Emily Hayman

Normal for Lit Hum, midterm was fair and final was Lit Hum wide, papers graded fairly

Emily was amazing! I had heard so many horror stories about uwriting, plus I had it from 6:10-7:25 so I was really dreading it. She made me excited to go to class however. She made what really could have been mind-numbingly boring activities hilarious and I learned something valuable from everything that we did. I really grew as a writer with her help, I learned more in one semester as her student than I did from my English teachers in high school. Whoever has the opportunity to get her as a teacher is very lucky and truly blessed!

The best professor I've had at Columbia. Hands down. No questions asked. You are incredibly lucky if you get her for Lit Hum. She is brilliant, intelligent, and easy to work with outside of the classroom. She has written me recommendation letters, and we still maintain a relationship after class. She began every class with an overview of the history of the work we were reading at the time and maintained a class discussion quite well, even from 6:10-8 in a residence hall classroom. She made me stimulated to go to class, and brought cookies three times throughout the semester and Swedish Fish for the midterm and final. This is the most I've learned throughout my time at Columbia in my first semester of my first-year. Go into her outside of the classroom and any time that you can. You will learn so much from her if you put in the work and let her know that you are willing and able to create an outside of the classroom relationship. She is so deserving of her golden nugget.

Standard reading level, three papers each semester - graded hard, but she will gladly help you along the way, and you will improve on each one, easy reading quizzes that make up a tiny portion of your grade, midterm and final - very manageable.

Emily Hayman is by far the best professor I have had all year, and possibly the best educator I have ever had including all pre-college teachers. She is brilliant, engaged, knowledgable, and interesting. She makes the class fun, and she cares deeply about her students. She's the kind of professor you whom you want to ask for a rec letter and also hang out with her at a bar. She makes a huge effort to help each student, focusing on writing, since she used to teach UWriting. So if you have/had a shitty UWriting class, Emily makes up for it tenfold.

She adds a bit of extra reading, like the time chapter in Confessions, but that was genuinely one of the more interesting reads we had during the second semester. We had a quiz almost every day the first semester, and then a quiz per book the second semester. The good news is that only count towards a part of participation which is like 10% anyway. 3 Essays/Semester Midterms were made up of 2 sets of 6 passage IDs(Name of text, author, speaker, spoken to, and significance) and we only had to pick 5 for each. Final is the standard for all LitHum classes.

I'm just going to start off by saying you are incredibly lucky if you get Emily for LitHum. She really knows her stuff, and the way she facilitates a discussion every class is actually pretty impressive. Even though it was a 6:10-8pm class in a less than favorable classroom, I looked forward going to class, and it felt like it got progressively better. Her enthusiasm for literature in general (and Virginia Woolf in specific) really showed when she basically said every book was "the best book ever," except maybe History of the Peloponnesian War because ew. She's really funny, and even though we had a really strong class dynamic, Emily deserves credit for creating an open and welcoming environment. She actually tried to get us in the same CC section at our request because of how well we meshed. I'd say Emily is a very fair grader when it comes to essays. She does expect improvement like the previous reviewer, but her extensive feedback on each essay made me want to continue pushing myself, and to be honest, I found her feedback more helpful than my UW class. She was also fair in extending deadlines. Her midterms are straightforward, and if you pay attention to the passages she focuses on in class, you're gonna ace the test. She's perfectly cool with us bringing in meals to eat during class, and she brings cookies and candy to class on occasion, especially during midterms. At the…

She added a little bit of reading to the syllabus but not much. There are quizzes almost every week on the reading so you have to do it but the quizzes do not weigh to heavily on your grade it is just a way of getting us to do the reading. There are 3 papers and the usual mid term and final.

Emily was a great teach, i had her for Lit Hum. It was a 6:10-8 class so Emily knew we were all tired so she kept us involved and let you have a down day if you needed it. She also occasionally brought in food! She is a fair grader and really looks for improvement. I wish she would have let us have a break at some point during the hour and fifty minutes but overall it was a good experience.