Reviews of professor Samantha Vandermeade

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I love Professor Vandermeade, and any chance to take this professor in the future I will! She's funny, intelligent, and finds ways to make class interesting and interactive in many ways. Readings every week and can be dense, but she narrows them down when she can. Final paper was only 5 pages! Take this professor!!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
THE ABSOLUTE WORST! Horrible grading criteria/no rubrics AND a tough grader. I asked her for feedback on an assignment and she said she doesn't typically give feedback? what? Final is cumulative with no study guide but it wasn't that hard, study old quizzes because she gets questions from them for final. She'll make fun of you before teaching you.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Pretty decent teacher but the classes have a lot of trick questions that can cost you points. Discussion board and quiz due every week, with one paper in the middle. Would take again but if you get caught up on trick questions avoid. Learning material is very interesting. Teacher takes a while to grade though.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Discussion post and quiz once a week and one paper. It was a fairly easy class, did fine on the quizzes and always got 100% on the discussions without trying. There is one paper, which was not difficult, but she docked me one point without feedback. She seemed nice, overall easy online A for an upper division.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do yourself a favor and take any other professor. If you're not an expert at writing papers don't bother with her she is harsh and there is no rubrics on papers or assignments. No comments or feedback on anything and hands out C's with no explanation

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took Women, Gender, and Society with Samantha and loved the entire class! An environment that evokes participation and thought. Multiple teaching methods: documentaries, textbook reading, articles, two simple papers, and the majority was small lectures followed by led discussion. Intelligent, kind, and thorough professor that wants you to learn