Reviews of professor Maia Farrar

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Farrar is an amazing english prof. She has her PhD in literature so it may seem like a given but she gives amazing feedback and is very elaborate in her explanation. She is also very quick to respond to e-mails so that is convenient. Would definitely recommend taking her english if you can.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Three assignments the whole year. Easily accessible to students after class and outside of class hours. Much better experience in my FYWR compared to my friends who had other professors

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Farrar was a great professor who gave great feedback on essays and was available outside of office hours. She grades harsher than other eng 125 teachers but gives amazing feedback and improves your writing throughout the semester and cares about her students

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
English 124 was a fairly easy class. It isn't always clear what's expected of you, but she wants her students to succeed and does not make assignments pointlessly difficult. It is an interesting class if you do the readings and participate in the discussions.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Farrar made a required writing course about as interesting as it could be. The class structure is focused on improving your writing instead of just a grade. She uses a grading contract, so as long as you put in the work, you're pretty much guaranteed the results you want. She also gives great feedback and incentivizes revisions.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A hard grader but if you go to office hours and ask questions you'll at least get a B. Grade is mostly three essays, but not a ton of reading. She is super passionate about what Arthurian stuff (and competed for Team USA so that's cool).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Maia is a very cool and impressive person, and genuinely cares about her students. She strives to make her class accessible and interesting, and gives great feedback on all assignments. Take her ENG124 Dissent class but warning it does talk a lot about sports.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Super easy professor, and really kind and understanding. She uses a grading contract, so basically if you put in effort on the papers you automatically get a B. Then, you just have to do like 4 things from the grading contract (edit two of your essays, write a cover letter, easy stuff) and you get an A. She actually cares about you, not just grades

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Maia is one of the best English teachers I've ever had! She's super kind, funny, and intelligent. Course was only graded off a few big essays, but she gave incredible feedback that was actually useful and helped improve my writing. Lots of readings for homework, seminar-style class with group talking + discussions, really interesting sports topics