ENGCOMP 5W
Literature, Culture, and Criticial Inquiry
Description: Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. Use of analysis of literary works within cultural context to engage students in critical thinking and writing about issues important to academic inquiry and responsible citizenship. Minimum of 15 to 20 pages of revised text required in addition to regular informal writing exercises. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2017 - Mehdizadeh is a great professor. Albeit somewhat opinionated at times, she is very organized and helpful, and very critical during class discussions, helping to facilitate a truly academic dialouge. She gives detailed essay help during conferences and is very clear about what she expects from students, and is not the harshest grader. If you need assistance, she will be there to guide you along. 5W was quite a nice class because of this and I definitely recommend taking it with her. As long as you try, and care about the material, you shouldn't have much of a problem getting an A. The grade distribution doesn't lie.
Spring 2017 - Mehdizadeh is a great professor. Albeit somewhat opinionated at times, she is very organized and helpful, and very critical during class discussions, helping to facilitate a truly academic dialouge. She gives detailed essay help during conferences and is very clear about what she expects from students, and is not the harshest grader. If you need assistance, she will be there to guide you along. 5W was quite a nice class because of this and I definitely recommend taking it with her. As long as you try, and care about the material, you shouldn't have much of a problem getting an A. The grade distribution doesn't lie.
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Winter 2019 - I was so butthurt about taking my writing II so I just picked 5W with West and I had such a good quarter! The material is interesting and engaging!!! Sure there's a pretty heavy workload but as long as you talk to Professor West she is sosososo clear on what she wants and how to do it. I would honestly take this class again. The papers we wrote were interesting and West is always engaging and made class fun.
Winter 2019 - I was so butthurt about taking my writing II so I just picked 5W with West and I had such a good quarter! The material is interesting and engaging!!! Sure there's a pretty heavy workload but as long as you talk to Professor West she is sosososo clear on what she wants and how to do it. I would honestly take this class again. The papers we wrote were interesting and West is always engaging and made class fun.
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i took westbay for english 5w, a course which focused on muckraking. it was amazing! shes is such a caring and talented woman! she was always available to discuss papers and really cared about this topic. the things i learned in class were interesting. she gave us a lot of freedom when it came to paper topics. i got an A in her course. to do well in her couse, show interest in the material and do the readings! shes great and is one of my favcorite professors!
i took westbay for english 5w, a course which focused on muckraking. it was amazing! shes is such a caring and talented woman! she was always available to discuss papers and really cared about this topic. the things i learned in class were interesting. she gave us a lot of freedom when it came to paper topics. i got an A in her course. to do well in her couse, show interest in the material and do the readings! shes great and is one of my favcorite professors!
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Spring 2016 - I know many 5W classes are taught by different professors, and therefore each class can be entirely different. I was lucky enough to have Professor Wilson for 5W. The class primarily focused on poetry, which was really daunting at first because I absolutely hate reading and analyzing poetry. With that said, Wilson did a very good job directing us in the right direction for our essays so it actually was fairly manageable writing them. On top of that, the poems weren't like super classical poems from the 1500's that are super confusing and dry; they were modern poems that brought up relatable and current issues (almost like spoken word type poetry) which made it even more bearable. The essays themselves weren't terribly long at all , and if you go into office hours, he'll really point out specific stuff within them that will help make the essay stronger so that when you turn it in as a final draft at the end of the quarter, you're almost guaranteed to get a good grade (as long as you listen to his advice). I think my favorite part of the class was that for our final essay, we had an option to write our own poems, which was really cool and mean't we really only wrote 2 essays technically. all in all, take him for 5W!!!!
Spring 2016 - I know many 5W classes are taught by different professors, and therefore each class can be entirely different. I was lucky enough to have Professor Wilson for 5W. The class primarily focused on poetry, which was really daunting at first because I absolutely hate reading and analyzing poetry. With that said, Wilson did a very good job directing us in the right direction for our essays so it actually was fairly manageable writing them. On top of that, the poems weren't like super classical poems from the 1500's that are super confusing and dry; they were modern poems that brought up relatable and current issues (almost like spoken word type poetry) which made it even more bearable. The essays themselves weren't terribly long at all , and if you go into office hours, he'll really point out specific stuff within them that will help make the essay stronger so that when you turn it in as a final draft at the end of the quarter, you're almost guaranteed to get a good grade (as long as you listen to his advice). I think my favorite part of the class was that for our final essay, we had an option to write our own poems, which was really cool and mean't we really only wrote 2 essays technically. all in all, take him for 5W!!!!
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