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 thinking it would be a low effort/ easy GE, well little did I know i was getting catfished by the 1 review from 2014! This class isn't necessarily hard, but its a lot of work. Ellis assigns SO much reading between every class (which I never read and had chatgpt summarize for me) and his lectures are just not that interesting, along with the fact that they're at 9 am. Luckily, they aren't mandatory and they're recorded so only around 1/3 of the class shows up, which made me kind of sad bc Ellis is so wholesome and you can tell he's so passionate about the topics (God knows how he knows all this). Honestly I'd zone out for like 30 seconds somewhere in the middle and and end up completely lost and just scroll on my phone for the rest of class. The midterm was unfortunately on Halloween and I spent 3/4 hours the night before memorizing 80 photos from his slides of random pots, artifacts, and landmarks before giving up on studying for the text ID and critical response portions. Fortunately, I finessed an A after using chat gpt to summarize every one of the texts he made us read. The critical responses are in discussion section around every 2 weeks and pretty easy to bullshit. I only read the summaries for each of the texts and lowk knew nothing, but my TA was a very generous grader so I got all check pluses (note that these only translate to 95/100 in the grade book even though it's the best grade you can get on them). The Plotting a Polis project definitely depends on your group, but as long as you put in effort you should get a good grade. I think I probably only spent 3-4 hours on my section. Since I never paid attention in class I studied hella for the final, but we were allowed a cheat sheet. Studying for this class made me crash out because it covers so much (useless) content that I'll never need to know again, but overall I feel like this isn't the worst GE you can take, its just definitely not the free GE I thought it would be.
Fall 2025 - I took this class thinking it would be a low effort/ easy GE, well little did I know i was getting catfished by the 1 review from 2014! This class isn't necessarily hard, but its a lot of work. Ellis assigns SO much reading between every class (which I never read and had chatgpt summarize for me) and his lectures are just not that interesting, along with the fact that they're at 9 am. Luckily, they aren't mandatory and they're recorded so only around 1/3 of the class shows up, which made me kind of sad bc Ellis is so wholesome and you can tell he's so passionate about the topics (God knows how he knows all this). Honestly I'd zone out for like 30 seconds somewhere in the middle and and end up completely lost and just scroll on my phone for the rest of class. The midterm was unfortunately on Halloween and I spent 3/4 hours the night before memorizing 80 photos from his slides of random pots, artifacts, and landmarks before giving up on studying for the text ID and critical response portions. Fortunately, I finessed an A after using chat gpt to summarize every one of the texts he made us read. The critical responses are in discussion section around every 2 weeks and pretty easy to bullshit. I only read the summaries for each of the texts and lowk knew nothing, but my TA was a very generous grader so I got all check pluses (note that these only translate to 95/100 in the grade book even though it's the best grade you can get on them). The Plotting a Polis project definitely depends on your group, but as long as you put in effort you should get a good grade. I think I probably only spent 3-4 hours on my section. Since I never paid attention in class I studied hella for the final, but we were allowed a cheat sheet. Studying for this class made me crash out because it covers so much (useless) content that I'll never need to know again, but overall I feel like this isn't the worst GE you can take, its just definitely not the free GE I thought it would be.
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