Professor: Rayna Kalas
Department: TBD
College: Cornell University
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: ENGL2010
- Grade Received: A-
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Kalas is an amazing lecturer, and she really makes an effort to get to know her students. She's very passionate about the material, which makes a world of difference in a class that can get pretty dry at times. If you're worried about your grade, go and talk to her. She will help you and will likely offer extra credit.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: ENGL1111
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Prof. Kalas is a great professor! She taught my FWS (Technologies of Writing). Her expectations are clear and the workload is manageable compared to other FWS's. Our in-class discussions were always productive and enormously helpful in writing papers. She is a caring and passionate professor. Her feedback on essays is enormously valuable.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: ENGL3230
- 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:
Brilliant poetic analyst. She is excellent in a small, seminar-type class, not an amazing lecturer. Her critique on papers was always helpful, and she comes up with some fun creative assignments too. If many students are having trouble keeping up with readings, she will listen and adjust the schedule some to help.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: ENGL323
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Rayna is tough but fair and she grades according to your ability. If you can swallow your pride long enough to watch her eviscerate your papers you can learn more from this one woman than you can imagine. Her comments are illuminating and she really tries to understand what YOU wanted to say and help you say it better.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: HIST3051
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Eh, alright class. My positive impressions probably flow more from the interesting subject matter though.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: ENGL201
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Kalas is a hard grader, and she destroyed any interest I had in medieval lit after taking her class-otherwise a nice woman. She only likes you if you repeat what she says. No matter how much I tried to make office hours and meet with her, she was always late. Her final exam was one of the worst English finals I'd ever taken at Cornell.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: ENGL329
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I dreaded a class on Milton; but by the time the class was done, I could honestly say it was one of the best at Cornell. Dynamic, passionate professor with a profound knowledge of both Milton and the period in which he wrote. Pretty difficult class. But definitely recommend taking it just for the professor.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: FWS
- 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:
If you talk in class, help with the discussions etc, she will give you an A on your paper regardless of whether it was well-written.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: ENGL329
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Kalas knows her stuff and she's a dynamic lecturer. really hard topics but they make you think. if you get bored by a challenge then don't take her.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: ENGL329
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Definitely one of the most challenging classes I have ever taken here. She has a great style of lecturing, although sometimes they go off too long, but for the most part, if one is as enthused in the subject matter as she, then it's all good.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: FWS
- 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:
Passionate about Shakespeare and nice woman, but discussions are boring, paper topics are obscure, and grading is very arbitrary. Definitely one of the hardest writing seminars in terms of work load.
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