Sam Ostrow

Sam is super fun. The projects are also super fun. Took this as an environmental studies cognate and enjoyed it thoroughly. It was fun making colleges as opposed to reading responses. Would recommend this class to a friend as an easy A.

The class is interesting and fun and Sam is a great professor. We had to create a collage every week to go with the readings, which I enjoyed. What I did not like is the labor-based grading system where completing every assignment gets you a B and you have to complete an additional 6 assignments to work your way up to an A. The assignments are not difficult, but the extra time was impossible to allot during the semester, and I spent most of my Thanksgiving break making them up.

The class is interesting and fun and Sam is a great professor. We had to create a collage every week to go with the readings, which I enjoyed. What I did not like is the labor-based grading system where completing every assignment gets you a B and you have to complete an additional 6 assignments to work your way up to an A. The assig …Read more

Sam Ostrow has a unique take on life and architecture. His experience as a practicing architect shows. As a non-arc major who has always wanted to take an architecture class, this course was perfect. Weekly assignments were in the form of collage-based reading responses which we then discussed. Also had 2 major projects in the semester plus extra collages or a project to get an A in the class. In total it amounted to a fair amount of work but grading was entirely completion-based. The course has a lab but most weeks it is cancelled. Only complaint is I wish Sam lectured more; he has lots of interesting thoughts but most classes involved us complimenting each other's collages which was quite boring.

Sam Ostrow has a unique take on life and architecture. His experience as a practicing architect shows. As a non-arc major who has always wanted to take an architecture class, this course was perfect. Weekly assignments were in the form of collage-based reading responses which we then discussed. Also had 2 major projects in the semest …Read more