Reviews of professor Emily Baer-Bositis

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really passionate about politics. However, she does scream through slides, and for a beginner politics class she does not do a good job explaining for beginners. She is nice, no one really used the book, and I would say it's a waste of money. Very nice and somewhat understanding just be attentive and take pics of the slides.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class is discussion heavy and she will get upset if no one is participating or if it is clear you haven't done the reading. She is kind, approachable, and very passionate about gender in politics. If you're willing to put in the work you'll be fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She cares about students and is very willing to put in time outside of class to help, office hours or not. You don't necessarily need to do all of every reading as long as you go to exam study sessions and take good notes. There was a required book that I hardly used, could definitely get away with sharing a copy. Always willing to answer questions

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Clearly extremely passionate about the topic. Extremely discussion-based and based on obscure text that were basically the same study or similar over and over. Everyone in the class felt excited about the topic but then it quickly became boring. Uses Chicago for citations, which was annoying. Overall, an interesting class but could be better.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Powerpoints are kinda boring, but she is a great lecturer. There are never any surprises with her. On the midterm, I thought it was very fair. If you pay attention in class you'll do fine. She follows an outline for her lectures in class and it's helpful because she goes super in depth and loves to provide examples.