Reviews of professor Emily McDowell

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this class during summer session 1. There were lots of readings, which were necessary to read because the discussion posts related to the reading. I thought she did a good job and was a quick grader. I only interacted with her for five weeks. I never had a problem with her!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I never bought the textbook and still had access to it for 5 weeks. The exams, forums, and assignments are based on the textbook and lecture slides. You can open the presentation, click out of it, and then open it through powerpoint to have a double window to take notes. The discussion posts aren't that hard.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Many, many lectures and readings if you want to do well. Don't take if you couldn't care less about lemurs and apes. Cultural is much easier w a good prof.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class consists of PowerPoints, not actual lectures. She never introduced herself through a video, nor did voice-overs for the PowerPoints. The "notes" section on Microsoft did not help me to understand the material, and she posted videos from online websites to teach the class. You will teach yourself, and it could have been a better class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Enjoyed this class. Took it as an online class but there was another that was in person. There were multiple lectures and readings that were required. You had to watch a few "movies" but they were really interesting.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She Is not great, she does not really care about her students grades and will not help you navigate through the course with any sort of guidance. If you hate reading only powerpoints for "lecture" with no guided audio and the only other resource is the textbook, DO NOT take her class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You teach yourself. The entire class is reading PowerPoints/the textbook, watching videos/films, and then doing discussion forums/worksheets. Midterm & final are difficult to study for.
Final grade is out of 410 points: 5 hw (10 pts each), 6 forums (10 pts each), 2 exams (100 pts each), 1 primate observation assessment (100 pts).

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took her ANT 251 online and the work load wasn't too heavy. A decent amount of work though, mainly discussion boards and watching videos. Three tests that are weighted a good amount, but are not hard. She responds quickly to emails and is very understanding. Would definitely take her again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She puts everything on moodle in advance and there is a couple lectures a week. Not my favorite topic but I found the work to be pretty manageable. Not a strict grader on the discussion posts or homework assignments.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was completely online. It's a lot of reading power-points with two to three assignments per week so its takes up a lot of time! All information and resources needed for the tests and assignments are given but you have to be willing to put in the work because it's a lot of information.