Reviews of professor Sara Penner

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Coming to Sarahs class is always a treat. She is warm, chipper, caring, and generally tries to make your class more enjoyable despite knowing she has to run through the slides. I dropped my student ID in an exam and she immediately emailed me to say she had found it. Overall a great person, great prof, and I wish I had taken more of her classes :)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Sara is super kind and very approachable. Her tests are mostly focused on lecture material and are predictable. Her lectures are interesting enough. She is a decent grader as well, not too tough in my opinion. Overall I really enjoyed her class!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures cover lots of interesting material and the group case studies are actually quite enjoyable. Prof. Penner is a tough marker, and it is sometimes hard to tell what she is looking for from the questions.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not my favourite prof ever, but if I had to I would take another class with her. If you're an HR major, don't take advertising. Lectures are boring, material is dry, midterm was TOUGH and we were not given enough time. She's a tough grader so know your stuff! Not enough direction for the group project and unclear grading criteria

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Sara as a person is generally very nice and easy-going. Shes really sweet. However, Sara as a professor not so much. She grades really hard and it almost feels super inconsistent with every case study. You dont know where youre losing or gaining points because she doesnt have a clear grading sheet/rubric.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
While a good professor when it came to teaching and having useful lectures, the class was paced horribly. We would go weeks without having anything due, and within a weeks she managed to cram a group paper, presentation, exam, and individual paper in a 5 day period. I would take again, but I would need to be better prepared.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not the Easy A that everyone advertises this course to be. Do not sleep on those 2 exams, she makes difficult exams since course material is very easy. MCQ on exams are difficult, so make sure to nail long answer. She does not specify which chapters carry more weight on the exams, but each exam always had 2/3 chapters that made most of the exam.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Overall she was a great prof. In my class we had 6 group mini case studies we had to do at the end of the class. She would rush through lectures so she could provide time at the end for those cases, sometimes had us still trying to figure out the info before doing the case. Overall she answered questions really well, provided great feedback.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Sara is a really good prof and she really cares about her students. She wants you to succeed.