Reviews of professor Karen Magruder

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Magruder is on of the best professors I've ever taken. Instructions and criteria are clear, she offers constructive criticism that is helpful, and she responds within 24 hours to emails. She is caring and passionate about students learning and succeeding. There is a fair amount of work but you will learn a lot in her class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She is great! Everything was open on day one with clear grading criteria. Lots of extra credit! The major case study is NOT hard. I would recommend doing each section with their respective module(s) throughout the semester. Quizzes are untimed and open-book! DBs weekly. Take her class if given the chance! She is there for you when needed!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a great person but she does too much when it comes to assignments. Its a lot of work to answer a discussion board for an elective class in my opinion. She requires you to buy two books for her class and makes you cite your work using text from the books. I didn't buy the books and still for an A. She is also a tough grader.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Magruder is an absolutely incredible teacher. Some people are just called to the profession, and she is one of them. Her lectures are great, clear, easy to digest. The course texts were great resources and I plan on keeping them for my personal collection. Assignments are clearly outlined and she provides great feedback. 10/10 would recommend!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a very nice professor and clearly is very passionate about her job. However, her online PowerPoints are not helpful at all and she is super strict on her discussion boards. I don't have enough money to pay for such an expensive book for an elective class, so it makes doing her discussion boards challenging when all of it is so book-heavy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ms.Magruder is very passionate about this course. She provides feedback and is very active online. Discussions are due every week with word limit. Textbook is needed for discussions. Class is not hard but can be time consuming if you procrastinate. Final paper is not long compared to other classes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took her for 3310 but that wasn't an option. Anyway, she clearly cares deeply about environmental justice. Provides great feedback and is passionate. However, she took points off of my papers for very dumb mundane reasons. Didn't like my solutions, "felt" they were not good solutions?, took points off for not citing enough sources in my intro????