Reviews of professor Ellen Schattsneider

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Ellen is absolutely amazing. Super scatterbrained but the sweetest person ever. She has awesome discussions and lets students lead. She assigns a lot of readings but you quickly realize that you don't need to read most of it. She's a super easy grader (as long as you do it... A!). she also loves to talk about cool ideas she likes from your papers

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ellen inspires the class with her lectures and the way she leads discussions. When a student has something to say, she actively listens and excitedly responds. Myth and Ritual is a lecture based course, with multiple discussion postings about the readings as well as two long papers (8 pages and 12 pages).

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lots of readings but as long as you pay attention to the main ideas you can do okay on assignments. Great discussions but the professor is a bit unorganized, regardless she's eager to help students and answer questions. Don't expect to ever see the ppts uploaded on latte though

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Schattschneider is one of the most caring and compassionate professors at Brandeis. The readings are incredibly interesting and class time flies by. She's available outside of the classroom and is willing to talk to you about anything. She can be a bit disorganized. I would take a class with her every semester if I could!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She asks good questions and assigns good readings. While the materials she chose is certainly intriguing and stimulating, her lecture style is not very efficient. Letting students dominate the classroom for 80min and never cut them down so rarely go through readings on time. But if you do the assignments proplyim sure you will get an A.