Reviews of professor Rebecca Schmerer

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Schmerer was good, but for COR is was really obvious that she has a passion for this stuff and no one in the class really cares b/c its a required class. I liked her but she can be intense sometimes, feel like she forgets she isn't lecturing to people who aren't politics/philosophy majors. She is very nice and accessible though, would take again.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Schmerer is genuinely a nice person, but her class didn't interest or engage me at all. In order to pass, you have to do pretty well on the essays she assigns. Her feedback for our writing/presentations was often vague or confusing. Fortunately, she did offer a lot of extra credit near the end of the semester, which is how I managed an A.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She cares about what she teaches but the class is just so boring! It is lecture heavy so get ready to listen. You have to do well on papers, midterms, and finals in order to pass. She has made us do two final papers (3-4 pages for one and 6-8 pages for the other) and a final exam (20 questions) for our final in the class, which was a lot to me.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was very sweet and helpful. She gives good detailed rubrics and got the classes input on certain aspects of the class which I found very considerate. She does grade a tad bit hard but not unreasonably. If you follow the rubrics your grade should be fine. Class was well organized and the readings were not too long.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It was online and most of our grades came from discussion posts with two replies.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Shes a really sweet teacher, but shes usually pretty unclear with her instructions for papers and projects. If you see her after class, however, shell be happy to provide you with much needed clarity and extra info. While I know that boring is a very subjective term, shes not very good at engaging the class, and her class was super boring.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She is clearly invested in the material she is teaching and she illustrates a clear knowledge of it. However, her class gets pretty boring... Maybe the subject matter just isn't for me.