Avis Hewitt - Grand Valley State University

Professor: Avis Hewitt
Department: English
College: Grand Valley State University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ENG225
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Hewitt is the SWEETEST! If I had to describe her in one word, I would say gracious. She is super understanding and cares about each student individually. On top of that, discussions are very interesting and she gives really good insight into the readings. There is a lot of writing and reading, but it's really not too bad.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: EN225
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Values and seeks your opinions and input, so be prepared and read the material. Very flexible and understanding if you are absent, late with a paper, etc. But don't try to take advantage of her, because she ISN'T stupid, just generous. Has a brilliant mind and an amazing knowledge of history, literature, and media. PROOFREAD YOUR WORK!!
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ENG335
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Don't take ENG 335 with Hewitt. She does not have good time management. Nothing ever matched the syllabus. Her idea of class discussion is she poses a question and then tries to spin your answer to match her own. The readings were fine for the class. It's a lot of single page papers and two tests matching the stories to quotes from the text.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: LIB100
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Do NOT take her class. Save yourself the extra ridiculous amount of work for an actual higher level class. If you don'd do the reading you'll be in trouble. She's very unorganized and unclear with her instructions and gave multiple papers and projects the last few weeks of the semester.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: HNR224
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Avis is, by far, one of my favorite professors. She's sweet, kind, and overall understanding. She is willing to move essays and due dates in order for everyone to be as prepared as possible. Make sure you get to know her!
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ENG225
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
It may not seem like it at first, but Professor Hewitt is a great prof who really knows the material. She is passionate about it, and wants her students to understand. There aren't any tests or quizzes, but there are four papers. They seem intimidating at first, but she's not a super hard grader; just make sure to double check your grammar.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ENG226
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She assigns a lot of reading, but not too much for an English major. The real problem lies in her abuse of power. She asks personal questions, fails to turn off her cell phone ringer even during student presentations and final exams, and spends more time focusing on her interests than class content. She's sweet but completely unprofessional
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ENG216
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
While the content of the course wasn't too bad, the sexist and pseudo-racist comments made at certain novel characters weren't appreciated by this English major. Unfortunately I have to take another of her classes, but I don't look forward to it at all.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: ENG226
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I hate giving Hewitt such a low rating, but I feel it necessary. She goes off on tangents. What appears on the surface as quirky and fun quickly becomes distracting. Her individual interests can take precedence over lecture, causing loss in topic focus.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ENG226
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Professor Hewitt is a sweet lady, but she is a bit scatterbrained and her lectures are all over the place. She takes forever to grade your papers, and the class is entirely based around her lectures of the short stories. She wants all of the papers written in a strange way, and you have to read them to the class.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ENG266
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Avis is a sweetheart and very knowledgable, you can tell she really cares. She's pretty disorganized and all over the place and likes the papers done in an oddly specific way. There's a lot of reading - a short story for every class. Discussions are usually interesting. Not a hard class if you put in the effort - Overall pretty O.K.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: ENG226
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Professor Hewitt is a sweetheart! The class pretty much consists of her lecturing on the stories we read and going on the little tangents about the authors. There is quite a bit of reading but its all pretty interesting. The only grades are 3 critics on stories of your choice and 3 critical analysis's expanding on what we discuss in class.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: ENG226
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She's an extremely kind woman and very passionate and intelligent about the subject matter. She's a little disorganized, her lectures are often all over the place, but you can still get a lot out of the class. If you like reading and discussing literature, this is perfect. She's super helpful over email as well and if you participate you'll be good
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ENG226
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Extremely disorganized and unclear. We never knew when things were due, there were no rubrics for grading and criteria was completely unknown, and we could never accomplish all of what she intended in class because she would get very long-winded. Avis is very opinionated and it intimidated people into not expressing their thoughts.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: HNR224
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Love Avis! At first I was a little unsure of her because she's can be a little overwhelming. You just have to nod along sometimes, but it makes the class interesting. If you put in the effort and follow the criteria, she is a fair grader. Very helpful over email. I would recommend Avis!
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: HNR213
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I view Avis almost as a grandmother. This woman is hilarious and her lectures never make any sense, but they are just so enjoyable. It's tough to know exactly what she wants, because she never really explains it, but if you email her a question about a paper she will basically write the thesis for you. If you participate often you'll be fine.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: EN225
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She has a ton of knowledge and loves to share it. Pay attention and do the reading, and note the things she repeats or likes about a text, they will be in on the final. If you enjoy learning about Literature she is great.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: EN225
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very sweet and knowledgeable professor. She's definitely an acquired taste as far as lectures go. Several times she's gone off topic, which can be quite funny but we fall behind on material. Very few one-page papers but be ready to read a lot. Opinionated and semi-tough grader. Not too sure what I took away from the class but it was okay.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: HNR214
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Extremely disorganized and we only got one paper back so its impossible to know what your grade is like. She asks lots of confusing questions about the reading that no one had an answer to. Also announced on the day of the final that she lost our final and made us right an essay that no one was prepared for.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ENG225
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Prof. Hewitt is a very fun-loving professor, but she can tend to be a little ADD in her lectures. She often gets off topic which causes us to get behind. Her assignments are very different than anything I've done: 1 page papers with very little format requirement. We bounce around in the literature very often and it can be a little hard to follow.
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