Reviews of professor Katie Becklin Atkinson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Going into this course, I was excited for the seemingly interesting content. However, Becklin makes it miserable. Hours of homework, so many lecture videos bc she barely teaches during class, hard tests. She unaccessible outside of class and lacks all respect for her students. Don't take her class, I haven't met anyone who has actually enjoyed it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Completely disrespectful of students, their time, their lives, and their work. Spent hours writing a paper just for her to not even fully read it and slap a D on it. Then had to spend the next 2.5 weeks fighting for my grade, as did many others in the class. Completely disrespectful when handling grading issues as well. If I could put a 0 I would.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Focuses more on her own research than on teaching. It seems like the material will be fun, but she makes it dreadful. Recorded lectures, papers, lots of work to do at home. Papers due on the day of exams. Praises "active learning," but it's just a system that forces us to do way more work for a 3-credit class than necessary. Don't take her class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not a personable or approachable professor in the slightest. Grades far to harsh for the quality of her teaching, which is done entirely outside of class. Impossible to do well on assignments despite maximum effort being put forth. The class consists of busy work with harsh deadlines and grading. Too much to keep track of for a 3 credit class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She was the worst. The final was the most difficult test and had the most info so if you think you did Well on the first two buckle up. The whole room gasped when she said the final was 90 minutes instead of the 120 allotted on myslice.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lecture is definitely not helpful as she mainly requires you to watch hours of video in the weekend. Assignments are lot and improve your comprehension only a little. You still have to memorize many basic concepts or you can't pass the exam (really hard)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Becklin overall seemed like a very respectable lady, but this class and her teaching manner were way too much for how many credits given. The class was extremely fast paced for one semester. I originally signed up for this class to be an easy A on my schedule, but it ended up being harder than organic chemistry.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor could very well be one of the worst professors here at Syracuse. She assigns an INSANE amount of classwork and homework, and the grading is extremely harsh. Professor Becklin is also so condescending and snappy when people ask questions or when groups try to work together. I hate this class sm and its only been a couple of weeks.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I want other students to know that she's lucky we can't give 0s on this website because she is actually good at nothing. She's getting fired next year so don't even take the class just wait it out til they get someone competent.