Reviews of professor Sarah Snyder

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Snyder is an amazing teacher (especially for your first year in SIS). She is knowledgable and organized. You get help learning class material as well as how to research, read, and write at the college level. Follows up on class conversations with additional emails. You have to work for your grade, but she will work with you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Unfortunately Snyder has had a great career in academia and research. Students don't benefit however bc she doesn't care about being a teacher. She is strict and rude. She is a bitter person who fails multiple graduating students without any issue. The one thing she did teach me though, is what kind of person I never want to be.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Snyder is very knowledgeable and her lectures were interesting. However, she is a very tough grader, and takes points off for minor formatting errors. Feedback on papers was sometimes helpful, but often frustrating because I felt some criticism was unmerited. Unless you are very very passionate about the course, I do not recommend taking it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sarah is brilliant, but has a really tough class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Snyder provides a learning environment of unfairness and intolerance. For a school as inclusive and progressive as American, Snyder is a shocking outlier. Snyder failed to provide basic human empathy or even sympathy when a family member passed and seemed to scoff and rejoice in the power she held as she told me to search for help elsewhere.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I feel bad for Sarah Snyder. Many years from now she will be sitting at home realizing she wasted her entire life being a teacher. Does not care about students. Grades on participation daily and readings are horribly inane. Very obvious she was a history major who settled for teaching instead of a real job.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Snyder is incredibly knowledgable, and kept the readings on-task and were always great for the resources in the papers we were assigned. It's a lot of reading to get used to at first as a first year, but eventually the discussions and readings become second nature. Very interesting class!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor is not only a terrible professor but also just a bad person. She is inconsiderate and it seems like she does not have a very good understanding of her own subject. She also intentionally targets and humiliates students. I would strongly recommend taking someone else.