Reviews of professor Kathryn Knowles

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Honestly, not the best professor I have had. Her lectures are confusing and exam grades are really low. Her and matson teaching does not work at all. It feels like they are on two different planets. The topics are hard and go to class. Recitations will help you so much so GO TO THEM.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
i think she genuinely does care about her students, but she just is not good at teaching. i do get that this was her first year teaching. she kept assuming we knew foundational information to understanding concepts when we didn't. whenever someone would ask where she got this information from, she would say that we should just know how to do it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Someone needs to tell miss girl that flying through slideshows at 4523648768mph and assuming that your students just automatically understand everything isn't teaching. Though considering the overall poor quality of U of R's chem department, I guess the bar is pretty low.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you are searching for this professor, I'm sure you came across Professor Robert Minckley before. One of his ratings was "I drove without a seatbelt and hoped I got into a crash on the way to campus." 
Compared to Professor Knowles, I Love professor Minckley. Knowles' lectures are so fast, It's almost like she assumes us to understand immediately

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Personally, I think Professor Knowles was the better of the two professors. She paces her lectures much better and spends a lot of time on practice problems. She was kind and accommodating. My only issues with her are the cluttered slides and lack of energy. It's clear she is not used to lecturing to such a large class. Overall, she's decent.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This year was her first year to teach, and it could be seen. She was very nervous and unconfident. She essentially just read off of her slides, which she posted on blackboard. I liked her a lot better than the other professor, because she was nice and very approachable. I loved her modules as they were more interesting to me. She talks very fast.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Everyone says her lectures are bad but they're fine. She's really nice if you talk to her. Class is on points system + has lots of extra credit even if you don't do super well on exams, but EC is graded super harshly. Get points for going to class but lectures are recorded. Only took 2/3 exams and still didn't need to take the final to get an A.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor looks like she tries, but simply can not teach. You can definitely tell she has very little experience teaching the course. Lectures feel like eternity and the slides are not fun to look at.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Knowles is the second chemistry professor that made me appreciate Dr. H more. She is not the most accommodating person and tends to speedrun her lectures. Exam grades were low because she and Matson cannot teach well and fails to give out sufficient exam practice exams to her students.