Reviews of professor Laura Nelson

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dont take her classes in general. She has a weird grading system that essentially makes you believe you have and will get an A and it turns out you are close to failing the class. Her grading system makes me very angry because it was never clear so you were never able to know your real grade. The grader TULASI has been one of the worst!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She grades nothing until finals week so you have no time to improve upon feedback. I received two grades back before finals when suddenly everything was graded and I found out I was nearly failing the class. She never reached out to me about this and now I have very little options because she graded so late in the semester

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took GWS130AC with Prof. Nelson over summer. Fair amount of work (mostly readings, discussions, and weekly quizzes). Quizzes were not too bad, and the final project was tedious but if you put a lot of work and make sure to listen to feedback on your project, you'll do fine. Make sure to do the "extra work" (ie shared notes) to guarantee an A.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Nelson is a really sweet person and I learned a lot in her class. There is quite a bit of reading but thats what you get in upper div gws classes. She explained her grading scale multple times. The people who were angry at her grading were the ones who expected an easy A so they didnt try on their essays and weekly summaries.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not only was professor Nelson unaccommodating and a harsh grader but so was her GSI. The GSI gave me a D on a paper due to them disagreeing with my argument and Laura was unhelpful when I brought it up to her. I was a straight-A student before taking her class and receiving a B-. 

She also lacked empathy and sensitivity as the dept head.