ENGL 108A
English Bible as Literature: Old Testament
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Professor Batten is one of the best professor I ever had at UCLA. Being a South campus major, my professors are dull, boring, and i often fall sleep during their lectures. But Professor Batten is very lively and animated. He makes the lectures fun by telling good stories, and use students as live demonstrations (usually some weird ceremonies that we are discussing in the bible). I never once fell asleep in that class because Batten makes is so fun and interesting. The reading material is kind of dull, just make sure you read everything for the mid term and final because there will be a passage identification section. The class itself if pretty easy.1 midterm, 1 final, and 1 paper. Although it is an upper division English class, Batten did not grade the students as if they were English majors which is a really good thing because I took this class as a south campus major and 1st year. Batten is also very helpful during his office hours. He helped me a lot on writing my paper and writing in class essays in general. so I highly recommend him to everyone who's interested in learning about the bible or just want an easy english class (those of you pre meds). I had a lot fun with him, and learned a lot too, contrary to some of the science classes.
Professor Batten is one of the best professor I ever had at UCLA. Being a South campus major, my professors are dull, boring, and i often fall sleep during their lectures. But Professor Batten is very lively and animated. He makes the lectures fun by telling good stories, and use students as live demonstrations (usually some weird ceremonies that we are discussing in the bible). I never once fell asleep in that class because Batten makes is so fun and interesting. The reading material is kind of dull, just make sure you read everything for the mid term and final because there will be a passage identification section. The class itself if pretty easy.1 midterm, 1 final, and 1 paper. Although it is an upper division English class, Batten did not grade the students as if they were English majors which is a really good thing because I took this class as a south campus major and 1st year. Batten is also very helpful during his office hours. He helped me a lot on writing my paper and writing in class essays in general. so I highly recommend him to everyone who's interested in learning about the bible or just want an easy english class (those of you pre meds). I had a lot fun with him, and learned a lot too, contrary to some of the science classes.
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Impressive, intelligent, intimidating, and understanding. What he has to say is both interesting and insightful. His lecture style is unique in that you'll often spend the entire time wondering when he'll start telling you something you should take notes on - he very much believes that you should be reading, interpreting, and learning the books on your own, so his lecture is an amalgam of his opinions, opinions of other scholars, historic background, and his favorite details. If you have trouble focusing in classes that provide no visual aides or clear structure, then you will definitely have trouble listening to his lectures. I took 108B; 50% of the grade was from a 7-12 page paper due finals week (he verbally gave us some rough ideas about topics in second week, but it was pretty much a free for all) and the other 50% of the grade was from a final (very predictable, he gave us ~110 terms ahead of hand and told us to expect 20 or so of them on the test, plus we were told in advance to "specialize" in a book of the bible of our choice that we would then answer an essay question about on the test). In my opinion, Maniquis organizes his class like every class should: it encourages students to explore their interests and learn and research on their own. However, when taking other traditional classes with more tests, assignments, quizzes, paper etc. this one kind of falls to back burner.
Impressive, intelligent, intimidating, and understanding. What he has to say is both interesting and insightful. His lecture style is unique in that you'll often spend the entire time wondering when he'll start telling you something you should take notes on - he very much believes that you should be reading, interpreting, and learning the books on your own, so his lecture is an amalgam of his opinions, opinions of other scholars, historic background, and his favorite details. If you have trouble focusing in classes that provide no visual aides or clear structure, then you will definitely have trouble listening to his lectures. I took 108B; 50% of the grade was from a 7-12 page paper due finals week (he verbally gave us some rough ideas about topics in second week, but it was pretty much a free for all) and the other 50% of the grade was from a final (very predictable, he gave us ~110 terms ahead of hand and told us to expect 20 or so of them on the test, plus we were told in advance to "specialize" in a book of the bible of our choice that we would then answer an essay question about on the test). In my opinion, Maniquis organizes his class like every class should: it encourages students to explore their interests and learn and research on their own. However, when taking other traditional classes with more tests, assignments, quizzes, paper etc. this one kind of falls to back burner.
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