Reviews of professor Melissa Foster

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She treated her 2000 level as a 5000 level class. I'm an okay writer and typically get As on papers, but for the first few assignments in her class, I got Cs. It was irritating how tough her grades were and how she kept saying it was a "high-level writing course" when a 2000 level GE should not be harder than my 3000 and 4000-level major courses.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really nice person, cares about her students. She is a really tough grader, but if you do the work it's really not too much. Easy GE, nice lady.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was pretty straightforward. It included a weekly quiz, weekly lecture videos, and a 2 page discussion post every 2 weeks. It is a pretty easy class if you do your work, but I noticed the lectures did seem to get a little political.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
For a Gen Ed course that was online this class was a lot of work. There are three long lecture videos, a quiz, and a video discussion board due each week, with midterm tests every three weeks.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very tough grader and rude. I do not recommend this course or professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Rude and hardest grader for a GE course

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Foster is an evil. Avoid her. She grades very roughly. I dropped from A to B+ only after the first week! She usually deducts students' points without any reason. 19% of students (38 of 200) dropped Communication 2850 after the first week.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I hated is how disconnected the professor was. There were weird grading criteria that the TA used to grade my stuff that was not mentioned in the guidelines. She ignored me when I reached out for help. She could not just quickly say, "yes, the TA made a mistake, you're right". TA was unresponsive and continued grading weirdly. Never again.