Review:
Professor Taliaferro clearly puts a lot into teaching this course. He's very knowledgeable and has a lot of information contained and meticulously organized in each lecture. I do feel like I learned more in this course than in a typical course, but I found his style very frustrating. He's organized to the point of being anal, which is nice if you want incredibly specific instructions on how to write a paper his way but kind of frustrating if you want to be inspired or have your own way of expressing yourself at all. He's also a really intense personality- I guess I mean he's conceited and thinks very highly of himself and his class. He does do his best to learn everyone's names and make himself available outside of class, though.

Workload:
The reading load was pretty heavy and pretty dense. A lot of it was hard to understand or not quite interesting enough to follow. If you fall behind, it's really hard to catch up. There are a few light quizzes in recitation, a midterm, a final and a 10 page research paper.

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