Reviews of professor Lisa Ransdell

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Most of her feedback was rude rather than constructive. She clearly thinks the highest form of intelligence i.e. emotional intelligence is not concrete. Write a better discussion post than her lecture and risk losing points. 

Her lectures are very boring. She managed to teach a section about terrorism and war without ever using the word evil.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm not a sociology major, but Ransdell is one of the best profs I had at UCD in 3 years.  She's, knowledgeable, kind, helpful - but not a pushover. She's is not an easy grader, but not unfair.  I would recommend her highly, as long as you expect a fair grade.  VERY helpful if you're looking for internship recs and you're a good student.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Discussions and quizzes weekly except she would not open them until Friday so you only had 3 days to complete, made discussion posts seem very unnecessary, no time to actually discuss. Quizzes were extremely hard, average grade of a C, unless you read every article, chapter and video then you'll get a C. Took weeks to grade, VERY unorganized.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The comment below about her grading being unfair/ unclear w/ her grading is accurate.  Most bias prof I have encointered.  You can write a great post or paper and she will gas light you and tell you it's wrong. Not in a constructive tone. 

Scolds/ lectures students heavily about cheating. Meanwhile she isn't very ethical her self.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She posted modules late often and would not care about the limited time students had to finish her hours of lectures and videos. She responds very late to messages. she will doc points in discussions and it will be for dumb reasons or she will not tell you why. constantly brags about herself and her life and goes on random rants about it

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
In medical sociology, she does not provide any rubrics for written assignments and I felt like she graded unfairly and there is no way to fight for a better grade b/c she doesnt provide rubric. Very proper/formal and stuck up, if she doesnt like you she grades you harder. She is unresponsive when you ask questions via email/canvas.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She tries to trick you on the quizzes. Not only does she give very limited time for the quizzes, but she intentionally tries to get you to mess up. She will mark you wrong on a discussion if she does not like your answer even if you answered all the rubric requirements. Claims she is not opinionated/biased then gives on of the most biased lectures

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I am in love with sociology and Prof Ransdell is the reason. I never knew so many things that interest me could be the focus of one subject! I am seriously thinking of declaring in SOCY