Reviews of professor Valerie Mueller

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst class I ever took. This class is insanely difficult and the lectures are absolutely ATROCIOUS. She will use code without explaining them as if we should already know what she is doing so you absolutely have to teach yourself 100% by doing extra ungraded work from the end of each chapter. She makes it VERY clear: NO EMAILS. Ask your peers.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Mueller is very caring about student success and puts all the stops out to make sure you are prepared and understand grading criteria. She also gives very involved feedback. The presentation assignment made sense, but the amount of time spent on them made the earlier material harder to recall.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This instructor feels that it is not her responsibility to ensure the students know the material. She directly told us not to contact her with questions regarding the content. This is a statistics class with a heavy coding element.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is the second time I have this prof(401 now 494)and believe me don't do it. One of those prof who chooses to make the class much more difficult than needed. 89-91% for a B+. Mini-Exams are only 5 questions in 8 minutes. You miss one Q you're done. Two 3-5 page papers and 5-8 page final. Don't bother asking for help, she will give you attitude.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Mueller does not engage with the student. Instead, she talks for the entirety of the lecture without giving questions to the students or making sure that students understand the materials. The assignment she gave was not clear and too few, thus if you fail one it will bring your whole grade. Her grading is also very tough.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Haven't taken the final yet, but this class was pretty nice. Mueller doesn't want it to be difficult, but you have to actually try. Most quiz answers come from the textbook. Yes there's coding, but the textbook is easy to understand. I think this was Mueller's first online class so there were a few kinks to work out, but she's accessible and kind.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class is only essays and tests/quizzes. There was no effort in putting together this course and it was quite boring. Grading on essays is inconsistent.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Online lectures are literally verbatim readings of the textbook passages pasted onto the powerpoint; it's obvious she hasn't even looked at it before recording, and no explanation whatsoever!! Not accessible outside class, will have to teach yourself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I genuinely don't think she takes the time to prepare before lectures. If more than half the class messed up on the same problem it's clearly the way she told us to go about it, not that we didn't listen. If you have a question she makes emailing her the last resort; Her TA takes care of everything. I felt like a nuisance when I had to reach her.