Reviews of professor Aude Picard

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Had to retake this class and I'm glad I took it with her. Was her first time teaching but she was great! Had to do Cornell notes for participation points and her test questions were pretty easy for the most part. She also offered quizzes on web campu to prepare you for the test as well as 3 group activities throughout the semester. I'd take her

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's a good teacher. She always asks for feedback on what she can do better for us to do better on the next exam and is willing to switch up lecture to fit our needs. The class itself is hard but that's more so a department issue. If you use her additional resources with the learning outcome guidelines from the book, you can do well in the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Teaches like everyone already knows the material. You can get 100s on all of your assignments, but if you flunk on an exam the semester is over for you. Reads off a PowerPoint all class period. I'd say 65% of the class from the beginning of the year is gone after taking the 1st and 2nd exams because it was SUPER hard! I would suggest Prof Rafferty.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Exams make no sense, the exam material is never covered in class. hard to understand, grading doesn't make sense, she doesn't care if her students pass or fail, legit the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. she explains in detail the topics that need no further explanation but lacks in explanation of harder topics. exams had F and D averages.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She teaches with very little attention to detail but tests as if she had gone to great extents to make sure you understand the subject and very high level. During the pandemic, she didn't make lectures for some chapters and pointed us to YouTube. Her lack of empathy and understanding is abundantly clear with the letters she sends periodically.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Reading the book or her slides from lectures did not help with studying for her tests. The tests are very specific and difficult

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Aude Piccard has great intentions when teaching, but she's horrible at it! :/ After receiving many requests from students to make a study guide for the exams, she rejected it by saying that everything we needed was already on canvas. Most students dropped this class after the 1st or 2nd exam out of 4 total since it's heavily weighted.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
It's known that any BIOL class is difficult/requires work, however this professor did little to help the situation. For example, when asking for clarification on an assignment through email, she copy and pasted the instructions from Canvas. This professor was also difficult to communicate with and didn't feel the need to re-explain in office hours.