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Eric Jager
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Winter 2024 - Professor Jager is such a delight in the classroom! He's thoroughly engaged with students and passionate about what he's teaching. I firmly believe that you get the grade you deserve when it comes to his class. As in, doing the work and participating during lecture will almost always result in a good grade. Even if you're worried that you'll be overwhelmed by reading Canterbury Tales (so middle English), he helps you along the way. (Google is also free, and there are MANY sites offering modern translations to aid you on your journey.) My big recommendation is to utilize his office hours; he's a big help when you take papers/tests to him before they're due! Speaking of, he lays out the entire course at the beginning of the quarter, including providing the final exam and final paper.
Winter 2024 - Professor Jager is such a delight in the classroom! He's thoroughly engaged with students and passionate about what he's teaching. I firmly believe that you get the grade you deserve when it comes to his class. As in, doing the work and participating during lecture will almost always result in a good grade. Even if you're worried that you'll be overwhelmed by reading Canterbury Tales (so middle English), he helps you along the way. (Google is also free, and there are MANY sites offering modern translations to aid you on your journey.) My big recommendation is to utilize his office hours; he's a big help when you take papers/tests to him before they're due! Speaking of, he lays out the entire course at the beginning of the quarter, including providing the final exam and final paper.
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Winter 2010 - I took Jager's Chaucer and Medieval lit class this year, and both were fantastic. Professor Jager is not only extremely knowledgeable and brilliant, but very accessible. He goes out of his way to meet with students and, I've found, is very encouraging and helpful in office hours. I personally have only gone in to discuss papers but I have friends who went in just to talk to him about texts, grad school, etc in a more casual way and said he was very engaging and helpful. He doesn't pile on reading, which is wonderful. He does have high expectations for essays and exams, but he grades fairly. Personally, I preferred having a smaller amount of reading and being able to pay closer attention to it rather than speeding through mass volumes of text like in many courses. I've never been a fan of Medieval lit but Jager's lectures actually made it really interesting. He's always energetic, thoughtful, and really very funny. His chalkboard drawings are awesome too. Basically, he remains my favorite professor and I highly recommend taking a class, any class, with him.
Winter 2010 - I took Jager's Chaucer and Medieval lit class this year, and both were fantastic. Professor Jager is not only extremely knowledgeable and brilliant, but very accessible. He goes out of his way to meet with students and, I've found, is very encouraging and helpful in office hours. I personally have only gone in to discuss papers but I have friends who went in just to talk to him about texts, grad school, etc in a more casual way and said he was very engaging and helpful. He doesn't pile on reading, which is wonderful. He does have high expectations for essays and exams, but he grades fairly. Personally, I preferred having a smaller amount of reading and being able to pay closer attention to it rather than speeding through mass volumes of text like in many courses. I've never been a fan of Medieval lit but Jager's lectures actually made it really interesting. He's always energetic, thoughtful, and really very funny. His chalkboard drawings are awesome too. Basically, he remains my favorite professor and I highly recommend taking a class, any class, with him.
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This is a class on Chaucer, this is also a class with readings in Middle English rather than translated English. I took him in the summer and felt that...this class could have been better in a longer semester and I sort of regret not taking it in a longer semester because there was NO paper involved although this class was pretty easy despite that. I feel his class had lots of busy-work and he even told me it's much different than his Medieval class, which I wanted to take, but decided to wait. He's a funny guy and likes to see his students around once in awhile, and if I had to say anything about his class it's this: if you're interested, take it in a long semester but if you're not, take it in summer.
This is a class on Chaucer, this is also a class with readings in Middle English rather than translated English. I took him in the summer and felt that...this class could have been better in a longer semester and I sort of regret not taking it in a longer semester because there was NO paper involved although this class was pretty easy despite that. I feel his class had lots of busy-work and he even told me it's much different than his Medieval class, which I wanted to take, but decided to wait. He's a funny guy and likes to see his students around once in awhile, and if I had to say anything about his class it's this: if you're interested, take it in a long semester but if you're not, take it in summer.
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Winter 2016 - Professor Jager's senior seminar was one of my favorite classes at UCLA. He is funny, engaging, personable, and really chill. He brings the class cookies every week and he really respects students; he talks to us like we're colleagues and often tells us our ideas are innovative and fascinating. I loved the class and if I could I would take the rest of my English classes with him.
Winter 2016 - Professor Jager's senior seminar was one of my favorite classes at UCLA. He is funny, engaging, personable, and really chill. He brings the class cookies every week and he really respects students; he talks to us like we're colleagues and often tells us our ideas are innovative and fascinating. I loved the class and if I could I would take the rest of my English classes with him.
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