Reviews of professor Dorothy Atkinson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The material is interesting but wastes a lot of time reading and understand it. Weekly quizzes are easy. Weekly responses are just 300 words. But the final exam? ! You have to recite abundant details. You have to fight against your memories. Avoid the class if you can. Don't take the class for GE requirement!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Probabably the worst class Ive taken at UCSC. Weekly quizzes AND weekly reponses on the 2 plays we read for the week. theres also a midterm paper AND a theatre review on a live play that we must go watch during the quarter. Oh, thats not even the worst part. The final is multiple choice, short answers, T/F, quote idea AND essay. Avoid if you can

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
2 plays a week with 500-word weekly response isnt bad. but the final exam (rare for a 61 series class in my experience) was  long, arduous, and reflected random details from lecture, not what she told us to study. take 61C with another prof if you can help it

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took this class over the spring 2020 on zoom. She only had prerecorded lectures and they were pretty use to follow she had powerpoint presentation. It was mostly the ta's that did the grading it was one page essay per week which wasn't bad at.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Atkinson seems to have lightened her expectations during the pandemic - this class had weekly responses, 2 papers, and a final exam. Section attendance was mandatory, but the lectures were posted ahead of time.