Reviews of professor Marissa Petrou

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Petrou has no idea how to run a class. Her grading criteria is insane and impossible to follow. Not to mention, she gave one of my classmates an expensive pair of headphones because they did well on the midterm, which feels unethical at best. She sets her students up to fail. She is not a good teacher and can't stay organized. AVOID.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
All I learned was that skulls are sexist. She constantly called people out and had no chill.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Numerous extra credit opportunities, although sometimes not worth the 2 points if spending 6 hours or entire day at a lecture. Tends to be a smart mouth with her lectures and directions (i.e. 'use common sense') in essays and projects. Direction are also not precisely clear either, but other than that she's an alright teacher. Just beware

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Petrou is a nice lady and is very passionate about what she teaches, but I feel that a lot of the movies and assignments were irrelevant to the topic. Has an assignment where we pick two quotes from a reading and explain how it was relevant to the topic- would get points taken off for choosing "wrong quotes" which feels very subjective.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Students in southwestern Louisiana might find Dr. Petrou's demeanor slightly abrasive; this is an unintentional side effect of growing up in New York. She thinks quite clinically which is refreshing when considering she is a historian. My one note for improvement would be to more clearly define her grading criteria.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Literally the most boring history teacher ever, if you have the chance do not take her if you dont want to be bored out of your mind.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly, I cant say many good things about this professor. She didnt even grade some of my work because she was cut off by the final grades date. She gave me 0s for classwork I did. We had so many things to do that you would forget what work there was. Goodluck if you have her. Shes nice but shouldnt be a professor