Reviews of professor Viji Santhakumar

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Recommend her. She's very fast at responding to either email or piazza. She's caring and willing to answer any complicated concept questions. She's very understandable. Exams are online but material-heavy in limited time, but they're doable. Curved at the end of the course.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Santhakumar is an ok professor. The biggest criticism I have of her is that her lectures are never complete. She adds 15-20 slides and even then will make mistakes that she may correct in class. Recording her lectures will maybe help, but still, you need to go to lecture to pass/get a good grade. Her curve wasn't that great so don't rely on it.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I think something like 80% of your grade is based on 3 exams (non-comprehensive). Also, there's a total of 4 quizzes in discussion. Lecture is required sorta, there's clicker questions on a platform called tophat (but you can honestly just stay home and answer from your phone). Tests are fill in the blank and avg is high 50 low 60. Professor is new

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The professor is messy during lecture; she starts rambling about points that are not listed in the slides and does not record lecture, so good luck trying to type everything down at the speed at which she talks. She also has no clear grading criteria and no defined curve.