Reviews of professor Elisa Torres

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
she made her lectures interesting and is a fair grader! she gives the answers to all of her questions in the lectures, you just need to hear the lecture. she records her lecture live and posts it after class for people who aren't present. she offers study guides and the tests are at home on lockdown. textbook online and required for homework

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of the best professors I've had at Mason. Tests are very much like her slides, and readings. If you do the work and study you will do well! She genuinely wants to do well, and enjoys what she is teaching! Loved this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures are spent reading the powerpoint, so class was really optional, though she does go more in-depth on the studies on the exams, so read up on those. She seems to care about her students, but her exams are impossible. They are administered online with a lockdown browser which increases anxiety and stress. Overall good person, mediocre prof.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you do the readings and come to class, you'll be fine! There are participation checks occasionally but they're easy, you just answer a question or two on a piece of paper.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Although Elisa is a graduate student, she teaches like a pro! She's incredibly nice and always willing to answer questions with examples. She reads off the PowerPoints, but you can tell she's very passionate about the topic and teaching. She's accessible through emails. One of the three exams is dropped. I would absolutely take her again!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very tough course. 4 discussion boards are easy but worth little (36 points). 2 research papers were pretty easy but each only worth 35 points. There were 3 exams and 1 final exam. All exams are overlooked by LockDown browser (recording webcam and audio). The 3 exams are worth around 40 points each and the final is worth 25% of the final grade.