Reviews of professor Julia Kolak

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Kolak's class, for me, was the most stressful class of the semester. I always felt anxious because of the speed and the complex concepts we would go over. She IS a very caring, charismatic, and knowledgeable person, and welcomes students to her office hours, but this class will be difficult. Weekly quizzes based on long readings.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I felt like crying each day in this class. She goes over material too quickly in her lectures while always going over class time by 10-15 min. With all the teachers I have taken at ccny, this one is by far the most stressful. Never grades things on time and assign too many readings. High expectations from students who have never taken a phil class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Readings are kinda dense, but she explains it in lecture. VERY knowledgeable in bioethics, so make sure you know what you're talking about when you answer her questions. You're graded based on a midterm, final, group paper, reading quizzes, discussion questions, mock ethics meeting, and participation. She's SUPER inspirational (and funny lol).

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Kolaks lectures are EYE openers and quite interesting but organization wise shes a bit of a mess. She requires everyone to READ. dont read you really wont pass. Her quizzes are based off the readings . She drops a couple low grades on the quizzes . Mock ethics committee, 2 papers 1 short / final paper long & Final paper. take at own risk

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of my favorite professors to date. Super passionate about Bioethics and makes the topic interesting and fun to digest. Makes you work for your grade but its worth it. 2 papers (short and long), Mock Bioethics Committee, and a final. Shes the reason I might pursue bioethics as a career. Will always make time for any of her students

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
sHE IS BAD THAT'S IT. RUN THE OTHER WAY

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not and easy A but not impossible. She is smart and knows what she is talking about and sometimes her lecturers are interesting. She gives a quiz that is 3/4 questionevery class on readings she assigns for HW. She also has a difficult paper and hard final. participation matters!!! You never know your grade till the end of the semester which sucks.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Idk why all of her reviews are horrible, I had Prof. Kolak at NYU for Public Health Ethics and she was amazing. The material is obviously quite nuanced and the readings are not easy, but she does a great job of helping students understand. Super entertaining lecturer and knowledgeable teacher (bonus points for her sense of humor).

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Get ready to read a lot. It's a relatively easy class if you keep up with the material and participate. Get ready to be able to defend your arguments. This class really made me consider becoming a biomedical ethicist, which I didn't know was a thing and that's because of Prof. Kolak and what I learned in this class.