Reviews of professor Stephanie Gdovin

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gdovin claims attendance isnt mandatory but shell randomly have assignment that u wont be able to make up. She has notes that aren't uploaded and expects you to read btwn the lines or be in class. Wish she could be replaced. Notoriously known for high failing rates. While the course work isn't difficult gdovin makes it hard to be successful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
It seems like Professor Gdovin is proud of her high fail rate and miserable students. She doesn't have a TA because she is particular about  what we learn. She once got mad at my class for having a study group instead of going to her office hours...unfortunately she is the only professor for ecology. I wish UTSA would intervene.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great class, great professor. Her learning objectives are clearly defined, and she doesn't test on anything she doesn't say in the class.
All you need to pass this class is to SHOW UP and TAKE NOTES. I cannot stress this enough. Don't try to skip and learn through the PowerPoints alone, and pay attention to what she writes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I usually love Ecology and have taken an Ecology course at my previous university but professor Gdovin manages to make it very boring. Overall, shes a decent professor who gives you everything you need to succeed in her class. Take very good notes and dont skip class because everything she writes down on the projector will be on the exam.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Gdovin is an amazing person but as a professor , she sucks. Her lectures are more 30min and sometimes there are 5-7 required lecture videos per week plus she just reads from her notes like a robot. Exams are absurdly hard and questions are so long for the limited time she allows. Hardest class I've ever taken at UTSA!Dont take her class!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There was weekly softchalk modules which is pretty much like the lecture then weekly quiz over that. You have to read to take notes. Weekly zooms and we only did group work with a graded weekly activity that we did with our group. Only take this class as an ES major. She didn't teach over the zooms but did review information from the module.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her power points are awful and confusing. she mostly writes out the notes on paper, and it wouldn't be such a big deal if her handwriting wasnt bad, she likes to abbreviate some words and sometimes its just confusing. Honestly if she just changed the way she did her notes, the class would be much better.