Reviews of professor Maria Cattell

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The subject is tough and it's really important to SHOW UP, pay attention, take notes, watch video lectures, and genuinely engage. The out-of-class work was pretty low for a lab and there's a good mix of test, HW, and quiz points. She's really open to discussing issues if you're respectful and putting the work in. She's fair and supportive.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the most scattered professor I've ever had! Heavy homework dropped on the same week of 1st exam. Exam is split into 3 different sections, in different places. For a very difficult subject, she makes it even more difficult. DO NOT TAKE HER ONLINE GENETICS COURSE!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her class consumes WAY too much time -worksheets, reading quizzes, Readings, homeworks and group projects. She gets so tripped up on her lecture I am not even sure that she knows genetics. If that isn't bad enough her tests are BRUTAL, poorly worded, tons of tricks and stuff you didn't even cover. DROP THIS CLASS, its so confusing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr Cattell cares about her students understanding. she gives us so many resouces and always answers questions in class/officehours and will always explain things in different ways to help us understand. She makes study guides for exams, homework is managable (1 every 2 weeks), and extra credit! Tough grader on worksheets but it helps us learn.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lots of in class work and somewhat extensive homework/pre-class assignments but it helps the information stick. She gives a lot of opportunities for extra credit and multiple attempts at homework. Just show up, take good notes, and ask questions. She lets you bring 3 full size pages of notes to exams but learn the material b/c it's applied science.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. C is a really engaging professor, she does assign a lot of coursework, but in the end it helps since for online courses she lets you use notes and classwork. She is always willing to help her students, and gives great feedback when someone is confused. The only critisism I have is that sometimes she switches terms around and has to re-clarify

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Even though unorginized, the syllabus/canvas is updated usually weekly to helpy ou prepare for lecture. Exams are graded very tough and homework is very difficult to get through because it's long. Lectures were great and I learned so much. She answered some of our "for fun" questions which is great. Lots of room for extra points too.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Cattell is an amazing teacher and those who give her a bad review just weren't prepared for how hard this course is. She is passionate about what she does and if you participate, study, and dedicate time to this class you will do well. The material itself is what's hard, not the teacher.