Melissa Malouf - Duke University

Professor: Melissa Malouf

Department: TBD

College: Duke University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENGLISH221S
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Terrible teacher. She either likes you or she doesn't like and your grade reflects that. No syllabus, no Sakai page, no lesson plan. It's an okay class and very easy but there is no way of knowing what your grade will be until you get it.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENG221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Professor Malouf is amazing! I really don't understand some of the reviews here. She's a sweetheart. She's honest when your work is good and when it needs a little bit of work. Go in with an open mind and a willingness to change the way you write, engage with readings and assignments, and she'll definitely help you improve your writing!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENG221
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Yo she's really great, all the previous ratings are from like 2006 so I don't think they're reliable anymore. Easiest class you'll ever take. Super nonstress! Even better if you actually enjoy creative writing.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENG90
• 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:

I like her style! I compare her to a fake sad sack like Mottadadeh, who i a class with a few years ago, and see that Malouf is a sharp, critical, but actualy interesting thinker and influence.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENG90
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

great professor, awesome personality.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: LS290
• 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: N/A

Comment:

Malouf was remarkable in every way. She's supremely intelligent and allowed students to be creative in thought and product. I enjoyed her class very much.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENG999
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I majored in English at Duke, I took over 15 courses in my time there and I believe I had a representative sampling of the department. I took Malouf's course to pursue the graduation with distinction in creative writing. In one semester, she destroyed my entire self-worth as a writer, a student and my faith in educational system as a whole.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: FOCARTS
• 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:

She does pick her favorites in the beginning, she does measure you against her OWN style, and in my class, she only invited select students over to her house for dinner (the initial "favored" ones). As an 18 year old, I did not enter her class with a strong sense of self and her "analysis" was detrimental to my budding creativity but she was wrong.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: LS280
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I found her class to be well intended but dull.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENGSECT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Uses vague facial expressions because she can't express her feedback with words or arguments. Insists that techniques observed are right there on the page when no one else can see or grasp them. You'll basically do okay if you're a replica of her. She guages "goodness" in writing by comparing your style to hers.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENG
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

save your brain cells and opt for another class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENG63
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENG90
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENG63
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENGLISH63
• 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:

Great teacher, I learned a lot in her class. She really cares and is genuine.If you're looking for someone that will just tell you your work is wonderful when it's not, she's not your girl. She will give you credit when it is merited, which will help you learn. The previous ratings are unfair.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENG90
• Grade Received: D+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She decided who she liked the first day, and there was no way to change her first impression. She rambled about nothing for hours and made us come to her house for extra classes on weekends.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENGLISH90
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Wow. The only positive thing about this class was that I always had a lot of stories to tell my friends. She does the dumbest things in the world (eg not knowing how to play a VCR). Her book selection is terrible, she has no idea how to analyze, let alone teach. Overall a disastrous class. And her grading system: Star, plus, check-plusâ€"wtf is that?

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ENG63
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She's a very nice person, but throughout the year I often questioned how she became a college professor. She's terribly uninformed and shockingly unintelligent. Smart kids will be frustrated by her. Dumb ones will eat up everything she says.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ENG
• 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:

She's a sweetheart. How many other teachers will invite you over to their house, cook you a meal, and let you have a fun time reading an assignment outloud that might outherwise be boring? Yes, she's honest, most of my work got torn apart. But I learned a lot.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENG109
• 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:

hot, for her age! she's very sweet, helpful, and eager to meet with you. i don't understand the reviews posted here... every single one of my classmates loved her. some of the reviews are correct though- she is NOT afraid to let you know that she doesn't like your writing. a blessing, right?