Reviews of professor Esther Duran

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I've never seen a professor in the arts stifle creativity more. She does not allow you to take creative risks or do things in your own style or way. She makes no sense and docks points randomly, for seemingly no reason. Extremely frustrating, and I wish there were some way around her. Unfortunately she seems to be teaching most of the film classes.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She might know what shes talking about, It just doesn't seem like it. She will lecture for about 1-2 hours on a subject that someone could summarize in less than 30 minuets. It's very difficult to ask her any questions because she makes it very difficult to get in a word edge wise. I've had her for about 2 classes and I've hated both of them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ridiculous amount of work for an elective. More than even core classes. Avoid at all costs. Incompetent grader and treats it like an English class. False advertising we barely watched movies she just rambles on the whole 3 hours. Struggled to stay awake.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You are required to raise your hand 6 times per half the semester for a grade. Her test are very hard unless you read every single chapter in the book. She lectures about things that do not have anything to do with the tests and does not seem like she knows what she is talking about. A 10 minute presentation is required to pass the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want an easy class for a free elective, skip this professor. Many weekly assignments require watching a movie outside of class, which is hard if you have a job or other commitments. Class also sucked because three annoying people talked more than anyone else, but that's not her fault.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very difficult to understand her. Rather than creating our own films, we are creating films that ONLY SHE WANTS. If your film does not look the way she wants, be prepared to lose points.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Most disrespectful professor I have had so far, says she cares but does not put effort for students but expects you to make her class a priority. Ask her about grades? she will pretend not to know. Does not follow syllabus, disorganized, does not put right assignments on canvas and because of that she may give you random 0s. should not be teaching

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I like her class. I learned to new things.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures for a lot of time and tests have very little of the lecture material on them. A lot of test questions come from the textbook and to get a 100 participation grade, you have to raise your hand and comment at least 6 times in each half of the semester (12 times total). Takes a long time to grade tests too. Gives poor answers to any questions.