Reviews for Lillian E. Doherty
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: A December 22, 2010, 8:18 am | This class is awesome. The prof is extremely understanding and knowledgeable about the subject. I like to read stuff so the hw for this class is chill. Exams do require a certain in-depth knowledge about the gods, heroes, etc. But if you read everything, its kinda similar to knowing characters in a novel. It's almost natural. Plus, how many people do you know actually read Virgil, Ovid, Hesiod in addition to Homer? This is what an HL is all about. Reading dense stuff but enjoying it at the same time. TA can make a difference depending on how hard he/she grades on essays. But thats luck of the draw... |
| Anonymous Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: A December 16, 2010, 11:35 am | I happen to be the lone person who disagrees with the vast majority of comments here. While I do agree that Professor Doherty is extremely compassionate about the subject and tries to keep things as interesting as possible, I think she structures the course fairly badly. The amount of reading is tremendous, absolutely tremendous, and this is coming from somebody that enjoys reading and used to do so quite frequently. I wasn't an avid mythology fan before hand, but I thought it was interesting and it fulfilled core for me. Note: The readings were NOT as interesting as I thought they would be. The vast, vast majority of readings fell greatly below my expectations. Definitely not as interesting as I thought they would be and other people here have made them seem. The amount of information she can ask on the exams is ridiculous, there is so much material to cover per exam. While the exams end up not being that hard, it is frustrating that she would assign so much additional information that never makes it onto the exam. And I mean ALOT of information. Information that a decent student would probably spend studying and stressing out about for an upwards of an additional two hours per exam. It pretty much all comes down to blatant memorization of way too many names, then their roman names as well, then their attributes, then who are they related too, etc. etc. etc. The study guides she gives you are not very helpful, they in essence tell you to study everything. There are parts of the study guides which single out specific events and learnings to study, and sometimes they do not even appear on the exam! Very frustrating. I however do feel like the minority in my judgement of this class. I feel like everyone that took this is either a Classics major or came into the class with a great deal of prior knowledge about mythology (more than your typical high school learnings go). Maybe I'm just a total dumbass. Who knows. The only thing that made it bearable was my T.A. He was funny and interesting and keep us all in good spirits. If you're considering this class get Sepulva for a T.A. Final Note: I felt like for the vast majority of this class, spark notes/ cliff notes are just not going to cut it. She changed the exam up for our second one where we would have to identify exact quotes from characters, who was talking, who was listening, and what it was about. They were moderately difficult even for someone that has read all the required material. I definitely put the most work into this class this semester and I thought it was more difficult than than ECON201 and accounting I. |
| Anonymous Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: B+ December 14, 2010, 2:15 pm | Professor Doherty is very very nice and knows a lot about the class. The lectures are boring and halfway through the year I pretty much stopped going to them. It didn't matter though because she posts the lectures online and I learned everything from my TA in discussion. There is a lot of reading for this class, but most of it is very interesting and the work is very doable. The tests are easy if you study and memorize key names in the works. A good class overall. |
| Anonymous Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: B December 9, 2010, 12:47 pm | Professor Doherty is amazing. She is so passionate about her course topic and always makes the class interesting. She is very kind and always wants students to raise their hands and participate in lecture so do so! She cares what we think. Our whole lecture applauded her at the end of the semester and no professor has ever deserved it more. |
| phillip12210 Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: A December 2, 2010, 2:13 pm | Really nice woman with a great passion for her subject. A decent amount of reading but it's interesting and mostly easy easy to get through. The slides are online but I'd recommend going because she leaves a lot off of them (you can get by off just the online slides if you are intent on skipping though). Tests are manageable and papers are short. Good way to pick up an HL. |
| anthmajorftw Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: B November 1, 2010, 5:24 pm | My TA graded papers pretty roughly, but I am a big fan of Dr. Doherty. I don't like the way she sets up lecture slides, they're basically her personal queue cards, but her lectures are always interesting. I like Mythology, so it was pretty easy to pay attention. The tests aren't horrible and the homework assignments are simple. Dr. Doherty is very fair and a very nice lady. She really is passionate about the subject and it's reflected in her lectures, attitude and assignments. She reads passages out loud in class (even in Ancient Greek sometimes). I hope to take another one of her classes soon. |
| sleepyb9 Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: A May 26, 2008, 7:47 am | I thought I would hate the class because I don't like to do required reading but it really wasn't that bad. I did the reading in the beginning of the class which was sort of interesting. Toward the end of the class I was just reading cliff notes and did just as well on the exams so I recommend doing that. The two papers are only 3 pages and are very simple. She also posts her lecture notes which you can definitely get by on. There was 4 online quizzes that weren't the easiest in the world, for those you actually had to do the required reading. There was also 5 HW assignments which were basically answering a question in about a page or less so that wasnt bad. My TA gave out mostly 100's on those if you wrote anything decent. 88 is a A- in this class which is nice. |
| tshirtstand Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: May 7, 2008, 11:09 pm | A lot of reading but it's interesting for the most part. I found it really interesting but I liked mythology going into it. Lecture is pretty boring but dicussions are useful. |
| Anonymous Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: A May 6, 2008, 3:06 pm | Just go to class. She puts up notes online, but they don't help much for exams because she usually goes through other materials during lecture. Read the assignments. They're not novels like Jane Eyre (sorry to those who love this book, I hate it), they're epics, so there's backstabbing, killing, and sex. It's pretty sweet. Should be an A if you go to class and read. |
| Sita87 Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: April 20, 2008, 2:13 pm | All I can say is PAY ATTENTION ON THE FIRST DAY! She will tell you exactly how to get an A in the course, and she's willing to help you if you have questions. It's a huge class, so it's lecture style, and there's a lot of reading, but she explains everything. She's also a very nice person who tries to help her students if she can. She will be tough, though, if she thinks you're slacking or people are not paying attention in class. |
| groovyjew Course: GREK301 Grade Expected: October 24, 2007, 11:51 am | Dr. Doherty is great. She's very tough, and not willing to give on anything, but she will hel you get through it. Her standards are high, and she helps you reach them. Not the course to take if you're looking for hte easy way out, but a good one nonetheless. |