Reviews of professor Claire Sagan

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Sagan is very passionate about what she teaches but is not clear in her lectures and does not illuminate material. The readings are extremely difficult to understand and long. She is unclear with her expectations in essays and does not give a lot of feedback. In class, she is not very open to other people's point of view.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm glad I took Claire's class. Her work and the content of her classes is unique and I would encourage everyone to check it out. She is insanely smart and perceptive, and is super understanding if you need an extension or are experiencing a slump. Would highly recommend!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I thought Prof. Sagan was super knowledgeable. Her lectures were engaging, if a little bit challenging to follow due to the difficulty of the content. I enjoyed this course a lot. However, Prof. Sagan was almost completely inaccessible outside of class. I sent her multiple emails to set up meetings or ask questions and never heard a single response

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Claire is a very nice person and she definitely means well. She clearly cares about what she teaches and her students. However, her lectures can be intensely boring. She always steers the conversation toward her point of view and conversation in the class feels pointless. She never responds to emails and often cancels class last minute.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
POLI278: Dr. Sagan changed my entire worldview on human relationships with the living/nonliving. She masters alternative academic pedagogy using readings, artwork, poetry, & podcasts precisely to challenge our preconcieved notions & they (along w peer-to-peer discussion) do so exceptionally. She is a HIGHLY recommended professor by everyone I know

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Sagan is one of the smartest teachers you'll have. Lectures cover a lot of material and are VERY participatory. You need to do the readings to stay with the content. Luckily, the grades come from participation and essays, and you have a lot of choice in what you talk about in your essays so you can safely miss some things. Go to office hours!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Classes are cancelled regularly, she shows up to class unprepared, emails are not responded to, feedback for essays have been unhelpful to say the least. Be prepared to be steered towards certain conclusions in "open forum class discussions." I'm sure she's an ok person irl, but I would suggest not taking the class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Smart, humorous, unpretentious, and approachable. Not too hard of a grader, the workload was fine (4 and 12 page papers, three forum posts). Feminist theory, postcolonialism, Deleuze. Sagan makes room for clarification and questions wrt dense readings, but at times leaves something to be desired in her explainations of material. Good discussions.