Reviews of professor Elizabeth Siggins

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took Dr. Siggin's SOC 151 & 159. 4 writing assignments (drop lowest). For the final, choose an essay or a short answer exam. Pretty big group project in 159. 2 extra credit opportunities. TA grades. 25-40 pages or reading and 25-45 minute pre-recoded lecture before each class. Lectures are based on reading and always has good class discussion.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The written assignments are graded very tough, mean is about 60-70%. Criteria isn't clear so we're in the dark for all grades. There are 8 writing assignments, it's near end of quarter but only 4 papers graded so far. Makes you resent the topics and class entirely, everyone's GPAs will tank. Save your time, money, stress and headaches. Depressive!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This is exactly the person we need to teach the next generation how to run our criminal justice system, so that we dont have to address all the problems it causes. More people should learn from Elizabeths example and profit from the suffering of others!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She was a great professor! She is super nice and caring for her students. Graded on weekly reading check-ins, 2 writing assignments, midterm, data memo project and a final paper throughout the entire course. It's manageable because she posts them ahead of time. Lectures are really long though, try your best not to fall asleep!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
We as a class were so eager to learn about juvenile justice system but the joy of learning is drained because our papers get graded extremely late, we don't know what our grades are, then it's impossible to bring grades up. In the beginning professor and TA said that we could go over the word limit by 100 words but when we do, they take points off.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Class consisted of weekly reading summaries, a group podcast, and a final. The grading can take a while but she is very caring. She is welcoming of all opinions on assignments and is respectful. Not a super high maintenance course which I'm sure we can all appreciate. For the podcast project she gives you a ton of class time to work on it.Recommend

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
SOC 151 has given me the most stress due to its sheer workload (6 quizzes total, so many readings though I do enjoy the podcasts, a data project, midterm, AND final). Even though the content's interesting and she's an amazing lecturer + really understanding, compassionate person, I wish we had less on our plate. TLDR: super overwhelmed right now :(

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She takes forever to grade assignments, so you don't know how to improve until the end of the quarter basically, runs through lectures super-fast and was overall hard to get a hold of. Take another professor.