Reviews of professor Laura Katz

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Katz is obviously passionate about food/food science and her enthusiasm for the subject is infectious. In lab, she relies on hands-on teaching and encourages students to give it a go rather than take over or over-explain herself. She has high expectations of students and they certainly need to show up and do the work if they want to pass.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Katz did not handle her classes well remotely. For a class that could have been interesting, it was content-heavy with almost the same material as its intro to food science prerequisite. She was extremely unreachable, reads directly off her slides without explaining things, is a very harsh grader and tests on the most minute of details.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very hard class, but I feel like I learned so much. Prof Katz is an inspiration to women who want to run their own businesses. She knows her stuff but the exams can be long and difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had Professor Katz for the lab component of my class and she was great. She definitely wasn't easy and did make you work for your grade but as long as you showed up to lab and made an effort to do well she would give you feedback and help you out whenever you were struggling. Overall, Prof Katz was great and I learned a ton in the class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Katz is clearly passionate about the subject matter of the class, relating topics to her own business and making the dense material more digestible. Slow grading and tough, but felt she was fair. Lab was fun, but the group project was not. Tests were long but mainly MC.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Agree with below commenter on other criticisms. Except I was not overly fond of material to begin with, and she only made it 75x worse. Tough and slow grader. Slow or no response to emails. Messed up grading of midterm AND course grades; mistakes pointed out to her by fellow students. Maybe if you're an expert in the subject going in you'll A

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was a very dense class, but Prof Katz made it so much fun. I thoroughly enjoyed the hands-on learning that we got to do in the lab. I'm not sure whether or not she intends to be, but she can also be very funny in lecture at times (in a good way). I learned a lot-- take this class and be prepared to work!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's young and successful but definitely NOT a good teacher. Condescending, failed to explain things clearly, stuffing 23 chapters and 45 short presentations in one single lecture class followed by a two-hour long lab. This class mentally exhausts me. The material itself is actually very interesting but the professor just fails to make it fun.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is very content-heavy and Professor Katz navigates it well. While the nature of the material can be dry at times, Katz presents it through real-world applications and examples. She is so passionate about her work and the material + is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to all things food. Labs are fun, be sure to ask lots of questions!