Reviews of professor Jaimie Van Norman

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really enjoyed this class. It not difficult at all. There's a lot of things to remember but its not bad. A lot of the concepts are gone over in lab so it makes the whole class really easy to understand. Exams consist of multiple choice and short response. She's one of the most caring professors I've had in my 4 years here.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She was a really enthusiastic professor. Her plant bio class was easy compared to most upper div bios

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really poor at communicating, lab sections were disorganized and a mess. Lectures were all over the place and pretty unclear at times and the material was not straight forward considering massively overlapping topics. No curve at all which is surprising considering low averages for an upper div; very late grading for exams, assignments, and grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you were failing the class she personally sent out an email telling you to withdraw from her class. Sure, that can seem thoughtful but more than half of the class withdrew from the course. She also assigned a whole project the week of the midterm and made it due the day of the midterm. No one wants to do a whole project when they want to study.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you ever come across Denise
Mariano Mitchell as your TA, good luck.
Drop the course if you can. She is a
nice person, I guess but takes your bad
grade way too personal. Quizzes
across sections aren't the same.
Classmates have compared quizzes
and concluded that Denise had the
hardest of all. Dr. Van Norman is cool
tho, just lecture heavy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor truly cares about her students. She is very approachable and answers every single question. Her lectures are neat and organized, but very dense with information. The tests are fair, but very long and ask about specific details. If you memorize the lectures completely you will do fine. Not an easy A, but an interesting class