Reviews of professor Lindsay Brainard

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
All texts online, so you don't have to purchase anything. In-class assignments every day for participation and your answers should be exactly what she is looking for to receive credit. Essays are extremely hard, especially for when you think your argument is valid but she says it's not. Learn quickly her teaching style and you'll do fine

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Get ready to read and write a lot. She expects you to do all the reading outside of class to then discuss the material in class. She's very nice and has extremely easy midterms. However, her papers are pretty hard and if you don't understand one piece of the material you're likely to receive a poor grade on it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Super nice lady, loves her subject. Semi challenging, but includes many small papers instead of a few large ones. This makes it easier to still finish strong after a bad paper or test.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She lectures every day, and she isn't the clearest to understand. There is reading every night and yes sometimes it takes 4 hours. She is a nice person, but her teaching could use some refinement of expectations.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Brainard is a "By the letter of the law" new assistant professor, she uses rules to shadow her own lack of experience and IMHO is the worst teacher I have ever dealt with !

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Leave a lot of time to do the readings carefully or you won't do well on the written responses in class. Paper-grading is tough, but fair.