Reviews of professor Adela Amaral

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Amaral is not an easy professor, but she doesn't pretend to be easy. She will push you to question and think critically, and introduces you to theories and frameworks that push you to engage with the world in a different way. As long as you engage with the readings and go to her office hours, you will probably do fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lots of reading, but Dr. Amaral picks good ones that are interesting and relevant, which is really nice. My biggest complaint with the class is that grading is pretty subjective, and if you don't share the same opinion/interpretation as the grader for projects/papers, your grade will get knocked down a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Amaral is an extremely wonderful professor, and one of my favorites at W&M. Though the work and readings assigned in her classes can be challenging at times, they are also very rewarding and interesting. She gives fantastic feedback on written work; you will walk away from any class with her a better writer than you were before.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Amaral is easily the most brilliant professor I've ever had. She genuinely cares about (a) her students and (b) the course material. Definitely her class is a lot of work, but if you care about it, she will recognize that. You will also simply get so much out of any class you take with her, become a better writer and a better thinker .

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
DON'T TAKE THIS PROF! Prof is worst lecturer I've ever had- says "right?" 30X/min and cold calls from her role based on the lengthy, difficult hw readings. Tests were impossible to pass without her huge curve at the end. NOT about lost worlds- it's a modernity/ social theory of colonization class- no learning about archaeological methods.