ENGL 119
Literary Cities: Literary Dublin: In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Exploration of place of literary imagination in making of cities, with focus on questions of cultural exchange, development, migration, urban rebellion, and style. Topics may include meaning of urban space and time, city as urban village or cosmopolitan hub, segregated dystopia or postmodern future, and impact of exile, tourism, and migration in making of cities. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2025 - The professor I genuinely passionate about what she teaches; however, her lectures were not entertaining at all. Her lectures are roughly 2 hours and attendance is mandatory. She calls roster at the beginning of every class and it counts towards your participation class. The midterm consisted of identifying authors and short answers. She literally gives you one sentence and expects you to know where it's from and who wrote it out of the multiple readings she assigns. The reading load was heavy and she will ask about each reading in the midterm and the final. For the final, she told us it would be exactly as the midterm. I spent a majority of my time studying for the short answers and she ended up not giving any short answers. When she assigned the 8 page research paper and a group project, we all had many questions to ask her. When we would email her or ask her questions in person she would never give a straight answer. She would basically say I don't know. I found this class extremely boring, the reading load was heavy, the exams were difficult because she would not tell us one thing and give us another thing, and she was unhelpful. I do not recommend.
Fall 2025 - The professor I genuinely passionate about what she teaches; however, her lectures were not entertaining at all. Her lectures are roughly 2 hours and attendance is mandatory. She calls roster at the beginning of every class and it counts towards your participation class. The midterm consisted of identifying authors and short answers. She literally gives you one sentence and expects you to know where it's from and who wrote it out of the multiple readings she assigns. The reading load was heavy and she will ask about each reading in the midterm and the final. For the final, she told us it would be exactly as the midterm. I spent a majority of my time studying for the short answers and she ended up not giving any short answers. When she assigned the 8 page research paper and a group project, we all had many questions to ask her. When we would email her or ask her questions in person she would never give a straight answer. She would basically say I don't know. I found this class extremely boring, the reading load was heavy, the exams were difficult because she would not tell us one thing and give us another thing, and she was unhelpful. I do not recommend.
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