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I Savodnik

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Easiness 1.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 1.0 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 2.4 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 3.4 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Feb. 12, 2009
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Really bad class. Tough to suffer through. He made us buy 12 books, and we only every opened 5 of them! I think pretty much everyone got an A though, although there was no grade breakdown on the syllabus.

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Oct. 29, 2008
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Difficult. Soooo much reading. Lectures are incredibly dense. You will be writing so fast that your hand will hurt and you will still miss half of what he says. He is a caring professor, but he expects A LOT!!!

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Dec. 15, 2008
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This class was horrible. While the assigned readings were interesting, there were too many of them. The professor was unable to cover all the texts he assigned. When he did lecture about a reading, he never actually linked it to the overall theme of pyschoanalysis. Furthermore, he tends to go on long, irrelevant tangents about a variety of topics and is always late to class, yet he would have continued class beyond the end point if students and the TA had not stopped him. His midterm was take-home, but his instructions were contradictory. At first, he and the TA said they did not want quoting of the sources; then he took off points if the sources weren't quoted.

His final was also take-home, and was incredibly difficult. 3/4 of an essay question pertained to a book that he had neither mentioned during lecture nor assigned for reading. Even the TA had no clue what he'd been thinking.

Overall, the class was a lot of work and a waste of time. It sounds interesting, but you learn no more from taking the class than you would if you had decided to read all the texts during the summer. I do not recommend Honors Collegium 121 at all.

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Feb. 12, 2009

Really bad class. Tough to suffer through. He made us buy 12 books, and we only every opened 5 of them! I think pretty much everyone got an A though, although there was no grade breakdown on the syllabus.

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HNRS 121
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Oct. 29, 2008

Difficult. Soooo much reading. Lectures are incredibly dense. You will be writing so fast that your hand will hurt and you will still miss half of what he says. He is a caring professor, but he expects A LOT!!!

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HNRS 121
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Dec. 15, 2008

This class was horrible. While the assigned readings were interesting, there were too many of them. The professor was unable to cover all the texts he assigned. When he did lecture about a reading, he never actually linked it to the overall theme of pyschoanalysis. Furthermore, he tends to go on long, irrelevant tangents about a variety of topics and is always late to class, yet he would have continued class beyond the end point if students and the TA had not stopped him. His midterm was take-home, but his instructions were contradictory. At first, he and the TA said they did not want quoting of the sources; then he took off points if the sources weren't quoted.

His final was also take-home, and was incredibly difficult. 3/4 of an essay question pertained to a book that he had neither mentioned during lecture nor assigned for reading. Even the TA had no clue what he'd been thinking.

Overall, the class was a lot of work and a waste of time. It sounds interesting, but you learn no more from taking the class than you would if you had decided to read all the texts during the summer. I do not recommend Honors Collegium 121 at all.

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