Reviews of professor Kimball Jensen

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was so awesome. I would definitely recommend if you're looking for an interesting class and an easy A. We just did one paper a week and watched a ton of movies. Probably one of the best classes I've taken and Professor Jensen did a great job in the lectures! She's clearly passionate about what she does.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly wasn't as easy and fun as I had hoped for. You end up watching movies almost exclusively in other languages and I fell asleep in most of them. They were hard graders on most of the essays as well. Don't go into this class thinking you'll be watching any movie you've heard of or seen before. It's a ton of writing, and only somewhat fun.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Kimball is very nice but she wouldn't always explain what she was teaching very well, as if she assumed we already knew and understand these concepts. TAs save the day and they're the ones who grade you. Lectures have plenty of movie clips which is fun. On top of class you have to go on campus to watch the films, which takes more time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was fairly easy if you had the right TA. Professor Jensen was passionate about film but it was hard to understand anything she would teach because she wouldn't explain it. TA's save the day. Also there's a paper, quiz, and two hour film outside of class that you are required to do. Lots of work for a GE.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Before I hate on it, TMA102 was fun and easy and we saw some decent movies BUT your experience relies entirely on which TA you get. Jensen stands up and reads the powerpoint once a week and is not very caring nor personable with students.  She rubbed me the wrong way, and the movies we watched were not extraordinary considering it was a film class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pretty ridiculous that an introductory film class was this difficult. We were expected to read 60-75 pages a week and take quizzes about specific phrases. Grading on weekly film analyses was really harsh for beginning film people. Lectures were fun but the structure of the class was awful. Missing one class loses you around 1.9% of the total grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class had the potential to be super awesome but it just missed the mark for me. I didn't really learn anything from Dr. Jensen herself but relied more on the TA's who helped explain the topics. Jensen's passion for movies and film is apparent but her ability to express what she wanted to teach was rough. So many papers too. Not a fun GE.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Jensen is a fan of foreign films. Don't expect to watch/ study pop culture films. Quizzes can be kind of tricky cause they cover a big section of reading, but they are open note. Control find works wonder on an online textbook. You write a paper every week and the final is a larger version of those papers.