Reviews of professor Valerie Syverson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Literally one of the worst classes I have ever taken in my life. She talks a mile a minute and is so bad at explaining things in ways that a normal GE student would know. Everyone is completely lost in her class. Horrible lectures, quizzes are long for very little points, and makes zero sense when talking. I am probably going to fail. Do not take.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Straight up awful, would never recommend taking this professor because they do not know a single effective way of teaching students the only thing they go to school for which is to learn. Not to mention, after emailing students they had a week to do a final, they "forgot to publish" the final and left students with an 80 Q final the day before due.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took this class for 4 weeks during summer, was very fast paced. Labs everyday, very unorganized, long lectures. Its basically you know the material or dont. Took weekly quizzes and final. Was graded on labs and vocab notebook check. A few questions on the final were from the previous quizzes. Allowed vocab book and one sheet of notes for the final.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Syverson makes geology impossible to understand (coming from a non-geo major). Very unprepared and flies through lectures. Instead of explaining questions during lab, she just does it for you and then expects you to do it yourself for tests. Do not recommend AT ALL. Admitted she didn't even own the textbook. Seriously. DO NOT RECOMMEND.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You will pass the class if you work very hard, turn in the homeworks, every week (not even). Tests are 50 questions (comprehensive), she curved the grade because is super hard, no notes on the test, no extra points. Some homeworks are confusing, heavy lectures. Shes very nice, and she helps you a lot. I like her class besides the heavy and hard hw.