Reviews of professor Bridget Purcell

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took her for intro to cultural anthropology. Her lectures were very interesting and fun. She has a lot of experience, knowledge, and really cares about students opinions. She had pop quizzes, attendance, and tests were hard. She also assigned readings for every class, but no papers. I really enjoyed her class, lectures, and material covered.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing professor. Made anthropology so interesting. Very understanding and wants to help students who want to do well. Recitation participation helps the grade a lot. Exams, attendance grade, participation grade, in-class quizzes and small assignments. You will want to participate in the lecture and recitation.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Teacher gives barley any assignments so its hard to keep your grade up. The exams are super difficult since she does not even explain the text or provide practice or anything. She gives tons of readings. Do not chose this teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class discussions were really engaging. Some readings were pretty dense but Prof Purcell did a great job helping us understand the materials. She was super understanding about grading and really cared about what students thought about the curriculum. 3 end-of-unit papers but prompts were interesting and not too hard. Amazing class and professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easily the best professor I have ever had at Rutgers! I've taken four of her classes and loved all of them. Professor Purcell is really insightful and an amazing lecturer, she is also super understanding of her students life's outside of the classroom & rlly accommodating. She does assign a fair amount of reading & her grades are based on papers!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
do yourself a favor and dont take this class. tests are stupidly hard. I went the sem reading very little and managed to pass. shes not a good teacher either, rarely learned anything from her. recitation was THE WORST.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Probably one of the best lecturers I ever had in my 4 years of college. Can say I learned a lot, but her exams are exceedingly difficult. If you decide to skip class or skip the readings; you won't get anything higher than a C. Exams are written in a way that are very detail specific, and the lectures are not extensions of the readings. Do both!