Reviews of professor Catherine Ariail

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She expects mountains of research and reading for this online history course, where she focuses 10% on history, and 90% on gender/race studies. I signed up to learn about the past, not for a liberal arts class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. I have never dropped a class before but I am dropping her class. She assigns a ridiculous amount of work. It is unbelievable. I spent 4 hours on my first assignment in her class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you don't like writing, do not take this class. And even if you do like writing, make sure you REALLY like it, because you will be doing an absurd amount. Dr. Ariail was nice, encouraged class discussion, and was an easy grader, but it was just too much work imo. You'll do great if you've got good time management. Otherwise, maybe reconsider.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
More of a do-it-yourself course. She didn't so much as lecture as much as she makes you read/skim chapters and answer open ended quiz questions in class. She'll kind of go over them in class, so that's kind of a lecture. She's really nice and as long as you do the work, she'll accept late submissions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
There is no other history prof to take. This is my 2nd class with her and I can't recommend her enough. Free book, great if you're just taking for a GenEd, easy enough if you're not a worker but opportunity to dive deeper if you want. Very caring, easy to talk to, challenges American exceptionalism, and clarifies history the US like to gloss over.