Professor: Allison Futrell
Department: History
College: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: HIST404A
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Every day of class is the same - she throws out hundreds of terms and phrases with very little context. Clearly knows a lot about her field, if you're deep into research on Roman History she could be a good choice. Very poor grading, nothing returned until very late in the semester.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: HIST404A
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I think she is a terrific teacher -- informative, animated, substantive and entertaining. Enormous reading load, but you're dealing with original sources, not later interpretations or syntheses. Biggest caveat: In my course, grades were VERY late in coming, so it was difficult to get a clear picture how I was doing.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: HIST404B
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Futrell knows Roman history really well, and is extremely enthusiastic about the gladiatorial arena. She assigns a few papers, but you won't get the grades back until the end of the semester, if at all. There is a lot of reading for the class, but most of it isn't used. She gives an extremely comprehensive study guide for the midterm and final!
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: HIS404B
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She knows her stuff and gets really into lecture, especially on the gladiator material. Be prepared to read because you will be expected to know and use the readings on the papers and the tests.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: HIST404A
- 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:
Classics is my world, and the workload is completely acceptable, although a bit extreme. But, despite Futrell's interesting lectures, she is unprofessional. I didn't receive a single grade in the class until the last month of the semester. She is never clear about anything and you will never know what she wants because you will never get feedback.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: HISTHIST
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Expert in field; terrible teacher. Class is info. dump, no context. Expectations on assignments, like grading are indecipherable. Needlessly long reading assignments; half the info. is unused. Girls seem to do better than guys. This is what happens when academics aren't required to have an education background as well. Skip this teacher.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: HIST404B
- 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:
Wonderful class, I would just say be on your game. There are three tests and one paper. Not too hard, alot of reading,but if you like Ancient Rome then this is the class for you. Teacher is helpful when go to office hours.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: HIST205
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lectures are good, readings are loooong.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: CLAS255
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Futrell isn't the easiest professor, but she certainly is one of the better ones. Her knowledge of Rome is astounding and she conveys it with a passion that grabbed my interest. I became a serious Roman history buff after taking this class. However, her exams are rather difficult and she assigns way too much reading...but still recommended.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: ROMANHISTORY
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
It is impossible to fully grasp what she wants on the papers and she is seriously unclear about what you lose points for on exams. I would avoid this class
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: HIST510
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great lectures, good use of visual primary sources. She has a very sophisticated understanding of Roman history...its not just a Roman history class, but a very good, very high level, lively interaction with ancient Rome. Highly recommended. Reading and exams are what you should expect. Its college.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: HISTORY404A
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: HIST404B
- 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:
So fun! The classes were entertaining and she is so passionate about th subject of Rome :D
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: HIST404
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- 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: HIST205
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- 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: HIST255
- 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:
Expert on Ancient Rome
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