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Comments:ENV 1301 - Anyone looking to take this class should NOT take Heidi. I have never had a professor I respected less or disliked more; I even entered this class with a positive mindset toward her; let me gladly tell you why. She continually disrespects our time as students by being 5-10 minutes late for essentially every class. When she starts to teach, her lessons can barely be considered a lesson. In these "lessons," she teaches us her opinion and not facts about the subject she teaches. She always interjects her own political opinions. She consistently disrespects students, commenting, "I do not care if you are offended." "I do not respect any family that has more than two kids," and "The U.S. should adopt China's one-child policy rule. She clearly cares more about animal lives and rights than humans and shows it. She also speaks in absolutes: "The only thing you should consider when voting is whether or not the candidate believes in climate change," which is so clearly not the case. She constantly complains about not feeling respected in class, and my harsh response is that she does not give us anything to respect. When you have a question, good luck trying to reach her in any setting outside of the classroom, as she does not hold office hours and does not respond to emails; her study guides are unfinished and do not contain the full scope of the test, despite her telling us to study off of the guide. The lack of a textbook makes receiving accurate information nearly impossible. I got a 76% on my first exam with her because I didn't study economics for the test and, therefore, guessed on nearly 1/3 of the answers. One of the questions stated, "Why isn't the GDP of our nation a true representation of our economy's future?" For the record, I'm taking ENV 1301. On April 18th, she came 8 minutes late and had the audacity to stop everything she was doing to glare at a student who came in one minute after her and continued to glare without speaking until he was fully situated in his seat when she should have and could have just ignored him. Shortly after, she tells us that "[she's] feeling very disrespected, and [she] thinks that today is the perfect day for a hard quiz." She tells us it's going to be five questions, and once she starts the 6th and after we remind her, she only says five, she says, "Oh, I don't think you guys fully understand what I want from you, so we're doing more." I loved my environmental class in highschool which is why I took this class. Now, this woman has turned me into Mayor O'Hare from the Lorax. Never EVER take this teacher.
**all quotes were written down as she was saying them specifically with the intent of using them for this review. - Grade In Class:A |
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Comments:1301, 1303 - TAKE HER!! I needed 2 lab sciences, so I took Wildlife Eco and Intro to Env. Issues. Both classes are structured the same: Lecture over powerpoints in class, homework assignments outside of class (that were extremely easy, just sometimes tedious), and tests. She gives a test review before each test, and if you fill it out and study it once or twice, you should do very well on the tests. Also, coming to class after the test will help your grade a bunch. You "take it again" with a partner and she gives you 10 bonus points on your test. As a person, Heidi is CRAZY, she is scatterbrained, unorganized, opinionated, unavailable, but she is hilarious and the class is stupid easy. If you just turn in the homework and fill out the test reviews, you have a 100+ in the class. Would recommend taking either 1301 or 1303 for an easy lab science!!! - Grade In Class:A |
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Comments:1301 - Let's start with the pros: Opportunities for up to 10+ points on each test and informative powerpoint presentations. However, the cons outweigh the pros in my opinion. 1) She is completely unorganized. For example, she lost my friend's assignment, which my friend reminded her about multiple times, each time Dr. Marcum saying, "Oh no, I closed Canvas already! See me next class!" (My friend got a B in her class only because Marcum lost the assignment and never got back to her!) 2) She makes you pay $30 for TopHat to take attendance, but simultaneously calls roll anyway? I never understood this. 3) She is aggressive/threatens to hurt students if they don't agree with her??? Obviously joking, but she's odd. 4) The tests are unnecessarily difficult. It's a miracle I got an A, not because the class was hard, but because it was so unorganized and the professor drove me nuts. - Grade In Class:A |
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Comments:env 1301 - The class has the potential to be easy, but make sure and print out the slides before you come to class. If you don't fill them out as you go along, it takes forever to look through the book and find the blanks, because shes unorganized. Her test days consist of taking the test online in the computer lab between certain hours, which is awesome. These are 50 questions, randomly taken from a pool of 100 questions, so you more than likely will get the question you don't know,like four times- and they're not vocab, you have to know the material. She's always late, so its a great morning class to have, so you can be late too.She usually comes in with hay in her hair and some crazy outfit on, so that's always fun. She doesn't really care a lot about the students or their grades, she's pretty preocupied. Don't try emailing her, she'll never respond.. - Grade In Class:C |
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