Reviews of professor Courtney Bonam

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Bonam was okay. She was really bad at responding at emails. She never communicated with her TAs and there was always confusion. Lectures are mandatory and she takes attendance. Attending lectures felt pointless because she went over what we read the night prior. Your grade is based on a group project you work on all quarter.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Bonam is a kind and sweet professor. However, her lectures were pointless since she focused on explaining the tasks regarding the Team Research Project and the Individual Research Report (IRR). PSYC100 is the class where going to a 2-hour section counts the most since doing the Team Research Project will help you write the IRR.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Bonam is a wonderful and caring professor. She is very knowledgeable and very approachable. She really cares about helping her students succeed. Her lectures can be a bit slow paced but she has a lot of good insight into race and how that affects experiences within the world.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you take 100 with her, don't go to lectures; they waste time. She uses lectures to read through the week's Canvas assignments rather than teaching meaningful content, instead opting to give students extra materials outside of class. Her deadlines make no sense, she gives too much busy work, and doesn't communicate with her TAs.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She's overall really nice as a person, but disorganized and often goes off topic during lecture. Her tutorials suck. I'd recommend skipping lecture, just read the slides and do the learning exercises on your own before they're due. Group projects are fine, you're really graded on your report at the end. Having a good TA carries this class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Lectures are pointless and very boring, she just reads assignments. She's very nice but very unengaging, plus all work can be done in sections. Tons of tiny assignments that are hard to keep track of at times. They say this class is demanding but it is so easy to do well while doing bare minimum. TAs are great and helpful for assignments.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was very disappointing. If it weren't for the TA and lab, I would have learned nothing. She takes the whole class time to go over the Canvas page. Her explanation of topics is completely unhelpful. Thankfully, it is really easy. I did not put much time into this class and I still did well regardless of her teaching style.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures weren't great, just go to section/the one mandatory class to complete the project (which is a majority of your grade). Personally, my TA was amazing and really helped my group out: having a good group/TA is vital to this course. Overall, it was very well scaffolded and lots of support/instruction is given. Very sweet, but boring lectures.