Reviews of professor Nicole Barco

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Barco had unclear expectations for all of her assignments, didn't give us rubrics until after we had turned in the work, graded tough and refused to give feedback unless we set up meetings. Her lectures were extremely boring and it seemed like she didn't care. When I did set up meetings with her, she was late and unprofessional.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Barco did not care about her students and didn't give any slack. She made no effort to get to know any of her students and there was so much miscommunication surrounding assignments. She graded heavily, even on things that were personal and subjective. She was also pretentious and rude when people asked questions.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class wasn't anything special. It requires a lot of reading/participation - usually a few pieces and a movie or two a week, so be prepared. Not as much writing as I thought, just a paper you work on thru the semester and then discussion board & film journals. Exams were long but not difficult

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Barco is a tough grader that gives little to no specific feedback for grades. Because she insists on grading the majority of the extensive workload, any grading takes an extremely long time to appear. Her lectures were lengthy and often not relevant to the subject. She gives clarification for works which is very nonspecific and not useful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
HON 100 sucked purely because her lecturing was boring, it was 2 hours long, and it was 7 pm on a Monday night. She talks a lot about philosophy and tries to get you to think outside the box. You have to attend a lot of events for the PDP but those are pretty fun, and none of the assignments were too hard. What TA you have makes a difference.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had Dr. Barco in her first semester as the honors director. She did a great job making all students feel welcome. She made herself available outside of class and was so involved with all things honors. If you are considering joining the honors program, just know that Dr. Barco will be there for you and make you feel appreciated.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Barco is the least caring professor I've ever had. She didn't care at all that we were suddenly adapting to all of our classes online and didn't do anything to help with that. Every assignment was still due, and movies we couldn't get at the library were still required, we had to pay for them. When everything was stressful, she made it 10x worse.