Reviews of professor Esme Murdock

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Murdock cares genuinely about her students well-being and mental health. This is something rare in college. She gives lightweight interesting little assignments every week, which was great because it was not an overwhelming amount of work. Then there is a midterm reflection (super easy), and a final that is a bit more challenging.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Great class, she's a young professor so her lectures are interesting and quick. Would take it again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very informational yet easy class! All quizzes were open-note/book. You get no penalties for turning in discussion posts late. For the discussion posts, there was no word count for the post nor your reply to a peer and it only consisted of 2 questions max.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class material itself is moderately easy, but since it is a philosophy class you will read a lot. Course key is used heavily for checking in/assessments. 3/4 of class is mostly long lectures. Grading wise, this is an upper division class, so proficiency is expected but she is not clear at all what she expects. Don't recommend.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Take Dr. Murdock, she is a great professor! There are two short papers, a term paper due at the end of the semester, and a MC exam with a few essay questions. The best part of this class is there is no textbook. She posts all the readings online. I would highly recommend!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures went on very long. Readings were too much for the given time. She would stand in silence until someone answered her question which wasted time and made everything uncomfortable. And she got offended about a student telling everyone else the info she gave about class time in an email??? Grading was fair but did not enjoy her.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class is very repetitive. Lectures every day about the reading, reading off the powerpoint, course key questions and attendance. There is not a lot of engaging besides group discussions, but she only gives a few minutes to engage. On top of that she reads off the power point the whole semester. Only take if you have to.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is based off of all the readings that you do throughout the semester. Each class she goes over the reading and I wish the class would have been taught in a more engaging way. We wrote 2 critical reading summaries, one case study analysis, and had a cumulative final exam that was about all the readings (50 mc, 3 short answer ?s)