Reviews of professor Kelly Arbour-Nicitopoulos

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
3 hour lectures of just listening to her talk about nothing. Every question needs to be answered with a dissertation to get at least 1/2 marks and you had to go to mars and back to gather 3/4 of the info on said dissertation.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Arbour is very approachable and always makes time available for her students in her office hours. You can tell she genuinely cares about her students and the subject matter. She is very knowledgeable and her lectures are detailed which helps you to succeed on exams. I would definitely take another course with her.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you attend the majority of the lectures/tutorials, study well enough in advance, and work well with others there is no reason you can't do well in this course. Make sure to know the course readings well in order to do well on the exams, particularly the SAs that are scenario-based questions and require students to apply concepts learned.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is passionate about what she teaches, however the midterm and exam content is significantly more difficult than what is learned in class. She will never give you full marks for an answer no matter what, and she purposely puts content only discussed in lecture on exams.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
These 5 star reviews cannot be real. This course sucks. Lectures are incredibly boring, and it is impossible to pay attention. Midterm questions don't specify what they need for a full mark. In order to do well on anything, you have to go above and beyond what's asked of you (information vomit every question). She seems nice but this class is awful

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Arbour uses a mix of group projects and tests. Study well for the tests as you must know how to apply concepts beyond just memorization. If you do that then you will be fine. She is fair with her grading and really knows her research well.