Professor Jaurretche is a very caring and passionate professor. She obviously knew tons about the texts that we covered and led really interesting discussions. We would usually read one book or play each week, in addition to supplemental historical reading. There are no pop quizzes or anything so you don’t have to stress too much about falling behind. Your grade is based on research projects/essays. The one downside of this class is that there was only one meeting each week so we didn’t get to dive very deeply into any of the materials by analyzing them for, say, two days. That being said, I feel like I truly learned so much about Irish history and culture through this class, not to mention literature. If any of those things interest you, I would highly recommend this class.

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Grades breakdown goes like: 15% participation (attendance are taken); 25% group annotation project; 20% annotated bibliography (preparation for your final paper); 40% 10-pages final paper. Coursework gets busier toward the second half of the quarter, as that's when assignments are due. For most of the weeks you are just reading novels/plays, which isn't at all like "works" if you love reading. The lectures are discussions of the texts you read led by Professor Jaurretche essentially. Some of the texts include Dracula, Juno and the Paycock, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, portions of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Yeats' poems, and Waiting for Godot. Professor Jaurretche is knowledgeable and kind and reachable.

I took this class to satisfy my Writing I. I honestly enjoyed this class as Professor Jaurretche created a comfortable and open class (zoom) environment. All the readings and assignments were readily accessible on CCLE which made it easy to access materials. She assigns a lot of readings which vary in length. She also assigns discussion questions based on the readings where we would discuss them in class. Usually 1-2 students would voluntarily share their responses to the class, and we suggest edits as a class. In total, she assigned us 3 essays. 2/3 were apart of a research project that she assigns later in the quarter. The longest paper was the research paper which was 7-8 pages of writing. She grades "conference-style" where you'll hop onto a zoom meeting with her for ~10 minutes (or less) and she'll read your essay, provide feedback, and gives you a letter grade. Scary in the beginning, but SO relieving once you finish. Her grading style is very fair. Overall a great class and professor!

Unlike other writing classes with fixed topics, Professor Jaurretche revolves her style around Los Angeles, allowing the course to cater to students' interests. The topic is fascinating, so I enjoyed the class a lot. The class started with the background and history of Los Angeles and required students to explore Los Angeles River as a group, then write about their observations. Then, you will focus more on your research paper on any topics you are interested in. Afterward, you will be assigned to a group (based on your personal paper's interest) to use the library's artifacts in crafting your final group paper and presentation. Lastly, you will have the final essay on the readings due in the last class period.

In terms of workload, it is reasonable but could be overwhelming for people not used to intensive reading and writing classes. The number of assignments in total could be a lot relative to other writing classes, with short reading reflections, one annotated bibliography, three individual papers, one group paper, and one group presentation. Professor Jaurretche is a sweet person, and I do not think she is a harsh grader from my experiences. She gave a lot of helpful comments for improving my essay, and she is very responsive, so it is easy to contact her. Overall, I enjoyed this class and would recommend it to anyone who wants to take Writing I to take it with her.

The professor definitely appreciates showing interest. Class was mostly centered on editing draft work as a whole class, which is not the worst pedagogical approach, but does require students to resist embarrassment. When I took the class, it was themed around the National Park system, and the readings ranged from uninteresting to feeling vaguely racist.

Whatever Professor you go with, English Composition 3 is a class where you will have to write. The topic of your writing, however, varies wildly by Professor. Professor Jaurretche is great but the topic she chose for us, National Parks, was boring as hell (for me). To this day, I still cannot believe I wrote a 7 page paper on the history of Yosemite; how I persevered through that much drudgery I will never know. If National Parks fascinate you, then Professor Jaurretche's English Composition 3 is a must; if National Parks don't fascinate you, then you may want to look for another section. That being said, if you do find yourself stranded in the nature, as I did, rest assured -- you will survive. You may even come to appreciate the fruits.

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I enjoyed Mrs. Jaurretche's class because of her passion for the course's theme, which was National Parks. The class introduced me to various places that I now plan to visit in the future; if you are interested in doing a deep dive into their formation I would recommend this course.

I loved her, but I have some friends who are less enthusiastic. She picks some very hard material for the course, but her explanations about the meaning and the context of the work are extremely clear and helpful. My only problem is that she often sends out writing prompts the day before it is due, and it's really annoying to open up your email late at night and find yourself with last minute homework. But overall, I would definitely take again.

I was one of the few people in my discussion who genuinely enjoyed attending lecture. She's adorable and a bit eccentric and quite clearly adores teaching. Her lectures tend to be quite lacking in structure, and many of my peers had difficulty ascertaining what exactly they should be taking notes on. My advice would be to make a note of which passages she discusses, as well as paying attention to the important historical contexts or styles/literary devices/themes that she points out.

She is, for the most part, extremely approachable, considerate, and kind. If your paper is randomly chosen to be graded by her, she will be a bit harsh and leave at most two comments. However, you will have 3 short essays (4 pages!) to prove yourself, and the first one will only count 10% of your grade. I found it most helpful to hound my TA when planning my essays.

There is no midterm, and the final is graded more kindly than the essays are. Our final had (if I'm remembering correctly) 17 ID terms, and you only needed to correctly identify 15 of them, with the full title and the writer's full name. There is poetry explication, and then a final long essay in which you are given two "big ideas" and you pick one to write about.

It's definitely very helpful to keep up with the reading, but I'll admit that I fell behind on most of the longer works. Reading detailed summaries and taking really good lecture notes will carry you through just fine.

I really did enjoy this class, though ultimately the most electrifying lecture had been given by one of the TAs. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend taking 10C with Jaurretche!

The amount of reading Professor Jaurretche assigned for this class for absolutely insane. I would find it hard to believe that anyone is the class was able to complete all the readings in full (and she expected you to read them twice no less).

They also made no sense, we were skipping around between authors with no connection (or a rough connection) and I was often really lost between lectures as she provided little to no background info on the works or the genre or literary eras we were covering.

She wasn't terrible, she provided really in-depth lectures on literary style and techniques, but the 10 series, especially 10C should really have a focus on contextualizing pieces of literature and she ultimately failed entirely to do so, really just giving us a historical overview on Ireland in the 19th century.

Also, her essay feedback is legitimately awful. She gave me a B on my paper with no comments other than "I thought this was well-written and well-organized, but this is not the argument I would have made," which is completely antithetical to the goals of literary analysis.

Would highly recommend not taking a 10 series class with her, but maybe a writing class would be okay.