Reviews of professor Hayley Lanier

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Lanier is amazing! If you can, definitely take her. She genuinely wants all her students to succeed and will always try and help you if you ask! You do have to read the textbook for this class, but her notes cover all the information you need to know. She does fun in class labs, and tries to make learning and lectures interesting and fun.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Co-taught w Dr. Marske. READ THE TEXTBOOK and attend lectures to be successful. Discussion and pre-class assignments every week so there is a lot of busy work. Online quizzes are worth 15% of your grade. You will have to seek help from TAs to make above a 4/5, as no wealth of resources can match Dr. Lanier's poor and subjective word choice.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr Lanier is super nice and clearly passionate about this subject, but she writes her own exams & quiz questions, so it is always meant to trick you. The concepts are not confusing but the exams and quizzes are because you get things wrong over small technicalities. ALso, her exams are multiple choice, short answer AND have practice sets. Good luck

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Engaging lectures, wants you to succeed and is really helpful outside of class

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Lainer is a great professor but there are a few things you should know if you plan on taking her for Evolution. First, you must attend class every day, participation is heavily weighted, multiple assignments a week, and the exams are HARD for a 2000 lvl class, low C average on every exam. Do not underestimate this class or it will punish you!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had Dr. Lanier for my Evolution class and she was very clearly interested in what she was teaching, which made it easy to pay attention. Lectures were engaging and very helpful for my learning. Dr. Lanier covered most of the stuff from the textbook, offered lots of office hours, and feedback on tests. I loved having her!!