Reviews of professor Maureen Hickman

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Hickman is great! She offers a lot of extra credit so take advantage of that! Also her quizzes are fairly easy and the test are similar to the review she gives. Make sure to attend class because she gives a lot of practice problems and review to help you better understand the material.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great professor! She is super nice. The class and its material were very difficult but she is very available outside of class and gives extra credit. Extra credit took my grade from a B- to an A. Tests are in person and quite difficult, but weekly quizzes are online and still pretty difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hickman is a great person but not the best professor when explaining homework and quiz questions to students. Her almost weekly quizzes and exam questions are mainly application-based and are all "choose the best answer." She does take chapter problems for extra credit but does not collect them all the time and doesn't say when she will.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not many class grades, 3 tests, 3 quizzes, 1 big group project, and a final. Her class information was not difficult to understand, just A LOT of information. Tests are short answers, match, and multiple choice. She made practice exams, the format was not the same, and the examples different from the test. You will have to teach yourself!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class is harder than I expected, I underestimated the difficulty of the tests (and there are only 4 tests and a project for grades) and this ended up making my experience harder. Hickman will help you after lecture if you need help and will give opportunities for extra credit. Definitely would recommend taking her for BIO 240.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was the first time she taught a research-based class, and she was very helpful! She knew we were using programs we had never used, so she used one day a week to help us with the programs if we needed it. She even set up zoom sessions so we could share our screens if we needed additional help outside of class. Highly recommend!