Reviews of professor Galyna Livshyts

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of the worst instructors I have met. Accent is bad but not terrible, but she tends to speak really fast and makes it harder for students to understand. You will find it harder to understand the material from her lecture than to read the textbook yourself. Unfortunately, there are pop quizzes, so you have to be there.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her accent is not too worse when you compare to her terrible handwriting. The notes are often times incorrect and she frequently skips important steps. When you ask her questions after class, she gives impatient answers. Despite all that, she takes pop quizzes to force you to attending class. Tests are hard and include off-book concepts. GL

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She finds complicated and abstract ways of explaining concepts that are much clearer when you look them up in the book, often bringing up archaic notation and ways of solving problems. It makes it seem like she improvises classes. You never really know what to expect on quizzes and tests, and will often have to rely on interpreting the book alone

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She does not understand what she is teaching. The first midterm was way too easy with an average of 98, and she just made the second midterm way too hard. She is just doing this to fulfill the requirement of the average the department gives her. Poorly structured course. Avoid it at any cost

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you pay attention, all of the content is there, but her pacing has so far not matched the studios at all. She presents content in a sort of difficult to follow way in my experience. However, I think the biggest problem is I feel she's pretty impatient with students. I've noticed a bit of a temper with certain questions unbecoming of a professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her compassion for students made the class much easier. The exams and quizes were open book, and posted a few days before the due date. She was also super helpful during office hours!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The exams/quizzes have questions that aren't even close to the ones we practice in Studio... Also, I relied on the MyMathLab textbook A LOT (and also Paul's Online Notes, a website created by Lamar University).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Livshyts definitely seemed sometimes to teach a bit further than the material at times, and tested that as well. She made this math class really challenging, but was quite fair and understanding in terms of grading / curving. This class was a lot of work, but I think that it was quite doable.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is just trying to show off what she learned in her PhD years, but she totally failed. She added a lot of hard concepts that was not in the textbook to her lecture, and she told you to go wikipedia because she couldn't explain well. Without giving any practice problems, she expects you to know how to solve those out-of-textbook problems in exam