Reviews of professor Anna Truxes

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Unorganized and confusing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Anna encouraged the class to develop critical thinking skills while facilitating discussions to broaden our understanding and challenge our preconceptions of art and art history. Additionally, as someone with multiple commitments outside of classes, I found the flexibility of the coursework was extremely helpful to my success.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Instructions for homework assignments were very unclear to the point that completing assignments was very difficult. The professor was unresponsive to student concerns, often talking around the questions asked in the discussion board. The quizzes had questions referencing work that we hadn't done yet, like they were mislabeled. Very unprofessional.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Anna is one of the best professors I have ever had. Her teaching style emphasizes active participation and critical thinking, opening a space for having productive and necessarily difficult conversations about the implications of power structures extant in the field of art history as we know it. She perfectly balances academia and accessibility.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Anna is very good at having discussions, especially about topics most people are uncomfortable with having in class. We had good discussions on art without focusing on remembering dates, names, and paintings. There was some confusion this term with the website changing from D2L to Canvas but other than that I learned a lot in a safe space. :)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Anna made the classroom experience and the material we covered much more engaging and relevant than any art history professor I had before. While there was only a handful of graded assignments given for the term, her emphasis was on learning and comprehension, so midterms and finals were take home, and she was always available to discuss materials.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not for me. Mismatched deadlines between syllabus and D2L. Reads off of her screen and speeds through slides during lectures so it's hard to absorb anything. She's knowledgeable just wish she was more engaging and clear. Whole grade is viewing readings, 1 midterm, 1 comparison essay, 1 seven-page research essay and presentation.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Bad communication, didnt really care at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof. Truxes is the worst teacher I've ever had. She is constantly talking in circles, nothing makes sense and she is distracted 10000% of the times. Even just watching one of her lectures you'll see this quickly. The class content for ARH106 felt like she just picked random lectures that are sort of related to her weekly topic. Don't take her!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Anna really cares about her students and the quality of our learning. I didn't really like the class in general but having her as the professor made it more interesting and made me like it more than I would have otherwise. It was also really cool how flexible she was when there were issues with our online portion of the class.