Ron Lunsford - University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Ron Lunsford - University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Professor: Ron Lunsford

Department: English

College: University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: ENGL4160
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

There's a lot of reading and usually a quiz every class. If you read the material, you will pass the quizzes, and if you do the work, you will pass the class. He gives very detailed feedback on all papers. There's usually a bit of group work every class, which is also an easy A as long as you turn in the work.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: ENGL4160
Grade Received: C+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He is not an effective grader and made the subject of linguistics even more confusing than it had to be. Every class is group projects and some people dont even do anything and still get your credit. Dont take him!

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: ENGL4160
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Do not take this class under any circumstances. He's a tough and extremely unfair grader. You'll worry more about getting good grades than actually learning the material. Like other reviews have said, he wants your essays to match his ideals perfectly. Even if it's an opinion based piece, you're wrong if you don't agree with him 100%.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: ENGL3132
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

If your answers don't cater to exactly what he wants to read, be prepared to fail. He doesn't make his grading criteria clear and gives lots of readings so you drown in information overload. Even if the course material is interesting, his bland lectures make everything terrible. I wish I had dropped this course when I could have.

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: ENGL2161
Grade Received: B-
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He assigns quizzes, homework, tests, 2 essays, 1 group essay, a common place book (roughly 30 quotes and 30 comments you will have to create), group work every class sometimes with two group work assignments in one class session. Overall his course is full of work, work, work, group work, and more work . Do not taking thinking it will be easy class

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: ENGL4160
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

The class was more interesting than I expected. If you come prepared to learn and think and work you will do well. Read the assignments, you will get quizzed at the beginning of almost every class. Lots of group work in class but papers are individual. He expects a lot but is willing to help you get there if you ask. He wants students to succeed.

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: ENGL4160
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Dr. Lunsford has an extremely dry sense of humor. It's difficult to tell if he's making conversation or lecturing because he rarely writes anything on the board. His classes are also very unstructured. Be prepared for a lot of group work and make sure you read everything. He grades papers very harshly.

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: ENGL1103
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.5
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not a bad professor at all. Kind of a dry sense of humor, might cause people to think he's mean. He seemed genuinely interested in what we wrote/thought. Was very relaxed on due dates for assignments, tried to make you pass with a decent grade. I would take this class again with him, as along as you put in minimal effort you will do fine.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: LBST1102
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

although attendance isn't mandatory, you have quizzes almost every day! He gives you 6 books to read throughout the semester and you have to watch the movies because you are tested on them. I felt like 1 in a million in this class. To be honest I texted the whole time. Pay attention or you will get lost

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: ENGLI1
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.5
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

You have to read very well in his class and work hard for your grade. He is sarcastic at times but he also has a heart to take into consideration your efforts when grading you. He is jumpy on topics as he is teaching. You must come to class well-prepared. Bottom line:read, read, study, study.

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: ENGL6XXX
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

There's a fine line between genius and INANITY. This guy erased it. Lots of linguists' lingo, jargon, and jibber jabber in the test and in class. In his course, education isn't an experience. It's just a false memory.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: ENGXXXX
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This is how to write a paper for this guy: ?Class is used in the service of the status quo,? says Lacan. A number of narratives concerning not theory per se, but subtheory may be discovered. .." It's all meaningless, just like his course content. He's got his favorites who spout back the same drivel that he teaches. Unless you want to become anothe

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: ENGL6100
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Ronnie, we all know how your identity is all wrapped up in your job and that your personal security hinges upon being the most intelligent creature on earth, BUT CAN YOU GIVE US A BREAK? We'd all like to have our GPA's back.

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: ENGL201
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Excellent professor. Would gladly take any class that he teaches.

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: ENGL2100
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.5
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Lunsford is definitely one of the best professors at UNC Charlotte. True, his assignments are difficult and he grades harshly, but if you show that you care and meet with him to ask questions, then you will get the most out of the class. He is wonderful and gracious and I would love to take another class with him.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: ENG2100
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Excellent teacher if you're prepared to work! Very willing to work with you and not at all arrogant.

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: ENG6160
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

First of all,if one of his accomplices in the Eng Dept doesn't like you,you'll have a difficult time in his class, even if your papers make it abundantly clear that you grasp the material and can extrapolate it(pretty much true throughout the dept).If you arrive in class with no such baggage, you stand a chance, a slim chance. Suck up.

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: ENG2100
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.5
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I have to say he is the most BORING professor I have ever experienced. If you are not an english major dont even bother taking him...you will be dissapointed. His assignments are hard and his chosed text is quite dull.

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: ENGL6000
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

In his class you?ll learn to renormalize the phenomenology of narrative space, resolve the dialectics of metaphorical thought, collectively redefine and reify the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor according to Baudrillard, Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Saussure, et al. Really. Ain't that sumpin'?

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: ENG6160
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

They broke the mold, and then they made Lunsford.

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