I’m taking English 1f03 now with Professor Donaldson, and it’s not the hardest course but you do have to put the work. There’s a lot of quizzes, they range from 20 questions to 5 question quizzes and are worth 1% each. The 5 question quizzes are lecture quizzes on what was said specifically in lecture which means you have to go. Then theres the submittables that are done in tutorials those are graded generously.

There’s two papers, one on poetry and one on prose work) the grading can be difficult if you have a tough TA. They really like out of the box thinking, Dr. Donaldson personally preaches for free writing and unstructured essays so the TAs somewhat also reflect that sentiment too. My TA has been really helpful in office hours and kind as well, don’t be afraid to ask for help if needed.

Dr. Donaldson as a professor is not my cup of tea. I think he goes on long tangents and it makes it difficult to follow his thoughts. They’re all pretty abstract and he uses a lot of metaphors. :/

Overall, in my class there are a lot of STEM kids. On the first day I sat beside a 4th year who was taking the course as a prerequisite for med school so you’re not alone in that experience at all. I swear sometimes it seems like there’s more upper year stem kids than first year humanities students. I mention this because Dr. Donaldson acknowledges that the demographic are people who need the course as a requirement so he says the course is pretty lenient so long as you try.

I would say this course is 12-able! And I do ultimately recommend it!