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[AHIS W4330] Paris in the Middle Ages

Departments: Art History

Professors: Stephen Murray

January 01, 2003

Murray, Stephen Silver_nugget
[AHIS W4330] Paris in the Middle Ages

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I dropped this class midway through the semester. It never ceased to amaze me that lectures given using PowerPoint could possibly be so confusing, poorly organized and typo-ridden (there were often so many typos that what he had written was almost illegible). Murray would spend days talking about a single cathedral using terms he hadn't explained and jumping around from facade, to interior, to arches, and back to facade again until students were hopelessly confused. He would introduce and reintroduce confusing arguments sporadically and perfunctorily. By the time I dropped the class there were about a third of the people there had been on the first day of classes. The last straw was when he announced that most people had received bad grades on the midterm.

Workload:

Midterm, final, research paper.

Directory Data

Dept/Subj Directory Course Professor Year Semester Time Section
AHAR / AHIS AHAR AHIS W4330: Paris in the Middle Ages Stephen Murray 2002 Fall TR / 10:35-11:50 AM 1