Professor: Larry Scanlon
Department: English
College: Rutgers - State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: CHAUC101
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I was a little hesitation to taking this class since reading Middle English can be somewhat difficult sometimes. Im telling you I skipped class 5 times, did the minimum of reading (summaries on the internet occasionally), got Bs on my papers and still got an A! Awesome guy, super easy lectures to understand. Take this class
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: ENGL306
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
You must take him for Chaucer. He has a powerful voice and speaks with logic, precision, and detail. It is so lucid. Someone said that he's arrogant and condescending. Not at all. The man is giving you a gift by being so bold, frank, and precise. You have no idea how truly considerate and benevolent that is.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: ENGL201
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I love his class on poetry analysis and think he's an extremely intelligent professor. All poems can be found online as well so don't buy the book.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: ENGL201
- Grade Received: B+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Scanlon gave us a decent introduction to poetry analysis. It's hard to get accustomed to literature analysis. I recommend recording his talks so you can listen to them again and again. He is straight forward but it takes time and effort to adjust to this mode of thinking.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: MEDROM
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I don't think Scanlon is as bad as everyone says he is. Fair grader and if you put work into the course you will do fine. Attendance is "mandatory" but he only takes it every few lectures. I didn't have to go gung-ho last year in this class, but still managed to get an A.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: MEDROMANCE
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I got an A in this course, but I don't feel like I learned anything. The professor seemed nice on the surface. However, he was a huge scatterbrain and his lectures often went on long rants about minor details. Take this class if you have to, otherwise please don't. Most of my classmates did awful in this course, he has a specific grading style.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: MEDROM
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This was honestly the worst class I have ever taken and it has nothing to do with the course itself. The lectures were great but often times the professor would cancel the class last minute, change assignments or just never grade your exams. I, as well as many others, still don't have a grade for my last semester from him. It's almost February.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: CHAUC101
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
very nice professor. helpful. a little scattered at times, but he makes it up to you by doing things like canceling the final if he realizes theres not enough time ect. very reasonable prof. as well as grader. :)
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: CHAUC321
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
extremely unorganized, but papers aren't difficult. Canterbury tales are the only thing covered. No theory or background info given on the text. Lectures are a bore, but he is apparently "a very busy parent" [like no one else is who teaches...] so he is rather disjunctive. 3papers. He canceled the final exam. You get pizza on the last day. Eh class
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: ENGMED
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very good class.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: ENGL101
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Worst class and worst professor I've ever experienced. Incoherent, arrogant, insecure, condescending. There's nothing I learned in this class that I couldn't have picked up from reading the books by themselves. In short: a waste of time. Buyer beware.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: MEDCL400
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
b/c a 400 level seminar, material was hard but he knew that class was not experts and did not expext us to be interested in medieval lit and culture. very fair grader, a little out there but if you just do the VERY FEW assignments and hand in last paper. he's very laid back and understanding
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: CHAUCSEM
- 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:
boring you want to kill yourself. I had Chaucer in high school and couldn't wait to take a course in college. HS was better, we learned something about the middle ages. The one good thing is that its an easy A.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: SEMINARCHAUCER
- 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:
This professor is a real gentleman. It is entirely possible to do well in his class because he makes himself so available to help students, even in his rather large classes. I wish all my instructors at Rutgers had been as considerate. He entertains every question or comment--never makes a student feel like an idiot. He was awsome.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: CULTMIDDLEAGE
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Really odd man teaching a curveball of a class. Yet it was entertaining and pretty easy. Translation quizzes were simple. The key to this class, however, is to take the exams. They are long and require a decent amount of studying but they come with a massive curve and a nice study guide as well. Plus he likes monty python, you can't beat that.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: MIDDLEAGES
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He has a tendancy to get off the topic sometimes, but more often than not, his lectures were interesting. Translation quizzes were easy and papers weren't too long.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: CULTUREOFMID
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He was very unhelpful and doesn't tell you what he expects of the essays. On the first one, I got an A and the second one I got a C. When you ask him for help he disappears. Apparently, medievalists are very busy living in their parent's basements doing jack****.
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: MIDAGES
- 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:
This guy talkes in circles! If you're used to a teahcer who spells it out- he doesn't. Class is actually about sex in bible and other works. VERY boring-most ppl sleep or don't show up. Option to do papers or midterm & final. Mini translation quizes in mid eng. Don't know how you're doing- hands back everything weeks later than when you did it.
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: CHAUCER
- 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:
his lectures are funny, interesting, and sometimes very moving. i was not looking forward to this class and i loved it. considering his quizzes are simple translations and papers get proofread by other students AS WELL AS the prof. and TA you have to be an idiot to do badly.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: CHAUCER
- 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:
not to bad...he's a good guy and lectures are a bit boring he's very understanding and approachable
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