Reviews of professor Tessa Provins

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The exams are pretty easy, the book is needed but is not all neccesary. Inquizitaves are nice. She gives you many opportunities to keep your grade up. Be aware of the policy brief. She does not give a good outline of how to do it

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cracks the same jokes over and over again, but at least she tries. The lectures are pretty interesting. There were no exams, just a ton of research essays, but I found them kind of fun. There is a book for the class but you don't need it since everything important is in the slides. I've taken her twice because I like how organized she is.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super funny and clearly enjoys what she does. Pretty easy but she sometimes can grade some assignments pretty tough out of nowhere.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I loved having Dr. Provins as a professor! She made our capstone truly engaging and is truly so knowledgeable about political science. I was genuinely sad for our class to come to an end. She is truly accessible outside of the classroom and replies to emails really quickly. She is always willing to chat and hear you out about anything.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Provins is extremely knowledgeable, but the material tends to get a little repetitive. Grading is 100% based on papers, which there are a lot of. Be sure to talk about each and every one of the many bullet points, and you'll do fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Provins is great and definitely one of my favorite professors. The class required reading each chapter with a quiz for each (that you can just keep doing questions until you get 100%), some papers, and 3 tests spaced throughout the semester. The layout works really well and her lectures are great :) Also very accessible outside of class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The lectures were very interesting but recitation was so boring. There are 3 exams and you get to drop your worst one and theres 2 papers, the first one was super easy but the policy brief was pretty tough.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Provins's course is very well done, with all of the homework easy to complete, but lots of chances to use it to study for the tests. The course only had 3 exams, of which the lowest was dropped. I would highly recommend her as a professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
While the class was easy and Provins was organized, I thought she came off as rude at certain times. Her passive aggression created an uncomfortable environment where I felt like I couldnt learn or focus. She was extremely scripted and read off the PowerPoints with minimal elaboration, and thats not how I learn so I learned nothing. Take Kanthak.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
tessa is one of those professors she's lucky her class was so easy because it is so hard to not hate her in my opinion. She is very standoffish and thinks shes better than everyone else. Besides that 3 exams (open note and online at home) 2 papers all really easy and graded really easy. def recommend