Reviews of professor Esme Murdock

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Murdock's class is always about discussing the readings and that's why the repetitive cycle gets boring. Not a lot of assignments but the ones you have, make sure to do. Weird grading and she doesn't know how to word-phrase a lot of stuff. The final is cumulative! (50 multiple choice and 3 short-answer questions). You will have a Final Paper due.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
No textbook. There are content questions and a blog you have to do every week based on the reading material she leaves online. Tests are easy if you study your own content questions responses as well as show up to class. Half the time I didn't even read the material, but should up to class and did well. Participating in discussions is also good

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This was her first year teaching at SDSU. Lecture heavy, you will be using CourseKey to do reading questions at the beginning of every class on your phone and check in for attendance. Every friday we had group discussions which was basically just a Q&A section for the week. One midterm and a take home final.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Summer Course. Assignments due weekly. Tough grader. Class is interesting, but all self learning. She provides lecture videos, but just reads of the PowerPoint slides which is useless. Easy A if you put in the work

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She reads off PowerPoint slides and calls it teaching. No minimum word counts for discussion posts so everyone is discussing with half sentences. She also does not have a degree or any formal training in American Indian Studies so idk why she is teaching the subject. She is more philosophy than anything. Smart girl, poor professor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Attendance is not mandatory (nor is it really necessary). Easy A, very little work required. Interesting readings that aren't straight out of a textbook. Classes can be kind of awkward when she stands and waits for a response; could be a bit more engaging.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I wasn't a fan of the professor and the TA for this class.There were weekly quizzes discussion posts and videos that had questions inserted into them. I emailed the TA and professor a couple of times expressing grades don't make sense and both responded once. I wouldn't suggest taking this class because it is too stressful to be considered a GE.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Super chill online course. Easy A if you just put it in the work to have good discussion posts. Some good video assignments with unlimited attempts. Didn't even need to watch lectures.