Reviews of professor Bonnie Gabel

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She definitely cares about your public speaking. I took her in the summer. Beware of tons of homework.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Bonnie is knowledgeable and passionate about public speaking. However her expectations may be too high for a 100-level class. Outlines and speeches are greatly scrutinized. The class used a separate website to submit speeches and this website was difficult to use and was finicky with video uploads. I considered dropping this class like 5 times.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took her class online during winter intersession and it was terrible. Granted it was a 3-week online course, her grading criteria was pretty unfair and she was not lenient whatsoever. After having multiple conversations with her she was not willing to work with me at all. There was also a lot of miscommunication throughout that entire course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She was a very mean teacher. Would deduct points for not relevant or small things, embarrassed you in front of the class, and overall unprofessional. Speech classes are already intimidating, you do not need a teacher to tear you down on top of it.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I've really thought about what to say in this because I had a hard time in her class. Unfortunately, she got into an accident a month before our class ended but after that happened, she became so much more flexible which definitely made class manageable... My advice is do NOT take this class with a full course load.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Bonnie was so welcoming and understanding. Bonnie was a lenient teacher as long as you were open and honest with her.  Bonnie was flexible and the speeches she let you do recorded and sent to her if you didn't meet the 5 minute requirement in class you will still be able to get full points if you submitted the recorded version on time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She picks at you for everything. Someone in my class got points taken off because they had some sort of tag on their suit. I get that this class is about presentation but it wasn't even that noticeable. May I also add that she is very passive aggressive. She also puts on the spot for futile reasons. I do NOT recommend taking her class for speech.