{"id":988,"date":"2019-01-27T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-hiltner-english-ucsb-edu-v05.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=988"},"modified":"2019-02-10T03:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T03:23:02","slug":"eng-165-winter-2007","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hiltner.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/eng-165-winter-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Eng 165, Winter 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eng 165, Winter 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

Renaissance Pastoral<\/em><\/p>\n

Of all the different ways of writing, pastoral may be the most versatile\u2013and most misunderstood and overlooked. Pastoral can be lighthearted fun (as in Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0As You Like It<\/em>, which we will be reading), scathing, subversive, and dangerous political allegory (as it was for poet Edmund Spenser), astonishingly beautiful nature writing (such as the description of Eden in Milton\u2019s\u00a0Paradise Lost<\/em>), or any number of other forms. In fact, pastoral can take nearly any shape: a play, a lyric poem, an epic, a novel, or even a film. In this course we will be tracing this remarkable mode of writing from its earliest beginnings to its height in the Renaissance, while also considering how it is still very much at work in the world today.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease rate the overall quality of the instructor\u2019s teaching\u201d<\/p>\n

Average rating: 4.8 of 5\u00a0(\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Excellent; \u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Very Good; \u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Good; \u2663\u2663\u00a0Fair; \u2663\u00a0Poor)<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 I actually enjoyed the course a great deal and didn\u2019t miss a single lecture.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Amazing professor! Always available and very helpful! Made one class enjoyable and I wanted to learn and I did learn! Thank you!<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 One of the best classes I\u2019ve ever taken here at UCSB. The professor inspired me to become extremely interested in Renaissance literature.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0I loved this course and the handouts were especially helpful\u00a0\u263a<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Great lecturer, really kept what could have been a dry topic interesting.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 More discussion of readings needed.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 I loved the course and it I weren\u2019t graduating I would want to take more of your courses. Thank you so much for such an enjoyable course.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Amazing, good job!\u00a0\u263a<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Professor does a terrific job of engaging students \u2013 getting to know them and is very interested in helping everyone understand the material and get good grades. Excellent!\u00a0\u263a<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Excellent course, got me interested in Medieval literature that I was ignoring.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Professor Hiltner is the best English professor I\u2019ve ever had at UCSB in the three years I\u2019ve been here. Not only did I learn an exceptional amount, he was kind and considerate. I<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Professor Ken Hiltner is a great instructor whom obviously has extensive knowledge of the subject matter (Renaissance Pastoral literature). He is always avialable for outside help and is very clear in his instructions. Professor Hiltner is one of the best English professors I have had in my four years at UCSB. He is always amiable and is very fair in his grading. He really makes the subject interesting and engaging. A+ for Professor Hiltner\u00a0\u263a<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 The course was very well organized, I loved the teaching style. Ken should not go back to Harvard.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 The class was well rounded. Professor Hiltner presented the readings in an easily understood way and he was always available for clarification outside of class.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Professor Hiltner is always very organized and clear during lectures. He is very approachable and always available for questions. The reader is helpful and it was great not having to buy all the individual books.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Liked the small classroom environment. Some good discussions took place and it was a nice change from my other classes.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 I really enjoyed this class. Professor Hiltner is exceedingly helpful and knowledgeable.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 I enjoyed this class so much. Professor Hiltner made the material easy to understand and was always open to discuss material. His knowledge of the material was superb and his enthusiasm made the class fun. It was easy to speak up in class because his teaching style was so open.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0I liked the course a lot. It was very hard and tedious, but I definitely learned a lot from the classical and biblical sense\u00a0\u263a<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Ken Hiltner is a really great professor! He is highly educated and communicates properly. He is always available during office hours. He was born to be a professor. Very professional, encouraging and organized. If I wasn\u2019t graduating I would take every other course he\u2019s offering! Wonderful.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Great, stimulating class \u2013 tough, though, but worth it!<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Best professor I\u2019ve ever had! So sad that this is the only quarter I took classes with him. Very impressed. Made the class fun and easy to understand literary works and concepts. Wish I had him for more classes!!\u00a0\u263a<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 He is an excellent professor and I thoroughly enjoyed the course. He is incredibly intelligent and it is demonstrated throughout the course. Pastoral is fun!<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663 Ken was a fabulous professor, who was extremely insightful, interesting and knowledgeable. He was kind and very helpful outside of class. Ken made the topics and overall course enjoyable to go to. Would have liked less readings and to not have a paper due less than 1 week before the final, but otherwise a great person.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Use of slides or board would have helped but Ken was great.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Hiltner is a very effective and informational teacher but this is the most boring class ever so it is hard to care or pay attention.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0While lectures were a little heavy in historical context, the selection of texts was EXCELLENT. Course material was entirely thorough and ran the entire gamut of pastoral works available. Truly an enlightening course! Thank you!<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663\u2663\u2663\u00a0Great professor; fair; creates an atmosphere great for learning. Tests fair.<\/p>\n

\u2663\u2663 I thought the professor was very patient, but the course was not at all that interesting.<\/p>\n

Unrated\u00a0<\/em>Ken was very organized and explained ideas very well. He was also always available if I had any questions.<\/p>\n

Unrated<\/em>\u00a0I liked that he set up meetings with us.<\/p>\n

Unrated<\/em>\u00a0Professor Hiltner is highly skilled in the teaching of pastoral literature. His lectures were well prepared and participation in class was well moderated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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