Reviews of professor Kendall Bustad

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was the most boring class I've ever taken. Environmental health has so much potential to draw from current studies in the field however Bustad relies on broad generalizations about things like dump "liners" which makes going to class a snooze fest. A lab component was added this semester so pray that you get a good TA .

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class wasn't even the problem. It's the fact that they made a "lab" portion to go with it. The TA's have absolutely no clue what they are doing and are not given a clear grading criteria. The actual lectures are quite boring, but she gives good information.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Summer, 6 weeks. I say this nicely: Bustad does not know how what she is doing or how to teach - uses word-for-word info found on Wikipedia and other sites. Vague instructions, rubrics, whole class confused. Syllabus doesn't have due dates or schedule. Put in no effort. Skipped slides, skipped info on slides. Plagiarized so much, does not explain

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Worst prof Ive ever had at UMD. Made online learning hell having to listen to her voice, tripping over words and rushing through slides she reads directly from (also no slides available to download without her voice, nor a textbook). Extremely strict on not accepting late work- when were in the middle of a f-ing pandemic. She did the minimum

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This professor only works here for the power trip. She had changed a grade on an out-of-class assignment to a 0 because I was not present for the in-class assignment that week, even though i had previously scored 100%, and for other students as well. Strict on attendance being mandatory, but only goes through 8 slides for the whole hour.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This class was incredibly boring and formulaic. Bustad gave okay lectures, but the assignments and quizzes didn't encourage free thinking, and the whole thing seemed too surface level to be a college class. I took AP Env Sci and it covered better material...

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Expectations were vague and almost non-existent for the whole summer. Hope your TA's are available and decent because Dr. Bustad is neither of those. Most of the lectures were taken from another university or easily found on the internet; plagiarized. She makes attempts to cover this up, but it is clear she has no idea what she is teaching.