Reviews of professor Merie Kirby

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
HON101 is basically a book club, but working with her was very easy. Shes very caring and tries to keep the discussion going. For the class, you should have the book, but honestly near the end I just went online for summaries. Just make sure you sound believable and the grade is yours. Papers are short and loosely graded, just show progress.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you read the book and show up to class, you're solid. It can be a lot to read in combination with other courses, but it's doable. The novels are fairly interesting. There are no tests, and we had one project and one group project for the semester. She graded them very fairly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Kirby is one of those rare professors who truly cares about her students and sees them as more than the grade they recieve. She is a very kind woman, who grades easily. The assignments are not overwhelming and interesting. I would take 100 more classes by her if I could.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was basically book club and then write a short paper about each book. There is a lot of reading, but you can get away with only looking at summaries.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There's a reason Prof. Kirby was named director of the Honors program. She grades almost solely on participation and effort, so despite the heavy workload there is very little pressure. Course content is interesting, and if you need humanities ES credits, you could certainly do worse. Excellent teaching style, loved the class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I enjoyed having Professor Kirby! There was a lot of reading in large quantities, but you can get away with not reading it all. Very simple grading scale and as long as you seem interested and like you care you will do well in the class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Kirby is a great professor and really cares about the classes she teaches! But if you don't like reading or class discussions (class size is small) you won't like her classes. Everything is 1 point which is both a pro and con, pro for journal entries, con for 1200-word paper! But class can be fun if you make it fun!