The instructors strength is communication and active engagement

In this class, we wrote an Op-Ed and a Feature. We had a final mini “TedTalk” on the Feature, which can be pre-recorded. Besides the readings, that was it as far as assignments.
I found Professor Hartenberger to be the perfect professor. She provides so many resources that help one formulate their writing pieces and we read many interesting works as well. The peer-reviews were a critical part of the class which I also enjoyed. She has mandatory conferences/office hours which are encouraging. She is very uplifting and kind in her review of your work - anyone can walk away and feel like their work is being recognized. One thing I have to say as a humanities major with no science background is that it may be helpful having some topics in mind to write about prior to class, if you find that you need time to come up with ideas like I do. However, I still felt welcome into the class and cannot think of any reason anybody - whatever their background might be, regardless of their writing levels - would not enjoy it.

I loved Hartenberger! She is so nice and the class is fair. Our theme this quarter was technology and AI. We didn't have any textbooks and she posted links to articles we would discuss in class. The articles and stuff she posted weren't bad either and they weren't too long. She would often elaborate after you share your thoughts in class discussions too and ask questions based off the readings, but they were pretty chill questions. It's not like she was trying to quiz you or anything like it would be something like, "do you use social media a lot and how do you think it has affected our daily lives?" It was engaging and we did a lot of peer-editing which not only helped us with our essays, but it helped me make friends. She also had required one-on-one meetings with her for our essays that lasted 20 minutes and class would be cancelled so we could do those meetings instead. We had 3 essays, but the first one was a low-stakes personal essay that she marked as completed instead of an actual letter grade. We also had some discussion posts on the readings. She was a good professor and would definitely be willing to answer questions or help you out. She also said if I needed an extension on an essay, she would be happy to give that to me when I had one of my one-on-one consultations with her for my last essay. I ended up not asking for it and submitted it on time, but it was nice of her to offer since I mentioned I had a lot of other writing projects due near the same time when she asked how I was doing.

As everyone said, you will be set for english if you could successfully enroll in this class.

Loved this class, and professor is the best! Highly recommend.