Reviews of professor Carin Loewen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Makes a 2 credit class more work than my 5 credit classes. She is such a hard grader and makes one of the hardest classes that I have ever taken. Her tests are so unbelievably nitpicky that you could've studied super hard and then still gotten a 50% on the exam.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures were extremely boring and dry. Very excessive homework. That being said, the class was a very easy A, just very boring.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Does not respect student's time. Was late to post final grades for the semester and requires way too much material for a 2 credit class. Seems confused when students don't do well on her exams. "Just know what's on the learning objectives" - as she posts 30 paragraph learning objectives for a 50 minute lecture. Not worth the headache.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had Carin for Genetics 375: Special Topics (1 credit). Her quizzes were confusing and the main source of grading. I went up to her at the end of the semester and showed her a confusing question and she awarded me points back. She sent a follow-up email saying that she would help me get an A as long as I put in the work in. I appreciated that.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
For Genetics 133, all the material is from her (rather messy) powerpoints and her lectures. If you don't listen to the lectures and know her powerpoints, you won't get correct answers on quizzes. She is very nice and great to ask questions to after lecture.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very nice person and easy to access, but lectures were filled with content that I feel she didn't even understand. Students would ask her reasonable questions on relevant content and she would not know the answer to it. She scripted out her slides and shared them with us, so class was not mandatory. Exams were conducted online and  were fair.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I thought neurogenetics was really engaging from the experimental design side of the research. Professor Loewen had the most cutting-edge information on Alzheimer's, Autism spectrum, and also brought in guest lecturers on TBI and memory/circadian rhythm. Overall, the course was really interesting.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Extremely unreasonable expectations for a 2 credit course. Does not manage her time well in lecture and expects a workload of a much higher credit class. Tests and quizzes are unnecessarily difficult with unclear expectations (a 17 page review for an exam on seven 50 minute lectures). I would avoid her class if you can. Cool material, bad course.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Class was pretty standard and straightforward, very basic and nothing too special. Class was very easy if you just showed up, notes allowed on tests and quizzes. Weekly assignments were a bit excessive.