Professor Gilmore is clearly passionate about the course and carefully selects the texts we read so that we end the quarter with an overarching message. Yes, you had to read, and there were pop quizzes, which you always got full credit for anyway, but it's a university-level English class. I don't know what else the people complaining would expect

. Ward never responded to help unless you actively went into his office hours and even then the answer was usually a shooing away answer.

Don't take Professor Gilmore. I am an upper division English major, took English 10 as a pre-req. I feel bad for all the people in this class who's first impression of college-level English is with this professor. He seems passionate about reading/content but does not deliver well and really doesn't teach, just states his opinions/interpretations.

And I thought Xianzhe Dai was bad..... this man's class is nothing short of hell. Imagine taking being one of the handful of students who actually took notes before the lecture and then your friend who did nothing gets a 100 and you get partial credit. Hmmmm sounds like inequities to me. My TA didn't care that my friend got into a bike accident.

Professor Gilmore is awesome. His lectures are thought-provoking, and he was constantly relating course material to daily life. He does go on the occasional tangent, and there are pop quizzes throughout the quarter (so you can't skip out on lecture), but I really enjoyed this class and the material it covered.

super easy class, lectures are quite random and unnecessary, but he gives pop quizzes. If you go to lecture and skim the readings class is easy