Reviews of professor Julie Brancale

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was ridiculously hard for being an introductory-level course. She genuinely seems like a nice person, but if you do not take extremely detailed notes during every lecture, you will NOT PASS the tests. She threw a curveball for the last test, and a lot of people's grades drastically dropped. There are also four long papers.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Brancale is clearly very knowledgeable. The lectures themselves are very interesting. However, the only grades are 4 tests and a paper. Even with a crazy amount of studying, the test questions are worded very confusingly and can warrant different answers than what she had in mind when writing the test. I wouldn't take a class from her again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
So, there are only 5 grades in total. Four exams and a paper. She does offer extra credit, but it is not nearly enough. I got an A on the paper, but I was averaging Cs on the exams, even with studying my notes and the textbook for hours. The only exam I did well on was a makeup exam with short answer questions instead of the regular. I dropped it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly, I thought Ms. Brancale was a great professor! She was super sweet, and she really cares about her. I would take her again.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There are only 4 grades in the gradebook, 3 exams 1 paper. She gives a vague list of things to study for the exams and no matter how hard u study the questions will confuse you. paper is not hard to write but its graded harshly. Class avg were low on each assignment and the highest grade was below 100 on 3/4 of them. Hardest intro class ive taken

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I personally really enjoyed Professor Brancale. She was really nice, I even got to interview her for another class. This class, however, is really difficult if you don't put in the work. You MUST read the textbook to do well on the exams. You also must take sufficient notes during the lectures. Exams are really difficult if you don't study enough.