Reviews of professor Carolyn Abott

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Abott goes off the textbook a lot, all her lectures are based off it. She gives 5 papers, a midterm and a final. Her midterms and finals are essays as well. Make sure you are up to date with the reading, pay attention in her lectures even though they are dry at times. Make an effort to see her and your grade will reflect it. She was fine.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class itself is interesting and not too difficult. Reading heavy, discussion based, one term paper. But Prof. Abbot often dismisses your comments. If you're talking about a problem in one specific area she'll bring up how it's not an issue in a different area, meanwhile there's no correlation between the two. Kinda annoying after a while

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Pay attention to the lectures and you should be fine. This class is less of poli sci and more stats heavy so be ready. The textbooks are a must, you will fail if you don't buy them. She is a great professor and is more than willing to help you out if you don't understand something.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's great for serious government students. If you make the effort and go to see her in the office, she'll really talk. She's super smart and expects students to work up to her level. If you work with her you will learn a lot in her class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class is interesting but the professor not so great. It's a hybrid class so we met once a week & the other online. Her class didn't make sense bc she would play her old videos which were hard to listen to & hw was due around 5pm? A lot of readings from the textbook but I suppose if you really try your best, you'll get a good grade. j

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
WARNING DO NOT TAKE!!!!!! CLASS IS VERY HARD FOR A CORE CLASS. LECTURES ARE BORING, VERY HARD GRADER, NOT UNDERSTANDING. DON'T TAKE. I HAD TO DROP OUT. VERY HARD.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Abott's class was unexpected, but not entirely in a good way. I found the class quite dull and did not always look forward to attending. The class itself was not difficult, but the grading standards seemed a bit absurd (especially on exams with time constraints). None of my classmates had fervor about the class, which made it more dull.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Don't know what people are talking about. Abott is hard, but at least you learn something. She comes from a top shcool and she expects students to work like they did there.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall Professor Abott is a very good professor. Very interactive with her students, her grading is fair as well. She is a professor that will definitely keep you intrigued. A+

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I don't get all of the bad reviews from the last semester. Took her Fall 2019 and her class was pretty good. A bit lecture heavy but the grading was not bad. There were 5 papers (2 250, 2 500, and 1 750 word count) but she gave lots of easy options so they were not hard. Final was a choice from 8 essays and you got to bring notes. Overall shes good