Reviews of professor Diane Dakers

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Taking this class as a first year is tough. Diane does not explain things well and expects her students to focus only on her class. Her TAs are unhelpful and do not respond to questions. They always direct you to Diane who does not answer the questions, instead she gets mad for you not looking it up yourself. Diane is a very nice and smart lady.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Diane is knowledgable on all things journalism. She was also very accommodating with me. I have severe social anxiety and the interview portion of the class was a huge stressor for me. She helped me find a story and went out of her way to introduce me to a colleague to interview. She clearly wants to see her students succeed!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Cares about students, knowledgeable about journalism. Only took it due to it being a requirement, I found her repetitive after taking 102, didn't learn anything new. Bad: amazing guest lecturers. Good: few assignments, felt like I was jumping through hoops for the course. You can do well despite how dull it is. Office hours better than lectures imo

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very disorganized class. Only provided a syllabus for the first few weeks of the semester, then no schedule. Very few actual lectures and when she did lecture it was extremely rushed. Clearly has not actively worked in journalism in some time as a lot of the information she provided was outdated.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Dakers doesn't give the most engaging lectures, but her teaching methods are sound. She and the TA gave workshops for all of our papers, so the feedback was great and you could actually improve your writing. Pretty easy course all around but the group writing project hurt my grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is one of my favourite profs EVER. She is super caring and highly intelligent in journalism. Highly recommend going to her office hours as it totally makes a difference and is super useful for the class! You'll need to be comfortable setting up and conducting interviews in this course, as it is a necessary part to multiple assignments.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Diane was an amazing prof who explained all of the course concepts well. She was incredibly organized, thoughtful, clear in her expectations and overall a very good teacher. I was scared to take this course after reading some of these reviews, but none of the issues mentioned were ever apparent to me. Diane and the TA were always accessible.