Tara Lee at University of British Columbia | Rate My Professors (2024)

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  Tara is probably one of the most caring and welcoming prof at UBC. She really cares about helping students improve as a writer through lots of outside of class support. Her evaluations are very fair, marking only structure and not content. Attend her office hours to talk about your work and you most likely will find success and actually learn.

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  If you know you know but it is expected that you have to write something political even though the class was about writing regarding food. You have to come up with something that isn't there even though the intention of the author is very clear in what they wrote. If you don't like those don't take classes from her.

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  Fun prof and a very fair marker. Overall, one of the better WRDS profs.

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• ENGL200

  Dec 30th, 2023

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  Dr. Lee is a joke of an English professor. She just regurgitates what is said in lectures in tutorial sessions, and has a select few words she uses to describe anything/everything. If you want a good grade, include the terms "temporality", "spatiality" , and "subjectivity" in an essay about marginalization in something completely unrelated.

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  Dr. Tara is very accessible outside of class even on weekends, and has very clear grading criteria with lots of sample papers provided. There was one in-class writing piece, a presentation and a research paper. Participation is worth 10% and you have to justify your participation grade at the end of course.

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  Loved tara. She is super engaging and kind. we did not have many assignments, an in-class essay, a term paper, and a project.

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• WRDS150B

  Dec 10th, 2023

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  Tara is honestly one of the best profs I've had. She is so caring and truly wants you to do well. She is very accessible outside of class time and is always willing to help you improve your writing if you are willing to put in the work. I have so many great things to say about her as a professor and a person. She is also very funny.

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• ENGL372

  Oct 6th, 2023

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  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

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  Tara was a great lecturer who taught the content from an interesting and focused lens. She provided clear and instructive feedback on drafts and assignments. She even occasionally brought food for the class! Her class management could improve tho, as the same students tended to dominate class discussion with irrelevant personal stories.

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• WRDS150B

  Jul 14th, 2023

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  She lets you write your own criteria for your participation grade, amazing prof, listens and cares about her students, fair assignments.

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• WRDS150A

  May 1st, 2023

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  5.0

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  May 1st, 2023

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  : Yes

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  impossible to ask for a better prof for wrds150. She is kind, clearly passionate/devoted to her work, gave great & fast feedback for assignments. She facilitated interesting/eye-opening discussions throughout the course. Only advice for students I could give is make sure to participate in class and not just be idle !

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  5.0

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  For Credit

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  Tara was an amazing prof who always tried to make class more interesting by cracking jokes. She honestly wasn't as tough as a marker as I expected and was extremely helpful through her feedback and flexibility with deadlines. Highly recommend WRDS 150 with Tara for communication requirement!

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• WRDS150

  Apr 15th, 2023

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  An amazing teacher really flexible with deadlines. Bit of a tough marker and is very blunt with advice, but as long as you attend her office hours before you submit something, getting a good grade is very achievable. Overall super chill prof

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• WRDS150B

  Jan 12th, 2023

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  For Credit

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  Tara Lee is undoubtedly one of the best English profs. Go to her office hours! She is flexible with deadlines. Overall, her course is not very content heavy however attending all of her classes is a must because the slides are very informative and can help you when you write the research paper at the end of the course.

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• WRDS150B

  Jan 12th, 2023

  Quality

  5.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  WRDS150B

  Jan 12th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

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  Tara was always very engaging and gave fantastic feedback on all work. All students are able to do well and improve by following her clear criteria and applying her corrections. Super caring motivated me to come to a class I didn't think I would enjoy, as she made a potentially bland class fun and exciting.

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• WRDS150B

  Jan 9th, 2023

  Quality

  4.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  WRDS150B

  Jan 9th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

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  Really nice, obviously cares about the students. Not that many assignments so each one is pretty high weight but I think thats pretty standard for these courses. Would recommend for communication requirement

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• WRDS150B

  Jan 9th, 2023

  Quality

  4.0

  Difficulty

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  WRDS150B

  Jan 9th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : B+

  Textbook

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  Tara was a wonderful person, she is easily accessible and gives lots of feedback when asked. She tends to be tough on marking and isn't flexible for grade change adjustments (I only needed less than 1%).

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  Dec 24th, 2022

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  For Credit

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  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

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  Tara was always available and had lots of office hours to help! She's also willing to look over stuff if you send it to her via email, which definitely came in handy. I can honestly say that I'm a much better writer after taking this class - she really helped me think about my structuring and phrasing.

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• WRDS150

  Dec 10th, 2022

  Quality

  5.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

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  Dec 10th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Would Take Again

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  Very considerate professor!

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