Professor
Magdalena Tarnawska Senel
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Winter 2024 - Doctor Tarnawska Senel is an amazing professor! She really cares about her students and is open to communication and feedback. Despite it being an asynchronous course, she communicated frequently and responded to emails quickly. When I asked about potential improvements to the course, she made them right away. The only problem that I had with this course was the the website used, BlinkLearning was very hard to use and had many bugs, making it difficult to use. Other than that, I really liked the class and the asynchronous format works pretty much as good as it can for a language learning class. The class was structured into three units per week, each unit consists of watching a mini lecture from the professor and then doing two large chunks of BlinkLearning assignments. On top of that each week you also have a discussion post and have to schedule a time to meet with a partner and record yourselves doing German activities. This class is easy in the sense that as long as you do the work, you should get an A. The exams are even allowed to be taken as many times as you want until you get a grade you are happy with. However it is a LOT of work. You have to actually be committed to learning the language, and understand that it takes a lot of time. The upside is that its asynchronous so despite being a lot of work, its flexible on when you have to do it, which is nice if your trying to fit this class into a specific spot in your schedule. Overall, I really enjoyed learning German and if you want to learn German this is a great class to do so! I would definitely recommend taking it!
Winter 2024 - Doctor Tarnawska Senel is an amazing professor! She really cares about her students and is open to communication and feedback. Despite it being an asynchronous course, she communicated frequently and responded to emails quickly. When I asked about potential improvements to the course, she made them right away. The only problem that I had with this course was the the website used, BlinkLearning was very hard to use and had many bugs, making it difficult to use. Other than that, I really liked the class and the asynchronous format works pretty much as good as it can for a language learning class. The class was structured into three units per week, each unit consists of watching a mini lecture from the professor and then doing two large chunks of BlinkLearning assignments. On top of that each week you also have a discussion post and have to schedule a time to meet with a partner and record yourselves doing German activities. This class is easy in the sense that as long as you do the work, you should get an A. The exams are even allowed to be taken as many times as you want until you get a grade you are happy with. However it is a LOT of work. You have to actually be committed to learning the language, and understand that it takes a lot of time. The upside is that its asynchronous so despite being a lot of work, its flexible on when you have to do it, which is nice if your trying to fit this class into a specific spot in your schedule. Overall, I really enjoyed learning German and if you want to learn German this is a great class to do so! I would definitely recommend taking it!
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Winter 2017 - Professor Magda is awesome. She is a more than well-qualified language instructor. She really knows how to help students grasp a new language in a short amount of time, in an enjoyable and non-stressful way. Her class is designed to encourage students to speak in German all the time; it can be a little intimidating at first, but you become familiar with the language so much more quickly. Professor Magda is never annoyed or critical when you make mistakes; instead, she always smiles and willingly corrects your mistakes. While she is a charismatic and competent instructor, she is also motherly and caring toward her students. She is always pleasant, diligent, and hard-working. German 2 with Professor Magda was rewarding and worthwhile. I also took German 1 with her and plan to take intermediate German with her as well!
Winter 2017 - Professor Magda is awesome. She is a more than well-qualified language instructor. She really knows how to help students grasp a new language in a short amount of time, in an enjoyable and non-stressful way. Her class is designed to encourage students to speak in German all the time; it can be a little intimidating at first, but you become familiar with the language so much more quickly. Professor Magda is never annoyed or critical when you make mistakes; instead, she always smiles and willingly corrects your mistakes. While she is a charismatic and competent instructor, she is also motherly and caring toward her students. She is always pleasant, diligent, and hard-working. German 2 with Professor Magda was rewarding and worthwhile. I also took German 1 with her and plan to take intermediate German with her as well!
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I absolutely love Magda, she is a wonderful professor in every meaning of the word. She cares and is more than happy to help outside of class with things both related and not related to the course, it's wonderful to have a professor who knows and cares so much. Her chosen texts for the course, although somewhat depressing, were very interesting and tied in well through documentaries and excerpt readings. My biggest complaint is she is slow to responding to emails, occasionally not responding at all. Aside from this she is very caring, and engaging during lectures.
I absolutely love Magda, she is a wonderful professor in every meaning of the word. She cares and is more than happy to help outside of class with things both related and not related to the course, it's wonderful to have a professor who knows and cares so much. Her chosen texts for the course, although somewhat depressing, were very interesting and tied in well through documentaries and excerpt readings. My biggest complaint is she is slow to responding to emails, occasionally not responding at all. Aside from this she is very caring, and engaging during lectures.
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