Reviews of professor Katherine Gerst

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really loved having a class taught by Professor Gerst. She was so nice and cared a lot about the students in the class. I would absolutely take one of her classes again. The exams werent difficult if you used the study guides. It was an easy and interesting class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had Gerst for the first time online for both 402 and 350, which was a mistake. She was terrible at communicating with me and other students, took forever to reply to emails and often referred us to email her TA's instead. All of her lectures were PPTs created by another professor and it felt like she did very little to actually TEACH the class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's fine. The TA was more helpful. The "lectures" are just taken from another professor and the exams are over more content from the textbook anyways. Lots of homework but it was usually graded quick and seems to be an easy grader. Just an average experience

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I would never recommend this professor to anyone. She has completely unclear instructions and grades very harshly. You almost always have to guess what you're supposed to be doing and then you get a bad grade. There wasn't a single assignment that didn't have vague instructions and I never felt like I knew what I was doing. Don't take her class!