Reviews of professor Jocelyn McGrandle

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She doesnt post lecture slides online, which makes life extremely difficult. She also moves way too fast in lecture so when you try to ask a question she barely answers it. Be careful with this prof, she forces you to attend lecture and moves a mile a minute. Her midterm was 5 paragraph questions but they were extremely specific. Use your textbook.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Shes pleasant if you want to just chat with her about current events, but her teachings another story. She uses powerpoint/expects us to know everything on the slides, yet doesn't post online and she goes so quickly. Also frankly, I think I learned more indepth in my high school Socials/Law classes. She just fakes her responses to student Q's too.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
if you attended class no need to read the textbook because shes super in-depth and to the point in the lectures. textbook is super boring. marks are based off midterm, final, paper and discussion. she doesnt post the slides which sucks but it you attend the lectures then youll be fine. personally one of the my favourite profs

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Shes such a sweet and open prof. Dont know why she has so many bad reviews. The lectures are super straight forward and its easy to do well if you pay attention in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She does not post ANY helpful material online, forcing you to attend her lectures which are painfully boring and dry. She does not know how to properly teach, and her lecture slides are just filled with long and unorganized paragraphs. Worst "professor" ever. Don't know how she even got hired. Does UBC even have standards?

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A lot of people found her terrible, I found her alright just make sure you go to class cause she doesn't post any of her slides online and write down everything. She says she's going to make you think outside the box but she really doesn't, it's straight memorization.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You are graded on very things such as a midterm, paper, presentation and a final. You are led to believe that the exam questions will be very broad and overlying questions, yet, the marking is very specific. Marks are deducted for reasons that are often not even explained.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
she is wonderful! her lectures are very clear and easy to follow, however you really don't need to buy the textbook and she doesn't post slides so you gotta show up. I personally loved her and would have her again. the midterm and final questions are easy to understand and if you showed up, you will do just fine!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Broad sounding midterm questions but the grading rubric was super specific, short essay question length answers required for full marks. Her slides were often just big bits of text from the textbook thus quite boring. Which were also never posted. Would also constantly repeat herself during lectures saying the same thing in a different way.