Reviews of professor Katie Becklin Atkinson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is very condescending and has no empathy if something in your life happens. made the whole class seem so stressful and difficult for no reason. I don't recommend her at all. I felt like this semester took 5 years off my life span, quizzes are nothing like exams, and btw you have a paper due on the same day as exams . you learn nothing in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Yeah, it's week 3 and I can already say this is the worst teacher I have ever encountered. Organic Chemistry is more interesting than whatever she is teaching. Ecology and Evolution! Fun, right? Wrong. She found a way to make it dreadful. If you don't have to, never take this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The hardest part of the class for me was the biology reflection essays which seem pointless and are not clearly graded so its difficult to improve. The weekly quizzes are okay and allow two tries. Of all of my classes this had the most homework and required a few hours of work on lecture videos and quizzes every weekend that didn't help on exams.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
One of the worst professors that I have ever taken a class with. Do not take this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I honestly found BIO 345 quite enjoyable and Dr. Becklin to be a pretty cool person. I feel like a lot of the bad reviews are from people who either didn't find the class interesting or weren't willing to put in the work. I found her lectures to be particularly enjoyable, and it's evident she is passionate about the subject and is willing to help.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I hate the teaching style of this professor so much.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course had a lecture at home, group project in class model. This made it an exceptionally homework-heavy class (3-5 hours/ week). As for Professor Becklin she is overly involved in research and has very unclear and sporadic grading criteria when it comes to the ALL SHORT ANS. TESTS and essay critiques.