Reviews of professor Renee Ciulla

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took Sustainable Ag. Renee is super kind, but this may as well have been an online class (boo). All educational components are online blackboard posts and readings. Assignments are long and boring. We visit farms once a week as our only face-to-face time, tours are cool but we end up spend hours doing free labor for the farm more than learning.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Renee is a nice person who knows a lot about agriculture, so it's a shame that she rarely lectures. There are two homeworks due on Thursday and Sunday at 7pm, that are 1.5-2 pages long. All the material in the class is just links to random websites and articles, most of which are arduous to read, and boring. She also doesn't allow any late work

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Ultimately had to withdraw from this class midway through the semester. I wanted to like Renee, she's a nice person and easy to talk to but assigns so much work with hard deadlines to make (7pm on both Thursdays and Sundays every week). Also has a minimum word count on weekly homework (usually at least 450 words). Overall pretty inaccessible class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I wish I'd have read the reviews for R.C. before taking her class. She posts ~30+ website links for us per week, having us sort through hours of readings from the internet.  Then we write around 1,000 words every week in homework and discussion posts and responses.  Her "lectures" are 5 min long descriptions of the readings.  Very disappointing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
No lectures for entire class, had us read from websites as main source of information for class, did not moderate online forum until after weekly discussions, where lots of incorrect information was stated. Very disappointed in how little information I got from this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Shes so smart and has a lot of experience in Ag which would be so helpful if her homework wasn't so mind-numbingly boring. It is just link upon links of monotonous articles which you then have to regurgitate in at least 300 words minimum. I hate her classes, spare yourself the headache.