Reviews of professor Caroline Proulx

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr Proulx grades on attendance, yet doesn't take attendance, she refuses to post Panopto videos despite almost the entire class asking to access them for study material, and the final cumulative exam was one of the most difficult exams I've taken in my entire college career. I chose her class because of such good reviews, but if you can, avoid!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's very passive-aggressive when giving lectures. Your exams count for 85% of your grade in the class. Her exams are only a few questions, but one question will be worth 30-40 points and if you get it wrong you're screwed for that test. Homework isn't really hard if you do the work and re-watch the lectures when you need to.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is very fast. Grades are very exam dependent. There is extra credit points on them, but they are not worth much. For the homework, you get unlimited attempts.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Proulx clearly is very knowledgeable, but that also makes it difficult because she speaks and moves through material pretty quickly and uses a bunch of vocab that turns her lectures into a bit of a foreign language. And I'm not sure if this was her or just the nature of the class, but man was there a lot to memorize and man was this a tough class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I was in her 8:30 AM class but I noticed she always rushed through her lectures. There is a lot in each one and there's barely time to absorb each topic which made it overwhelming. The homework is much harder than what we learn and sometimes doesn't relate to what we need to know. It is very stressful and sometimes it felt like she wasn't helping.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr.Proulx was an okay professor. She is very nice but monotone for an 8:30. Her lectures were long and she went fast through the notes. The HWs don't help you with exams. Her "study guides" were just bullet-pointed essays saying we needed to know everything. Exams were okay and notes were fill in the blank. Very much a learn outside of class class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Proulx definitely isn't as bad as some of these reviews claim. I came into the class expecting it to be horrific but it honestly hasn't been that bad. Orgo 2 has tons of reactions, but I feel she did a decent job at teaching them. Tests are fair, though I've noticed that she focuses on conceptual questions as much as mechanisms on exams.