William Watterson - Bowdoin College

Professor: William Watterson
Department: English
College: Bowdoin College
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH24C
  • 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:
Creative writing poetry seminar with Watterson in 199? was an epic experience with a brilliant man I will treasure for the rest of my life. The small group setting played to his strengths and we all got comfortable interrogating each other's texts along with brilliant tangents and stories. Everyone in the class was smart & eccentric. Great class.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ENG011
  • 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:
He's an amazing, knowledgeable, engaging professor who knows how to make Hawthorne interesting. He values original thought and analysis over a typical well-written canned "high school" essay but is not a harsh grader. And it is COMPLETELY FALSE that he dislikes female students.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ENG211
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
class time was COMPLETELY useless. his lectures are completely what he thinks about the text and doesn't really entertain alternative ideas. He pushes back deadlines very willingly, but gives no topics for essays and grades them really hard.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: ENG018
  • 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:
Watterson rocks. Tells great stories and quotes an array of random sources on his tangents. Really laxed on deadlines. Great professor.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: ENG013
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Watterson knows something about everything. No matter what a student says in class discussions, he will have a comment for it. He will never try to make you feel stupid but its hard to avoid with a ma who knows as much as he does. Be careful because he is a tough grader.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ENG18
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The Hawthorne first year seminar was GREAT! Watterson is a great professor who is understanding and very laid back, AND BRILLIANT! The class is laid back, sometimes boring, but able to withstand.All you really need to be able to do to get a good grade in this class is read works, analyze, and write papers. He is not a really hard grader! LOVED IT!
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ENG210
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's speectacular. Totally eccentric, but knows so much. I feel like I actually know a lot of about Shakespeare now. Last class, he read a poem and walked out crying. Totally into it; awesome prof.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ENG
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Crazy and wonderful. Take his class for the experience of him.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: SONNETS
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Brilliant man who respects brilliance and erudition above hard work and merit. More should be like him.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ENGLISH211
  • Grade Received: P
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Without Bill Watterson the English Department at Bowdion would lack in the same way that the Philosophy department currently does. Prof W is testament to the future of our language, a teacher with expansive knowledge who does not limit his material to the confines of a single theoretical pigeon-hole
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ENG014
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
An experience. Totally out of his mind, brilliant, and funny. Just a cute old man who knows something about everything and a lot about English. You need to be excited to be there, though.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SEMINAR
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Stay away.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SEVERAL
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is the smartest man I have ever met.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ENG210
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
awful and profoundly weird. He genuinely dislikes his students and it shows.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: ENG014
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Eccentric. Old school. Doesn't buy into feminism, revisionist approaches to literature/history. Goes off on tangential topics alot. Not strict with deadlines. His comments on my papers were long, thorough and helpful.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: ENG210
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A professor that you need to experience once in your life. is a tough grader, but sitting and listening to his stories is def worth it.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SEMINAR
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Definitely rambles. Gets off-topic. Doesn't give you paper topics. Hard grader. Makes you think and has interesting comments, but is a true eccentric.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: ENG210
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
very interesting, doesn't teach at all about shakespeare, do not take him unless you want to memorize seven plays.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: ENG202
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Truly a unique individual. Classes are surreal and the discussions of the text are basic, but the underlying passion, knowledge and hidden meanings are very intriguing if you let yourself get absorbed in.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ENG110
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Class involved sitting still and listening to Watterson tell us what to think about the text. A tape recorder would have been just as helpful. At least he had some amusing stories.
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