Reviews of professor Valeria Nappi- Giordano

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doesn't assign a textbook which makes doing her assignments super hard. She is a 100 level teacher who assigned 3 5-paged papers throughout the semester but is horrible at following her own syllabus and even went almost a full month without posting on canvas. We were behind basically 3 weeks & she assigns a surprise paper due the week of finals.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr G acts like everybody has taken AP Bio and teaches at an extremely fast pace. Therefore making you teach yourself from the textbook. If you have not taken AP Bio in high school I would not recommend taking BIO-150 with her because you are ultimately going to end up withdrawing from the difficulty of the class and stress trying to teach yourself.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's very sweet, and even during Covid, she understood that people have lives. I would 100% retake this class and I would still pick her. She made me feel like i can actually finish being a Bio major.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very caring and a great professor in class. wouldn't recommend taking her course online. she didn't do live lectures which made it difficult if you had questions throughout. The course is what you'd expect: labs, exams, homework but it's A LOT. She is also a VERY hard grader and her exams are beyond difficult if you don't study. READ THE TEXTBOOK!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I do not know why anyone has anything negative to say about her. I had her for Bio 150 and 151 and she is my favorite prof. I 100% would have dropped being a bio major if it was not for her. Genuinely cares about you and makes lectures interesting. Yes, the class is hard but it is not her fault. Offers extra credit sometimes. A true gem at St Joes.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She showed up late to every single class including the tests. Her tests were very confusing and they were full of mistakes. She was very bad a grading we did not get any grades until the end of the semester except for the exams so. She pretty much never responded to any emails. Finally she cancelled class multiple times and posted confusing videos.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is a nice professor but she made her class the most stressful one. She takes her class very serious, which is respectable, but she has not been very understanding during the pandemic. The tests are extremely difficult to finish on time and the lectures are heavy. Not a terrible experience but defiantly caused a lot of grief