Debra Fried - Cornell University

Professor: Debra Fried
Department: English
College: Cornell University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL2045
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She rambles A LOT. The entire class consisted of her "lecturing" which wasted the opportunity to discuss in the small class. She was fun and interesting at times, but usually very boring. Worst of all, there were very few grades. I never knew how I was doing in the class. I feel that my grade did not reflect my knowledge of the material accurately.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: FWS2702
  • 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:
Debra is great. Her lectures, although tangential most of the time, are really insightful and interesting. She is super helpful one on one, so definitely take advantage of that. Rarely gives back papers, but when she does her comments are attentive and good. You can tell she has read your paper, but she won't give them back..? Take her class
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL3610
  • 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:
Professor Fried is absolutely brilliant! She is also extremely helpful if you approach her during the office hour. With so much credential under her belt, she has an extraordinary patience as a lecturer and often infuses the supposedly boring lecture with rare insights. She might possibly be one of the English professors at Cornell.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Haha oh, Debra... the type of professor who's so off the wall, you take for granted how insightful her lectures are. She's an engaging lecturer in a very bizarre way and unintentionally hilarious. I enjoyed her class, but it sometimes made me want to die. Regardless, she made boring rennaisance literature interesting, which is a tough thing to do.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL201
  • 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:
Brilliant.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL201
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
the material and assignments were not very difficult, there were very large amounts of reading. i didn't enjoy the class because she never handed anything back and i got very frustrated. my self control was barely up to the challange of not having a giggle fit every time she started foaming at the mouth whilst speaking middle english.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL202
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
What others have said about assignments being handed back late was true, but on the plus side, several of the assignments were never assigned at all! I thought the lectures were generally very interesting, and Fried had lots of insight into the trickier bits. Also, she does respond to emails.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ENG201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
what everyone else said, basically. That class could've been really good, but she never returned anything.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Fried is a really good lecturer, but this semester she slacked off. The TA did most of the grading and handed papers back really late because he had so much to do. The midterm was returned THE DAY BEFORE THE FINAL!!! The class could have been good, but Fried's poor communication limited it.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ENG201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I signed up for this class extremely interested and intending to take the next course in the sequence (202), but after this semester there is absolutely no way I will take 202 while Fried teaches it. I still haven't gotten any of my papers back. Take 201-2 when someone else teaches it.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ENG201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
One of the worst professors I've had. She knows her stuff and seems very intelligent, but she never gave us our assignments on time or returned any of our papers, even when we were supposed to revise them!
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: ENG201
  • 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:
She taught me how to figure out verse in poetry. It wasn't until afterwards that I learned how brilliant and accomplished she is, thinking back on it she had the patience of a saint.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: ENGL460
  • 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:
Fried is one of the most erudite and accomplished professors here.
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