Galen Leonhardy - Black Hawk College, Moline, IL

Professor: Galen Leonhardy

Department: English

College: Black Hawk College, Moline, IL

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENG101
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Leonhardy has you do a lot of work, but he grades on completion of the process. You have to revise after he assesses your work. You read a lot. Plus you have daily journal entries. It's a great class. I learned a lot because I had to revise.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: HUM101
• 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:

If you put effort into his class, he makes you a better person by making you think. You'll see the world and yourself through different eyes because he makes you ask "why" you and other people think, act, respond the way they do. He expects a lot of you, but you're better for it. He also, makes you a better writer by showing you different styles.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENG101
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Mr. Leonhardy is VERY knowledgeable. You do the assignment you get full points. The textbook is his journals and they are about 30 pages a journal, but interesting. Every time I needed help he replied to my emails very quickly! I popped up at his office unexpectedly, and he answered all my questions! VERY helpful and a great teacher.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENG091
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This guy is fantastic. At first I thought he was a nut, but as the semester went on I really learned to enjoy him. He's a very knowledgeable man and very understanding. He's very willing to help at all costs. Laid back, and adjusts the homework to fit the students needs. I would recommend him over and over again! Galen is AWESOME!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: E101
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The nicest teacher and the funniest! He has us cracking up while we are learning about rhetoric and our writing processes. I am really enjoying the class.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: EN101
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I had Leonhardy for both 091 and 101. He made it so I could write about things that interested me and things that were familiar to me. So we wrote about personal experiences. Then we started reading and connecting the reading to our personal experiences. Then we learned about argumentation and research writing. I wrote a lot and learned a lot.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: EN091
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He is super chill as long as you show up. If you turn decent work in on time you will get an A. He gave us in class time to go to the tutors so they could help us with our papers.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENG101
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He was the best professor I have ever had. He was incredibly accommodating to many circumstances, and always provided wonderful, constructive feedback. I wish he taught all the classes I have to take, his teaching style is remarkable.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: EN091
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

We did a collection, which required us to do a lot of revision. We completed sentence combining assignments and we did some grammar. Those assignments helped us talk about the revision we did in our writing. That helped me really understand what the tutors and the teacher were telling me. We wrote daily journals. Great class!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: EN101
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I have never read or written so much in my whole life! But it was worth it: Leonhardy read and commented on every assignment. He also required revision of just about every assignment. He is easy to work with and will help you get through the class, but you have to do all the work. Great learning environment!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: EN091
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Such an amazing professor! He got the chance to get to know each and every one of his students' he grades off of your effort. If you've done it or not! He's an overall amazing tecaher! I will be taking him again if I get the chance to.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENG102
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Leonhardy did a great job. Recommend any class he teaches

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: EN091
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I took three of Leonhardy's classes: 091, 101, and Humanities 101. I found that he provided tons of comments. For the 091 and the 101 we did almost all the work in class. I had a lot of work in every class he taught, but I learned about writing and thinking because of all that work. He's humorous, too. I use what he taught me at the U of Iowa.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: EN101
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

If you are the kind of student who takes an online class and expects your professor to answer a question at 11:30 at night, Leonhardy is the teacher for you. He is always available and has answered ever question I had for him. He is super polite and caring.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: HUM101
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This was my favorite class EVER at Black Hawk. Leonhardy really made the class more like experiencing an ongoing work of art--simply one of the best learning experiences I've ever had.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: E101
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The class is based on completion of assignments. The writing assignments are all submitted as drafts. He comments on the drafts, and then you revise. You keep a daily journal that you use for the last assignment. We wrote about things that mattered to us personally. Leonhardy helped me get published. That was fun.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENG101
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

His online English 101 is a great class. He commented on every draft. The workload is doable. It's a great summer class to take.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: HUM101ENG101
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Most insightful teacher I have ever known. I still live in the same city and run into him once in awhile. He really cracked the doors open for me in the world of academia. I was a really ( Insert negative adjective) writer, but not so much now.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: HUM101
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

His humanities class remains one of the most memorable and wonderfully engaging learning experiences of my educational experience. I'll never forget connecting Wendell Berry to Titanic to Bakhtin to labor history to Marx to feminist theory... as a first-year student. All of the sudden, I realized that power is real and that I could resist it.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: COMP101
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Leonhardy's lectures have stuck with me. There were times when the insight and kindness were so overwhelming. He helped me understand how testing can be used to oppress groups of people and how it's really hard to stand up to people who are sadistic. I like how he does not grade on product but instead focuses on process. I think writing is fun.