Reviews of professor Deborah Howard

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is not a horrible person but she does not lecture in class and her tests are harder than they need to be. She also gives way too much material to go over before class. I took this over the summer too which did not help as far as how much information she tried to cram in.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I have a wonderful TA for Genetics Lab (she does not create the curriculum, Prof. Howard does), but I have never taken a lab with so many confusing and time-consuming handouts. Not to mention the in-lab "activities" we do that are ultimately completely unhelpful (literal arts&crafts, paper cut-outs, etc)...

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very engaging and clearly passionate about her job, but this class was a LOT of work for a gen ed. Exams are 60% of your grade (however you can drop your lowest score.) I spent about ~6 hours a week studying and got B's on every exam. Very dependent on how well you can memorize information. You lose points for missing class. Guest speaker was good.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do not take this class in person. She posts lectures online that can be anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and a half long and goes over nothing in class. You are expected to do all the learning on your own just like an online class. She is a very nice person, however when anyone critiques her methods she turns around and blames the student.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Howard was really passionate about biology, and although I didn't think it was the most interesting class, she was a pretty solid professor and didn't make a class a chore to be in.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof Howard is a respected person. Her online class was very structured and she provided a free textbook. Be sure to get good grades on the exams since they're a good portion of your grade, and also because you can skip the final! As a non-science major I really enjoyed how she taught bio!