Reviews of professor Cassie Dowd

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hardly ever responds to any messages, unclear grading criteria/ contradicting rubrics, and very minimal guidance on assignments.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This professor is really easy. Attendance is mostly mandatory because it counts towards your grade, but you hardly do anything. Just complete the assignments in a timely manner and show up to class. If you struggle in writing, then she gives pretty good feedback and she's easy to find outside of class. I read one book for a short story only lol.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cassie was honestly a pretty chill Professor. She gave the usual weekly assignments, RA Essay, RIP Project & Essay, and Midterm & Final ePortfolio. The first half of the quarter deals with the assigned book and the second is for the RIP. Overall really nice, good feedback, not as stressful but be prepared for assignments. Definitely take her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Cassie is one of the most caring professors at UCI. She goes through each step for each major assignment. This class wasn't hard, definitely go to office hours and do all the assignments and put effort into this class. It was an easy class! You have to put in some effort and work to get an A. TAKE HER! SHE'S SO NICE AND NOT TOO HARD!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Nothing against the teacher but highly advise not to take this course with her. Awful response rate and unclear objectives. It seems she has no passion or care for the subject whatsoever.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof Dowd, was extremely understanding and she really cares about her students. She gives good feedback on essays, and assigns a very reasonable workload. She made writing fun, and not as intimidating. She's also very approachable and easy to reach. The best professor I've had yet!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She seems nice, but she rarely ever checks her emails. I would receive little to no feedback on my work but I did my best to find ways to improve my writing but it was so difficult. I don't really like writing classes and keeping up with the readings and writing was hard for me

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took 39B (online with her. She tells you what you need to know and is really chill. We read spec fiction stories which were more interesting than expected. I found that the genre analysis and the imitation project, the 2 main projects, require quite a bit of time, the rest of the discussions were easy and fun. All in all great professor and class.