Reviews of professor Kristin Primus

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor mumbles throughout lecture. She isnt clear about concepts and doesnt explain anything well in class. Lecture was a complete time suck and she cant keep the class attention at all. You are graded on four assignments which are progressively weighted. Class was not well structured and she would often ramble.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
3 papers, no midterm, no final; not bad for my first philosophy class

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Spinoza is a hard class. The material is quite hard to grasp, and Prof. Primus does do an adequate job explaining. She's pretty amazing at going into depth about Spinoza and could answer any question. However, some students find her voice boring. This, while understandable, could make you feel rly tired during class. Love her tho! Always available!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Primus is a soft-spoken and never acts like she's the smartest person in the room (but she probably is). One of my all-time favorite professors at Cal.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Primus is an amazing professor. Her lectures are illuminating on the often difficult material we cover in Spinoza. She has a great way of explaining things, and she chains ideas together to explicate the system and methodology in a very understandable way. 

I would highly recommend taking any class with Professor Primus.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Primus is the best! She's so kind and accessible, she truly cares about her students' well-being. The class (25B) is inherently difficult because it is a Philosophy class, but she takes time to make sure that you understand the material. Do your readings and take good notes (very verbose lectures/slides), and you'll be just fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Primus is very nice and her lectures were very coherent. There are only 3 papers that are graded by the GSI (they kind of grade hard) but no midterm or final. I would recommend going to the GSI's office hours before the paper is due so that you can figure out what they want in the paper.