I LOVE THIS PROFESSOR! He does his job exceptionally well. I'm not sure why people are writing negative comments for the 10A class since he does his JOB... PERIOD. He assigns texts, plenty, and then tells us which he will discuss. He thoroughly covers all material in the selected texts from characters, symbols, plots, and analysis. On his tests, ALL THE QUESTION are specifically made to cover material he has touched upon in class. In fact, for passage identification, all the passages were previous ones which he spent at least 10/15 minutes upon. He is funny,WAKE UP PEOPLE! He makes fun of all works and genres but to GET THE JOKES<<< ONE MUST BE MENTALLY PRESENT! I wouldn't mind taking him again for any other subject or class. He has a great temper, not biased, he's open to talk to, he replies to your emails, he's extremely polite and concerned/caring, and he's fair. When he was late handing out our first paper, he pushed the deadline by a week. For the second, he granted us 2 extra days because we felt stressed out.
His TAs... I think most people had a problem with the TA but blamed it on the teacher. If your TA sucks, yea, you might get a bad grade. You can try and switch from one section to the other but, anyways, besides the point.+I think if you can take GREAT notes, you will get at least a B+. Studying for the midterm, everything I took was from my notes. I didn't re-read all the passages (like some idiots who still got Cs), I looked at my notes, looked at the pages he had focused upon, and got an A+.
Overall, since he is required for all ENGL majors, he is SO WORTH TAKING!