Daniel Sundahl - Hillsdale College

Professor: Daniel Sundahl
Department: English
College: Hillsdale College
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ENG102
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Alas my old professor has retired but the lessons learned from him, and his wisdom, live with me today. Such a good man, an inspiration to me and now inspiration I;m trying to pass on to my three children.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ENG104
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Sadly, Dr. Sundahl has retired. There are good professors at our college but few with good grandpa qualities. If good teaching is not only content but personal experience, amazing stories, well, we miss him, especially the very warm and friendly time in his offide.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH105
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Sundahl was my professor for two core courses: English 104 and English 105. He organized the class with a large lecture, small serminars, and in office tutorials. As a first year student, I was very appreciative of the time he gave again and again. And the occasional hug when I was down. He made a major impact on my life.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH404
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Sundahl offered this course as an overload, on top of all his other duties and his last semester of teaching. My first poem was two pages long; after editing, I was left with three lines and his comment that the three lines made a very good poem. It was something to watch and although hard to watch, I learned a lot. Wonderful man, wonderful
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH402
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Interesting title for a class: We the People, An American Journey. More a survey of American Intellectual History, but, oh my, an intellectually life changing experience from a funny, quietly good, very human and prudent man. Skipped one class and felt guilty but made it up in his office.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I'm in my second year of law school. Dr. Sundahl was my first year Great Books professor and my honors thesis advisor. In retrospect, my success in law school is the result of him teaching me to read well, write well, and think well. That and his law school recommendations and his care for my well-being were superb. I owe him my future.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH404
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class was a small seminar, ten students, in creative writing. There was some reading from Maritain but mostly introductory material and then workshop on our own writing. It was stimulating and I learned more about how to read and write, about myself, and others than every before. Brilliant class taught by a very fine man.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: 393
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I enrolled in Dr. Sundahl's two course IDS 393, God and the American Writer. The class was like a survey class but the theme was to survey different theological attitudes of American writers from the 17th century to the later 20th century. The class was, to say the least, inspirational. Just first rate....
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: GREATBOOKS
  • Grade Received: Audit/No Grade
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I came to know Dr. Sundahl through two on-line courses; the first lecture was on the Book of Job. The second on Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Of the professors lecturing, he was the best. I'm grateful for what I learned and have revisited the lectures. There was no grade for credit but I passed the quiz. He's a truly inspirational man.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH105
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Sundahl is the finest professor I've known in two years of college. No one has made a bigger impact on my life.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: GREATBOOKS
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Sundahl is the type of professor to not only help you develop basic english rhetoric skills, but his teachings and lectures influence far beyond the classroom. He is terribly sarcastic and witty, but I think that's because he believes in the radiancy of his students and he's not one to take excuses. In fact, I find him oddly humble. Great man.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: GREATBOOKSJOB
  • 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:
Dr. Sundahl's online Great Books class on Job was lucid, reaffirming and inspirational. Job repents in dust ashes because he's stayed true to the Holy Spirit and sees through this material veil to Man's Redeemer God's omnipotent Holiness purpose. One is grateful to truth guides. Thank you, Dr. Sundahl
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: ENG101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Sundahl is a wonderful man. He has his way of teaching, he has always used that way of teaching, and he will never change. His focus on the themes of history is fascinating, but is probably more suited to a philosophy class than an english class. If you do the mountains of reading, think, and smile, you'll probably get an A.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ENG101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I had Dr. Sundahl over 10 years ago, and now I am an (economics) professor myself. He was one of the most influential professors I had at Hillsdale. If you think he's hard, suck it up. If you can't understand him, ask or do some independent thinking. Listen to what he says. Trust me, it'll be useful later on, no matter what field you pursue.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: ENG101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
While Dr. Sundahl gives you ample experience practicing sarcasm and teasing skills, he gives you no help with the literature or your papers. We studied more philosophy and science than actual literature. He would probably be a good upper level professor, but I strongly discourage freshman from taking him.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: ENG102
  • 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:
Dr. Sundhal, while being a nice guy, is an awful teacher. His writing is absolutely awful and incomprehensible. He's rude and short when you ask for help. He thinks everyone is stupid and it's the most conceited English teacher I have ever met. It's his way or the high way- to the extreme.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: ENG101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Some people like him a lot, but I do not. For a class entitled rehtoric and great books, we didn't read a single book, only exceprts from many different books. There were no quizzes, and the only exams consisted entirely of writing assignments. He is a nice enough man, and tries to help with papers, but his help is not very useful.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: ENG101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great prof, and great guy. I'm still laughing at his lectures. Every class was a treat because of his amazing sense of humor and his phenomenal lecutres...THE smartest man I have ever met, on everything...great guy, EVERYONE should take a class with him!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: ENG403
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Sundahl is brilliant, extremely knowledgeable, very fun, & kind. I don't think he's arrogant;he just really doesn't care about impressing anyone anymore. He teases relentlessly, but just tease back. Try to grasp the ideas, & ask if you don't get it. Go to his office, he's great to talk to and really cares about his students. He's hard but fair.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ENG101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Sundahl is quite possible my favorite person. He. is. awesome. Do the work, take an interest in the topic, and above all, TEASE BACK AT HIM! That's what he wants, AND it's fun. A reasonable grader and fascinating lecturer.
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