Elizabeth Morrison

Probably one of my favorite classes I have taken at Middlebury. Professor Morrison is a great teacher and is extremely accommodating. The class is overall pretty fair, with quite a bit of reading for homework. Overall, as long as you stay up to date on readings and assignments, the course should be no problem.

Professor Morrison is a good teacher plain and simple. She is passionate about her work, she greatly helps and aids her students and her lectures are interesting. I especially loved the way she did papers in this class as she made us submit and proposal and draft before the final version was due. I felt this really helped me develop not only my writing skills but my ability to formulate and execute a plan for a paper which is a valuable skill I will take with me to all my future classes. It also had the advantage of making the class feel less stressful because I had most of my paper done at least a week before the whole thing was due. The readings are interesting and if I'm being honest, I wish I had done more of them because the pair well with the class and she does a excellent job of showing the changes and congruencies of Japanese religion over time

Professor Morrison is a good teacher plain and simple. She is passionate about her work, she greatly helps and aids her students and her lectures are interesting. I especially loved the way she did papers in this class as she made us submit and proposal and draft before the final version was due. I felt this really helped me develop …Read more

Professor Morrison is sweet, kind, and dedicated, which makes the class inviting. Her grasp of the materials is also impressive, and she often concretely contextualizes the course material in a historical sense. However, I left the class craving more content on the philosophical side of Buddhism which, unfortunately, just wasn't the focus of the seminar.