Reviews of professor Veneta Ivanova

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Ivanova assigns lots of reading, and then completely ignores them in every single lecture. The lectures and readings then barely relate to any tests or papers, all of which are graded on incredibly specific, unclear standards. Papers are on literary works, but you must analyze them without doing any literary analysis, only historical.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Ivanova was nice enough, but the feedback on the papers was not terribly helpful. Also, the class required us to read several literary works that we would have to write papers about without any form of literary analysis. The class was not what I expected for a history class, and the copious readings were often ignored during lectures.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It might be because she is a new (to William and Mary), but Professor Ivanova assigned way too much reading. We had to read 6 books outside of the textbook and sources, most of which were literary works. We had 3 papers based on the readings with no clear grading criteria in addition to a midterm and a final. Her lectures were good though.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Ivanova is fresh off of the European lecture circuit, so she doesn't teach like people are use to. She gives good feedback on papers if you go and see her. On midterm and finals its hard to know what she wants, becuase she always seems to want more. She is definitely an interesting character, just not the best teacher.