Reviews of professor Ananda Abeysekara

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Overall I enjoyed the information learned in this class, but coming from an engineering background, the strict note-taking and essay based grading was hard for me. The essay rubrics are formatted directly along with what notes were taken in class so it is easy to write essays, you just need to attend class or else you will miss crucial information.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was way harder than I expected, considering I've taken higher level RLCL courses. Abeysekara's lectures are very hard to follow if you don't do the readings beforehand, and the essays are impossible without both attending lecture and reading. Bottom line, the class isn't worth it no matter what. Take anyone or anything else.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5

His lectures are a treat to thoughts. They artfully combine Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, David Scott around the axis of Asad. Scholars either follow Asad blindly or make very shoddy criticisms. Abey is one of the few who understood the 'program' of Asad's texts and invested in developing on them. Take his course, learn from him patiently.