Reviews of professor Catherine Taylor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Fall 2021. I was nervous bc we use STATA which is statistical software but Taylor made STATA fun and interesting. She is passionate about statistics and it is easy to follow along with her lectures, very organized and engages students to participate in class. Quizzes online each week were easy. The assignments were not bad especially with TA help

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Cate is awesome! This was her first class at UCSB, she used to teach at UI Bloomington. She's incredibly caring and understand. 3 short essays (3 pages each) weekly quizzes and weekly participation write ups, and MC final. This class was Special Topics Gender In Sexuality and I cant wait to take more! Super interesting and easy. Dont buy the book!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
 Professor Taylor knows the work she assigns is extremely stress inducing and UNREASONABLE but she does not care. She loves to hear herself talk, gives extremely boring lectures, 1 assignment a week that takes hours. Before even being done with an assignment she'll start talking about the next one. Leaving all students confused and stressed.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I never have a class with such awesome Lectures. They are well-organized and easy to get. However, the assignments are twice a week, 3 pages maximum, and it is very harshly graded the mean score is always 140/200. It has a section of "writing everything excellently ", but we just do not know what does excellently mean.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Projected gay slurs on the screen which the whole class proceeded to laugh at. Declared homophobia to be over. Such basic material, graded extremely unfairly. Pretty sure everyone was bored to tears every day.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nothing to complain about for the lectures, although a bit repetitive. The discussion posts and quizzes are easy points as long as you do them. However, the difficulty of this course comes with the grading of the three writing assignments. Prof. Taylor claims they are graded harsher to compensate for the easiness of the weekly assignments.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was interesting but she sure does ramble on a lot, you learn most of the content outside of class. The twice weekly quizzes are easy but she grades harshly on the papers. In class discussion posts are easy points. She can be funny but you learn mostly from the lectures she posts online.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She has so much knowledge to offer and it was such an interesting course to take! I do think that the units material had a lot of work, but the quizzes + discussions were easy points. The 3 papers were fine as long as you carefully follow the instructions. She ended up giving us extra credit too, I definitely recommend taking her!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
my favorite professor i've taken at UCSB, very easy to talk to, easy to understand in lecture