Reviews of professor Maya Maskarinec

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Good person but her tests are FAR TOO difficult for a 101 class. She assigns hella lot reading too :/. Grading curve is very tough. A/A- is very difficult. Bad choice for a GE

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Maya's a nice person, but I don't know how the hell is this a 101 class. Not only does she give A LOT OF READING, but she also takes pretty difficult pop quizzes. The midterm and final are very long and difficult. If you don't keep up with the readings, you are screwed. It's pretty much hopeless to do well on the midterm/final. And there's no curve

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Maskarinec is a sweet professor who's passionate about the material. Unfortunately, she has a huge ambitions for her students despite this being a 101 course. This was her first semester teaching so she will likely be better with time, but expect to learn a lot in this course and work excessively towards the midterm and final. Not an easy GE

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She treats here 101 class like an upper division class. She is a very boring lecturer, requires a lot of reading, and she has pop quizzes on the reading. She is very monotoned and puts you to sleep in class. The midterm and final have far too much content and heavily rely on the readings.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing Professor and Interesting Lectures. If you like history, like the Roman/ Greek civilizations, you will love this class. Pop quizzes are kinda hard and you need to do the readings for the quizzes and midterms but they are manageable. I did not want to take this class because of the bad ratings but I ended up loving it!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Fairly large amount of reading. However, pretty easy to predict when there was going to be a pop quiz, which made studying easy. No weekly HW aside from reading, only 3 papers (2 of which were <3 pages). Really caring lecturer and interesting selection of material. One of the best classes Ive taken at USC, not the easiest but extremely rewarding.