I love Professor Moe! She truly cares about her students and tries to make online seminars engaging. She makes sure everyone gets a chance to talk during class, and gives encouraging compliments. Content-wise, we watched The Plot Against America (a mini series), Get Out, and the Blackkklansman, which we were asked to write two essays on. The writing homework due before class usually took me less than 1 hour. Overall, the workload is fair and manageable. One thing to keep in mind is that politics and social justice play a huge part in class discussions and essays, so think twice if you're not that into politics.

I really liked professor Moe. We read the Handmaid's Tale along with a couple other stories. The readings aside from the novel were a fairly interesting and added perspective to what the main ideas of the book were. The class was very well designed holistically, and the final essay wasn't much of an issue with regards to formulating a thesis and backing it with citation. I'm not sure what other ENGCOMP3 classes are like, but this one is worth taking if you've got to get the GE out of the way.
Do the readings, don't cram the essays. It's like any other English class.

Loved the class! Professor Moe really knew how to incorporate everyone into discussions and challenge our ideas in her written and spoken feedback!

Hi everyone! This class is very interesting and productive. As a freshman student, it was easy to adapt and pass the class. Professor Moe is engaged with her students and expects everyone to participate in the weekly meetings. This quarter we had the theme of Art of Resistance, which mainly involve watching three films. For the most part, you read several articles and write a 200-300 word summary. There is a midterm and final paper, which is very important for your grade. If you do good on those two papers, then you pass the class. Here is the Grading Percentages:
Paper 1: 30%
Paper 2: 50%
Homework essays/Participation: 10%

Good Luck!

Class Review
I basically just took this class for the GE credits, but I would definitely recommend Prof. Moe and her classes to anyone out there looking for an engaging class with a passionate teacher. The class overall is what you would expect: an english class with reading assignments, group projects, and papers. However, what may differentiate this class with another english class would be Prof. Moe; as a teacher, Prof. Moe looks after every one of her students, looking to improve their understanding through her lectures or in-class discussions. She sometimes makes mistakes on small things like how far in the novel we are, or assigning the wrong set of reading homework, but those are negligible mistakes that the class simply laughs off. As a STEM major, I would be lying if I fully enjoyed every single day in that class, but I do admit that it could have been much worse had it not been for Prof. Moe.

As a biochem major, I dreaded taking english, but Professor Moe’s class was a nice surprise! She’s super kind, engaging, and made class fun even over Zoom. The class focus was Political Violence, with discussions covering both historical and recent events like January 6th, 2021. Professor Moe mixed informative and entertaining content—we read about 4 articles weekly, but also watched shows and movies like The Last of Us, Bridgerton, Vice, and Blackkklansman. I found the workload manageable, even in the 6-week summer format. That said, I really recommend keeping up with material, because we had regular content quizzes and a discussion participation component of our grade. We also had four short essays (around 600 words each) throughout the course and a final paper, which included a first and second draft. Professor Moe graded everything herself, and as long as you thoughtfully engaged with the material, it was easy to do well. My writing improved a lot in Dr. Moe's class, and I’d 100% recommend her to anyone taking ENGCOMP3!

As someone who never liked and was never good at English throughout high school, Dr. Moe made classes and writing tasks interesting. We had to watch one movie every week on average and a few readings that saw the films from different perspectives. If you keep an open mind, the topics are complex and fun to work through :) Participation grades are easy to max out as long as you speak up once every week; there are reading/movie quizzes that are fairly straightforward (loss points can be recovered through an optional essay); four 300-word homework essays are graded pretty leniently; and a final essay which does have to be more analytic and sophisticated to get a good grade. Overall, Dr. Moe is the best professor/English teacher I've ever had (she even brought donuts for us!), would really recommend this class to anyone looking to fulfill writing 1!!

I really enjoyed Dr. Moe's class, she was so so nice!! We talked about life after Roe v. Wade was overturned, feminism, and abortion. She was really understanding that everyone may have different opinions and wanted to create a safe space within our classroom.
It is NOT a traditional English class!! Moe does not walk you through how to write an essay, unlike other english 3 classes, and you have to get used to writing it the way she wants.
At times there was a lot of work due, but as long as you did it you would be fine. The homework essays wouldn't take too long, but there was often at least an hour or two of something you had to watch and read. Moe offers ten points of extra credit if you write an extra essay, and I would definitely recommend doing that! She also definitely has favorites, as there are no rubrics. That being said, as long as you pay attention in class, participate occasionally (I participated maybe once every other week and received an A on participation), come to every class, do the homework, and read/watch everything you will do absolutely fine. I would 100% recommend this class if you're interested in the topics and need writing 1, but you should already be a strong writer coming into it.

Relatively easy class, though assigned movies and articles could get a little bit long (she assigns one video and two article assignments every week).
Essays were pretty straightforward, she didn't grade too harshly.
A little strict with ensuring that you have your course reader and/or articles printed out.
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Professor Moe's class was super engaging and fun. Definitely recommend her class if you want an easy writing I course. Attendance and participation are mandatory for a good grade, but she is really accommodating and offers more than enough participation opportunities. Her homework is not difficult at all as long as you put in the time and effort to do it. There is only one final essay for her class and she gives you a lot of writing freedom. Professor Moe offers a lot of feedback and advice in writing the paper too :))

Weekly homework breakdown: Watch one film weekly and write a homework essay (500 words) connecting to an article she assigns, In-class group work assignment on an article

Overall grade breakdown: paper rough draft (10%), final paper (40%), homework (25%), group project (5%), participation (20%)