Lynda Koolish - San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Professor: Lynda Koolish

Department: Literature

College: San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENGL601
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Prof. Koolish is extremely intelligent, open, honest, and passionate about literature and life. You cannot take this class and just skim over the surface--you will become engaged. You will work hard. This has been an outstanding experience.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENGL526
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Wonderful, eye-opening class. Very passionate professor who truly knows about the material she teaches. NOT an easy class: prepare to work hard! Also be prepared to be "taken down a notch" when you receive paper feedback, but it'll improve your writing overall. You'll learn so much that, if you like poetry, you'll enjoy the class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENG725
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Has a great deal of poetry knowledge. Is passionate about sharing this. Yet is scatter-brained/unprepared, makes excuses why she doesn't have midterm papers graded yet, then when she does grade them, writes insulting, informal comments if paper doesn't meet her "publishable" expectations. Annoying: she brings her personal issues into the clasroom.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENG7XX
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Prof. Koolish was my favorite professor at San Diego State. I was there for a MA in American Lit. She is a fantastic professor who knows how to break down barriers and enlighten students. She is a mind opening professor. If she ever teaches again, don't leave SDSU without taking a course from her. Highly recommended professor.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENGLLIT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Sounds like a cliche when I say it, but literally life changing classes I took from her. I owe much of my adult consciousness to Prof. Koolish and consider her a must for anyone open to learning in a deeply heartfelt way. Very dedicated, very personable, a true joy to learn from. And I'm still learning.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENG526
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Brilliant, caring, opinionated, and deeply passionate about social and cultural issues and justices/injustices. A wonderful human being! However, there are times when she seems to be carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENGL606A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A brilliant and passionate professor with varied interests--both creative and academic. I learned a good deal from reading selections and class discussions. Dr. Koolish is giving, selfless, and incredibly willing to work with her students. In my two years at SDSU, her class was, without a doubt, one of the most informative and enjoyable.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENG526
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This class should have been great, contemporary american lit. - my favorite kind. Well, she killed it for me. Uses class sessions as her therapy sessions, goes off on tangents CONSTANTLY ranting about politics and religion. Stay after class and talk to her you find she's actually pretty nice one-on-one, but I still dreaded class every week.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENGL601
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Better title for this course: ANYTHING WRITTEN BY ANYONE WHO IS NOT WHITE, NOT A CHRISTIAN, NOT A HETRO-SEXUAL, OR NOT REPUBLIAN! Just another socialist professor adrift on a democratic sea. Mostly, she WANTS you to LIKE her and if an A is what it takes, it's an A you'll get, no matter the quality of your classwork. Against the war? THAT = an A+++

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENGL525
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

One of the WORST selections of US literature of the last half of the 20th century (only worse selection was Maggie Jaffe's for the same class). Class should be, retitled: Favorite books I read between 1960 to 2000 (though I may not have actually read them all, many are on my favorite subject matter, feminist sex). NO successful mainstream writers!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENGSECT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

ethnic lit. bummer.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENG519
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I took Dr. K for an Ethnic Lit class- she gave us all the opportunity to explore writing by African American, Native American, Asian American, Latino literature etc and all the writing that generally gets ignored in the "canon"- (not my canon)- Dr. K is passionate about the issues of justice and racism in a way that is needed in this world- do your

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 606
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Koolish is a brilliant, passionate, and hard-working scholar. She returns essays in an extremely timely manner with useful criticism. She is a woman who takes her job seriously. If you're close-minded, don't take her class; however, if you're willing to step outside your comfort zone, then take everything she teaches. She has much to offe

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENG520
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Seems to be unhapppy about something.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENGLSH
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

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Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENG520
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

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Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENG526
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great class. Every professor should be more like Lynda. Class was tough, but enjoyable. She is passionate for her work and very, very intelligent. Take her class!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: 519
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The most knowledgable and passionate english professor you will find at sdsu. Grades hard but gives you a chance to go over the paper with her early. Liberal and refreshing course material. She pushes you to think but never in a condescending way.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: AMLIT1950PRES
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Fifteen years later, she still stands out as the worst professor I had in the English Dept. She was just as oversensitive and hypochondriacal then. She said on the first day of that class, "The only good writing since 1950 has been by lesbian poets." I'm gay and I thought that was the same narrow-mined horseshit she accused everyone else of.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENGGRADUATE
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very unethical, very insecure. Uses other's materials. Is one of the reasons why tenure should be abolished. Is indeed a HUGE member of disease-of-the-moth club. Her personal illnesses were topics of class discussions and this was a graduate class. Shows what SDSU is all about!