Melissa Dabakis - Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Professor: Melissa Dabakis

Department: Art History

College: Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ARHS226
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Love her. She is brilliant and engaged, happy to talk about subject and offer clear help/advice. High expectations, but brings out the best work you can achieve. I'm so thankful to have had her.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ARHS230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Prof. Dabakis is a powerhouse. You'll be hard-pressed to find an art history professor with a greater range and depth of knowledge--she lectures as engagingly on 18th c American painting as on radical modern movements. Beneath a professional exterior, you'll find stores of warmth and wit for students who share her love of the field.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ARHS111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Took my first art history class with her to fulfill art requirement. Because of that class I decided to become an art history major. She made the material so interesting, bringing the complexity that goes into learning about history and art history into one coherent and manageable whole. No-nonsense. But a warm, bright, professional professor.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ARHS230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Is the ultimate art history professor. Super interdisciplinary in nature, fair, insightful, engaging, funny at times. Super straight-forward and organized. Overall great.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ARHS226
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

One of Kenyon's most important resources. Refreshingly smart. Gives great lectures, leads discussions into depth (away from the arbitrary comments of art history students. ) She can be quite funny, and is actually warm and understanding. Treats you like an adult and expects you to act like one. Some people shy away from her no-nonsense demeanor.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: AMST109
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Absolutely fantastic! Knowledgable and interesting, Professor Dubakis is a great professor. Can seem a bit cold at first, but as soon as you make the effort to go to her office hours, she'll be a friend for life. She convinced me to take an art history minor when I originally had no interest! Can't wait to take another class with her!

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: AMST109
• 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:

What an amazing art history professor! One of the best at Kenyon. She is extremely clear in explaining the historical context of art work and its artistic importance. She is very clear in what she expects from her her students and is a fair grader. She is very organized, friendly, and makes art history captivating.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ARHS111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

You better love art, because you won't love her. Routinely mispronounces seminal artistic names and locales; doesn't really care if you're interested. No discussion of theory or theme, just pure factual memorization. Snore.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ARHS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Easily the worst teacher that I have ever had in my entire life. Grading seemed to be based on how much she likes you. Very stuck up, in fact, I haven't another teacher here who was so stuck up on themselves. Awful awful awful.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ARHS102
• 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:

horrible! i had to drop it after a week. definitely not an easy class just to fulfill a requirement. good nap time though.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ARHS102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Absolutely awful. Unless you're an art history major, doesn't care about you. Probably the worst teacher I've had at Kenyon.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ART101
• 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:

No Comments

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 112
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

not good

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ARTHIST
• 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:

No Comments

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ARHS110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ARHS
• 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:

Less scary than she seems. Amazingly passionate about her work, and expects passion from students, too.

Rating # 17

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Dabakis is one of the few professors at Kenyon who has high standards for her students. She won't let you get by with BS and that is what sets her apart from other ARHS professors at the school. Interesting lecturer.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ARHS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

loves anybody who is actually interested and not there to just get credit