Jennifer Ortegren

Ortegren is an amazing professor. She is so passionate about the material and genuinely cares about her students. She is pretty flexible with deadlines as long as you reach out to her beforehand, although she does have somewhat stricter attendance guidelines. The reading quizzes are pretty easy as long as you take notes in class, and the two major papers were not too bad either. She brought in some really cool guest lecturers too.

Ortegren is an amazing professor. She is so passionate about the material and genuinely cares about her students. She is pretty flexible with deadlines as long as you reach out to her beforehand, although she does have somewhat stricter attendance guidelines. The reading quizzes are pretty easy as long as you take notes in class, and …Read more

Professor Ortegren shows a lot of enthusiasm during class. You can tell she enjoys her work and really wants you to think about religion differently. Her approach is about religion in peoples' everyday lives. I definitely recommend this course. There's a lot to take from it and it's very interesting. Constant reading, only a few papers, and few quizzes about general concepts.

This course was taught by both Professor Schine and Ortegren. Keep in mind- it is not an "introduction to religion" so much as a comparative course between Judaism and Hinduism. There is a fair bit of reading with scheduled reading quizzes throughout, and the grading is on the tougher side. I had Ortegren as my grader and I believe she is the easier grader. Overall, it was an interesting enough class and I would take it again.

This course was taught by both Professor Schine and Ortegren. Keep in mind- it is not an "introduction to religion" so much as a comparative course between Judaism and Hinduism. There is a fair bit of reading with scheduled reading quizzes throughout, and the grading is on the tougher side. I had Ortegren as my grader and I believe s …Read more