Exams and lecture material were not difficult as long as you read the textbook!

professor A is a great lecturer, but this class honestly sucks. The material is pretty basic and easy but the TAs are instructed to grade so harshly on labs and the tests are super confusing

The class was a ton of work, but the curve helps a lot.

The teacher and TA was fine— the actual material covered in the class, though, was not at all useful. Grading rubrics for papers are arbitrary and the midterms cover memorized concepts. She was a good professor though and explained the material clearly.

I am currently enrolled in this class and will update my review later. I just want to mention that those who are trying to sell you a PDF version of the MLA handbook are awful human beings because the MLA handbook is a free resource online now. You also don’t even need the actual handbook. In addition to that, the pdf for the textbook should be found online as well for free or for really cheap.

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The lectures were interesting but the exam material was extremely difficult. There were no slides so you really had to pay attention in class and they tested on material that wasn't covered in class, just in the textbook. The TAs are told to give bad grades on every assignment so there is a curve, but the curve doesn't help much. The rubrics are pretty unfair and APA formatting is a big part of your lab grade. Attending lab is 100% necessary but lectures could probably be skipped if you read the whole textbook

I liked Professor Ankowski. Her lectures were really engaging, and she always gave vivid examples to illustrate the abstract concepts. You can sense that she is dedicated to her profession and cares about the students. The test was fine, I only studied 40 minutes before the final and got 34/40.
However, I HATED the lab session. I got a nice TA, but I just do not like how this whole thing works. The experiment part was so emotionally draining and tedious. I felt so desperate because no matter how hard I tried to improve my paper, I still got a big chunk of scores taken off for a variety of reasons. Also, the writing center closed for the first week of session C, during which the final paper was due, so I was all alone struggling.
If you are going to take it, either take it during a normal school quarter, or take it in the summer and DO NOT TAKE ANY OTHER CLASS. There's a LOT of materials, for both the lecture and the lab. I was doing an internship, taking another class while being tortured by this lab session, it was so depressing.

This class gave me such bad anxiety but i ended up doing pretty good.
I recommend taking this class over summer so you dont have any other courses to focus on... the lab portion is time-consuming
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amber is a great professor,super sweet and willing to help and you should take it with her
honestly I am soooo glad this class is over finally, you dont really know how youre doing until the grades are posted
i got lucky and had a great TA, also thank god for the curve
these were my stats:

final: 39/40
quizzes:8/12
method section: 89%
project proposal: 90%
first submission: 79%
final submission 80%