Reviews of professor Olivia Stewart Lester

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her teaching this class is good if you are actually interested in learning about religion. If you are taking this clase for CORE credit, Dr. Stewart Lester is not the professor for you. You are graded on attendance, discussion posts (due for every class), a short paper, midterm, and final paper. Don't participate because to her, opinions are wrong.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is very accommodating and will help if you ask for it, pretty lenient grader and gives good feedback

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Stewart Lester is so kind and opens her class up to students to participate and become familiar with the material of the NT; discussion posts get to be a lot, required for every class; interpretive paper is the big assignment that you work on throughout the semester but she is always willing to answer ?s! go to class bc attendance is graded :)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is a really kind person and cares a lot about her students. She assigns SO much reading and wants reading responses for each and requires a couple papers that are very formal. Her tests are not bad because she gives you all the possible questions beforehand so if you study and come to class you will do well. She also wants attendance.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Lester is amazing at conducting discussion-based classes. There was usually a lecture to begin class with and then small and large group discussions. She is very kind and will offer great feedback on any assignments or papers if you need it. It is a super interesting class; I'm very happy I took it!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Easiest class I have taken at Loyola, and she is a very nice person. I would 100% recommend this class to anyone.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
An extreme amount of writing for an introductory core class. Insane 30 page PDFs to read in one day prior to the start of the next class. Tries to make the class more philosophical than it needs to be. She seems nice but this class is unnecessarily difficult

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took her J-Term course and it was A LOT of work - 3 papers,1 exam (essay+short answer), and discussion posts every day. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend her J-Term course. However, I would definitely take her during a regular semester. She is so good at explaining the readings and has clear grading criteria. She is passionate about theology.