Anyone have advice on Levenbook of PHI 205? She seems pretty hard-core, no games about her teaching and I Am kind of nervous....???

8/25/2007 8:52:48 PM

she's ok i guess, endicott is better

8/25/2007 9:47:17 PM

Having graduated with a philosophy degree, I've had a lot of philosophy professors. Jesseph, Bykova, & Hinton were prob the favs. Levenbook was alright except her "nickle & dime" policy which made it seem like there was the potential for negative grades if your handwritting wasn't pretty or your spelling poor. She knew her stuff pretty well, I can only remember once or twice when students had to correct her information in class. She assigned alot of reading homework for the level of the class but I think thats to be expected in philosophy course.

8/26/2007 2:53:13 AM

yeah, i really want to change teachers, but no classes are openeing up. as she saw there were seniors in the class she warned us that this would be the hardest intro class that we would ever take. i think this is going to be my hardest class this semester...

8/26/2007 6:54:23 PM

you can often go to the instructor of the class you want into and they will let you add, but you need to do it now

8/26/2007 7:12:49 PM

Phi 205 was a lot of fun when I had it. It was my 2nd philosophy class I had while at NCSU and it’s what pushed me over the edge of switching to a philosophy major.

I'd already had a higher level ethics class and in the end ancient philosophy was my favorite, the area I got a research grant/published in/may pursue graduate work in.

I had Dr Levenbook for a law related philosophy class, so it’s hard to say how that translates to an intro classm and I understand her sentiment, philosophy has a lot of complex reasoning & logical parameters one must follow, but if intro to philosophy is more stressful than interesting… if it feels like its more about doing work than about looking at things in a deeper & new ways, then someone’s doing it wrong.

8/29/2007 5:49:36 PM