Reviews of professor Kristina Scharp

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Truly one of the most frustrating classes ever. In light of the pandemic, she says she's accommodating , but in reality she isn't. She doesn't accept late assignments and despite efforts of talking with her and TAs beforehand, they don't give extensions. Moreover, there are papers you need to write every week that are subjectively graded.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Content was interesting, but wasn't taught very well. The lectures were mostly just her reading off the slides. Textbook is required but it felt unnecessary. There are short papers due each week and 3 big ones throughout the quarter. Do good on these cause they make up a large part of your grade. She did offer extra credit which was nice.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Mainly reads off of slides during lecture, which makes note-taking easy as you can just copy her slides. Make sure to include a lot of detail in your weekly response papers and you'll do well on them. There are three 8 page IDP Worksheets spaced throughout the quarter, but she drops your lowest worksheet. Would recommend for anyone applying to COM.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Despite being a Communication professor, teaching about "interpersonal communication," she had the worst communication skills of any instructor I've had. Also, she's one of those teachers that makes you buy her $70 textbook. And finally, her unwillingness to be flexible due to COVID mean's I'll be avoiding her like the plague.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
hate it

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I feel like the class is mainly taught by TA, as a freshman, I am not sure if this is normal... Heavy workload, but I like the content.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You are given lecture recordings to watch each week, so there's minimal interaction between you and professor Scharp. This class overall was terrible because the learning environment was structured to be competitive. Quiz questions were ambiguous, but she wouldn't consider your inquiry unless half of the class got this question wrong. DISAPOINTED.