Reviews of professor Margo Mahan

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I'm not very picky about my professors as long as I can have a good grade and learn something but this class has to be the exception. Disorganized and unclear most of the time. Failed to tell us if we have class or not. Announces prerecorded lectures that never available. If you actually want to learn sociology, have a different professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Mahan's remote Soc 100 class was very disorganized and difficult to follow. We turned in assignments but received no feedback to see how we could improve. We also barely had any synchronous lectures, and were generally unable to gain access to any prerecorded ones. The lack of communication eventually became frustrating.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I have the upmost confidence that this will be the most useless and irrelevant course I will ever take. Extremely vague grading rubric for all assignments and zero feedback which made it very unclear what you are supposed to do. Lectures has nothing to do with sociology and sometimes the prof wouldnt even show. Should not be allowed to teach again

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I loved Margo and SOC303 was one of my favorite classes. Her lectures were so interesting and always a good time, I learned so much. I looked forward to lecture every time! Also Giovanni (GSI) was the best. He brought structure to the class in ways Margo lacked. He was very helpful and made discussion fun. He was like one of the students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Took in fall of 2020. The main essays for the class had nothing to do with the lectures; she gave us an entire lecture on BBC (Not the new channel...), yet our main grades were on a sociological analysis of slavery. Everyone was upset w/ her, since she was lazy and wouldn't show up to lecture sometime, but I actually liked that. Made it easier.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Terrible teacher. Very unorganized all semester, lectures were bad (when they actually happened), and her communication was awful. Online format is bad for all of us but this was much worse than I expected. She should not be allowed to teach this class again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I owe it to future students to warn them about Prof. Mahan. From the first class, where she was 30 min late, to the 3 weeks where she refused to lecture (or tell us that she wasn't holding lecture) to the utter lack of communication with students and GSI's, this class has been the largest waste of time and energy I have experienced at UofM.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Impossible to reach outside of class, except through GSI's. Unorganized and generally seemingly underprepared. The entire class agrees, we paid thousands of dollars to get ghosted.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Mahan is very unorganized. Half of the time we thought we had class, but she never showed up. She would promise to give us recorded lectures, but we only saw two sets. We went a month without lectures. One time, she went completely M.I.A. for a week. Didn't learn anything in lectures, and they were not necessary to do well in the course.