Reviews of professor Rachana Kamtekar

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Discussion posts are graded, making it hard to get full credit. She assigns over 150 pages a week. She is very bad at responding to emails. Her lectures are very dry. The papers are graded harshly, much stricter than other philosophy classes. Definitely one of the worst philosophy classes I've taken. Such a shame, given the interesting content.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall, she was an unnecessarily harsh grader. Even basic discussion posts are sharply critiqued, which makes it very difficult to get above a B in the class. This also makes it very hard to do well on the main essays, where the feedback was confusing but still harsh. She was a very nice professor, but she was difficult, boring, and inaccessible.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She really put a lot in to the class and I think that those who wanted to got a lot out of it. Of course, she's a tougher grader than the grad students who don't care but I found the class interesting and appreciated the effort she put into it. She also fairly lenient with dates -- so long as you're not consistently late.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was just ok literally nothing special. For the final paper she did not give clear, concise or accurate feedback, that resulted in a lower grade than I should've gotten.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing professor for Greek & Roman Philosophy! Easy to talk to outside of class, readings are dense but interesting, and papers are graded fairly.