Reviews of professor Valerie Syverson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Bad. She never grades. The labs are too long, and if youre working by yourself you're best just dropping the class. Groups are a must. THEY WILL SAVE YOU. Save 4-7 hrs a day for labs. She doesnt explain, so good luck deciphering the labs that she didnt make, and doesn't know herself. She neglected her students on the day of the final, irresponsible

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Syverson is a newer professor and it is unfortunately painfully obvious. She was always unprepared, did not explain concepts well, and it was nearly impossible to keep up with how fast she goes through her lectures. She does curve the tests and offer some extra credit. She also accepts late work. Would not recommend if geology is your major.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The lectures are very boring and she rambles on. No one enjoys the way she teaches and its hard to pay attention. We had a few substitutes to come in for lectures and they were much better than Val. Would not recommend her lectures

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Being in a group will save your life. She wasn't clear on her questions. At first, I thought I was the only one struggling with understanding her questions until I realized that my group didn't understand either. She doesn't grade at all, she only graded the first of my lab and two discussion questions. And the quizzes and tests were not that clear

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Im on my last semester at city and ive been going to school for years and have never come across as hard of a class as this one. She doesnt teach you just just posts assignments and expects you to know what to do. She doesnt lecture. She hasnt graded anything on time ive done over 20 labs and none of them have been graded.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
TERRIBLE! Does not respond to emails, takes months to grade things, is a tough grader when they do grade, admitted they don't even have the textbook we are required to buy for the class, extremely long lectures, very confusing & not helpful. I had no idea where I stood in the class even after taking the final because nothing was graded! DO NOT TAKE

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is the first online summer class I am taking so I understand the difficulty because of the whole virus but this is the worst college experience by far. The syllabus is not for our class, week 1 assignments have not been graded in a month, labs are confusing for non-geo majors, and lectures are awfully long and boring. Enroll if you wanna fail