Reviews of professor Svitlana Matviyenko

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very boring voice that puts me to sleep tbh. However the organization and use of material to keep you engaged is flawless.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Her lectures are quite detailed but get drawn out and boring after she goes on about 1 point on her slide for a solid 15 minutes. Personally, I don't find her accent that distracting but I never really paid attention to the lectures after week 4. There's a textbook but I never read any of the readings. Quizzes and paper were straight forward to do

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE. Currently taking this class right now- beware!!! The structure of the lectures is non existent. Most of the time no one knows what the hell she is talking about... People don't pay attention in class because it is sooooo dry and boring. BEWARE! OUR MIDTERM IS TODAY AND SOUNDS HARD.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Svitlana is not that great of a prof. Her voice can be very monotonous, making it hard to watch the lectures online. The midterms and final were generally easy as long as you had a good TA, which I didn't have. Basically, just don't take a class with her unless you understand the content really well because her exams are quite straightforward

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm sorry but if you don't need this course as a pre-req for something else I'd say DO NOT take it. Incredibly boring and off-topic lectures, LOTS of dense readings that never connect, unorganized course materials, etc. Prof is nice and you can tell she's passionate, she's just not good at engaging the class or explaining the course material.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Svitlana will open your eyes and blow your mind. Her passion for the topics is apparent from her real-life experiences working as a researcher and writer of cyberwar, security, global capitalism, and nuclear heritage. You will leave every lecture with a head full of inspiration and curiosity. Highly recommend her classes!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Whatever you do, don't take a class with this prof. She is terribly disorganized and requires an insane amount of reading. She does not answer the student's questions clearly and her slides are absolutely useless. Honestly, she shouldn't ever teach again

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm surprised by the ratings for Svitlana. I had taken CMNS349 due to the lack of prereqs so I didn't have much of a choice in the upper division cmns courses but it ended up being not only my best grade in the semester but also my favourite course. I think Svitlana is really passionate plus the course had extra credit for participation in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
didn't use the textbook whatsoever and the lectures were horrible, made 0 sense 90 percent of the time, unnecessarily complicated explanations for material that could've been very interesting