Awful class - awful prof

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UNAPPROACHABLE, ALL OVER THE PLACE, MEAN, AND PUNISHES THE STUDENTS THAT COME TO CLASS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT SKIP OUT. SHES AN OVERALL MESS.

This woman needs to be on What not to wear...or something...she's never clear in her lectures...I would have learned more on my own...And I wouldn't be as confused!

This woman must be stopped. She teaches things that are flat-out untrue. Fudges timelines, grasps for meanings that arent there, yet then manages to still shoot down student ideas. Avoid her at all costs.

Dr. Carolyn Sale is an unpredictable professor. She was very clear and effective at the beginning of the class, but by midterms I could not understand what she was saying: When asking for answers from students, she did not specify whose argement made sense, making the same affirmative sound for each student. This was the first class I ever dropped.

she is not only unhelpful, when asking her a question she will proceed to give you the most ambiguous, unclear, disaster of an answer basically implying that "you should know this". In addition to this, she blatantly favours the drama students. Completely biased! if i go the rest of my life without seeing this woman again i will be happy.

Do not take a class with this prof. Sure, she seems like a nice person, but being nice doesn't make you fit to teach. Expect more mandatory readings from her than all your other classes combined. Bizarre grading scheme. Possible to fail the term paper before even handing it in? Skip this prof unless you already write Hamlet fanfiction.

She designed the entire course on Hamlet. The course is called Case Studies in Research and she focused the entire course on Hamlet. This biggest waste of time and energy. She provides no criteria for papers and assignments, she takes weeks to respond to emails, she has pop-quizzes on readings from her 100 dollar books that are RECOMMENDED.

Professor Sale is patronizing and rude. Her lectures are confusing and she doesn't have realistic expectations for students. She assigns ridiculous amounts of homework and readings. Avoid taking her classes.

One of the worst professors I've ever had. She demands participation but constantly was rude to students and made people feel dumb. She adds extra assignments not on the syllabus and assigns way too many plays. Not to mention she sends out rude emails calling people out. She made me never want to go to class. I can't stress enough how bad she was.

Worst class I've ever taken, try to choose another ENG103 class if you can. Made everyone feel dumb with her feedback and felt insulting if you didn't agree with her. She does not prepare you correctly for the difficulty of her grading scheme.

Carolyn Sale is disrespectful and picks favourites heavily. Her office hours are pretty good. She made us read her own essays and recommended books that were extremely expensive yet somehow expected us to understand and know them. Avoid Carolyn at all costs, not a good class to take if you won't be her favourite (and it's not worth trying to be)

the worst professor I have ever had. For no apparent reason, Carolyn is incredibly rude to her students, patronizes them, and sends out class emails concerning specific individuals explaining why they are wrong/and what mistakes they made. She is so disrespectful. I can't imagine how somebody wakes up that grumpy everyday.

Very political. Just reword her views and feed them all back to her for an easy A. Be sure to let her know how brilliant she is as often as you can.

Worst prof. No social skills and completely lacks filter. Very rude and disrespectful, and doesn't entertain ideas or arguments that don't align with her own. Lectures are hard to follow. Students are called out and ridiculed in class, online, and via email. Her expectations are too high. She provides NO criteria and her feedback is gastly.

Lectures are incredibly hard to follow. Carolyn has little room for perspectives that are not aligned with her own, and will make it known that she does not think your ideas are good enough. Expectations are high in regards to essay content but Carolyn does not give clear instructions or enough time to complete the assignments to her standards.

Dr. Sale is one of the toughest graders and least helpful teachers I've ever had. She will only give feedback if you schedule a meeting with her, where she will tear your writing apart line by line and offer almost no advice to make it better. She is also close-minded and will only entertain ideas in discussions that are similar to her own.

She is a terrible prof. Gives big assignments with little to no warning and they come almost one a week. She constantly reschedules office hours (up to three times), and doesnt make accommodations. She also makes use watch videos or productions that a graphic or potentially triggering without any warnings. Do not take a class with her

She is a passionate and knows about what she is teaching. However, I found her unprofessional and rude. I think she was trying to get students to drop her class. My first assignment, not my best work, got a very rude email without any constructive criticism. My second was better and she suddenly wanted to help. I dropped anyways, she seemed mean.

I beg of you, do not take any class with her. It is not worth the credits. This semester consisted of many last-minute surprise assignments, passive derogatory statements in zoom meetings to students who had been scared to respond with their own interpretations of the text, and impossibly high standards. Zero respect for students or their wellbeing

Sale insisted on class participation even though she notoriously publicly degraded students' interpretations of the text. Her office hours were used to laugh at students' work. Essay feedback was just an excuse for her to dump criticism and puff up her ego. You will be deemed a terrible writer no matter how hard you try. Avoid at all costs.

bruh no one liked her at GFC, and no one likes her as ENGL prof LOL

If you have the option, do not take her class at all costs.

Out of all the English courses I took at the UofA, Carolyn Sale’s was the worst. As a professor, she has no real teaching ability. On a personal level, she is incredibly rude and takes any opportunity to humiliate and ridicule her students. Don’t even think about having an opinion or interpretation that is different to hers. Steer clear.

While I have not finished this course yet, I can undoubtedly say that this is perhaps the WORST professor I have ever had. There are no clear marking guidelines, and her lectures are hard to follow, especially when she pulls up with 90+ slides for one class. I'd rather walk into traffic than take another class with her.

I had ENGL 215 with Carolyn Sale and I was in her class for a total of 2 days. She has a way of talking a lot without really saying anything, which make her lectures extremely confusing. Furthermore, after reading about the way she treats students I was scared to continue the course.

Avoid at all costs.

Just... don't. Criticism is great but to the point of telling you what SHE thinks about what you said and why you're wrong? Not so great. Prep to slug through extensive reading. Pop up assignments are frequent and last-minute, the "grace notes" for essays and formal assignments are constant and difficult. Never again will I do this to myself.

Her comments were borderline insulting and her instructions contradicted her feedbacks. She had instructed us to write about OUR OWN TAKE ON A READING. Yet she had said my ideas were not the answers she was looking for. I had my friend re-read my essay afterwards and her feedback and was also confused by her contradictory. Would not recommend!

Feedback is insulting and unhelpful. If your ideas don't align with hers, she will make you feel bad about it and tell you you misunderstood or did not even read the text. Her class is not a safe space for new ideas. She is unwilling to help students. Do NOT take her class if you have any choice in the matter. Its a relief to be done with her class

Sale is a brutal professor. Her feedback is rude, and hurtful. She does not have a clear grading criteria. There is lots of texts to read and she is not clear on what will be provided and what is not. She is the harshest grader I have ever had. The class is all paper pencil, no electronics and in class essays you have about an hour to write.

nightmare of a class and worst prof I've ever had. extremely rude and gives horrible feedback. If your ideas don't align with hers you will not pass and she will belittle you. Lots of readings. Avoid this class and prof at all costs

I had prof sale for ENGL 215, i was in the class for a few weeks before dropping it. Her lectures are all over the place and very hard to follow. She has over complicated slide shows with dozens of slides and just flies through them. I was lost most times as she went on tangents not relating to any readings. She seemed very rude overall stay away!

Sale is the most brutal and awful professor I have ever had. I submitted an assignment that was supposed to be about my own opinion on Shakespeare and she sent me a scathing and rude email that said my ideas were UNHELPFUL! Very rude to some of her students and even to her fellow professors. I recommend staying far away from her classes

Absolutely insane requirements for assignments - how on earth is someone supposed to write a GOOD 900+ word paper in an eighty minute class period? With no prompts before hand? Avoid.

This is easily one of the most frustrating courses I have ever taken. I wanted to learn about grammar, hamlet, and research. However- I was not prepared for how disorganized this course was. If you are not a fast writer or fast reviser do not take this course. If you want a course to teach you how to do reasearch and grammer- take a different 103.