Reviews of professor Amanda Diegel

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Diegel is a great professor. She is very enthusiastic about the subject and clearly knows what she's talking about. The honors section is really hard, though - I made an A in AP Cal I in HS and will be lucky to finish with a B this time. No extra credit. Tests/quizzes are all open ended, partial credit. Great teacher but very hard class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Just No.  Harsh grader.  On final, a meaningless variable was (x was used instead of r - name of variable did not matter) wrong, and she counted the entire problem wrong.  A 30 point problem with the right answer wrong.  Tanked my grade - was not given any partial credit for it.  Also, the entire class is just proofs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Diegel rambles during class and is very unclear on the notes. She makes several mistakes and sends the corrections through email but does not give any further explanation. I was supposed to take a math class however all we do is write proofs. On tests she takes off a ridiculous amount of points for notation. Caring but be careful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I would have given her at least a 2, but when she was allowed to pick when her class took the exam and she chose the very first slot, I decided she deserved a 1. We finished the class material on the Mon of the same week of the exam, she gave us homework on that Wed, then gave us ONE day to study on Thurs with the exam on Fri at 8AM. RIP GPA

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took her for honors cal 1. If you love theory and proving EVERYTHING, take her. If you want to take a normal calculus class, take anybody else. Very respectable and a very smart professor, just didn't take everything down to the aptitude of a typical cal student. Made the class harder than it should have been.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you like teaching yourself the material after understanding little to nothing in class, take this teacher. Her use of proofs, confusing methods of teaching, tough grading, and no extra credit made the class(calculus 2) a living hell for me.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Honestly not a bad professor. She posts notes and teaches straight from them, and most of her examples are in the book so if they dont help you, there is no extra worked problems to reference. Helpful and accessible but a lot of homework (almost daily)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Diegel is always available to help outside of class. Homework is graded harsher than exams, but the exam constitute a large portion of your grade so study well. The grading scale is fair for the level of difficulty of the course. I would recommend Dr. Diegel if you have the option!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She covers so many proofs, and is very nitpicky at grading tests. She also expects you to show every single step of each problem and write in words what theorem/test you use. Will occasionally make mistakes in class. That being said, she is an absolutely amazing individual and will go far out of her way to help her students succeed.