Kay Ryals - Irvine Valley College

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Kay Ryals - Irvine Valley College

Professor: Kay Ryals

Department: English

College: Irvine Valley College

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: WR1
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

EASY A. You can find the extra credit in quiz feedback, essay prompt, and class hand-out.... So read everything she provides early cause some extra credit is first come first serve... there are four essays and she gives great feedback on the draft, and she gives full credit as long as you did the discussion, quiz. weekly discussion and quiz.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: LIT22
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Ryals is overall a great professor. She can be a little clumsy in regards to sensitive matters like race issues, as we read a lot of colonizer literature. You can see that she doesn't have mal intent though, and is quite open to honest dialogues. Homework is easy, just READ the stuff. Her midterm wasn't hard, and the class itself was fun!

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: WR1
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Ryals is a good professor, but she makes you work for your grade. I took her online WR1 and there was a lot of reading, discussion posts, peer responses/reviews on the daily. She was considerate towards her students and lowered the word count on discussion peer reviews, and gave really helpful feedback on essays. Fair grader.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: WR1
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Ryals was probably my favorite professor this semester. She is very kind and gives good feedback in and outside of class. Her prompts and essays are as difficult as any other class would be, but she give students many opportunities to improve. There are peer reviews and audio feedback that help a lot.

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: WR1
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:

She is not happy when you are against with her point. She does not take criticism after student gave out opinion about her class. She makes student work harder and grade harder after we said her class is hard and a lot of work. It is because she asked our opinion and so we told her the true. She can't admit that she is wrong. She attacks everyone.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: WR2
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

one time a student came in late and she started shouting at him in front of everyone and completely degraded him which takes away from the time we have for class and shows she has a lot of anger she takes out on us. She would tell me over email to talk to her about smth in class and when I would she'd suddenly ask me to go sit down and not answer m

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: LIT23
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Ryals is very sensitive and if she doesn't like you she will make you and the rest of the class know because she will belittle you in front of all of them and start ignoring your emails. I didn't like her class because she always left negative feedback on things I scored 20/20 on and never gave me good feeback on the things I aced unlike my friends

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: LIT23
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Ryals is very sensitive and if she doesn't like you personally she will definitely make it known to you and the rest of the class that you are less than them. if you're someone that isn't into kissing ass and being overly friendly to how emotionally demanding she is, she will give you really bad feedback and nothing will satisfy her.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: WR1
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I took her online course during the summer and it was one of the hardest classes I have taken. There is reading every night followed by a 300 word post and 300 word reply to each of two classmates. She is very clear with her direction so there is no confusion on her expectations. This was a great class but it requires real dedication and effort.

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: LIT22
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:

I already love literature, but Prof Ryals brings something special to it. She has really interesting lectures and the class would go by really quickly. I was a little worried that I wouldn't enjoy this class, but by the end of the course I bought the textbook that I had rented. She makes the subject really, really interesting.

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: LIT23
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Ryals makes you really care about what you are reading. Extremely nice person, very intense, shows an interest in her students, enthusiastic about her area of specialty (American Literature). You HAVE to show some interest to get something out of this class, and you will not do a good job if you skip lectures often. Makes you work for it.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: LIT23
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very nice lady, her syllabus isn't 100% solidified she occasionally cancels classes so it changes but that's good because she does what's best for the class and its students. She takes a while to input grades, but she gets it done! She offers extra credit opportunities! Her quizzes can be challenging but if you read you should be fine!

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: WR1H
Grade Received: B
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Ryals is a nice and personable professor. She was a bit disorganized though but made up for it by extending deadlines. Her feedback on papers was limited but if you make the effort to ask for more help she'll give it to you no problem. She really wants you to try and talk to her for feedback so you can do better. There's a LOT of reading though.

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: WR1H
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She's really sweet so make sure you're good to her! Make sure to look at your syllabus and make time to read and annotate. Pay attention to the rubrics and try hard (:

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: WR1H
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Ryals is great! She gives really good personal feedback for everyone's essays/work. Lots of peer review in her class, but it really makes you a better writer. Sometimes she gives candy/cookies :). Also doesn't hurt that she's the Honors Program director, so you can ask her questions about HP if you need to.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: WR1H
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

If u have gotten solid A's in the past on papers, u should do fine in this class. She tells u what she wants and DEFINITELY go see her during office hours to fix your essay, even if you think it's good. 4 essays total, and research project due at the end. Laidback teacher- have pushed back 2 essays due to her unavailability 4 help & missing class.

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: WR1
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:

Dr. Ryals is incredibly knowledgeable, thorough and truly cares about teaching. I enjoyed the books she chose for our course and the variety in our essays. I've heard other classes focused solely on one topic the entire sem and I was really glad we didn't. Since it was online I liked that we got to pick and choose what to respond to. Def recommend!

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: WR1
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Would NOT recommend online! SO much work it's super difficult to keep up with. There isn't good feedback from teacher or peers either because it's online.

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: WR1H
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:

Great professor, super knowledgeable and really cares about her students. If you ever have questions or difficultly, she is more than ready to help you. Fair grader, but beware that she is particular. For this class she specifically wanted an intro sentence and conclusion sentence for every paragraph so just be sure to follow that stuff!

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: WR1
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

If you truly have a thirst for learning, Professor Ryals is the way to go. She gives great constructive feedback and I'd imagine her intelligence is off the charts. She seems to really "get it". She would the the few professors I know that seem to truly care. Her class was tough, but I learned a lot.

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