Reviews of professor Zhu Heitman

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class was a bit of a mess but I feel like she tried super hard to help us all pass. The material is heavy stuff so don't expect an easy A even if you take it from another professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Here's the deal. She was teaching a class she didn't normally teach. That doesn't mean anything here because she taught by handing out photocopied handwritten notes that were copied from the book. Her midterms always had at least an entire chapter we hadn't covered yet. Her classroom policies included "No electronic devices." In a CS class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I will be surprised if Zhu Heitman continues to have a career in academia after this course. She is the worst professor I have ever had. Her lectures a difficult to understand. She refuses to explain concepts so she can continue to rush through chapters. Homework is moderate, but exams are 80% of grade and cover things never seen. Bad mark on the U

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She's a nice person, she really tries. She learns everyone's name and gives hints during exams. But her lectures are hard to follow, and most people don't feel prepared for her exams, which are 85% of the grade. If she would just make some practice exams and let everyone know where they sit in the curve after each exam people wouldn't be so pissed.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Last minutes the CS3130 course everyone expected was drastically changed to the MATH equivalent. It is clear Professor Zhu Heitman cares about her students, but was getting pulled in direction of MATH department and CS department. This was a horrible case of mismatched expectations and short-term notice.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Heitman is openly hostile to students in class, actively calls out students for using electronics, and has a very poor grasp of teaching fundamentals. I have had professors whose teaching style grated with me, but Heitman is the first professor I think is actually just bad. Avoid with extreme prejudice.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was a nightmare. We spent all semester believing we were failing, but 90% ended up passing. The U math dept taught it, with outdated teaching methods and policies and the CS dept did little to help us. Students fought hard against the bureaucracy the entire semester to fix it, it worked but was a time-consuming, miserable fight.