Reviews of professor Marina Duque

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Duque doesn't teach. Giving your students readings, and assigning them videos and giving a page of notes that are absolutely useless for any of the work is not teaching. Her grading scheme is terrible and she doesn't care about any of her students and makes you feel like you can't ask for help. She should've stayed a researcher & diplomat

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Just dont take. She is not very helpful. Rude at best and has crazy criteria for getting an A in the class. She tells you to include readings but marks work as incomplete if you do.. she is contradicting and doesnt even teach. She uploads 60 pages of reading a week with impossible assignment.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you have the opportunity to take Professor Duque, DONT. She is the hardest teacher I have had to deal with. If you do not get an 80% on your assignments, they automatically get graded as incomplete and you receive no grade. So if you earn a 75% on a quiz, you really earned a 0%. She does not care whether you succeed or not, so save yourself.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Look, she is just boring. Her class is not hard, just take your time to read the textbook. She just does not know how to teach. But you can get a good grade if you just read, and the book is very interesting. I wouldn't take her again but she is not awful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dont even bother, only halfway into the semester and can tell why everyone else below gave her such bad ratings. She literally has an impossible grading matrix that basically guarantees a C. Oh, just try harder you say? Well Ill tell you that trying harder and effort does not mean anything to Professor Duque. Oh, an 80  the same thing as an A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She is great. At first, I felt that it was hard to understand her lectures but if you read the articles (which are not long) and do good on the quizzes, you will ace the exams. The projects are easy and interesting and the course is not homework heavy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took her for special topics course. It was online and asynchronous, so no lectures. She posted the weeks readings and had one quiz that could be repeatedly retaken and one 1-2 page paper due every week. The readings varied from 20-60 pages a week. If you do the reading and the assignments, it's easy. Her late policy was also pretty generous.