Reviews of professor Dana Laitinen

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Lana is the nicest person I have ever met. I took intro to lit online during the pandemic and it was great. Expect work everyweek, she would give you a piece of writing, then you have to annotate it, and write reading responses, and do a quiz on it. The annotation takes <5 min after you read the materials, response (250w), and quiz (5 minutes)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not good. Do not take.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
My online class with Dr. Laitinen was unnecessarily hard. She did not give good criteria for assignments, left us grasping for expectations, and graded discussions harshly. When we reached out for clarification, she disregarded our concerns and raised the threshold requirement for the final from A to 94.1% making nearly everyone take the final.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Given the same assignment twice a week with different readings. Extremely monotonous. Very specific and unclear ways of grading, and grades on things she did not ask for. Makes it very difficult to get perfect scores. Gives good feedback. There are no tests, no midterm and no final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Laitinen is lovely, she talks a lot about guitars. Her grading is very easy, most of it is completion and the reports and essays are for credit. Theres 4 projects and a lot of writing, one group project, but if you go through the rubric you will be fine. Love her!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Laitinen is well-versed in what she teaches, and her class focuses on an interesting subject matter. However, a great problem I had in the class was that she doesn't provide individual feedback often leaving you wondering what you did wrong. Her quizzes only give 10mins and are extremely specific, and she's hard to get a hold of with concerns.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Laitinen was very sweet. She had good class discussions, little work, and was very understanding of student circumstances. She allows a 24 hour grace period for work, and excusable absence.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Easy-going class. Homework is straightforward, but she is a tough grader. Will pick at every detail of your paper making it impossible to get a perfect score on any assignment. Nice lady, just difficult. Not an easy A.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible Professor. Did not communicate with students. Assigned three novels and gave one week each to fully read. Quizzes were only ten minutes for ten questions and super specific. There is also a big group project which was weird for an online class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
she gives no feedback and all of her assignments are either 100 or 0. The homework isnt that bad, however if you do something wrong you will have no idea what to fix and are stuck with an incomplete (0). Awful way to grade. also very hard to get in contact with and overall snobby person