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ENGL035420 days ago

hands down the single greatest class I have taken at middlebury. professor siqqidi is so smart I have never met a more knowledgable person - the books were so interesting and the essays and theory we learnt was great. she is a very fair grader, flexible with deadlines and allows rewrites, but the course is very niche, and if the description doesn't interest you I would not take the class. very theoretical and fills the REC requirement for the English major. I will definitely be taking more classes with her.

hands down the single greatest class I have taken at middlebury. professor siqqidi is so smart I have never met a more knowledgable person - the books were so interesting and the essays and theory we learnt was great. she is a very fair grader, flexible with deadlines and allows rewrites, but the course is very niche, and if the desc …Read more

Chill and RelaxedFair GradingNo Exams
8hrs / week Some difficulty Extremely high value Would take again
ENGL0268last month

Though the material in this course was interesting, I wasn't a huge fan of Siddiqi's teaching style. The lectures weren't very clear so learning really was done only on a personal level. By no means a bad class, just not my favorite English class.

Constant ReadingTough GradingNo Exams
4hrs / week Average difficulty Low value Would not take again
ENGL03134 months ago

The content in this class is extremely important, and Professor Siddiqi is clearly very knowledgeable and excited about it. For a J-term class it was pretty fast paced, and a bit too much work. I felt like I didn't have time to fully digest or understand each reading as I should've had. Would've been good to space them out/cut down a little bit more so that more people would have engaged. She generally did a good job of explaining the argument of each piece, although there were a good amount that could have been clearer. Regardless, I actually really liked this class and found it really rewarding. The readings (both theory and books) were really interesting, and she's come up with a great syllabus. Again, I think she could cut down, but I get the sense that she wants to give as cohesive of an understanding as possible so she wants all the material. She does cold call if nobody is talking. I think she grades pretty fairly, but definitely expects good quality.

The content in this class is extremely important, and Professor Siddiqi is clearly very knowledgeable and excited about it. For a J-term class it was pretty fast paced, and a bit too much work. I felt like I didn't have time to fully digest or understand each reading as I should've had. Would've been good to space them out/cut down a …Read more

Fast-PacedConstant ReadingFair Grading
8hrs / week Very difficulty Extremely high value Would take again
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