Reviews of professor Geraldine Peters

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I never went to class and still passed, definitely recommend taking P/NP. Definitely do all homeworks and labs and you should be okay. She is not a good lecturer and very unreachable and unresponsive, so don't expect a reply even when something is important. Exams are very difficult and curves are unpredictable. 171 sucks, but it's passable.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures are taken straight from the textbook, with her just reading off slides. Takes 15min of 50min class just to set up zoom. No one comes to class anymore, because lectures are useless and teach you nothing. The questions she comes up with for exams are confusing and poorly-worded. Terrible at answering questions in class too.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I literally cannot say enough bad things about this professor. She is incapable of time management and email response. Everyone in the class is incredibly frustrated with her abysmal teaching. Yes she worked at NASA and probably does research at the school, but by letting her teach, USC is screwing over the hundreds of future engineers she teaches.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sweet but not a good professor (I feel bad for writing a bad review :P). I stopped attending much after the first lecture in part because she went very slowly and off track; later lectures often went way beyond time. The first midterm exam was completely incomprehensible due to her wording, and a large part she admitted was unsolvable.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
lectures move very slowly and she wastes a lot of time, instead of teaching material. when she does attempt to teach material she just goes over some problems from the textbook and vaguely explains the concepts. definitely learned more in discussion than her lectures.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If ur in ece and cant take 161 just switch majors. not worth it

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Peters's lectures were literally her reading off of slides so it is much more beneficial to read from the textbook rather than going to the lectures. She also lectures really slowly, to the point where we would be stuck on one slide for 30 min. Her tests are not terrible but they could be confusing in terms of wording.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Although a caring professor, I wouldn't recommend taking her course unless you're a physics major an/or have a lot of experience with physics. She spends too much time setting up and gets off topic constantly. She explained concepts that weren't relevant to the class and would rush towards the end. Homework and midterms/final are nothing alike.