Reviews of professor Emily Fitzgerald

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I fully agree with the other 2/5 review- she wasn't clear enough about assignment expectations so I often got way lower scores than I expected. Class time wasn't used well; we had four 1+ hr class discussions hardly relevant to design thinking. The two chapters of Creative Confidence we read for HW were way more valuable for me than anything else.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Emily assigns an unreasonable amount of writing & essay work. I wish her Design Thinking class spent a little more time on actual product design instead of just field research & community interviews. Overall, she's like the nicest & most understanding instructor out here. I really enjoyed the design concepts we learned, but I hate group projects.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really cares about her students and the work they're creating. Super vague assignments that push you to think outside of the box. One of my favorite teachers at PSU

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was one of the university studies classes I was required to take at PSU. Emily is really sweet and kind, and a pretty casual professor. She is big on attendance and group work (you're with one group the whole term). Sometimes the criteria for assignments would be unclear, or she wouldn't state her expectations very well, so listen closely.