Comments:2301 - I really liked this class. Professor Hargrave cares and loves what she teaches. I found the information to be interesting, and the class is a good mix of discussion, lecture, and other activities. There are lots of different assignments and ways to keep a good grade even if something isn't your thing. You will have to do a LOT of reading, and you have to do it. But besides that, this class is one I would take again.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:ENG 2301 - Dr. Hargrave is a very great professor! I took her summer class, and though the readings could be long at times, they were always interesting stories and the workload was never too much. The class consists of discussion boards, quizzes, and one final exam. It is entirely essay questions, so it is necessary to actually read and watch/take notes on the lectures to do well in this class. The class definitely was not too easy, but as long as you pay attention to the information she gives you in lectures and in her feedback you will do great in this class! She's very understanding and wants her students to do well, the material is also entertaining so I'd highly recommend taking her as your BritLit professor, she's awesome!  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:2301 - Professor Hargrave is a very in-depth instructor who is willing to take the extra step for students to understand the course material. The class is generally a reading heavy class. There are periods of heavy reading, and some periods of light reading. But the average reading time per homework day would be around 1~2.5 hours. There are also small quizzes before 10am every class (so thrice a week). The quiz grades plus analytical assignment grades are more heavy altogether than the finals, so they matter. Overall, the reading was intensive, but I never had a class which brought me genuine interest in literature and authors like this class did. I am overall very happy with my choice of choosing this class.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:2301 - Dr. Hargrave herself was a very nice lady, but this class was awful. The amount of reading she required was 2+ hours for each reading 3 times a week that all had a quiz you had to take after before class. She graded very hard on the quizzes and the multiple major assignments that we had throughout the class. I spent the most time on the readings for this class than any other class I was taking and I dreaded it every single time. If you enjoy heavy reading than this class is good for you, but there is A LOT of reading and the information is very very dense and hard to understand. You discuss the readings in class after you have taken the quiz already, so if you had a different interpretation than professor Hargrave your grade would suffer and you had no way of redeeming that grade. I feel like this class did not benefit me in any way and honestly wasted my time and negatively affected my GPA. If you like reading and are good at interpreting big readings then this is a good class for you, but if you aren't like me, then I don't recommend taking this class.  - Grade In Class:B

Comments:3351 - I did not enjoy Dr. Hargrave's class. There is always a lot of reading to do for her course and the reading itself is very dense. There is not a lot of outside assignments and there were no quizzes, but this is a double edged sword in that if she disliked one of your essays you have almost no chance of bringing your grade back up. She also is a very strict grader on essays and does not provide a lot of feedback on the essays, so improving from essay to essay is difficult. The grading at times also seemed inconsistent, as fractions of points would be removed from assignments for unexplained reasons. She was a nice person and obviously cared a lot for the readings, which is likely why she pushed to include so many of them, but it lead to a huge amount of reading and little time devoted to each. The readings themselves were also not very varied, but if you enjoy 1800s romantic novels written by women, you will enjoy this. However, if you are interested in Gothics, fantasy or science fiction elements, or other things that are not Romantic (period) poetry or romantic (themed) novels, you will spend most of the class disappointed. Overall, not a great course if you are not completely devoted and already familiar with the subject matter. I ended up with an A-, despite my best efforts, and often felt that the fact that I was not an English major was something to be looked down upon.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:2301 - Dr. Hargrave, I admit, is tough if you don't keep up with the reading and such. However, she is absolutely brilliant. She knows what she is talking about in class and offers amazing insights to your work. She works you to make sure you can formulate an opinion, which is good for future work. Yes, her load is a bit bigger than some, but she knows what she is talking about and really wants you to absorb the information properly. She also was willing to work with me through a lot with COVID and online classes as Canvas is hard. She wants you to succeed.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:Romantic Poetry - Dr. Hargrave is an excellent teacher. She is helpful, friendly, and flexible with office hours. If she forgets to remind that a paper is due two class periods before, she’ll move the due date back. With the transition to online learning after spring break, she made it a very smooth transition and was very understanding and flexible with attendance and assignments due dates—if you were moving across the country suddenly and couldn’t come to class or complete the paper on time, she was okay with class and pushed the deadline back for you. She mediates discussion well and prompts us to think and engage with the texts. There is reading for every class and then discussion of the texts in the following class period. The reading can range from maybe fifteen minutes to a an hour and a half. No quizzes, no tests. Writing assignments include three close readings of poetry (2-3 pages) and three short essays (4-5 pages). The final was a 7-8 page paper with a short presentation. Overall, great experience being in her class!  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:ENG 2301 - (A-) I loved British Literature in high school. I've read several books by Austen and Shakespeare of my own volition. However, Dr. Hargrave is the most bi-polar professor I've ever had. Let me explain. She seems really nice in class and during office hours, but as soon as you start to like her, she pulls the rug out from under you. She is an interesting lecturer for the most part, and she sometimes tried to incorporate fun things in class, but she was not a fair grader. She told me at the beginning of the semester that for our papers, we should go straight to the writing center. She explained that she looked for certain things, so she wanted us to have an outside perspective. Basically, she was warning us that she could be biased about our topics. I did exactly what she suggested--I went to the writing center. The first time, it improved my grade by one point. The next time, it was the same grade I got without going to the writing center, even though the peer tutor told me that I had done an amazing job with it. For the last paper, I went to her office hours, which was a struggle because they were always during prime class times or cancelled the day before any paper was due. She was nice when I saw her, and my grade went up three points on that paper. Obviously, she just wants you to agree with her, or it's wrong. Tests were doable, but your hand will feel sore after writing furiously for an hour and fifteen minutes. If she's feeling benevolent, she's give you an extra five minutes. Another thing that bothered me about Dr. Hargrave's class was her inability to use the right ISBN numbers in her syllabus. She puts page numbers for how much you need to read each day, and for one book, she told me that I had the wrong version. (She gave us a quiz over the page numbers from her version of the book, so I didn't finish the "required" reading or get a good score.) Later, I double checked the syllabus, and I had the right version, so the page numbers she gave us were misleading. When I mentioned it to her, she blamed the book store. As far as I know, the book store doesn't write the syllabus... On to homework, I hope you like reading. I hope you like it immensely. We had an average of ninety-one pages to read per week. Keep in mind, while I like to read, I had other classes that were more pertinent to my major. However, I still had to spend a lot of time writing meticulous notes over every single detail. Her quizzes were weekly and unannounced. Therefore, it was vital to read the assigned material before class. Still, she asked the strangest questions. Once, she asked for the exact place (city and country) in which a minor character was born. There were other examples too, but I won't go into it. The tests, as mentioned, were long. They consisted of six or so essay questions and sometimes another five-paragraph essay. Late in the semester, we had a huge group project. It involved researching a theme in a book and creating a wiki page for the book. It was not completely boring, but I looked at Word and I spent seventeen hours editing my writing. I tried my hardest to do well on the project and get an A+ in the class. Despite my hard work, she gave me a high B on the project, which made me less than a percent off from a A+ in the class. (By the way, you need over 93 percent to achieve an A+.) Finally, let me touch on her evaluation bribery. She asked us specifically to wait on our course evaluations until the last day of class. On that day, she gave us a "free one hundred" on our last quiz. Also, she brought cupcakes for us. Then she asked to get out our computers and do the course evaluations while she "waited outside." Overall, Dr. Hargrave was disappointing to me. I think she could be a good professor if she would be slightly more organized or a little less subjective about our grades. Unfortunately, I don't think she's going to change. I advise anyone taking this class to drop it if you can, and take it somewhere other than Baylor. Although the class isn't a guaranteed fail, it is not worth dealing with this professor.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:2301 - Take this class if you love reading. Like a devastating amount of reading. Some weeks were \"light\" maybe 60 pages of two columned small text reading in old English. Others were harder with close to 200, but it all averaged out to around a hundred pages of hard reading every week. As if this was not enough, there is the possibility of a quiz on the reading every day of class. Proffessor Hargrave chose not to release averages on these quizzes but if I had to estimate the average, I would say they land between 15 and 35 percent. Tests had averages of mid Bs and were pretty fair. The main problem with this course just being the ridiculous workload and the fact that it may have been mathematically impossible to get an A. All that being said Hargrave is a pretty smart lady who will make you think. However, I would only advocate you take this class if you enjoy spending 3 a night reading old English literature.   - Grade In Class:B+