Reviews of professor Whitney Tholen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I get that some people like her because she's nice, but that doesn't make a good teacher. She reads from her slides, struggles to answer questions, she never replies to emails, and she sent me away from her office hours twice because she's too busy. Her labs are unorganized with TA's that don't know what they're doing.I received an A for the class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Tholen tries her best to facilitate and responded promptly to emails. I think the workload was extremely heavy and required a minimum of 12 hrs/week of study time to learn information on 2-3 chapter per week. The chapter and lab quizzes allowed for online textbook access, but the textbook did not have information pertaining to the lab quizzes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took Tholen a while ago, only rating now because a friend of mine had her last semester. Although I got a B, she is the most unreasonable person I have ever met. Exams are open book, but you have like 50min to answer 60questions. She never replies to emails, can't answer questions, and she created the lab manual that even confused our TA. 0/10

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
4 exams open book but 50 questions in 50 minutes on honorlock 1 final, no other assignments. Lowest grade is dropped. Attendance is not mandatory but its very helpful, she lets you know if certain topics will or will not be on the exam. I stayed after class a few times and she was happy to explain in more detail topics that I struggled with.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dont take Tholen yall. Its a very test heavy course and she honestly tries her best, but we don't cover anything from the textbook, which is what all 5 exams are about. And its true that the so called "extra credit" counts less than 1%. Its 5/550 points. Dont take Bibek for Lab either, most confusing lab of my life.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The only good thing I can take from this class is that lectures are recorded on echo360. Dr Tholen has a soft voice and is always hard to hear her speak. She uses power point presentations to teach, instead of the textbook, but no content from the pp are in any of the exams. No preparation for exams whatsoever. Lab manual she wrote is confusing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is my first rating on here. I must say this is one of worst course online. 
Reasons:
Extreme work load. Every open book quiz is proctored. Lecture heavy. Bad format. TA offers no good feedback. No guidance.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class is test-heavy but if you read the book you would do fine on the exams. Make sure you go to class because some days she gives out extra credit which really helps out your exam average. I would also do good in lab since it could boost your grade. If you can, have Kelsey as your lab instructor.