In a world where we are taught not to judge a book by its cover, this class is one of the rare exceptions. What you see is what you get. Kathryn Neeley single handedly ruined my will to learn, turning this potentially interesting class into a slow drawn-out test of patience. She is the epitome of "I'd rather see my enemy fail than my friend succeed", turning into a lion in the Serengeti, hunting out and cold calling students who didn't read her assigned readings (which she wrote and made us pay for. And it was objectively not good writing). Compared to other classes, the workload was incredibly excessive with the most inconsistent grading the world has ever seen. No such thing as a free weekend, as you go into the weekend with nothing and then get hit with a surprise quiz and 50 readings that she made up on the spot. Do not ever take this class.

For a professor who has worked so long at the University of Virginia, it is baffling to me that she is unable to adapt and use technology correctly. Big year of 2025, why are we paying for a reading packet, half of which is her own writing, and picking it up in a wine shop and there are still pages missing. She consistently struggles to use Canvas correctly and will constantly change the location of certain assignments for the fun of it I guess. Goodluck figuring out what is due each week, she doesn't know either. The class is her lecturing the whole time then either cramming a group assignment into the last 15 minutes or the most useless small group discussion that takes 30 seconds. Want a easy to follow rubric your paper? Good luck! You will only see it after the paper is graded. Want to know what you did wrong on a paper? Good Luck! She writes in hieroglyphics and she barely translates them for you. You want an 100 in participation? Unless you talk more than her, that's impossible. The class isn't difficult but sitting in the class is the equivalent of 16th century torture method. Nice person to be fair but made this class so unenjoyable.