Fulya Pinar

My experience in this course has been overall good. Lots of readings, like a lot, but she assigns the whole week of readings in one go, and is on par, if not a little more, with other senior seminars. I agree that the amount of readings could be more focused and shortened, as we do not typically have enough time to even fully address the readings in class. Pinar also does weekly outlines for each week, which I found incredibly helpful to grasp and quickly understand the week's topics. All the work is really readings with a discussion post, a comment in class, and you're good for the week. The midterm paper and final paper are really the only other assignments, so you largely chill for the school week.

My experience in this course has been overall good. Lots of readings, like a lot, but she assigns the whole week of readings in one go, and is on par, if not a little more, with other senior seminars. I agree that the amount of readings could be more focused and shortened, as we do not typically have enough time to even fully address …Read more

Professor Pinar was incredibly caring towards all of her students and super effective in her lectures. I loved how she allowed students to lead classes and advocate for their own learning. She was super sensitive with the difficult content which we discussed.

She was very passionate about the topic but the class was very unorganized and I did not learn much. The reading was constant but repetitive and the projects were busy work and not well explained. It was relatively easy but lots of busy work and confusing standards. She also graded participation extremely harshly and unfairly. I would not take a course with her.