Professor
Arvind Thomas
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Spring 2021 - I want to believe Professor Thomas is a cool person, but his lectures are very unorganized. Then again, I only really watched about 5/20 of them. After the first week, the class pretty much decided that we had no way of keeping track of exactly what he was really talking about. There were no lecture slides and he liked to skip around with his topics, or worse, spend half an hour going on a tangent. Depending on your TA, you might not even need to watch lecture or do readings(keep in mind this is COVID-19 time). For my TA, our papers were close readings of a work. This really means that I only had to read three works. I'm not a huge medieval fan so I was happy with that. When I did watch lecture to see if I could gather any contextualization/deeper insight into the work I was close reading, Professor Thomas didn't really provide anything substantial or mind-blowing to help. TAs decide your grade.
Spring 2021 - I want to believe Professor Thomas is a cool person, but his lectures are very unorganized. Then again, I only really watched about 5/20 of them. After the first week, the class pretty much decided that we had no way of keeping track of exactly what he was really talking about. There were no lecture slides and he liked to skip around with his topics, or worse, spend half an hour going on a tangent. Depending on your TA, you might not even need to watch lecture or do readings(keep in mind this is COVID-19 time). For my TA, our papers were close readings of a work. This really means that I only had to read three works. I'm not a huge medieval fan so I was happy with that. When I did watch lecture to see if I could gather any contextualization/deeper insight into the work I was close reading, Professor Thomas didn't really provide anything substantial or mind-blowing to help. TAs decide your grade.
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