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Giulia Sissa
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This class was one of the most irritating classes I have taken in the Classics department. Her lectures were fairly decent and had some interesting points, but were often rather disorganized. She used power point (with a truly horrible color scheme, to make things worse), but tended to put way too much text on any given slide, and then neither cited the quotes she put on the slides nor posted the slides online. She also tried to save us money by assigning all the reading online; the translations available online though were not great, not to mention, it's an absolute pain to try to read hundreds of pages of text online. She would assign massive amounts of reading indiscriminately, without telling you what passages she wants you to focus on, and then sometimes did not even discuss entire texts (or test on them). Unfortunately, doing the reading is fairly necessary, since the two exams which make up your entire grade (there is no paper for the class) are comprised solely of passage IDs. She's not a terribly hard grader, but her class is more than painful enough to make up for that. I would not take another one of Sissa's classes, nor would I recommend her to anyone.
This class was one of the most irritating classes I have taken in the Classics department. Her lectures were fairly decent and had some interesting points, but were often rather disorganized. She used power point (with a truly horrible color scheme, to make things worse), but tended to put way too much text on any given slide, and then neither cited the quotes she put on the slides nor posted the slides online. She also tried to save us money by assigning all the reading online; the translations available online though were not great, not to mention, it's an absolute pain to try to read hundreds of pages of text online. She would assign massive amounts of reading indiscriminately, without telling you what passages she wants you to focus on, and then sometimes did not even discuss entire texts (or test on them). Unfortunately, doing the reading is fairly necessary, since the two exams which make up your entire grade (there is no paper for the class) are comprised solely of passage IDs. She's not a terribly hard grader, but her class is more than painful enough to make up for that. I would not take another one of Sissa's classes, nor would I recommend her to anyone.
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