Reviews of professor Emily Smedley

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Smedley is super sweet! Lectures can be long, but she has lots of super interesting guest speakers. Readings and assignments/projects can be a lot, but as long as you enjoy the subject and keep up on due dates you should be fine. She tends to make tests open-note. Plenty of extra credit options as well. Definitely recommend her!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Grade is mostly based on busy work - even if you do well on everything else but don't turn in busy work you won't do well. Easy grader, 2/3 tests are open note, there's 2 papers and a presentation, discussion ?'s, etc. Go to class so you're allowed to turn in the in-class work. Relies on speakers to fill class time and barely goes over material.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
LOTS OF READING and follow up questions. Have to do ALL because she collects them at random.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Smedley was not a terrible Professor but if you missed her class, your grade would go down because she gives in class exercises at random - and there are multiple so even if the weight is low (its like 2%) it will end up eating at your grade. Her lectures are summaries of the chapters, so you cant just use the lecture notes to pass her tests!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Awful. Has zero real-world experience; just academic experience. She lectures as if she is a subject matter expert on crime & justice. Condescending in feedback (which is only given every couple months if at all) and the class schedule constantly changes. Avoid!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is interesting but there is a lot of busy work required. Recommend doing all of the work, show up to all your classes, and make sure you go above and beyond in order to get a decent grade. There are two exams and a final paper. Study for this class if you want to pass; the exams are long and the paper requires deep in depth analysis

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Written Assignments are assigned at random, but you just have to hold out till she has graded all five. Her grading is very critical. Formatting (APA) technicalities will dock you points, group projects are not graded fairly (same score for all regardless of level of work or dedication), & seems to have a copy and paste approach to lecture slides.