Reviews of professor Brittany Nairn

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I wouldn't suggest taking her... she gives you about 500 things to study and maybe 25 are on the exam.. Tests are most of your grade too. She's a tough grader and her lectures tend to feel boring, long, and heavy. If you can take a class with someone else, I would. She does try to help her students, but her class is boring and the material is hard.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Nairn is always available to answer questions and offers A LOT of extra credit. There are four exams and a final project. There is one big group project. There is weekly homework that you can do in a group or individually. She posts her lecture pdfs on moodle.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had Nairn for Microbiology and she is very nice and organized with the entire semester laid out. Labs are easy & fun. Test are very hard, but lots of extra credit assignments to make up for exams. I appreciated no final at the end -- instead you do a small project and paper. Only complaint is lectures are very boring and she is very monotone.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Nairn was very organized. She has the schedule for the semester laid out clearly. She has learning objectives before her lectures. The learning objectives were great study tools. She almost never has anything on the tests that wasn't covered by the learning objectives. She gave feedback on assignments to help me do better on the next.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Nairn is a good teacher and always available to help. She lays out what you need to know. There are 4-unit exams and 1 final exam, that are difficult. I do not like the grading because it is split 50/50. She does offer extra credit but mainly towards assignments. There is a lot of prep for class but it's due able.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Nairn is just the sweetest. She's also very knowledgable, and does a great job of teaching the material. There is a lot of pre-class reading, but overall I thought the class was great!