<p>I am attending Emory this fall and I'm starting to look at my course options. I know nothing about the classes and professors at Emory, so I'm having a lot of trouble choosing which classes to take. I don't know my major yet, but I like the humanities. </p>
<p>Can anyone list some of the professors/classes that are known to be great at Emory? I'm most curious about classes and professors in the English, Comp lit, and Philosophy departments, but I will take advice on others too!</p>
<p>Hey! A website that students often use and find helpful is ratemyprofessor.com. I’m not sure if this exists at your school, but at mine there was a student who linked all the courses and professors into a rating system based off that website mentioned above</p>
<p>Emory has/had an internal system called Class Comments. </p>
<p>Not sure if it still exists.
Much more fair than RMP since students actually have to be accountable for what they say. And professors aren’t allowed to access it, of course. </p>
<p>@Clara7338 Since you seem more like a liberal arts oriented/intense person, consider the voluntary core: <a href=“Voluntary Core Curriculum Program”>Voluntary Core Curriculum Program; and then select literature instructors on your own (you should hear some things because English and creative writing at Emory are excellent at the UG level). Everyone who cares knows who some of the better ones are (Rusche, Morey, people like that). You can even take a freshman seminar with Natasha Tretheway.</p>
<p>As for VCore: Basically all of the VCore instructors are top notch instructors and their course content is usually pretty intellectually stimulating (the way they present it at least). Also, the core creates a pretty solid freshman and sophomore intellectual community with networking opportunities (via things like the Emory Williams Lectures and other activities) from what I hear. </p>
<p>Try ratemyprofessors.com; the reviews there aren’t always consistent but you can sometimes get a general feel for a professor’s style. The main problem I’ve encountered with the site is the lack of reviews for a lot of 100-or-200-level English/Comp Lit professors.</p>
<p>That can probably be explained by the instructors per term/year being so variable (grad-students and visiting scholars often teach those). </p>