OLDFall 2022 Law School Course Evaluations

terminology of property, but some people struggled with concepts. Additional help outside of the coursebook would definitely be helpful. It would be helpful if the professor would answer questions in class instead of either skipping over the student or telling them that she can ' t help them. In addition, it would be helpful if the professor would provide some background information to the class about the material we will be learning like definitions or something instead of reading straight from the textbook. Professor Griffith teaches by going over the cases. It is all centered around the cases and it’s hard to decipher what concept or topic we are really focusing on because we spend so much time doing in depth analysis of the cases. When she explains things, she reads directly from the book so coming to class is not any more helpful than reading the book on our own. No new information is added in class for clarification or guidance. more socratic method, less cold calling - i find it less helpful in my learning when the professor picks one student to discuss a particular case in class I think it would make a more conducive learning environment if more people were participating to discuss a case The instructor made class boring. The material is very dry and I feel as though it could have been more interesting if the teaching method had been different. The demeanor of professor Griffith and execution of cold calls were at times mean and a tad cruel. She allowed people to struggle and would not move on until they admitted defeat and it was not an inviting environment to contribute for students who were not as confident as the top 1%. I sat in fear throughout every course and sometimes my anxiety of having to endure one of her cold calls stopped me from learning as much as I would have if she took a warmer more collaborative approach like other professors. The use of more visual aids. Could use benefit with more engagement and more focus on answering questions, especially if they are reasonable questions that go unanswered. A supplemental book that provides hypotheticals Some difficult Property Law concepts such as rules against perpetuities should be explained in a different manner. I liked the teaching method and found it effective, as we never went off topic and the class discussion was always relevant to the cases. The only improvement I would say is it ' s hard to hear sometimes and would be beneficial if the mic could go louder. I think condensing Property into one semester made it challenging to learn the material. It was a high volume of work and material. I felt I could not fully retain the information on a weekly basis. Maybe more resources to help study like extra practice questions or midterms I feel that it should be a little bit more engaging than usual. Like we once had an inner discussion as groups about the Principal Problem and that was super helpful but we have only done that

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