Reviews of professor Lauren Hallett

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I don't think Prof Hallett is deserving of all these negative reviews. She tries her best in class to help students out and her communication is definitely above average when compared to other professors at UO. I read these reviews before her class which made me expect the worse when she is in fact a respectful, intelligent, and caring professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Impersonal, unkind, and often snide towards students. The high for the final was about an 89%, which I would say is sad considering its a 200 person lecture, so at least somebody should have understood all of the material. It shows how out of touch the professor was and the general inability for her to connect with us as her students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very intelligent professor, yet is highly defensive and unapproachable. Half of the term is guest lectures so time spent in class feels uninspired and difficult to sit through. Most of it is busy work set to ensure that the hundreds of students behave themselves. She demands respect but is absent for much of the termbuilding connection is hard.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
R was confusing at first (I'd never done coding before) but was okay once you got the hang of it. If you're gonna take this class, find a study partner WEEK 1 so you can do homework together. I would've never passed this class without help from others. Final project wasn't bad but Lauren doesn't reply to emails in a timely fashion. Go to office hrs

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
One of the worst professors Ive gotten. The midterm was weighted to heavily that if you didnt do well you couldnt pass no matter what. The homework wouldnt download correctly and when I emailed her about it she was rude and unhelpful. She will just skip out on class but still expect you to go listen to random people talk. I do not recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Hallett hasn't posted a single grade and it's week 9, and when she was confronted about this, she claimed "I know just as much as you do". She has more guest lectures than her own lectures, so she barely teaches her own class. her GE's do all of her work for her, so there are discrepancies with grades. Highly do not recommend this class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She puts on a nice face, but her communication is incredibly disrespectful of students. I once waited 3d for an email reply about a simple error message that prevented me from being able to submit my assignment on time. When she does reply, it's unhelpful. Final project is 10+paragraph research paper + proof you learned a complex coding language.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I did not have a good experience in Dr. Hallett's class. Currently, it is finals week and we do not have grades in the grade book. None. Additionally, 2/3 of the class is being graded on a curve due to discrepancies in grading by GEs. Dr Hallett was hard to communicate with, and I was met with resistance when trying to discuss concern for my grade.