - I loved her, but I have some friends who are less enthusiastic. She picks some very hard material for the course, but her explanations about the meaning and the context of the work are extremely clear and helpful. My only problem is that she often sends out writing prompts the day before it is due, and it's really annoying to open up your email late at night and find yourself with last minute homework. But overall, I would definitely take again.
Winter 2017 - I loved her, but I have some friends who are less enthusiastic. She picks some very hard material for the course, but her explanations about the meaning and the context of the work are extremely clear and helpful. My only problem is that she often sends out writing prompts the day before it is due, and it's really annoying to open up your email late at night and find yourself with last minute homework. But overall, I would definitely take again.
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Spring 2018 - I was one of the few people in my discussion who genuinely enjoyed attending lecture. She's adorable and a bit eccentric and quite clearly adores teaching. Her lectures tend to be quite lacking in structure, and many of my peers had difficulty ascertaining what exactly they should be taking notes on. My advice would be to make a note of which passages she discusses, as well as paying attention to the important historical contexts or styles/literary devices/themes that she points out. She is, for the most part, extremely approachable, considerate, and kind. If your paper is randomly chosen to be graded by her, she will be a bit harsh and leave at most two comments. However, you will have 3 short essays (4 pages!) to prove yourself, and the first one will only count 10% of your grade. I found it most helpful to hound my TA when planning my essays. There is no midterm, and the final is graded more kindly than the essays are. Our final had (if I'm remembering correctly) 17 ID terms, and you only needed to correctly identify 15 of them, with the full title and the writer's full name. There is poetry explication, and then a final long essay in which you are given two "big ideas" and you pick one to write about. It's definitely very helpful to keep up with the reading, but I'll admit that I fell behind on most of the longer works. Reading detailed summaries and taking really good lecture notes will carry you through just fine. I really did enjoy this class, though ultimately the most electrifying lecture had been given by one of the TAs. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend taking 10C with Jaurretche!
Spring 2018 - I was one of the few people in my discussion who genuinely enjoyed attending lecture. She's adorable and a bit eccentric and quite clearly adores teaching. Her lectures tend to be quite lacking in structure, and many of my peers had difficulty ascertaining what exactly they should be taking notes on. My advice would be to make a note of which passages she discusses, as well as paying attention to the important historical contexts or styles/literary devices/themes that she points out. She is, for the most part, extremely approachable, considerate, and kind. If your paper is randomly chosen to be graded by her, she will be a bit harsh and leave at most two comments. However, you will have 3 short essays (4 pages!) to prove yourself, and the first one will only count 10% of your grade. I found it most helpful to hound my TA when planning my essays. There is no midterm, and the final is graded more kindly than the essays are. Our final had (if I'm remembering correctly) 17 ID terms, and you only needed to correctly identify 15 of them, with the full title and the writer's full name. There is poetry explication, and then a final long essay in which you are given two "big ideas" and you pick one to write about. It's definitely very helpful to keep up with the reading, but I'll admit that I fell behind on most of the longer works. Reading detailed summaries and taking really good lecture notes will carry you through just fine. I really did enjoy this class, though ultimately the most electrifying lecture had been given by one of the TAs. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend taking 10C with Jaurretche!
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Fall 2025 - The professor I genuinely passionate about what she teaches; however, her lectures were not entertaining at all. Her lectures are roughly 2 hours and attendance is mandatory. She calls roster at the beginning of every class and it counts towards your participation class. The midterm consisted of identifying authors and short answers. She literally gives you one sentence and expects you to know where it's from and who wrote it out of the multiple readings she assigns. The reading load was heavy and she will ask about each reading in the midterm and the final. For the final, she told us it would be exactly as the midterm. I spent a majority of my time studying for the short answers and she ended up not giving any short answers. When she assigned the 8 page research paper and a group project, we all had many questions to ask her. When we would email her or ask her questions in person she would never give a straight answer. She would basically say I don't know. I found this class extremely boring, the reading load was heavy, the exams were difficult because she would not tell us one thing and give us another thing, and she was unhelpful. I do not recommend.
Fall 2025 - The professor I genuinely passionate about what she teaches; however, her lectures were not entertaining at all. Her lectures are roughly 2 hours and attendance is mandatory. She calls roster at the beginning of every class and it counts towards your participation class. The midterm consisted of identifying authors and short answers. She literally gives you one sentence and expects you to know where it's from and who wrote it out of the multiple readings she assigns. The reading load was heavy and she will ask about each reading in the midterm and the final. For the final, she told us it would be exactly as the midterm. I spent a majority of my time studying for the short answers and she ended up not giving any short answers. When she assigned the 8 page research paper and a group project, we all had many questions to ask her. When we would email her or ask her questions in person she would never give a straight answer. She would basically say I don't know. I found this class extremely boring, the reading load was heavy, the exams were difficult because she would not tell us one thing and give us another thing, and she was unhelpful. I do not recommend.
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