Reviews of professor Nicole Barco

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Barco ruined any and all excitement I had about entering into the Honors program. She was rude when we asked questions, she didn't communicate her expectations well, and she didn't try to genuinely connect with her students. I do not recommend joining honors if she is still the director.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Barco was not very helpful when it came to instilling guidelines about our assignments. She is not very clear and doesn't provide the help we need in order to make the assignments clearer.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doctor Barco should not have been chosen to be the new Honors director. Shes a control freak, a pretentious teacher, and an obnoxiously harsh grader. She has ruined the fun of being an Honors student, and refuses to let anyone grade assignments besides herself. She doesnt take students feelings into account, despite preaching vunerability.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took Sparling online. She was decent at first, the homework was a lot -  a discussion board, two responses, reading 1-2 novels a week, along with 1-2 movies you had to watch and write a journal about - but then we turned in our first paper and she grades down if you have different opinions than her. Very annoying and inconsiderate teacher

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I was so excited to be admitted to the Honors Program, and she managed to completely destroy every bit of excitement I had for it. Since she insisted that we should be our most vulnerable selves, I poured my heart and soul into my assignments only for her to brutally tear them apart. She was incredibly boring in lectures, pretentious, and rude.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Barco is very caring, sweet, and knowledgable. Make sure you keep up with the reading, and you have a schedule for completing the discussion boards and journals. The class is interesting if you've read/watched the literature and pay attention/participate in discussion.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Very monotonous. Basically same thing every class, lecturing the whole time. Not a hard class but besides the PDP Project I did not gain much.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She was extremely boring and had us read a generic and ridiculous self help book. The class itself was rather easy, although it took some time for PDP and creative project. Thankfully class was online because I cannot imagine actually sitting through an entire class period, especially when she was presenting.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Barco insisted students show their most vulnerable self in a creative project. She graded very harshly even if the rubric was followed completely. She made students feel dumb for asking questions that many others had, making it impossible to learn anything at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She will mark you down on your assignments but will give no reason for which she marked you down. Her lectures were not relevant whatsoever. We still had to do the PDP project in the middle of a pandemic and it was so hard to find opportunities that could be done socially distanced or online.