Reviews of professor Kimball Jensen

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Most of the movies we watched were good, but there is SO much writing. 1 single-spaced page paper every week and three other papers that were longer plus final paper. TAs grade everything, so you want a good TA. Almost always fell asleep in lecture because it was 2 hours, but a lot of the clips we watched were interesting.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Your grades and section lab are through your TA, so your experience really depends on which TA you get. The weekly quizzes were super easy, I never had to do the whole reading. Attendance is very important and the TAs are really good at explaining the concepts from Prof Jensen's lectures.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Jensen is nice enough but it is difficult to rate her as a professor with how many students were in her class. She could be harsh at times and the TAs were almost more like our educators than she was.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Didn't interact with Dr. Jensen much because everything was filtered through a TA. The quality of your experience depends on how good your TA is, I heard some were really great, but mine took months to give me feedback on assignments. You write a 1 page paper every week. Wasn't as easy as I expected, but still an interesting subject.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You only see Professor Jensen once a week during lectures. A lot of the workload seems to be carried by the TAs. However, This class was very enjoyable. There are a lot of weekly papers, but they aren't too bad and they are graded fairly. This class can be taken as a fun class, and it serves as a great introduction to the film industry.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Jensen has a lot of passion for film, and that seeps deeply into her lectures. Homework could be pretty difficult, but as a prospective media arts major I needed to learn how to write about film anyways. Movies we had to watch were pretty amazing. Bottom line: stressful for a GE, but premajor students, have no fear.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Kimball was not the move. I did not learn anything new in this class, it was a 2 hour lecture, 1 hour lab, and a movie outside of class every week. You have to write a 500 word paper on every movie. The teacher was not good at all, and the lectures were painful to get through. The TAs were sick tho!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I loved TMA 102! Dr. Jensen explained every concept clearly and insightfully, and everything is pretty easy to understand in the first place since the subject matter is just movies. She did a great job at filling every lecture with fun and interesting movie clips that perfectly illustrate the topic for the day, and make the lecture time fly by.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr Jensen's TMA102 was a slow burn. The first few weeks seemed overwhelming (weekly papers with specific expectations, weekly quizzes with lots of reading), but you adjust quickly and it becomes pretty easy. Dr J listens to students and adjusts her lectures, but concepts really locked in during TA lab. I ended up loving TMA102, but it took a bit.