Reviews of professor Sarah Klain

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sarah, while passsionate, is not a good professor. There is heavy outside of class work, that feels like busy-work. She has big dreams for the group project, but it often felt like a waste of time to the students, as well as the poor people in power at USU who we had to interview. Also, she has scanned versions of the textbook, so don't buy them.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sarah is an awesome person. It was her first time teaching a class at USU so she was still getting used to things. Very interesting class but you will have to work hard in it. No exams just 3 quizzes, heavy group project.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
My boyfriend's great grandma died and I had a cold that I was spooked was COVID - given the current pandemic. She wouldn't give me an extension from 11:50 am to 11:59 pm. Lol.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sarah is a great professor. There is a lot of reading and the assignments aren't easy, but if you are willing to put in some work the class can be really rewarding. Her TAs grade all the assignments, but if you have a problem with your grade on something Sarah will work with you.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Assigns too much homework for the level of class. Does not have a clear grading criteria or well-defined assignments, and is prone to changing assignments and how things will be graded on a whim. Does not assign work this is overly difficult, but be ready to put in more time and effort than often expected for the level of course being taught.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
It is true if you don't come to class you won't pass. 

Very unorganized. Slow at grading. Harsh at grading, sometimes for no reason or with no explanation. 

If you aren't an expert, you won't get 100% on anything. 

I'm sorry if you have to take her class. Worst one I've taken for my degree.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
First off this shouldnt be a policy class. The group project is communicating sustainability and not learning environmental policy. This course was incredibly poorly designed and barely taught any fundamental policy that NR graduates will actually use after school. Sarah also had no intentions of actually helping students succeed also.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sarah is very patinate and nice. There is a lot of reading before classes but they are not terrible readings. The group project is very important and as long as you don't have lazy group members it is fine.