Reviews of professor Joanna Gautney

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Gautney seems like a really nice person outside of class. Her class consists of 3 exams (you will need to read and study if you want to do well, very challenging and are 60 percent of your grade), and short assignments that if you do them you pretty much get 100 percent on them. Not a sit back and get an A class, but interesting material!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tests are very hard and the study guides don't help. She takes forever to grade. The way her modules are set up on canvas are very confusing. I don't feel like she puts in a lot of effort to help you succeed. Very bad at responding to emails. I do not recommend taking this class from her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Bio Anth 1020 class online- no Zoom. Average week was listening & writing notes on lecture videos & textbook readings. At your own pace type of class, if you keep on top of the homework & do the work the class is very manageable. If you fall behind, you're kinda screwed. I really liked the teacher & she made this subject really fun to learn about!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her class was very interesting. I didn't have much interaction because it was online which is what I like about online classes but, she seemed really nice and I don't recall needing to ever ask her questions because everything was always in great detail and very organized when I took her class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There are a ton of assignments to do, including ones requiring you to watch hour long video's plus a paper on the matter, and a lot of reading. She does offer extra credit which helped me pass but she is also a really tough grader. I didn't expect there to be so much and it's hard trying to keep up with her while having other classes fulltime/work.