Mary Boatwright - Duke University

Professor: Mary Boatwright

Department: TBD

College: Duke University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CLST89S
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Take her class! Prof B truly cares about her students. I came to the class with little knowledge about Roman history, but this became my favorite class of the semester. Participation took 50% of the grade, but this was negotiable. There were no midterms or finals but only a final paper. You would receive a good grade as long as you put into effort.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CLST89S
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Boatwright is the sweetest woman I have ever met. She cares so deeply about all of her students. She is very relaxed and understanding. She does assign a good amount of readings, but they are usually pretty interesting. I would 100% take another class from her; she is the best!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CLST284
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Boatwright gives really interesting lectures, however grading criteria for papers can be obscure. Overall she is very passionate about Roman History and also a very knowledgeable and kind.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: HIST233
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Had Roman History and loved it! Not a classics or history major, but I still loved every second. BEST class I took my freshman year! Class was challenging at times but very fair. If you are thoughtful with paper and project prompts, you will do well. Very helpful outside class!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CLST284
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Class is completely based on primary sources and lecture in class. Prof. Boatwright is a very nice and clear with her expectations, but the lectures are dry and hard to follow. I rarely did the readings because they are very dense and boring, which made the midterm difficult. The group projects are easy and the papers are not graded too hard.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CLST284
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lovely person and extremely passionate about her subject. Not so sure about the reviews down there, but she seemed to really know her stuff. HOWEVER, I will say that taking this class for a T-Req when you're more of a sciences guy can really be painful. Don't make the same "Oh Roman History, might be cool" mistake I did. Great for some, not for me.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CLST556
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Tolly is one of my favorite professors at Duke. She is very engaged in the Classics and loves it. She is an entertaining lecturer and wants her students to do well. She is well known in the Classics world and respected. Take a class with her if you get a chance!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: LATIN203
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Mary is awesome! She's super enthusiastic about Latin and a flexible professor. Attend her class, participate, and enjoy!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: RMHST154
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I couldn't agree more with the poster below. This class is absolutely ridiculous and I'm a classics major for heaven's sakes! We didn't go over AT ALL one entire THIRD of the final exam ever in class, if that tells you anything. Lovely person though, but mediocre teacher

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: HIST54
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Worst teacher I've had at Duke. Makes you memorize pointless facts for tests like the times emperors ruled and also makes you pick out from a list of unknown passages you read throughout the year and come up with the author. Her papers are also retarded, having you write about the difference between the 10 page summary and the 200 page Roman text

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: HST53
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Knows little or nothing about late antiquity, its all hadrian, hadrian, hadrian. little emphasis on primary texts, which is disturbing given she's in classics. despite being one of 10 majors during her chairmanship, she always called me john, when that is so far away from what my name is its not funny.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: HST54
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Knows little or nothing about late antiquity, its all hadrian, hadrian, hadrian. Department did not flourish under leadership. No emphasis on primary texts which for a classicist is disturbing. i was one of about 10 classics major and she always called me by last name, i think, believing that it was my first. The journal entry assn is just sad.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CLST54
• 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:

Simply the best professor at Duke - enthusiastic, engaging, amazing.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: HIST54
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Professor Boatwright is enthusiastic and genuinely cares about her students. Roman History with her, although challenging and time-consuming, was definitely worthwhile.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ROMANHISTORY
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Sweet lady, genuinely cares about teaching, seems intelligent... That said, she's so boring you'll want to rip your face off during class just to spice things up. She's a very inconsistent grader, but you'll end up with around a B+ probably.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: HIST
• 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:

saw her on the history channel, therefore she is ****ing awesome

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: LATIN
• 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 is amazing. So enthusiastic, I just want to hug her.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: HST54
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very enthusiastic, and clearly loved the material. She's also incredibly sweet and never failed to make me laugh.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: HST54
• 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:

Lectures were really, really boring. When I have trouble sleeping at night, I think back on some of her classes. She tries to be enthusiastic, but it just doesn't work. She's as nice as can be, though, and her grading isn't too tough. The TA's this semester were really incompetent. I don't know how these people got into a PhD program at Duke.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: HISTORY54
• 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:

Professor Boatwright is one of the sweetest, most enthusiastic teachers I've met at Duke, but boy is she boring. Her lectures are absolutely awful. The class is easy, but you just can't help from falling asleep in it.