Professor
Richard Ellis
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Fall 2025 - Absolutely wonderful professor, great experience, and made learning Greek interesting and fun. He genuinely cares about students. It's a lot of information... but that's just like any new language when you start learning. I wish I could take every Greek class with him. I enjoyed it so much!
Fall 2025 - Absolutely wonderful professor, great experience, and made learning Greek interesting and fun. He genuinely cares about students. It's a lot of information... but that's just like any new language when you start learning. I wish I could take every Greek class with him. I enjoyed it so much!
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Fall 2025 - I took this class because I was admittedly looking for a relatively low effort GE, and it turned out to not be the case. Besides readings of various plays and the Odyssey, the readings are extremely dense, dry, and hard to get to, and unless you're extremely interested in the subject matter, you're not likely to be motivated to do them. Additionally, lectures are simply the professor talking at you, although I will say I like the way he organizes his lectures, because they lack active engagement from the students it was hard to pay attention to. The majority of your grade (35%) is made up of a group project, and in hindsight I wish I had consulted with my TA before submitting it. The midterm was fair, and I got a high A with only a couple days of preparation, and the same goes for the final. My biggest issue with this class, and what makes me not recommend it is the fact that full section participation, and full marks on all in class writing assignments are equivalent to a 95% and not a 100%. Although this may seem trivial, when it comes down to final grades, this unnecessary loss of points results in a 2% lower grade than one would have if full credit was rightfully graded as a 100%, which could be the difference between an A and A-.
Fall 2025 - I took this class because I was admittedly looking for a relatively low effort GE, and it turned out to not be the case. Besides readings of various plays and the Odyssey, the readings are extremely dense, dry, and hard to get to, and unless you're extremely interested in the subject matter, you're not likely to be motivated to do them. Additionally, lectures are simply the professor talking at you, although I will say I like the way he organizes his lectures, because they lack active engagement from the students it was hard to pay attention to. The majority of your grade (35%) is made up of a group project, and in hindsight I wish I had consulted with my TA before submitting it. The midterm was fair, and I got a high A with only a couple days of preparation, and the same goes for the final. My biggest issue with this class, and what makes me not recommend it is the fact that full section participation, and full marks on all in class writing assignments are equivalent to a 95% and not a 100%. Although this may seem trivial, when it comes down to final grades, this unnecessary loss of points results in a 2% lower grade than one would have if full credit was rightfully graded as a 100%, which could be the difference between an A and A-.
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