Reviews of professor Brigitte Spencer

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The grading for this course is horrible and each AI tends to grade your work differently. You definitely have to take CHEM-C 117 in order to understand what to do with this course because she expects you to know without teaching you. The lectures are recorded so you don't have to go to them but missing a lab is a big deal. A lot of people drop this

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class wasnt that hard. Went to my ai office hrs every week and go a's on everything. Grading scale is okay, i mean its not hard to get an A if u put in work, can be confusing tho. Class is full of freshman who only complain tbh.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
AIs are incredibly inconsistent with each other and even with themselves at times. If you take the 8 AM lecture, be prepared for some late starts. She's nice and wants to help, but lectures aren't very concise and she constantly seems slightly unprepared. I felt like I learned nearly nothing in this course.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took C127 lab with her. The lectures aren't mandatory. LabFlow, where you do pre/post labs, is kind of difficult, the questions aren't always clear and sometimes the automatic grading on it is off. Overall this course requires a lot of work, but depending on your AI it can be manageable.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was by no means easy, but after seeing the other reviews, I was compelled to say that the class was not as bad as most of these reviews claim. As long as you read the labs before-hand (which is, most of the time, more work than performing the actual lab) and go to the lectures, you'll be fine.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Brigitte's implementation of a bundle grading system overall made it harder for students to achieve the grades they wanted, as even missing one random assignment could drop you one letter grade. The lectures themselves are not useful at all, everything that she talks about is in lab procedures. The labs themselves were not that bad due to the AIs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I never enjoyed this class, the grading is not clear or fair.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
made me question being a woman in stem. grading policy is questionable at best. one assignment can make or break you. extremely vague and wildly unclear grading criteria. hard to know where you stand in class throughout semester. the AI you get basically determines your grade and nothing is consistent. Say your prayers. Best of luck besties.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The bundling system that she does is ridiculous, lectures are worthless, and this class relies too heavily on grad students. I feel terrible for the AI's that have to endure a semester of this.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is only 2 credit but takes up my entire week. The fact that my grades depend on my AI rather than my professor is something I do not understand. The assignments are also not clear on what the minimum requirements are to get a good grade, so you can work on a paper for days and still only get a 6/10 from your AI.