Reviews of professor Kirstyn Leuner

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this professor for ENGL 14 and it was a little sad compared to other English professors I've had in the past. Overall, the class was very fun and intriguing, but sometimes it was extremely repetitive. Always show up to class or your grade will hurt and attempt to engage with the topic for discussion.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Teaches controversial subjects like simple facts. So passive aggressive and flat out rude. Grades completely based on her opinion and is not fair a lot of the time (Totally contradicts her opinions). Content is interesting but could have been so much more meaningful. Conversations never got below surface level, people were too afraid to speak.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Oh, how I love Dr. Leuner. Taking her class was easily one of the highlights of my Santa Clara experience and influenced my decision to pursue English Lit at the postgraduate level. She is truly a caring and brilliant professor with lots of wisdom to impart upon her students. Apply yourself and you will do well.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
VERY passive-aggressive and picks favorites. The material was somewhat interesting. She requires 2 office hours, and attendance is mandatory and affects your grade. Expect A LOT of reading. I would never take her class again because I feel that she graded unfairly on the essays (I failed both and haven't gotten below a 90 on another essay).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very rude and passive-aggressive. She seemed to have strong opinions and be unnecessarily political. She was very boring during lectures and assigned unrelated homework that really only aligned with her interests and was barely related to the course. Her grading did not seem objective. I would stay away.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's okay. I wasn't always a fan of her demeanor, and she also just seemed passive-aggressive/ingenuine at times. Papers weren't terribly long (longest was 8 pages for the CTW series). The readings/topics weren't boring, made the work more engaging. Do the readings. It's honestly really hard to get a low grade as long as you're putting in effort.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I wasn't looking forward to ENGL 14, but I enjoyed taking it with Dr. Leuner. Though slogging through the history of British literature at the end of the course wasn't thrilling, I was pleasantly surprised by the interesting iterations of Frankenstein that we were assigned. Though she's a pretty tough grader, she's super nice. I'd take her again!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The pacing of her course (ENGL 144G) was awful, it was easy with almost no homework for the first few weeks and then all of a sudden we had 94 pages of reading and an 8-page paper due in the same week. She wasted 2 classes and our finals block on class presentations for literally no reason, she's super passive-aggressive, and bad at communicating.