Reviews of professor Kelsey Koon

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Koon is a solid prof. As other comments have said, her workload is often difficult, but her ability to teach is excellent. The material was interesting enough that the workload wasn't unbearable. She is super nice and a great lecturer, I just wish the workload was scaled back a bit.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
in classics 221 be prepared to read 75-130 pages of ancient texts every week plus writing a 3 page analysis of them as well as a 0.5-1 page discussion recap of lectures (once a week) and also a weekly quiz on the lectures. Overall, huge amounts of reading, incredibly heavy lectures of which no notes/slides and usually run up to 5 mins over time.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Koon is obviously interested in what she teaches, but expects way too much from students. 2 assignments per week (including the last week of class!) plus 3 unit tests and a final. Class time was only used to talk about the textbook (she had nothing to add) or do unnecessary 'class activities' that we weren't tested on. class was a waste of time

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor koon doesn't understand the premise of teaching. Every week you are expected to watch a lecture, read the slides, do 4-6 exercises, and translate a story on your own time. Class time is dedicated to reviewing the exercises and a review quiz. It is essentially an asynchronous class where attendance is expected. Wouldn't recommend

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Koon assigns two assignments per week, 3 midterms and a final at the end of the course. She doesn't post lectures online, but she posts study guides. These study guides contain a bunch of photos & only 4-5 of them are actually on the exam. She tests us on things that are not on the study guide.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I put a lot of effort into this course and my grade still suffered.There are 2 writing assignments weekly and a reading,as well as a class discussion and workshop.For a 100 level course there is a LOT of work.I found that the tests were quite difficult and asked very specific questions that we did not talk a lot about in class. I liked Dr. Koon tho