Reviews of professor Kiara Jorgenson

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is my second class with Kiara. She genuinely does care about her students and will check in on you if something is up. Admittedly, she does assign a lot of work, even for classes that are mostly taken by non-majors. However, she is pretty available to talk about course material or assignments.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very interesting class with intriguing readings, discussions that offered many new perspectives on environmental studies, and fun activities like the plot project.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tons of very dense and not seemingly connected readings. We had two major group projects that were very labor intensive. Prof. Jorgenson is a great person and is really knowledgable in her field, but I found this course to be quite challenging.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really kind, passionate and caring about her students. Had an interesting "grade yourself" policy for one paper which was unique. Not the best with giving feedback for important papers/assignments and not super accessible outside of class, but I still enjoyed her. Tends to give "busy work" homework in my opinion.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She does these worksheet things that are assigned for the next class, and they take four to five hours to complete. In addition to this, there are biweekly essays in addition to thick biblical readings. I don't know if it's just this class, but it can be a lot of work to do in a short time if you aren't looking ahead by about two weeks ALL THE TIME

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Worst Prof. I've had at St. Olaf. While the class seems manageable in the workload, be prepared for the really harsh grading to bump your grade down significantly. After completing all assigned work to the best of my ability, I still received a B-. She is also blantely rude and disrespectful to students while pretending to be accepting of everyone.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is very knowledgeable, but look out because there is work on top of work on top of work.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Recommend taking the time to speak with her at office hours and running paper topics by her. She is very kind and helpful one on one! Workload is manageable if you break it up and don't put the major end of semester assignments off.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Jorgensen is a good person but a poor professor. She provided theologically dense readings that are hard to understand she does not provide clarity during class lectures. Also the major assessments did not have clear expectations and were often difficult to determine what she wanted.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She never gave comprehensive instructions for projects and grading criteria are just a mess. Also, the worst Moodle layout I have ever seen. She's a good person and a good professor but she definitely isn't a good teacher.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Kiara is so sweet! If you're interested in the topic, she's amazing -- I really enjoyed taking her class. If you're not interested, you're kind of screwed, though.