Reviews of professor Valerie Wieskamp

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I though I was going to hate this class in the beginning but I ended up liking it. As long as you do the forum response once a week and do well on your three papers you will be fine. There is one reading per week that we go over in class both days. For each reading there is a discussion forum that you will basically summarize everything you read.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Valerie Wieskamp is life changing, she has real world knoweledge that allows students to see the world differently in the most amazing ways. You will learn more than maybe any other class and while there is work there is nothing that isn't beneficial to the student. So passionate and caring, wish I could take her for everything!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Wieskamp was great at teaching public speaking, but you better get ready to speak. Compared to many other public speaking courses, she assigned many more speeches. But don't let that scare you because she is very helpful and you will be more comfortable speaking after this class. As long as you try in this course you will pass. COM2101

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Wieskamp definitely knows her way around rhetoric and persuasion. Class was fun since it was basically student led, where we talk about the article we read for homework. Essays are hard, but as long as you meet with her and get through it, you will do fine. Other than that, not much homework and interesting class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
get ready to write a lot

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She is all about discussions and really makes the class interesting with various videos and articles we read. She is very kind and understanding.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You have to do a reading and a journal for every single class. The papers are hard to write because you have so many sources/discussions to pull from. Class is the same every day: talk about the reading(s) Socratic Seminar style. You never learn anything definitive and just listen to your classmates give their opinions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super cool Professor. A lot of reading but it is all interesting. Really good at relating it to the world today. Attendance is mandatory and can hurt your grade a lot if you miss a lot of days

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I will admit, this class is overwhelming if you don't keep up. There are two 250-word minimum discussion forums due each week and during the semester there are three big analysis papers. However, the course material is very interesting (even if the readings are hard). Go to her office hours and she will help you! No electronics allowed in class.