Reviews of professor Adrienne Bitar

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Bitar is the best professor I've had at Cornell. Extremely passionate about her topic, gives interesting readings (although long), and engages with her students. You're given a lot of freedom to study what you want for the final paper. Too many group tasks for my liking, but overall, the lectures were really incredible.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is literally "food studies." There is absolutely no reason why this class (essentially an elective course) should have mandatory attendance 3 days/week and a 13-17 page final paper. This class is not important enough to be taking up that much time and commitment out of any student's week and semester. Not sure what Bitar was thinking.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very enjoyable course. Grade consists of participation, biweekly blog posts, a few small papers, and a final paper. Papers can be graded harshly but the rest of the assignments pull your grade up in the end.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is AMST 1110. 
The instruction of assignments is too vague and even flawed. Many of the feedbacks on my work gave me the feeling of "what? She is looking for that?"
Overall, be sure to have your assignment checked by your TA before submitted it. I ran out of space. But the blog post was a big mess at the start of the semester as well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Bitar is really a great professor. She cares about her students and isn't a stickler over little things. In addition, you can get a lot out her classes. I'm not the most "school-person' by any means, but she can you to learn something. Overall, great experience

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She assigns a lot of readings and writing assignments, but they're mostly short and also very interesting. She tries to make the class fun, and you can tell she is extremely passionate about the material and making a difference. She is very invested in her students and cares more about what you learn than about how well you write.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I really enjoyed this course with professor Bitar and it made me interested in pursuing the American Studies minor. The class had a decent amount of readings that were all very accessible and posted on Canvas in a reasonable time frame. Additionally, the TA Patrick was also great and he was very educated and knowledgeable about the course. Easy A!