Reviews of professor Karie Cherwin

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Cherwin is passionate about teaching and gives lots of guest lectures that are interesting. However, paper requirements and what will be tested on for exams is EXTREMELY UNCLEAR. i would not take this again. Discusions are super interesting and fun but do not help you for tests.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She sped through lectures, I often had to go back to lectures to finish note-taking. A majority of the lectures were given by guests. The exams were very specific and if you did poorly on the first one it was hard to recover. Generally disorganized and ineffective teaching made me dread coming to class despite the course content being interesting.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Cherwin is nice, and topics are interesting. However, lectures are very disorganized. Grading criteria is very unclear, and super picky. Nearly impossible to get full points on anything. There are a lot of assignments, which is okay as it balances out your exams. Discussions are not helpful for your exams.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Cherwin seems like she is very knowledgable and passionate about the subject but lectures are fairly boring because she reads her slides rather than presenting them. She is not super involved in the course which makes grading and announcements pretty delayed and disorganized as most of it relies on the TA's. The class itself is great though!