Reviews of professor Susan Sverdrup-Phillips

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
By far most unorganized prof I've ever had, hands down. Only class I've ever taken where I don't know what my prof even looks like. Susan is friendly but is terrible at communicating her ideas, and her instructions leave you guessing. Exams are full of trick questions and things that weren't even in the material. Incredibly frustrating experience.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very difficult grader, but is flexible with deadlines and allows for resubmission as long as you email her. She is able to use real life situations to connect course content. She uses rubrics and provides them to the class, and encourages creativity. She is heavily project-based, so be prepared to work harder than any other class - seriously.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She does not explains the course work clearly and deeply but expects the students to do really good in assignments. She graded just two assignments whole semester and we did not get the feedback. Later, at the end she released the grades but whole semester we did not even know where we were good and where more efforts were required.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Susan is very disorganized and hard to reach, she does not give clear instructions to her assignments and uses a lot of personal anecdotes during lectures that aren't relevant to the course. She is nice and personable but her class was very frustrating. If you are in any of her classes they are basically all self taught.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Susan is disorganized. Withdrawal deadline is coming up and she has not marked two papers that were handed in a month ago. Frustrating that she does not reply to emails and when asked in person,  we were told that she will mark the papers the same day. That was two days ago. Nothing.  Stay away from her class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof was switched at last minute to Susan. She is quite disorganized when it comes to her slides and is confusing with what she wants from an essay. Very slow marker.. expect to not know your grade for a paper for quite a while. Pop quizzes are random and go off of in class lecture or textbook (which is free, but isnt stated when to be read)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Expects too much from first year students and grades very hard.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of my fav profs. Gives clear outlines for all exams and exactly what material and questions types are covered. Uses personal stories to relate content. Lots of discussions and always happy to help. More application questions than fact memorization, but the concepts aren't hard to memorize anyway. Flexible with deadlines too. Highly recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dont take this course if you want a good gpa.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Susan is a tough grader and her criteria are not clear. Her lectures are very engaging and interesting. Don`t take this course if you`re looking for GPA booster.