Reviews for Beryl Curry Bland
Average Rating:| NotAnonymous Course: ARTH250 Grade Expected: May 3, 2012, 2:57 pm | I took this class based on the 5* review below... boy was I wrong. "Bland" really is an understatement for her. Although she does speak clearly and fully about objects on the slides, she does so in a way that does not engage you AT ALL. What's grand is that her monotone lecture is the ONLY source of information for tests/quizzes in the class--you're lucky if you find it online or in the book (which I don't advise purchasing). As a result, not only do many students sleep, zone out, or skip her classes, I'll also get multiple emails every week from them asking for notes because they were "sick". You get tested on: vocab terms (easy) short essays (100% bs'd) slide IDs (pure memorization of a sculpture or figure) I studied ("studied" here means "memorized arbitrary sculptures and pyramids") for <1 hour the morning of the first test and got a C (seemed to be the average grade). For the next test, I spent 12+ hours studying everything about the cultures and everything about every artifact, and got a single letter grade higher, because none of the actually important, real-world material that I learned (using the textbook & internet) was covered in the "hey! let's see if you memorized this picture!" portion of the test. I don't know what my grade will be, because I honestly stopped caring about it halfway through the semester, and I don't know what the curve (if any) will look like, because we never get grade statistics, and we never ask questions in lecture or discussion anyway, since there's nothing to ask.. just go home and memorize more artifacts. |
| Anonymous Course: ARTH370 Grade Expected: A+ February 5, 2010, 11:44 pm | She is an extremely laid back teacher. She brings in slides with pictures from personal travels as aids in class. This keeps things fresh and interesting. She is clear and easy to understand, and her exams are not extremely difficult as long as you pay attention to the slides in class. You should attend class as she does not post slides, not even before exams. But she will go over any material missed and meet up with students before class one on one to go over what they missed. Overall she is an interesting, fun teacher. Her class is not hard to get an A in. |