Petrovic is clearly passionate and going to lecture is entertaining most of the time, although not as much as I would have liked/expected from a mythology course. There is an excessive amount of reading and the T.A's grade the one page papers you write more harshly than any other professor I have taken in my four years at UVA. It's ridiculous. I have had term papers graded less harshly than the one page assignments we have to do. My main gripe with the course is really with the teaching assistants, as Petrovic seems fine to me. The midterm was not hard if you attended lecture which indicates to me that the t.a.'s and Petrovic have wildly different expectations for what students should know. Unless this discrepancy is addressed, I don't think I would recommend taking the class.