Reviews of professor Sara Niedzwiecki

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Niedzwiecki is amazing! She really knows her stuff and is so passionate about what she teaches it makes lectures super engaging. I loved this class and would highly recommend it to anyone, first years especially! She also places a large effort to answer many questions and is very kind when you go to study hours.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The assigned material is incredibly dense, even the TA encouraged us to voice our concerns about the heavy material. It's contradictory for politics professors to advocate for justice and equal opportunity while assigning 80+ pages of complex reading. This approach makes learning inaccessible for students and undermines the principles they teach.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Niedzwiecki may seem intimidating at first but she's actually very kind and wants the students to succeed. As long as you are putting forth effort and attending class, which a lot of the work really isn't hard, just time-consuming, her class is very enjoyable and enlightening. She really wants to teach students how to be better students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
A very good professor for social policy. The course aligns with the professor's research and it shows - every lecture was passionate and informative. The course was straightforward (and easy), but still taught a lot of interesting information. Final included a comprehensive study guide. Good for CC GE - highly recommend taking the course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's a really good professor, definitely recommend to first years. Take to fufill CC GE! Go to lecture and you won't have to buy the reader; its basically all the same thing. Her midterm and final are fairly easy, if you go to lecture you shouldn't be stressed! She might change the class name though.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures are dry and not very engaging. The material itself is fascinating so it's a shame that lectures fail to keep students excited or passionate. Probably my least favorite class I've taken at UCSC so far.