Professor
Maura Lucking
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2019 - Lucking is a terrible lecturer. She makes her class difficult to follow. Her slides include only pictures. To me, that is the most egregious offence. Without words, we don't follow her logic, see what points she wants to emphasize, and generally don't follow her. We listen to her drone on and on, but we see no point in her words. It turns into a garbled mess as we try to copy down what she says. There are no words in the slides to refer to in case we missed something she said, and we don't see all the important points of the lecture, making it very difficult to connect all the ideas together. In addition, she makes studying for her tests unnecessarily tedious. She makes us memorize about 50 slides with each including a name of piece, date, and name of artist. She tells us that she will pick 4 of those to be included on the exam. Those are way too many slides to memorize specific details about them. Lucking is clearly disconnected with the student.
Fall 2019 - Lucking is a terrible lecturer. She makes her class difficult to follow. Her slides include only pictures. To me, that is the most egregious offence. Without words, we don't follow her logic, see what points she wants to emphasize, and generally don't follow her. We listen to her drone on and on, but we see no point in her words. It turns into a garbled mess as we try to copy down what she says. There are no words in the slides to refer to in case we missed something she said, and we don't see all the important points of the lecture, making it very difficult to connect all the ideas together. In addition, she makes studying for her tests unnecessarily tedious. She makes us memorize about 50 slides with each including a name of piece, date, and name of artist. She tells us that she will pick 4 of those to be included on the exam. Those are way too many slides to memorize specific details about them. Lucking is clearly disconnected with the student.