Reviews of professor Dawn Nagel

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not clear about lectures and TA's consistently graded exams wrong. Claimed exams wouldn't have anything outside of study guides but they did. Whole quarter, syllabus says final will be 50% old material and then in the last lecture 4 days before the final she tells class it will be majority new material. Very unfair setup and not clear.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I really liked the way she made the class so interactive. Dr. Nagel cares about her students understanding the material making the class research oriented. She does make difficult exams but she's very willing to make adjustments when necessary. You only need to refer to the book for few slides that don't contain much info.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nice person, but not a great professor at all. Her slides are really bad and she doesn't explain much in depth in class either. All her bullet points and diagrams are copy pasted from the textbook, so not really a point going to class either. No homework either, only 5 quizzes, 2 midterms, and final. Really tough, but doable with self-studying.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is one of my favorite professors so far. You can tell she really wants you to succeed and cares if you know the information or not. She made sure to ask the class if we wanted her to clarify anything before moving on. She gave us study guides and had review sessions and tried to keep us engaged by having students go up and do practice problems.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She really wants students to understand the material. I strongly recommend going to her office hours to clarify any concepts you don't understand. She is willing to explain the material as many times as you need. Overall, she is a caring professor who wants her students to succeed.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Nagel's exams are very difficult and are graded harshly. I got points off for things that I got right because I wasn't specific enough, even though the questions are too vague to know what she's looking for. She made the TAs regrade exams and take off more points after grades were released. Very unclear if there's a curve or not.