ENWR 2800

Absolutely loved this class. Professor Allison takes a unique approach to teaching english and writing by focusing on collaborative work and getting to know everyone in the class. Four different speeches: conversational, dramatic monologue, historical, and polemical. Barely any reading and not that much work every week, just consistently about 1-4 hours/week. Graded on specs grading, so she gives you a rubric and if you do everything on the rubric you meet spec and pass the assignment. If you don't, you're given 3 chances throughout the semester to redo/make up an assignment. Very easy to do well in the class, and the professor is great. She's super friendly, loves interacting with students, and is willing to work with you to make sure you're succeeding in the class and really taking a lot out of it. Only issue was towards the end it got tiring and I kinda lost motivation to do anything, but that was mostly on me. Highly recommend to anyone interested in public speaking or just looking for a fun, easy class to take.

Would not recommend. Professor Allison teaches public speaking in such a weird way, and instead of teaching classical speech writing she attempts to teach more general speaking concepts (i.e., speaking everyday, for a presentation, on a podcast, etc.). While you can still take away a lot from the content, and the concepts are themselves interesting, the assignments/projects don't give you actual implementable practice that you learn the skills through. The class has much potential if it were restructured a bit, but until then I might try and take a different class.