Reviews of professor Elizabeth Gumm

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Gumm is a passionate lecturer and understanding individual. Course structure/material is quite 'loose' and readings are pretty short. Papers are graded fairly. Interesting topics about mythical creatures!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There were weeks with lots of reading and weeks with literally none (to let us recover I assume). Interactive lectures, she loves hearing student ideas and I can tell she loves and is great at her job. Only con I can think of is that grading is very harsh, but not impossible! Pop quizzes but they're not based off memorization. Overall a great prof!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Fantastic professor, especially for online class! Lectures were super engaging, she promoted discussion but also acknowledged and encouraged thought out responses in chat. You need to attend lectures and speak or send chat response to get participation credit. Gothic literature stories were super interesting and I had lots of fun! Best CAT2 class!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Gumm is a passionate and friendly teacher, which is very necessary when teaching a GE writing class. However, grading can be a little bit stingy, hence putting in effort is required to get an A in this class. Grading significantly depends on the TA, so be sure to engage with them and go to office hours.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is genuinely so awesome! I had her for Contemporary Gothic Lit and the class was so interesting! Im usually never interested in anything not STEM but she really made that class awesome! she was really funny. Everyone says she's difficult but I just thought she was fair. I always got exactly what I thought I deserved on my papers, more, no less.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class she taught winter 2020 was Gothic literature and it was ok. Some of the texts were really fun to read but most of them were a little bit boring. The lectures are boring and unnecessary but attendance is mandatory so you still have to go. There are 2 papers and a final portfolio. About 95% of grade is based on TA, 5% on Gumm.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gumm was so kind and very helpful during and outside of class. However, the class was on gothic literature, it's the end of the term and I don't think I could give you a good definition of what gothic is. The short story readings were super interesting. Essays were super difficult. The last assignment has little to do with gothic literature.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Took her for CAT 3, All About Love class, and it was a very boring class. Attendance was mandatory but most days were just the students talking so it wasted my valuable time. Had to take CAT 3 but got stuck taking this class. TA's do all the grading so thats what matters.