Reviews of professor Natalia Smirnova

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm not sure what she even does in class. It was mostly do your assignments on Connect and if you have questions, you can ask her. If I'm paying $120 for connect, which provides me with explanations already, what do I need you for???

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
attendance not necessarily even though she says yes, just complete all work online.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you can avoid taking her, do it. She is a very smart woman but her classes are way too tough and very boring to attend. She's not good at teaching material or making you understand anything. Save yourself the stress and find another professor if possible.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really liked her class, it was the easiest one for me so far. The homework is 2-hour long every thursday, and you get an A as long as you finish it. She was very caring and helped me with my questions. Lectures are fast paced but nothing impossible, you can easily keep up by reading the slides. Just do all of the assignments and go to classes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Extremely harsh grading criteria most of class performs terribly on her exams and if she is feeling nice enough to curve it wont change much!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Only assigns connect assignments once a week, had three papers but they were sooo easy and mostly opinion based. Classes just consist of teaching material, realistically you don't even need to take notes. Have two tests and definitely a passable class. Attendance Is important because she makes you submit some in-class assignments.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
don't let her learn ur name because she will just call you out.... just pay attention and you will be fine

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you have to take any of her courses, download all assignments documents, take pictures & screenshots of everything she posts because she switches up a lot. Meaning she will say something is "extra credit" but then when you get your grades it really was not it was mandatory. She is unclear and does not communicate properly or fairly with students

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The work for this class is okay. Be prepared for it to take most of your time up. The modules are very long. I suggest attending class because participation is big in that class. Be prepared to get put on blast. The professor has an accent and teaches super fast so if we are lost and ask for help she would tell us oh well you should of kept up.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Smirnova cares about her students success outside of the classroom and this can be very evident based on how she teaches and incorporates a variety of resources into the class. Participation is important and if you meet with and work with her, she will enable you to do well in the class