Reviews of professor Catherine Taylor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Taylor consistently and quickly responded to my emails and was always very helpful. Grade was made up of weekly discussion posts, reading quizzes, and three short papers. The papers were relatively easy, and she provided detailed rubrics that broke down how to earn points. Lots of reading, but it was pretty interesting.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not the best sociology class (intro to gender), esp considering that its upper div. Professor is painfully vague, using more personal anecdotes than specific sources. Will state common knowledge as if she is teaching something new. Ive taken a few different soc and fem classes at UCSB and this has been my least favorite. Learned nothing new.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Cate is super nice/ has good intentions for this course, would be a good 1st soc upper div! She may seem repetitive but she brings a lot of insightful discussion during class. She calls on random ppl in lecture and thats where it probably gets awk. Weekly quizzes+in-class writeups (required attendance), 3 short papers, 1 final exam, easy readings!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid. Never took SOC155 with this professor. Never. I'm good at writing,  but the three assignments really hits me. I never received any detailed written feedback from my TA, and all of the TAs are harsh grader. I don't know who can get A in this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
it was her first time teaching remotely so it was understandable why she had difficulty at times and we would start class late. But her lectures mainly consist of just reading slides and getting into groups to discuss & after a while it gets boring. papers were 1-2 pages max & professor allows u to come to her to proofread papers before submitting

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took Professor Taylor Spring 2021. Unfortunately had a really hard TA, graded essays to the exact detail. Also, at the end of the course Professor had the chance to round my B+ to an A-. However with nothing written on the syllabus, so I emailed the Professor and TA multiple times! NO RESPONSE! It was frustrating, I had a horrible experience.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Interesting class with well-presented material. Lectures are engaging and easy to follow. Two easy quizzes each week along with two discussion posts, and then three large papers to do throughout the course. Material is easy to understand, but the papers were graded somewhat harshly; I followed along the whole quarter and still ended up with a B.