Took classics 10. Awesome professor and super easy class! Selling all the books required for the class and course reader.

I learned so much about the Greeks in this class! I took it as a GE and feel that I was presented with information I would remember in the long run, not just info that would be quickly regurgitated on a test and forgotten.

The tests can be hard if you don't study since you have to remember time and dates of Greek art but the reading was enjoyable and discussion sections were fun. There is an essay and who you get as a TA will really affect how you do in the class because some TAs were very harsh graders. But as a whole they are very fair and want their students to succeed. Participate in discussions!

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Dr. Papadopoulos has the greatest personality. He is extremely generous, kind, sweet, etc. All good adjectives would fit him. However, memorizing slides was pointless. Essays were given grades leniently. Two midterms and final will be okay as long as you spend about two enough days to memorize the slides. Also, you don't need to read books so don't waste money on them except probably Odyssey. Other books, you must read sparknotes in order to participate in discussion sessions and do well on the midterms and finals.

I hope more people can go to the lectures though. Dr. Papadopoulos is the nicest professor I've ever seen.

First off, I'm a south campus premed major.

Taking Classics 10 is great for two reasons,

1. There's cute north campus girls
2. This entire class is basically rote memorization with less than 100 pages of reading per quarter! Read the These Were the Greeks book, write your essay on Plato's Apology(~50 pages of dialogue AT MOST) and you're golden. I pulled a B+ with studying the night before the midterms (69, 89) and then the final (91). It's doable but not entirely fun.

If you want to get screwed over on BOTH the first midterm AND first essay because of vague explanations and expectation then by all means take his class. I was expecting an easy GE when I enrolled. Boy was I wrong…a large portion of the exams is pure, pointless, memorization. Why does it matter if I don’t know when Plato died, for example? In the end, this class was more than I bargained for. I did not do badly in the course, but I worked a lot harder for this class than I expected to and to my dismay, the class was not curved.
This review and the other three (mostly the two shorter reviews) below pretty much represent the opinions of the 300+ students in the class.
Overall, I do not recommend taking this class, at least not with this teacher.

I came in thinking it would be an easy GE, since basically all you had to do is memorize slides, it wasnt exactly as I expected. You may think memorizing the slides before the exams is a walk in the park, but the dates throw people off. You must know every single date, not even exaggerating. You must know every single detail on the slide, and must things that arent even on them (such as lecture powerpoint information/general knowledge of the images noted in the terms in the course reader). If you do all those, you're a great candidate for an A. Many chances for extra grades on tests as well, you like going above and beyond. The professor will basically outline the topics on the exam for you. Not very stressful at all. The final was simply a matter of whether you knew all the terms, slides, and readings.

Papadopoulos is a great guy, but in my opinion, he made the class waay too hard and too much work for a GE. Being a south campus major, I'm not used to having to do essays in addition to midterms and finals. Also the slide memorization aspect was a complete waste of time. We had to memorize names of vessels and statues and DATES (which absolutely killed me). The final was ridiculously hard and he tested us on way too many greek terms. Needless to say, I do NOT have a background in ancient greek and bombed that part of the exam.

Do not take this class unless you are willing to put in 40+ hours of work for two papers and two midterms plus a final all for a ge that is way more time consuming than it needs to be. Strongly recommend taking a different class.

Selling "There were the Greeks" for Classics 10 with him!! contact me at 909 438 0213 if interested!