Reviews of professor Alison Merrill

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
WORST professor I had at SU. Understandingly she was new and felt she "had to prove herself" but wow. Many of my peers did horribly or failed. When you ask for help you only leave her office with more questions, anxiety, and having to ask other professors for answers. Her tyrannical teaching methods were not great representations of the SU faculty.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Although you are pushed hard to create quality work, she has no give and take. Unreasonable expectations with reading, meltdowns if not enough students read, makes quiz threats. She had to curve the mid term grades over 20 percent. Treats her class as if it is the sole focus of your time and acts like students do not have other classes or a life.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Quiz threats-3 per week b/c none could answer a question. Gave 2, 3rd next wk. High workload- 3 papers,a presentation,surprise quizzes,scheduled quizzes,midterm,final,HW,reading,etc. Rules are draconian. No photos of screen. Wont give slides to study out of class. No prior lectures touched on. Slides so full of text can't tell what to write down.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Any class you take with Dr. Merrill will undoubtedly be very difficult. However, if you simply do the work and take notes you will thrive in this class. Dr. Merrill expects your best work from you and pushes you to do your best. Dr. Merrill is also a rule follower and treats every student the same and does not like excuses.