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Rebecca Crane
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Spring 2022 - The class material was not connected to the assignments at all. While the lectures themselves were interesting and the professor did an okay job with that, the assignments were very poorly designed and arbitrarily graded. All of the assignments were graded by the TA (as per usual for most lower divs), but the TAs, at least for my section, did not provide any sort of rubric or information on how grading would occur. Rather, they just assigned grades without any explanation. I heard from several other students in the course that they spoke with their TAs at length about assignments, trying to perfect them before submitting only to receive a B with no explanation. Something similar happened to me as well in a few of these assignments. The class just seemed to be badly organized in my opinion and the professor was not really open or available to making the class more accessible. Would not recommend the course to anyone with this professor, or especially the TA Niamh.
Spring 2022 - The class material was not connected to the assignments at all. While the lectures themselves were interesting and the professor did an okay job with that, the assignments were very poorly designed and arbitrarily graded. All of the assignments were graded by the TA (as per usual for most lower divs), but the TAs, at least for my section, did not provide any sort of rubric or information on how grading would occur. Rather, they just assigned grades without any explanation. I heard from several other students in the course that they spoke with their TAs at length about assignments, trying to perfect them before submitting only to receive a B with no explanation. Something similar happened to me as well in a few of these assignments. The class just seemed to be badly organized in my opinion and the professor was not really open or available to making the class more accessible. Would not recommend the course to anyone with this professor, or especially the TA Niamh.
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Fall 2024 - This class was a waste of time and money. Not only did I not learn anything, but my GPA was dropped. She makes this class seem a lot harder than it should be and grades incredibly unfairly. She has a specific rubric she provides for assignments, yet deducts points that shouldn't have been deducted according to the rubric. She did not have any TAs, so grading took weeks, if not months, and here we are the Saturday after finals week still working on our Final paper because she didn't grade our drafts in time. Truly ridicuous and upsetting. No matter how well you follow instructions, your grade will be sacrified, and you will be left frustrated and confused. Also, attendance during the entire 3-hour boring lectures that all make the same point is required for participation points. Overall, she loves to deduct points left and right while also not being on top of her own responsibilities as a teacher and leaving you with barely any new knowledge. Lectures just included socialist ideas and the main point that housing isn't affordable or accessible for all. There is no need to waste 30 hours of your time in class and sacrifice your GPA to learn this. Don't take this class unless you need to.
Fall 2024 - This class was a waste of time and money. Not only did I not learn anything, but my GPA was dropped. She makes this class seem a lot harder than it should be and grades incredibly unfairly. She has a specific rubric she provides for assignments, yet deducts points that shouldn't have been deducted according to the rubric. She did not have any TAs, so grading took weeks, if not months, and here we are the Saturday after finals week still working on our Final paper because she didn't grade our drafts in time. Truly ridicuous and upsetting. No matter how well you follow instructions, your grade will be sacrified, and you will be left frustrated and confused. Also, attendance during the entire 3-hour boring lectures that all make the same point is required for participation points. Overall, she loves to deduct points left and right while also not being on top of her own responsibilities as a teacher and leaving you with barely any new knowledge. Lectures just included socialist ideas and the main point that housing isn't affordable or accessible for all. There is no need to waste 30 hours of your time in class and sacrifice your GPA to learn this. Don't take this class unless you need to.
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