4.2
Quality2.5
Difficulty80%
Would Retake101
Reviews80%
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What Students Say
“A very interesting class”
ENG205 - 5.0 rating“I learned a lot; that is the most important”
ENG205 - 5.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
67%
Textbook Required
40%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
A+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
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Declining
-0.24 avg changeRatings by Course
ENGCOM
5.0
(1)ESL40
5.0
(3)HIST101
5.0
(1)ENGL124
5.0
(2)ENGL205
4.7
(6)Difficulty by Course
ENGL124
3.5
ENGCOM
3.0
ESOL40
3.0
ENG110
3.0
ENGL101
2.9
Reviews (101)
Dr.Vienna is a wonderful instructor. She is very organized and extremely helpful. Her classes are fun and interactive. She explains very well and makes even hard things easy to understand. One of the best instructors ever.
Great personality! Great teacher! Take her!
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Great teacher. Very helpful. Now I know how to write a good esay. I feel that I enjoy writing now.
very nice. very understanding. take her.
she is very easy at 40. all you need to pass the final, then you will get an A ( even absent some classes or missed the assigment)
dr.vienna is excelent instruster. she is helpful and she care about students. some students in class were difficult and not very nice but she was patient and fair.take her and you will love her.
Dr. Vienna is the best instructor I have ever had. She is a great human being and a great teacher. She made me love writing. I enjoyed her teaching methods: we learned a lot and had fun. She is my favorite. Take her and you won't regret.
Great teacher! It was a very helpful class. Now I know that learning grammar is not boring. You can learn grammar and have fun. I improved my writing a lot.
It was a very enjoyable class. I wish my other instructors were like her. I did not know much about critical thinking. Now I know how to write an effective argumentative essay. I like the articles we read, discussions we made... It was my favourite class since high school.
she is very very nice. the first assignment she gave us about our worldview was great. i really enjoyed it. it seemes that i did not know a lot about myself. she helped me to discover a new world. a great teacher.
she is willing to help you. all you have to do is ask. i hope to take future english classes with her. very understanding of late work. i am glad i took this class
Very, very nice teacher. Good looking, with a pleasant accent. A great class! A lot of good stuff to read and think about. This class offered me new perspectives what I would like to do with my major. I am glad I took it.
She is a super nice professor. Pretty flexible with turning in things late. We watched several movies and only had to write 3 papers. But she gave homework almost everyday, mostly writing journals. If you put in some effort and show up to class you will get a good grade.
She is an easy teacher, she just taked some getting used to. She is really bad at describing things so I felt pretty lost at first but if you get over that its cake. We barely did anything the whole time, we watched alot of movies and did mostly pointless stuff
Great teacher and outstanding personality! I admire her. The class was very useful and not hard. She explains the assignments clearly and gives a lot of guidance.She made me enjoy the writing process, which has always been hard... Great instructor! Take her for sure. I enjoyed both her personality and her instructions.
I enjoyed this class. Very helpful to use as a stepping stone, after being out of school for a long time. Professor Vienna is awesome in all regards. Her class is interesting. She is cool. She gives a lot of time to write essays. Highly recommended!
Easy class! A little difficult to understand, but she's helpful until you get it! Super nice!
Dr. Vienna,I just wanted to say thank you for a great class experience this semester. I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. I would go to work and rave to my co-workers about how I will remember you later on down the road in my life. You were definitely a great teacher who used different teaching methods which I know that I will not forget.
This class is alittle boring just because it could be fully online. Her topics she has us write about are odd such as the holy grail. Also, her reading topics are always about gays, lesbians, and things along that line...she has an agenda. She is an easy teacher! overall, easy teacher, weird topics. I would take her again
I hated this class with a passion. Her topics were not that great and she took forever to get papers back to us so we never knew how to improve out next essay. She was an easy teacher but I would still not recommend taking her class. You have been warned...
i really like the class. especially i like the topics we used in this class for discussions. very inspirational.
i really like this class. especially i like the topics we used for the discusion. very inspirational.
A great class! A great teacher!
She gave us an essay 2 weeks before the last day of class...reasonable. The class before the essay was due she decided to have us make a powerpoint due the same day and a 7 minute speech on it...yes powerpoints are easy but its just the point that we all have other finals going on that need attention as well. WORST CLASS EVER!!
This professor takes some getting used to (extremely thick Russian accent). However, she is a great teacher if you listen. The assignments are quite easy, but I suggest that those not great with English speak with her about assignments. Her power point at the end of the semester was SUPER easy. Textbooks are used! (One more than the other)
what IS the holy grail?!?!? i still don't know but anyways that was the topic of our first essay :) easy class she's nice.
i like her teaching style and i like the teacher.
Great teacher. Very interactive with student body. I personally did not have interest in wriitng, but this teacher made it interesting. Fabulous teacher/fabulous class.
i love this instructor. she is always in a good mood, sharing inspirational quotes with us in the beginning of the class. she stays after the class meeting if you need and answers all your questions. and i do like the topics for discussion she chooses for us. a good class!
Dr. Vienna was a really nice teacher. She was super understanding when it came to missing class, as long as you notified her ahead of time and have a pretty good reason. She was a little slow in the beginning because our first essay(Holy Grail) took almost 2 months to finish. Didn't learn much, but a nice teach and an easy A.
I like the instructor. And I am enjoying the class so far.
Be ready to write, a lot. The entire class is based off of research papers, but she is a very fair grader and offers help if you need it. If you pay attention and just stay on task with the research you will get a B at least.
An Awesome Class!Very inspirational!
I am enjoying the class. Her lectures are informative and projects are interesting. She also allows you to retake tests.
I like the class discussions. And I was really enjoying working on our first project "My Worldview". It is a cool class and not hard at all.
I love the class.
Dr. Vienna delivers the ultimate amount of support needed to aid her students while also encouraging their self-development. She provides thought provoking discussions, essays, videos, and lectures. I learned a lot.
Really sweet lady! She is the easiest person to talk and genuinely interested in how you are doing. She makes her class sessions very informative and interesting.
Not a good professor. She does not take time to grade my works, resulting in no whiting improvement. Don't recommend her.
Very unclear about expectations, no point system or dates on syllabus, inconsistant and confusing. She cares in her own way, but doesn't teach how to improve writing. No helpful feedback. Tests were about ancient Greece. She's very into New Age philosophy and papers were about the movies The Secret and What The Bleep Do We Know?
A very interesting class!Everything was explained clearly, and each assignment was awesome. We wrote several argumentative papers, including the paper on "Our Worldview", and were envolved in two debates. "Worldview" was my favorite topic. Also, I liked the assignments with different claims. Great class! Great instructor!
I learned a lot; that is the most important. Besides, the instructor was very helpful and understanding.
You want this professor to be your life mentor. She knows her skills very well and likes to work with the students. Besides teaching the academic subject, she can teach you how to stay enthusiastic and inspirational. Great personality! I would take her again!
Dr. Vienna always holds her students' attention. She knows how to connect with students, understands their needs, and spreads the right word. She knows how to put herself in the place of those students who find learning hard. I am grateful that I had Dr. Vienna as my instructor.
Dr. Vienna is an awesome teacher. She explains explicitly all difficult issues regarding essay writing, especially in argumentation. This class has changed my attitude to writing, and I feel more confident and prepared. The class is informative, and I highly recommend it to people who want to learn how to write effectively.
What a great personality dr. Vienna is! She taught me not only to analyze the reading materials and expose my opinions explicitly, but she taught me how to feel confident about myself, how to believe in myself and my goals. The class is very interesting and informative. Highly recommended!
I believe that the direction that I received in this class will make me successful in the rest of my academic career. I learned a lot of useful techniques and information! I think that this class helped me reach the true potential I can achieve in the subject of English. I am very confident that I am comfortably prepared to move forward.
I believe this class offered a vast amount of knowledge on a multitude of different subjects. Not only have I learned how to write exceptionally better, I have obtained much knowledge on the world around me. I have become much more open-minded in general.
This course enlightened me on important issues of today. My best experience during this fall is coming to the class each Wednesday. I enjoyed a lot of different activities in this class, including the inspirational quotes since it was always something I found a peace in. This class was extremely beneficial for me.
Dr. Olga Vienna is by far the best English 49 professor at San Diego Mesa College. Take her class. You will not regret it.
We have just finished Dr. Vienna's class. It had a clear picture of what was expected. We read different articles and wrote different types of essays I really enjoyed this class!!! I found it fun and interesting. This class definitely helped me improve my writing and critical thinking skills. Thank you, Professor!
One of the best instructors! Great lectures! I learned a lot during the Fall semester and I feel very well prepared for English 101. I got an A You will get it, too. Highly recommended!
Dr. Vienna is my favorite professor at Mesa college. She is amazing. There are a lot of group interactions and peer evaluation sessions that prepare you for better writing. She also gives great feedback . The most important she accepts the late papers and encourages to write another draft if you need to improve your grade. She is super nice.
Great teacher. At first, it was difficult to understand her & some of her direction was not clear, but if you ask her to explain it she is happy too. Some students did not like the class, but these students didn't do the work & ended up dropping. If you show up, do the work, and hang in there, then, you will pass. I would take her again.
This will be my third attempt at rating this teacher. My comments and rating have been deleted each time. The class asked about blackboard and she said that Mesa no longer uses blackboard so to quit asking. ??? That was untrue. I didnt know my grade the whole semester and had the reviews been more accurate I believe less people would take her clas
This instructor is amazing! She gives you so much useful information. She teaches you how to think critically and write great research papers. This is the second time I take her, and I really became a better writer. If you want to learn more about writing, this is the right professor for you.
Thanks to this professor I have not only improved my writing skills, but it has propelled me to further explore other topics that I can relate to, for example, history and psychology. I am very satisfied with this class.
This professor is very kind. She is caring and fun. If you want to succeed later in English 205 and in your career, she is the one to take! She is a fair grader and will help you with your problems. I was not good at English at all. Thanks to this professor I feel more confident. I Highly recommend this teacher if you have problems in writing.
If you are looking for the best English 101professor, Dr. Vienna is the one! If you want to learn how to improve your writing, receive an A and get prepared for English 205, do not hesitate to take this class. I got an A and it was not hard. It was actually a fun class! Highly recommended!
THE BEST!!!!
Professor with only good intentions. I think there's a group of people protecting her scores because she has certain tendencies that drive people out of the classroom (consistently +/- 5 absences per class) That said, shes willing and helpful if you have the patience to repeat what you're saying or ask her to repeat herself
This class was a great experience! I love everything that Professor Vienna taught us this semester. All educational and life lessons were taught were very much appreciated. Do not miss this class! I recommend this class to anyone looking for Eng 101.
As a writer i feel more confident after taking this class. I do not feel that sense of writer's block that i had before.I also feel that i became more fluid in my writing style .I enjoyed the research we made in this class as well as how to make it fit my needs. I highly recommend this class to anyone who wants to improve your writing.
This Professor made this class enjoyable and educating! She made it easy for the students to stay on top of the assignments. I am so grateful that I spent 4 months in this class. I will definitely take another class with this instructor.
She's a very nice teacher, but in all honesty I didn't learn anything new in her class. She doesn't actually grade your papers so it's more for completion. There was lots of reading to do in between classes and tests that followed after them. I got an A, but I wish I had actually learned in that class.
A very caring individual. She stays after the class session and answers all your questions. I got sick and missed several asisignments. Dr. Vienna worked with me individually until I understood everything.
Best professor ever. i am really really going to miss her after this semester. she is one of those people who you love to know for the rest of your life. she is so caring and understanding. English 101 can be hard. specially since English is my second language. she made writing so much easier and made me more confident. do not hesitate to take her
She's very wise but if you do not keep up you can get lost. Her class is cool because it involves lot of critical thinking. There are many papers but if you try your best and eventually turn everything in you should get good grades, and she accepts late work!
easy assignments, she assigns a lot. seems to be an easy grader, can extend deadlines if msg in advance. follow the rubric she provides and you'll get an A without a doubt. mostly useless reading where you learn nothing(a lot of it), 1st half of semester packed w/ work, 2nd half there's less, still made me want to kms
Great teachr and considerstate
Do yourself a huge favor and take Dr. Vienna! She really knows her stuff through and through and she will move mountains to help you succeed. She does a great job with her assignments so that they all connect together to make your essays strong, cohesive, and easy.
Extremely easygot almost 100% on almost all my assignments, even if they werent my best work. Only issue is that her directions were sometimes super unclear and became a bit confusing, but she grades so easily that it doesnt matter. Turn in your work and youre guaranteed an A.
Professor Vienna has by far been the most understanding and caring professor I've had during the pandemic and navigating online school. In addition, it's clear she values her job: encourages participation in class, available for flexible office hours, responds quickly to emails, etc. Would take again!
Dr. Vienna is a genius kind gem. I looked forward to her zooms every week and I love how she incorporated philosophy into English. If you implement her feedback, you will benefit greatly. I felt that she wasn't able to cover as many topics as she would've liked to with online learning so I think taking her in person would make it that much better.
Dr. Viennawhat a revelation! Unlike a lot of dull, socialist professors, she actually teaches Critical Thinking. Every class we read the Greek philosophers, inspirational quotes, historical articles, and wrote essays that were as useful for self-reflection as for our writing skills. She is friendly, fair, unbiased, & really wants you to do well!
Made an account just to rate her. Terrible professor. Half of the required material is missing. Never answers emails. Terrible instructions. DO yourself a favor and take someone else.
I didnt follow her rubric/criteria EXACTLY on the essay, and she gave me an F. She grades last minute, and doesnt give enough time for feedback grading for draft and final, therefore, I don't know what mistakes need to be corrected for the final, in result giving me another failing grade. If you disagree with her content, she will deduct points off
Embarrassing honestly. don't bother. she is the worst grader.
Dr. Vienna's class was extremely stressful. Her feedback consists of please resubmit the paper and would not give accurate feedback to correct your mistakes. She barely responds to emails. The best way to get in touch with her is when she grades between 12-2 am or during office hours. She will also push back assignments without letting you know.
Professor Vienna is one of the best teachers! Her assignments are interesting and not hard at all. Attend her Zoom office hours and she will help you with everything you need. She is very enthusiastic to help you succeed and receive a good grade. I got an A! I highly recommend her class. You won't regret!
In this great course, I was given the opportunity to challenge my critical thinking, adopting skills of rhetoric, and evaluating my own work through critical lense. This class has helped me become a more aware and vigilant person! If you want to learn and have fun, this class is for you! Highly recommended!!!
I love this class because I have developed critical thinking abilities during this course, which have substantially improved my capacity to analyze and assess complicated texts, build well-reasoned arguments, and spot erroneous assumptions. Do not miss this class!
Prof. Vienna is one of the best teachers I have ever known! In her English 101, I learned a lot about advanced writing skills that have helped me not only write more effective essays, but communicate better. Also, I learned how important it is to evaluate your work to see what can be improved next time. This class is highly recommended!
Doesn't grade too harshly, flexible with due dates as long as she sees you're putting in the work. Not super thorough in the feedback notes she gives but she's always made herself available to me and holds zoom office hours so that works out fine.
I took Dr. Vienna online for ENGL 101. My main complaint is that she gives you no freedom to structure your own work. Every paper has a sentence-by-sentence guide (not a great one either) that you have to adhere to, so I learned how to follow instructions, not how to write. Unless you like what I just described, I would choose another professor.
The content of the assignments is excellent, and I truly believe they have significantly enhanced my learning. The well-structured tasks have deepened my understanding of English, providing me with practical skills and knowledge that I can apply in other classes. Great Class! Highly recommend.
I hope everyone enjoyed this course as much as I did. I was excited about working on my critical thinking skills, it was super helpful to break down arguments and understand the hidden assumptions in the different readings. This has made my academic writing better and improved my ability to think critically. Awesome instructions! Great Professor!
The content of the assignments this semester have been the most interesting and thought-provoking I've ever had in an English class. I understand things now about myself and the mind in general that I never did before. Awesome Professor! Highly recommend!
From this course, I was given the opportunity to challenge my critical thinking by adopting skills of rhetoric, and evaluating my own work through critical lenses. My writing skills have been enhanced. Actively practicing critical thinking in this class has helped me become a better writer, critical thinker, and researcher. Highly recommend!
The assignments of this course have contributed to my understanding of the subject. The course has introduced and refreshed writing techniques which have helped me better understand how to structure and present ideas/thesis more effectively. Highly recommended!
Assignments of this course significantly contribute to my understanding of the subject. I learned how speakers and writers use ethical, logical and emotional appeals to persuade people effectively. These tasks not only deepened my understanding of rhetoric but also improved my ability to critically assess various forms of media. Great class!
Professor Vienna's ENG205 class is a game-changer. The engaging lectures and thoughtful assignments helped me develop critical thinking skills. Using resources like Unstuck AI alongside the free textbook made studying a breeze. Highly recommend this class!
Don't take this teacher. She constantly changes due dates without warning, opens modules after deadlines, so you aren't able to do them by the time she realizes and changes the due date, it's the next week, she doesn't respond to emails or messages. I reached out 5-6 times and got no reply. The workload piles up fast because of her disorganization.
I took the online course. The professor gives easy A's but assumes everyone is using AI. Even if you don't, they make you rewrite assignments. They also take a long time to respond to emails, if they respond at all.
Throughout my journey in English 205 class, I'm sad to see that it's over. I learned how to write essays effectively. One of my favorite critical thinking assignments was Worldview project. It improved my writing skills and helped me figure out my true identity and how I view the world as a whole. Amazing instructor! Recommend to everybody!
Through this course, I learned important lessons about critical thinking skills, which included ensuring that my argument is not only logical but also clearly presented. This course helped me enhance this skill as it encouraged me to consider my target audience and how to tailor my argument to align with their needs. Dr. Vienna is a great teacher!
I feel a mix of sadness because the class is ending. I gained many skills through this course including better essay writing and advanced writing techniques. Worldview project stood out as the most significant assignment throughout this course. I learned a lot about myself and about other people's perspective in this world as well. Amazing course!
Hi! This course didn't just make me a better student it made me a more thoughtful communicator. I now feel more prepared to write with purpose and engage with others more effectively, especially when opinions differ. Highly recommended!
This Professor is overall one of the best professors because of how caring and respectful she was. She gives you second chances, which I feel like you can't really get that often, and she gave great feedback and communication.
I think that this teacher was super unorganized, and took forever to grade our assignments. Whenever we had a new assignments, instructions were always messy and unclear, very hard to understand what she was grading for. Overall I would not recommend, this class honestly gave me a huge headache and did not enjoy it.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
67%
Textbook Required
40%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
A+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.24 avg changeRatings by Course
ENGCOM
5.0
(1)ESL40
5.0
(3)HIST101
5.0
(1)ENGL124
5.0
(2)ENGL205
4.7
(6)Difficulty by Course
ENGL124
3.5
ENGCOM
3.0
ESOL40
3.0
ENG110
3.0
ENGL101
2.9