<p>So I was looking at all the first-year writing courses available for Fall '09, and there are clearly some courses I'd rather take over others. Thing is, if my entire educational history is any indication, I'd much rather have a good prof than a good course, as a good prof can make any course interesting, but a good course is not necessarily interesting when taught by a bad prof.
Right now I'm just looking at a couple courses on Fall</a> 2009 ENGL 1111 Course Offerings Available for Registration ("Education and Coming of Age" with unknown, "Popular Culture" with Musiol or Zilleruelo, and "Representations of the Past" with Poudel.
Any insight as to which professor is preferable here? To clarify, I'm not asking who the easiest professor is; just which professor makes the course most interesting, and which professor is easiest to get along with perhaps?</p>
<p>I was actually confused about the first-year writing courses. Did we have to choose one of those? I turned in my class registration thing online today and didn’t put a writing course down…</p>
<p>I recommend ratemyprofessors.com to check on profs. Also, in myneu, under “self service” are the TGA teacher evaluations, which can be helpful.</p>
<p>There are SO many writing professors that most people won’t be of much help, we all have different professors and a lot come and go. My profs for both writing reqs (freshman “college writing” and middler "advanced writing in the disciples) were excellent, but I think it’s really luck of the draw on that. </p>
<p>You don’t have to take writing first semester, you will need to take it freshman year. If you didn’t sign up for it for fall, you can take it in the spring.</p>
<p>Try to take ENGU111 class with James Richie as a professor, I really enjoyed his class as it was a lot more interesting than the same class taught by other professors. He was a grad student however so I’m not sure if he will be there again as his title was referenced by “staff” on my schedule. He is a great professor and I really enjoyed his class. He brings a lot of philosophy and abstract thinking into the class vs. just reading/writing/revising. He was a pretty easy grader as well.</p>