Robin Bates - St. Mary's College of Maryland

Professor: Robin Bates

Department: English

College: St. Mary's College of Maryland

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CORE101ENG283
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Bates is the best! I had him for my seminar freshman year and also a lit in history class and both were awesome! He invests a lot of time into his students and loves when students get personally invested in books. Also, if you're really legit you might earn a spot on his blog. But in all honesty, if you can, take one of his classes.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CORE101
• 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:

Prof. Bates was my favorite professor freshman year. He was incredibly knowledgeable about Jane Austen and her works and our core class was exciting and thought provoking every day. Wrote a paper after finishing each book (6 in total), one longer final paper, and two presentations. Highly highly recommend him!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENGL281
• 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:

Bates is super friendly and has an obvious passion for early literature. He definitely has a soft spot for tying in personal stories with whatever we're reading, and has his own ideas about certain topics, which can make it hard to write essays for him, but overall it was a great learning experience.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENG281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Likes to talk about one's feelings more than true literary analysis. Easy class if you have no qualms with creating fictionalized sob stories about your life in essays.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENGL355
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Professor Bates is the most adorably awkward professor I've had. He is very knowledgeable and tries really hard to relate class material to our own familiar life experiences. Dicussion is likely to go off on tangents. Take him if you can!

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENG201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He is always smiling at you! All his classes are fun! you learn a lot from Professor Bates

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENG201
• 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:

Robin was one of the best teachers I ever had.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENGL255
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Bates is a wonderful literature and film professor. His level of knowledge in his field is spectacular. He is genuinely a person you want to shoot the breeze with even after class. You don't want to miss any of his classes. He comes prepared and ready to go. If you slack off, he may give you a second chance, but that's it!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: LIT101
• 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:

Solid, encyclopedic knowledge of literature, and very passionate about the subject. Personable, friendly, chipper, open to all ideas. He knows his stuff. Somehow less open to more avant-garde literature, such as James Joyce. Beneath chipper exterior, though, is a brittle and sarcastic anger. Stay on his good side.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENGL281
• 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:

Wonderful professor! Very passionate about literature and helps with in depth understanding of each text. Do your reading, speak up in class, and be analytical in the journals.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: LITINHISTORY
• 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:

I LOVE ROBIN BATES! i want to go live in his house or something. he smiles all the time and is extremely nice, interested in students, kind and enthusiastic about what he teaches. there is just the right amount of work, and class discussions are usually really good.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: LIT106
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He is such a great teacher! I loved going to his class! His intro to lit class was not too much work either-- AWESOME!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENG200
• 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:

MAN ON MAN THIS GUY IS SO GREAT! I Just think the world of him and he is so personable and special to so many people. He is so smart and also recognizes that Saint Mary's students are also smart!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: SMP
• 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:

He has an idea of what he wants you to do and you have to do it his way. His comments are less than helpful on creative projects and his grading system is based on arbitary things like length and not the quality of the piece.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: SEVERAL
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I had Bates for Brit Lit, Film, & SMP. I loved all of those classes and got to know him really well for SMP. I didn't think he was a tough grader, but a tough prof b/c he did encourage revising papers to make them better, so you did improve your writing.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ALLOFEM
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Bates is awesome. As a graduated English major, I've had a few classes with him and always enjoyed him. If you can, take a class that features Chaucer, Beowulf, or other old old English lit and have him read exerpts in the original language!

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: LITHIST1
• 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:

If you like going to class, discussion, one on ones with professors...talking about yourself, he is WONDERFUL! Watch out for exams very quote intensive.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MULTABLE
• 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:

Nice guy, but he is a bit of a hard grader. Acutally, he is quite a hard grader, but he brings your papers to a new level.