Reviews of professor Pinar Yoldas

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Yoldas is great. She's funny, joyful, and passionate. Great choice for CAT series. The material in interesting and the prompts are open-ended. We watched movie clips in class and got to see a lot of Baby Yoda. Basically, she tries really hard to keep it engaging. Attendance is checked tho, and reading the material is sorta important.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lectures are very interesting because she is active in the VIS and design field. They were too long but also enjoyable!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Yoldas is a great professor! Very passionate about her work and aware of her students and their needs. Made her TAs take attendance in lecture but once you stick around the lectures become really fun. Movie screenings and Baby Yoda- thats Yoldas

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor even doesn't understand english. When you sent an email to discuss your problem, she just said you are not following the guideline even though you show the proof of following the guideline. She just doesn't want to solve students' problem and gives you a low grade.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lectures were interesting and she was very nice however she wasn't clear on the grading criteria in general which didn't bode well for the final project. It's vis arts so I guess grading is subjective however I would have appreciated some grading guidance. Also attendance is mandatory she'll drop you a whole grade if you're absent once -_-

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Lectures were pointless but mandatory. All the assignments could be done with general knowledge and Google searches. I only needed one class reading for one essay. The others could be done without the readings. It's a good class if you want minimal work.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Clearly knows what she's doing and gives very harsh but good feedback. She was extremely rude to classmates. We didn't get out syllabus until week 5 and she put a midterm in it without notice.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Yoldas is very passionate about what she lectures about and greatly values respect from her students. She will call you out if you seem to be distracted on your phone or sleeping in class but her lectures are pretty interesting. Sections are mandatory and TAs are essentially in charge of your grade but put in the effort and you should do well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She openly singles out students in class, even when subject matter is through a private message. Has cut off multiple students during presentations to tangent about things like grammar. Extremely rude during feedback/criticism, and does not seem to care about student's wellbeing.