Professor
Robert Maniquis
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This professor is a true intellectual and he teaches you how to be one. Maniquis has forever changed the way I see the world. He doesn't do the banal way of teaching, which is to explicate a single work that you can get on Wikipedia as most professors do, instead, Maniquis asks you to take responsibility for your own education. He shows you what you need to do, that is, he tells you how to learn on your own. At first this is a lot of work--to look up every single word I do not understand to look up every term I am unfamiliar with but after a few weeks this method becomes invigorating. I am participating in my own learning! I am NOT just a downloading what the professor says. Maniquis is the best kind of education a person can get. His class structure gives you a construct that views the period of time in a cultural way--and you are free to research this on your own and he encourages you to do so and he tells you point blank that his is not he only way to view the period. You can do what he did and read all the original newspapers of the periods and all of the important writings of the period to see for yourself if you agree with him or not. He is fair grader. Work load is manageable. I think he is the best education. Take him he is BRILLIANT and he teaches you. There is an old proverb that says If a hungry man comes to you and you give him a fish you feed him for a day but if you teach him how to fish you feed him for a lifetime.
This professor is a true intellectual and he teaches you how to be one. Maniquis has forever changed the way I see the world. He doesn't do the banal way of teaching, which is to explicate a single work that you can get on Wikipedia as most professors do, instead, Maniquis asks you to take responsibility for your own education. He shows you what you need to do, that is, he tells you how to learn on your own. At first this is a lot of work--to look up every single word I do not understand to look up every term I am unfamiliar with but after a few weeks this method becomes invigorating. I am participating in my own learning! I am NOT just a downloading what the professor says. Maniquis is the best kind of education a person can get. His class structure gives you a construct that views the period of time in a cultural way--and you are free to research this on your own and he encourages you to do so and he tells you point blank that his is not he only way to view the period. You can do what he did and read all the original newspapers of the periods and all of the important writings of the period to see for yourself if you agree with him or not. He is fair grader. Work load is manageable. I think he is the best education. Take him he is BRILLIANT and he teaches you. There is an old proverb that says If a hungry man comes to you and you give him a fish you feed him for a day but if you teach him how to fish you feed him for a lifetime.
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Impressive, intelligent, intimidating, and understanding. What he has to say is both interesting and insightful. His lecture style is unique in that you'll often spend the entire time wondering when he'll start telling you something you should take notes on - he very much believes that you should be reading, interpreting, and learning the books on your own, so his lecture is an amalgam of his opinions, opinions of other scholars, historic background, and his favorite details. If you have trouble focusing in classes that provide no visual aides or clear structure, then you will definitely have trouble listening to his lectures. I took 108B; 50% of the grade was from a 7-12 page paper due finals week (he verbally gave us some rough ideas about topics in second week, but it was pretty much a free for all) and the other 50% of the grade was from a final (very predictable, he gave us ~110 terms ahead of hand and told us to expect 20 or so of them on the test, plus we were told in advance to "specialize" in a book of the bible of our choice that we would then answer an essay question about on the test). In my opinion, Maniquis organizes his class like every class should: it encourages students to explore their interests and learn and research on their own. However, when taking other traditional classes with more tests, assignments, quizzes, paper etc. this one kind of falls to back burner.
Impressive, intelligent, intimidating, and understanding. What he has to say is both interesting and insightful. His lecture style is unique in that you'll often spend the entire time wondering when he'll start telling you something you should take notes on - he very much believes that you should be reading, interpreting, and learning the books on your own, so his lecture is an amalgam of his opinions, opinions of other scholars, historic background, and his favorite details. If you have trouble focusing in classes that provide no visual aides or clear structure, then you will definitely have trouble listening to his lectures. I took 108B; 50% of the grade was from a 7-12 page paper due finals week (he verbally gave us some rough ideas about topics in second week, but it was pretty much a free for all) and the other 50% of the grade was from a final (very predictable, he gave us ~110 terms ahead of hand and told us to expect 20 or so of them on the test, plus we were told in advance to "specialize" in a book of the bible of our choice that we would then answer an essay question about on the test). In my opinion, Maniquis organizes his class like every class should: it encourages students to explore their interests and learn and research on their own. However, when taking other traditional classes with more tests, assignments, quizzes, paper etc. this one kind of falls to back burner.
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I had the pleasure of learning from Professor Maniquis twice in the '13-'14 school year. I took his English 111A class (Hebrew Bible) and his English 125 class (Violence in Lit.). His class is challenging in the best way. He requires a lot of reading, but is not too harsh when it comes to testing. The midterm and final are always incredibly fair; all of the information has been stressed and reviewed in class. The concepts I learned have been invaluable to my education at UCLA and I cannot stress how knowledgeable and kind Maniquis is. If you're interested in a quality education, be sure to sign up for one of his classes before you graduate.
I had the pleasure of learning from Professor Maniquis twice in the '13-'14 school year. I took his English 111A class (Hebrew Bible) and his English 125 class (Violence in Lit.). His class is challenging in the best way. He requires a lot of reading, but is not too harsh when it comes to testing. The midterm and final are always incredibly fair; all of the information has been stressed and reviewed in class. The concepts I learned have been invaluable to my education at UCLA and I cannot stress how knowledgeable and kind Maniquis is. If you're interested in a quality education, be sure to sign up for one of his classes before you graduate.
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