Reviews of professor Dawn Nagel

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Would not listen to comments below. She genuinely cares about the students that put effort into the class. Makes study guides that are super helpful, and exams are pretty fair. MT1 was a bit off so she made the final and MT2 way more straight forward and from the lecture. It's not an easy class, but put in some work and you will be okay.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class is lecture heavy, get ready to study. No homework but do all learning objectives. Everything is in the slides, use resources to learn better (instructors,internet) if needed. There is some curving! In quizzes I got 89% but they curved it to >95% . Slight curve in final grade which was very nice. Study hard though and don't count on curve.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Does not provide any handouts or study guide. Mediocre at best. Accent makes her hard to understand. Offered a final review session, but showed up 20 mins late and left 20 mins later. Other professors offering this course allowed one sheet to be used on exams. She did not.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Genuinely one of the worst professors here at UCR. Attended class regularly, however, her tests were still very difficult. Does not engage students in her lectures and does not curve despite her low test scores. With low grades in her class, she still believes that it is the students' fault rather than her own for the low grades.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I enjoyed the class, but there were always a few curveballs thrown in lecture on material I would not expect to be on there (and in great detail) and the discussion quizzes were erratic and very stressful. However, it was an interesting class and the professor tried her best which I appreciate. I enjoyed the class regardless of how stressful it was

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gives a lot of opportunity for extra credit (5% for 107a) and is responsive/helpful during office hours and lecture. Even though exams were mostly not cumulative besides the finals, still a pretty hard course due to amount of material but this is helped by a decent curve. Mandatory discussion section quizzes, tests mainly off slides.