Cynthia Barounis

HORRIBLE PROFESSOR RUN AWAY! She doesn't like opinions that aren't in alignment with hers, be ready to be judged and your grades will reflect it. Instead of spending time on vivid discussions that are related to WGSS, she will tear your opinion apart.

10/24/2024

Lots of reading and fun discussions in class. Very chill and very accomodating as long as you communicate.

4/27/2024

Prof. Barounis was very receptive to some health issues that I had this semester, so big points to her on that. Otherwise, her lectures were entertaining and spawned good discussions. Readings could vary, but I would say they are mostly pretty short.

12/19/2023

Class is seminar based and is very dependent on the quality of the contributions made by your peers. I was lucky to has a class of many smart and caring peers, who moved the discussion along well. Understandably, the professor only gives minimal political and social commentary in seminars, but implicitly does so when picking our readings.

8/8/2023

Class revolves around the readings that you do, which there is way too much of. Often times we only cover half of the readings that we do. Discussion is largely based on the quality of your peers. The professor's political leniencies are also very obvious (natural for WGSS). Rare closed-book intro WGSS professor, so make sure to read up.

5/14/2023

Professor Barounis is a wonderful person and instructor. She was incredibly forgiving with extensions so don't be afraid to ask her for them. This course has a lot of tough material but she was always able to break it down for students and get us to actually talk about it.

4/27/2023

Dr. Barounis is a really amazing person and professor. I've taken two classes with her, Intro and Bodies out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies (favorite class I've taken. It's a must). She's incredibly understanding about extenuating circumstances when it comes to extensions and she really cares about her students

4/26/2023

This class is fantastic! Quite a bit of reading, but stay mostly on top of it and you should have no issues. Prof Barounis generally reviews the main points of the readings very well, so you can get away with skimming sometimes. She is such a wonderful professor - very caring and considerate, and she definitely knows her stuff! Exams are easy.

4/25/2023

very good class. be prepared for a LOT of reading. also for exams u need to memorize all of the authors and match them with the readings which is not the best method if you dont remember which excerpt was from which, but dont say I did not warn u. pretty understanding professor tho and accessible outside of class.

1/21/2023

I like her intro class! It is reading-heavy but her lecture is very helpful in understanding those readings. She is also very understanding of deadlines.

12/10/2020

I really liked her intro class. It is very methodical. You will get out what you put in.

4/26/2017

She is very bad at facilitating conversations. Classes were unstructured and it was hard to learn the main idea of each reading. We always got distracted on side topics or stupid line of argument. That said, it is an amazing class! If you can't take it with another professor, take it anyways. The class is good if you have smart classmates.

12/16/2016

She made it very hard; dogmatic and tough. Other sections had open book exams whereas we had to remember ALL the readings for short response questions, plus an impromptu essay for the final. Class discussion were not facilitated well, basically everyone talked about their own opinions about the reading. I thought it would be so interesting, sad.

3/27/2016