In this class, I was expecting to not have to stay up until 4 am in the mornings as an incoming freshman. I felt that this quarter had heavy reading material . Sometimes we would have to read stories ranging from 10 pages to 50 pages and that was not suitable with me as I was taking 2 other classes that were somewhat light-heavy in material. You have 2 papers, each paper is offered a second revision, but be aware that your first revision and second revision both earn a grade. The TA that I had for this quarter was not satisfied with any of my papers, she was continuously focusing on my grammar criteria rather than my analysis. I didn't feel comfortable in this class for the first quarter as I did not learn proper essay writing in high school, so I had to start this quarter off with English Composition 2. I think the grading criteria for this quarter should be less critical to students who are taking an English 2 course on campus because they haven't developed the excessive skills needed yet as students in English 3 have. Furthermore, having not learned proper grammar usage, I highly encourage anyone taking this course to go to the Undergraduate Writing Center a couple of times to make the essays as clean and organized as possible. You would be surprised by the end result. However, second quarter was a little less vigorous on content probably because of the Evals sent to the professors. Although there was massive content, there are also 5 quizzes for the quarter ( 1 quiz towards the end of class every 2-3 weeks). I personally disliked the quizzes as I did not find memorizing all of the reading material would be useful to my success in the future of this class and beyond or help me understand anything. Personally, I thought Professor Burdoff was excited to teach the class, but as her specialty is in European literature, we read stories that are from this region. However, I wish we could have read stories coming across different cultures besides mainly European sources in this class, so that I could read different perspectives that other cultures had on mythology. Overall, I still have no idea how myths apply to today, but it is a good course to take if you are interested in reading many stories, scholarly articles and books, and learning about these concepts beyond a narrative setting.