Reviews of professor Anne Verhoeven

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
The class definitely was well put together and helped students decide whether this is the field for the or not.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I really enjoyed Dr V's teaching and understood it. I took good notes on the PP's every class (mostly study what was talked about in class in DETAIL bc that is what shows up in exams!). Textbook NOT needed. Be detailed with the 3 HW assignments (they help you study too). Great class, great professor! Asking questions via email after lecture helps!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She gets really excited about the material. Very content heavy course especially as a 5 week summer course and it's in-person so showing up is necessary to get everything down, but the material is interesting and relevant. Prob my fav biol course here at GMU. Not the easiest A, but definitely possible. Some labs were long, but not hard.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I thought I was going to enjoy this class, but I didn't. I was too worried about trying to get her HWs done. She reads from her ppts. Even though the exams were open note, she is a HARDCORE grader. Her questions on exams were very vague so you dont know what answer she is looking her. Her homeworks take FOREVER to do.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Verhoeven is extremely caring to her students, as long as you want to learn. Her exams aren't multiple choice, as they are short answer, but it'll help you out in the long run because the actual questions on the exam are easy and you only have to answer roughly 80% of the questions! While this was not the easiest class, she will help you a lot.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very responsive to questions and available for help outside of class. Lectures were not very engaging and always very dense, so note taking can be difficult (thank goodness she records them). Tough grader because she is very specific as to what she wants to see in free response questions. She cares for her class as she helped us when we struggled.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very awesome teacher. She is excited about her subject and very helpful to students. You'll still have to put forth a lot of effort for the class, but she is a talented teacher.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I did NOT like the way she lectured. PowerPoints are disorganized & difficult to study from. You have to be in class taking extensive notes in order to decipher the PPs as she lectures over them. Exams are long essay only, but you only answer 5 of 7 prompts. Takes a long time to grade exams. Would've enjoyed more if material was better structured.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Full breakdown: 3 exams worth 100 points, final exam is 50% new material, 50% cumulative - 100 points. Attendance was not mandatory, but there were Note Cards/In-class assignments worth 75 points. If you do well on the three exams, final exam is optional. She is SUPER caring, pays attention in lectures. She tests on what she says, not the slides.