I've felt so much anxiety about this class when it comes to tests and due dates. It feels like we haven't had a proper class in over a month, and I honestly have no idea what's going on when it comes to content. It was also stressful as heck to have to scramble to teach myself half a semester's worth of content in a week and a half for the midterm. I just want to feel some type of relief when it comes to this class.

For the entire half of the second semester for this history class we had to learn in three hours before our midterm (one class with a new prof). First semester history was very well taught and not a minute was wasted. This semester on the other hand for history has been a train wreck. I have learned more film history from a 5 minute free YouTube video. Our new professor is doing a good job on trying to catch us up but still the first half was wasted which directly impacts our money spent. Like another student mentioned it is surprising since all the other classes have been very good and well taught. A system like this sets us up for failure, not only with our tests but down the road in our careers considering these are requirements for our program/industry.

We learned LITERALLY nothing. She just talked about her life and graded things without reading them.

Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father was a ... See full bio »

I think it's fair to assume that the majority of people in our program work very hard for their money. Most of us make minimum wage working in intensively labour jobs and customer service fields. With that being said it is incredibly frustrating when an older teacher clearly takes advantage of the system and does not do their job as they no longer have a lot to lose. Apparently the cost of each individual class boils down to roughly sixty five dollars (or at least that's what I've been told). If that's true then that means people making minimum wage have to work about six hours for one three hour class. Now considering that we have missed over half the classes and learned nothing but mindless and irrelevant information about various modes, (that everyone just memorized and instantly forgot so they could get a good mark on the test) there needs to be reimbursement as well as a teaching style that focuses on teaching students and simply not getting them memorize information that they a) don’t care about and b) don’t want to learn. It was painfully obvious from day one that Zoe didn’t want to be in class and the frustrating thing is I have heard numerous second years complain about the same issues last year. I would like to point out that we are the guinea pigs of this program and while I understand that Sheridan is evolving and constantly trying to improve upon its learning experience, this should not be happening at a professional school that charges students almost ten thousand dollars per year. Even the people that go to Trump university know that that’s a bad deal! Also this course should be a second year optional course seeing as how many of us will never even go into documentary and do not wish to focus our attention on this subject. Lastly we came to Sheridan to learn hands on skills that are relevant in our field. Previous to this I attended University and actually dropped out because I did not feel that I was learning relevant information about the

unbelievable.

I can count my history classes with one hand and feel I've barely learned anything apart from desperately catching up for the mid term. Sheridan is a great school, so this definitely took me by surprise.

When Film students like ourselves are eager to learn about every aspect of film and pay our close to $10,000 tuition every year, we fully expect our institution to hire professors that will both instruct professionally and teach to the best of their ability. In this case that unfortunately has not happened. Zoe was kind and has plenty of experience in the film industry but failed to teach much of the course material, ultimately leaving a large portion of our class of more than 30 students worried and nervous for upcoming tests and exams that we are expected to complete, but not having the knowledge to do so. As a student, I am fully expecting Sheridan College to assist all students that have been affected by these unfortunate circumstances be successful in this course with the little time we have left in the semester.