Reviews of professor Melissa Goodman-Elgar

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
lots of papers and discussions.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This was easily the most difficult class I took last term. Its not that Melissa is a bad professor its the volume of work needed to be complete each week. Do not take this class if you dont enjoy reading. Do not take this class if its completely online.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tough grader, it seems like she didn't even read my essays. She corrected me on things that I didn't even say in my essay. Her organization is bad, there were multiple times when I nearly missed deadlines because it wasn't clear at all that something was due, it seems like other students were having this issue too.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I wish I loved her. She was completely checked out, posted inaccurate things, broken links, forgot to post our midterm study guide until finals week, I had to request that she open the weeks work after it was locked late Monday afternoon multiple weeks in a row. The class has cool stuff to read and is easy but a bummer.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ms. Goodman-Elgar uses an online textbook. There is a lot of reading and a couple of papers. You have to do discussions every week and there is a final exam.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pros:
Kind & Knowledgeable
Easy Tests
Decent Lectures 
Cons:
Lots and lots of writing (discussion posts and essays are most of grade)

| If writing in response to readings is your thing, then it could be a good fit.
I loved IB Soc Anth and didn't enjoy this class (mainly due to the volume of writing)
Found it hard to be motivated (perhaps just me)

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Always behind on grading but still gave absurd amount of work and reading. midterm has ~15 short essay Q's and ~30 t/f, matching, multiple choice Q's. The course content didn't match the week of the modules (ex; week 4 do module 5), so beware if you take a lot of online classes. Lots of grammatical errors on midterm/final. Don't recommend

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I enjoyed her class. It was informative but not too terribly difficult. And she's pretty understanding. I was going through some tough personal things and she was flexible with me when I explained. She seemed to really care about her students learning and always gave individual and class feedback each week. I'd recommend her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Melissa is really great. I really loved her classes (ATH101+ATH102). Interesting and engaging discussions that really get you thinking about how humanity got to where we are. Usually uses a free PDF textbook that's really informative. Some time consuming but also really cool projects!