Reviews of professor Susana Kimura-Hara

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
A class that isn't supposed to be difficult ruined by a very bad professor. Very hesitant to answer questions and sometimes she doesn't know the answer herself. No part marks allowed on exams because she is too lazy to mark the work in a series of calculations. Doesn't post practice problems and past exams. In-class examples are not posted either.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Stumbled her way through lecture, made so many mistakes. Exams were super difficult and gave assignments that took over 20 hours to figure out and also had tons of mistakes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She claims that you need 4 textbooks in order to succeed. Notes are full of filler material. She just reads off the slides word-by-word. Assignments are a mess and full of mistakes. The two midterms are ridiculously imbalanced. First consists of 5 lectures, second is 13. Just goes to show how much effort this professor puts into this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't go to lectures. As a whole, the course isn't that difficult. What I will say is kimura hara is the worst prof I have ever had. She omits key details on her case studies and then mentions it after she has graded them, she stumbles through her lectures and is unable to read off a slide properly, and she does not answer questions properly.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
So it's her first time teaching a classroom so you can imagine the struggle. She can improve a lot like making the class more exciting, was hard stay awake if you want to do good in this class take reasonability, go over the lecture objectives which were key for the midterms and final. Also, the assignments and extra practice questions helped

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Chem599 was a split class of undergrad/grad students. Took this as a grad student but was no more difficult than any other upper year undergrad course. She is one of the kindest profs and will go out of her way to help you if you ask for it. She always found time to meet with us (during office hours or not) and explain any topic. Easy A if you try

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Pop quizzes, assignments that take 20+ hours to complete that have terrible instructions. Midterms are extremely difficult and she is not kind with part marks. Stumbles her way through lecture and constantly make mistakes. If you can avoid Susana do it.