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Logic with professor Fleming is perhaps the most fantastic class I've ever taken. He has been teaching it for decades and I believe that his class is truly part of the Bucknell experience. He has a dry sarcastic sense of humor which he demonstrates often, but he really knows his stuff and draws students in. There are many students who get a philosophy minor which is really a minor in Fleming, because they just take all four of his regularly offered courses. Students here don't always seem like it, but are mostly very smart and interested in their fields. They didn't come here just to party or because it was convenient (it certainly isn't cheap). If a student chooses Bucknell, it is because they want to do well in their lives, so they are committed to not screwing up and throwing away all of that money. My major is Animal Behavior, which is what I came to the school for. It is a truly phenomenal program. There are three species of primate on campus and tons of other animals that the different professors work with, or that are used in the labs. This semester, I started working with one of the grad students on her study of post-conflict behavior in our Hamadryas baboons. I get to go to a lunch almost every Friday where faculty present research that they have been conducting in the field of animal behavior and discuss their work with us.

the language programs are amazing! they're really hardcore...but you feel really prepared afterwards! students are really open to studying outside of class in groups. so are professors! students don't seem really competitive, they just work really hard. i've heard history of sexuality is a great class...but i don't think it's for me... more about learning for its own sake rather than just getting a job. getting a job seems secondary. im an east asian studies major with a concentration in Japanese. asian languages are hardcore and you hit the ground running!

All professors know the names of their students, because classes are very small. My favorite class was US Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf by Professor Massoud, in which we discussed the current situation with the US in Iraq and what that means for our involvement with the rest of the region. It was a small seminar and there was a ton of student involvement. The academic requirements sound like a lot, but really are not overwhelming at all.

I'd say 95{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of my professors know my name, but that's because I take smaller size classes. Some of my favorite classes have been linguistics 210, Logic, Russian. They have all been great classes. I also really enjoyed 3rd World Development...it gets you to think in a different perspective. Students care about their grades and participate in class. I think the academic requirements are good. Having a language and an environmentally geared class could be additional good requirements. I have friends (especially BS majors) that complain about the requirements though because they think that it's a lot easier for BA's to meet requirements than BS majors to meet them. Some of the majors are not necessarily geared very well towards getting a job (more the learning phase) but I know that several departments are currently changing their major requirements.

All my professors know me by name and I have a lot of the same professors over again because of the subjects that I am interested in. They go out of their way to try to help students. I really appreciate the extra things they will do for a student. Bucknell educated students know a lot about a lot and I think it's fantastic.

Professors are amazing at Bucknell, they really are here for the students, to teach. They know your name, even years after you took their class. Most classes are discussion based, there is some lecture, but open thought and opinion is encouraged.

Academics at Bucknell are amazing. Our professors are dedicated, and our class sizes are ideal. We boast of our reputation as the largest liberal arts college that is able to maintain great student-teacher relationships and small class sizes. I am an English major, and have overall been satisfied with my classes. One particular professor, who taught Medieval literature, would schedule office hours with all of his students every week to talk about paper topics and the reading material. He held a few classes downtown in a restaurant and bought us breakfast, courtesy of the English department. He actively tries to help students publish their work and attain internships in the community. Additionally, I am a member of the English club, and our funding is amazing. Several times per semester, we all get copies of a book of our choice, and then the English department sponsors an outing at a local restaurant, during which we eat and talk about the book. Unfortunately, my experience with my other major, East Asian Studies, has been less than satisfactory. This is due, for the most part, to deficiencies in funding rather than to the efforts of the professors. The East Asian Studies department is fairly small, and I have taken classes with only 4 professors throughout my four years here. I am forced to take an introductory class that is intended to be a cross-cultural analysis of all of East Asia; however, the professor who teaches it is under-qualified, using class time to channel the textbook, both in terms of language and content. He fails to answer most question that are asked, simply because he does not know the answers. It is the most useless and infuriating experience that I have had thus far at Bucknell.