Reviews of professor Lisa Beard

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class is mandatory, but there's no reason to go, because the lecture is just horrible. There's so much reading every week, and they are all long and confusing. The professor is nice and willing to work with you though.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lisa has a great personality. But when it comes to grading, don't expect anything. We are currently in week 8 of the quarter and she hasn't bothered to put a single assignment into the grade book. It has left me and many other students very stressed about what our grade is. I could have an A, or I could have an F, I honestly have no idea. Avoid her

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I signed up for this class in person and it switched it to online the day before the first class. This class is entirely self-taught. Readings are assigned Friday and due Monday. It says class is three days a week but two of those days are "asynchronous". Beard does not grant acceptations for sickness and grades attendance/participation harshly.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not sure why this class got changed to online the last minute but nonetheless it was mostly self taught for the most part. They does not lecture as much, group work and discussion is a big thing. Luckily no exams, just quizzes on the weekly readings and 2 papers. But they do not give clear feedback on papers though.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
While I do like Lisa as a professor, I do not like the way she lays out the course, she focuses too much on group work and partner sharing, she teaches what she wants when she wants, turning a class on American Politics into more a course of History of Race in America. And she does not track grades so you don't know if you are passing the class.