Reviews of professor Olivia Stewart Lester

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Take her! Seriously one of the sweetest professors I've taken at Loyola and you can tell she really cares about her students. I usually struggle with religion classes but her lectures made hard material easy to understand. If you put in the effort you will do well in this class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The class is pretty lecture heavy but you get plenty of opportunities to do close readings of passages and discuss them with your classmates. She does require a discussion post before every class and allows you to skip up to 2. You also spend the semester writing a paper and you get 100 just for submitting with the exception of the final draft.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really caring and easy to talk to. You can tell she genuinely cares about students and the subject matter. Reading is pretty heavy and there's a few open note pop quizzes reading is important, only a few papers but they're pretty rigorous, but exams are easy if you prepare, she gives you the questions before hand & lectures are easy to follow.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Lester is really nice, however, the class really was a lot of work. During the pandemic, all professors were advised to keep the work level the same as it was before we moved online. Professor Lester did the opposite. Specifically with our final where she made it 5 short answers (had to be a paragraph long each) and two complete essays.