Florence Feiereisen

Florence is the perfect professor for Beginning German. Her enthusiasm is unmatched, and she has a clear love for teaching, making it a much more enjoyable experience as a student. She has a talent for pronunciation and will give you a million different strategies to work on tricky sounds. Although class meets every day, you almost never get bored of it because Florence keeps the classes interesting and engaging. If you are interested in starting German, I would highly recommend taking a class with Florence.

Florence is the perfect professor for Beginning German. Her enthusiasm is unmatched, and she has a clear love for teaching, making it a much more enjoyable experience as a student. She has a talent for pronunciation and will give you a million different strategies to work on tricky sounds. Although class meets every day, you almost n …Read more

I had no idea what to expect heading into this course, as it had to do with the “aurality” or sound environment of German cities, as they developed over time. However, we ended up doing a variety of cool readings — from Foucault to niche articles about the architecture of Berlin. Very interesting class, I learned things I would never have otherwise discovered.

Florence is a very excited person, who has an evident passion for teaching. She's fun to have in class, and she has a good style where instead of exams, we have open note non-collaborative homework worksheets. These are preferred to exams, but OH MY are they painful to do. The content is all accessible through her powerpoints which she uploads, but the slides are not particularly informative, and it is often painful to just even figure out what she wants you to do. The content is occasionally interesting, but the weekly worksheets have really taken the fun out of this class for me. She is also a very strict grader. 50% of your grade is based on the worksheets, and they are graded with brutal precision, despite the fact that her power point slides are not informative, and we have very little guidance for how to actually answer the questions.

Florence is a very excited person, who has an evident passion for teaching. She's fun to have in class, and she has a good style where instead of exams, we have open note non-collaborative homework worksheets. These are preferred to exams, but OH MY are they painful to do. The content is all accessible through her powerpoints which s …Read more