Nicole Batchelor - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Professor: Nicole Batchelor

Department: English

College: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENGL011
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Really cares about her students, but you definitely have to put in the time on papers to get a good grade especially if writing is not your strong suit. Let's you revise alot of papers at the end of the semester to get a better grade which is nice.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENG11
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Nicole Batchelor is one of the best professors i've ever had. She gives AMAZING feedback and you will get an A on every paper if you work for it and work closely with the advice she gives to you. She's always willing to help you with your paper and her class revolves around film and music videos. You will definitely learn how to be a better writer.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENG01
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She's done so much for me. More than any prof at Lehigh. She made sure I got the help I needed and is helping me now when I don't know what I want to do. She asked me tough questions and pushed me when I needed it and didn't want it. She listened when I needed it too.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENG002
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She cares if you succeed outside of her class. Wrote me best rec for a program abroad that changed my life. Program is super competitive so the rec had to be great. Took time to do it while teaching a lot. She is just a good person and a great teacher.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENG1
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She knows what matters. She cares about students a lot, but she isn't a pushover. Gives lots of feedback, and she is available to meet often. Lets students choose what they want to write about but some limits. Will ask you to follow up and explain answers and encourages talking ideas out.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENGL02
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She teaches the material well, takes attendance every day, and participation matters. Very tough grader though, so make sure you put a lot of time and effort into your papers. Classes were usually pretty interesting, but there was a pretty decent amount of homework.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENGL002
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Great professor, especially if you aren't the reading type like myself. Course material includes movies and even video games. Definitely participate in class when possible. Quite responsive and sends lots of reminders for assignments through emails.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENG001
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Wonderful prof! Is understanding when you are sick and offers extensions. Encourages you to participate a lot. Asks questions to keep you thinking. Always willing to meet to help with papers. She is kind but strict too. Lost family this year but still there for me and everyone even when she looks tired and sad.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENG1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She offers a lot of feedback; you can see she really values ideas not discussed in class or like only half discussed in class. She likes to see you add to the conversation. And she will write fair enough in the margins which I thought meant "ok" but really means she gets your point. Encourages you to submit stuff to contests which is nice.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENG001
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Batchelor is a highly skilled English professor. She grades with high expectations and isn't afraid to hand out criticism, but that's a good thing as it motivates you to improve. You really have to work to get the grade you want (what you give is what you get), but it makes you a better reader and writer. Highly recommend; she's truly the best!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: EN320
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I had Dr. Batchelor for intro to fiction a couple of years ago, and last semester I asked her to look at my medical school materials. She agreed to do it even though I wasn't currently a student. She is doing it again this semester for other apps. She gave amazing feedback last semester and now. I am happy to say that I got into UPenn! Thanks doc!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENGL02
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Flexible with deadlines if you ask politely ahead of time and she is nice. She is considerate of students. Gives lots of feedback and lets us revise papers to try to earn a better grade. don't know how she does it. She's been helping her sister recover from car accident but it hasn't kept from helping us. She is really consistent.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 002
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

I earned a C+ from her. I totally deserved it. I went from straight A's in highschool to basically Cs & Ds in college. It was hard for me to admit that I wasn't ready for college. She helped a lot. Fortunately, I had the good fortunate to have her again. I earned a B+. Even better, with her help I won a writing award.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENG001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She was very clear on what she expected during class and with assignments. I don't really like English, but I actually really liked her class because she was easy to understand. She was very helpful with assignments if you asked for help, and gave you a lot of feedback on it as well. I would definitely take another class with her if I got a chance.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: 001
• 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:

She is available to meet if you need her, and she takes the time to help you write the best essay you can. At first, I thought that she was a little distant but she can be suprisingly warm and kind. She gives tons of comments and is pretty fair. Just be ready to write differently. good sense of humor and sometimes fun.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: 001
• 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: Mandatory

Comment:

I found her assignments to be very clear, and she is always so helpful. I am doing very different writing from what I am used to so it is challenging sometimes to figure out how to write for an english class but she provides really great examples. And she gives a lot of comments on the papers which make it clear what we need to do to improve.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: EN103
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Good person, bad teacher. She seems very awkward when teaching. Assigns a lot of papers with a lot of peer editing days. Cancels one class for every paper in order to have conferences. If you need help, she's there but usually her expectations for papers are unclear. Never grades anything until the last possible moment in the semester.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CHAUC345
• 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:

She was AMAZING! Only had her for a short time, but she taught me so much as Chaucer and life in the middle ages! Sad to say that I preferred her to the actual professor teaching the class. She was a sub but I wish she was teaching the class for the rest of the semester! So smart and so challenging! And funny too!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ENGL2
• 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:

So excited that she thought I should submit my essay to the Williams Prize. She said she loved that my essay was thoughtful and smart. Especially she liked that I wrote about things that we did not talk about in class. I feel like she really like that I tried to think outside of our class discussions.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENGL2
• 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:

I found her to be fair, but tough and challenging.She makes you pay attention to the text.I know some ofthe other students would say that she doesn't allow them to think but I don't think that they actually try.It is clear that someof them read sparknotes or offer interpretations that the text doesnt suggest.I like that she has standards.