Reviews of professor Kaya de Barbaro

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I CANNOT EXPRESS TO YOU HOW STRESSED THIS CLASS MADE ME. I literally felt lost more than half of the lectures. I really considered dropping this class. Her exams are ridiculous. After the pandemic, she only made it worse. She used proctorio and it made me feel worse. How are you gonna make a course harder on the students hit with a pandemic? C'mon.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The lectures are really boring but her slides detail exactly what is on the tests so paying attention to lectures is enough to get at least a B+. Textbook readings are long but you can skip most of them if you study the lectures really well.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I don't think this class was too bad. Dr. B sometimes had a hard time getting her point across during lecture, however, all lecture slides are accessible on Canvas and are very helpful when studying. Tests aren't terrible, just know the studies she goes over during lecture inside and out and you should be good! Attending lecture is helpful!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
One of the most inarticulate teachers I've ever had. The material was super easy and she expected very little of us in terms of depth of understanding, but I think the reason some people could not follow her lectures was because she literally could not express a full idea coherently. Waste of an upper division course-- i learned next to nothing.