Reviews of professor Tamara Harvell

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is a good professor, however, sometimes her grading criteria can be contradictory. Her feedback was a bit condescending at times, but overall it was an easy "A" class if you put the work in.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mrs. Harvell has a difficult time staying on topic during most classes. It was difficult to figure out where she was and what she was talking about. The first 15 minutes or more of each class is her discussing about her personal life. When questions are asked in class to reiterate what has been discussed, she gets frustrated and says she gives up.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Sometimes she just doesn't make clear sense of what she is trying to lecture about and many times she will contradict what she has stated before or what is in a handout. Most of her discussions are about her own higher education issues and she has a habit of speaking negatively about TCC. If you want a decent Comp 1 instructor, Do NOT take her.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Harvell does a good job instructing this class, there is a lot of reading and writing which is to be expected. Harvell is a pretty tough grader when it comes to structure of essays, so read the rubric. Visit the writing center to have it looked over to help with the amount of errors that could be spotted during grading.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She tends to go off topic quite a bit, but she explains assignments pretty well. She isn't the most specific teacher, but you can tell she cares about her students. The work isn't hard, if anything it can be time consuming. She's a decent professor, I'd take her class again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took her composition 2 class, she is one of the worst professors I have had. Class time is spent talking about her personal life, and she tries to be way too politically correct to the point where it becomes offensive. Harvell also says one thing, and normally changes her mind the next week. I put a W on my script in fear I would fail her class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She lets all her students know that she works full time in the writing center and we can see her anytime we need for help with our homework. I had to go see her a couple of times to understand what the textbook reading was about, and she stopped everything to help and make sure I knew what I was suppost to be doing.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She was okay, I did enjoy her class. She tries to get along with her students and always reminds them about the help they can get when it comes to their papers, her class is easy and she's clear on what she wants.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Composition I with Professor Harvell was a fun class, there is quite a bit of writing and she is a tough grader. I would definitely recommend visiting the writing center to have essays revised before submitting them, and visiting the writing center on some assignments will get you extra credit.