Reviews of professor Heather Battaly

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Only 4 papers & discussion participation made up your grade. Your argument was only 10% of your grade for each paper, the rest was graded on explaining a concept from lecture. 4th paper was optional: you could opt to have the grade on your 2nd paper count for the 4th paper grade. This option was nice way to end semester. Very passionate professor!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Battaly is extremely lively during lectures, I've never been bored in class. There are weekly reading assigned but they are not necessary most of the time b/c she goes over what your takeaways should be in lecture. We had two essays and two tests. Extremely easy to get an A in if you understand everything from her lecture handouts.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof. Battaly was awesome. She is really funny and her lectures were pretty informative and entertaining. Missing class is not a big deal because she posts online lectures and the material is not very hard to understand. Grade is determined mostly 4 papers, but the TA grades them. Overall, pretty easy and good class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Battaly was great, she's clearly enthusiastic about what she does and the topic that she teaches. There were only two papers and two exams in addition to participation for the grading of the class, and they were not too difficult at all. When we were at home due to corona, she was very understanding and lenient, when many professors were not.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
An absolute gem. Im not a fan of philosophy by any means, but I definitely will be taking another class with her again. Shes super fun and outgoing, while also being extremely knowledgeable in her field. Even though I was in a class of 300, I still feel like she genuinely cared about her class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
When I initially read some of the negative reviews of her below I was pretty unsure of how the semester would turn out. However, I definitely think that the positive reviews definitely beat out the negative ones. Professor Battaly clearly explains concepts and her exams and essays are pretty straight forward. I HIGHLY recommend taking her class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Battaly is one of the most intelligent people I have ever talked to. Not only that, but she is fantastic at breaking things down and explaining them in their smaller chunks. She requires specific wording on some things, and always requires specific examples, but she is a fair grader all around. She expects you to do your best.