Reviews of professor Gehad Abdelal

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Only had two essays (1 for midterm 1 for final) and like 5 short essays. Takes FOREVER to get your grades back. Will claim and argue that you used AI in your paper, even though you did not. Also if you want to reach her through email outside of class forget about it. It is impossible. She does not respond to emails.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do yourself a favor and do NOT take this class with this professor. Her English is not even at the bare minimum. Her test/quiz questions literally make ZERO sense. She will not reply to your emails. Quizzes are like 5 questions so you miss one and you're done basically. This is the worst class I have ever taken. UGA do better, seriously.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Had to leave a review after seeing these. Took her fall semester and she is definitely not as bad as everyone makes her seem. Participation is measured by completion, not quality and her weekly quizzes are the lectures verbatim, so just show up and you will do well. English is not her first language but if you try to understand her, you will learn!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is hands down the most disorganized class I have taken at UGA. Professor Abdelal does not answer emails, takes months to grade assignments, and is constantly accusing half the class of using AI to write their papers. I have not been falsely accused but many people have been multiple times. I would never take this professor ever again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She gives you very long readings outside of class. Lectures are confusing and does not post the slides, nor do they make sense to the lecture. She has a big fear that you are using AI in your paper and uses unreliable AI checkers from google. I did well on the essays but throughout the semester, I feared she would accuse me of AI use. Not worth it.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took this class during COVID, so we only had lecture once a week online. Each week we had between 10-20 pages of reading to complete and lecture barely includes any class discussion. Weekly reading quizzes for a grade, other than that the only thing she grades is the midterm and final.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If there is another choice of professors for you to take philosophy, take them instead. She has a very strong accent so she can't really be understood and she can't even read English fluently when trying to teach about/read the passages. Don't expect very much out of this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Abdelal is an excellent teacher who is very knowledgeable. Dedicated to her students, she gives them extra credit to ensure that everyone receives a high grade. Some comments have accused her of being disorganized, but this is not true. Students must read the readings to comprehend the topic fully; otherwise, they will not understand it.