Reviews of professor Kate Brown

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You can tell she really loves her job. Gives great feedback on essays. The lectures arent the usual ones that bore you to sleep. She really tries to get you to understand the material.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good teacher who has a lot of knowledge on the subject. The course has 10 mini quizes (some mc some free response). Mid term and final are essay tests. Two debates that have debate papers that go along with them. French Revolution game that takes up three weeks and includes participation in debate and writing articles and a final paper.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Brown is a great speaker, and her lectures were very clear and helpful. We had 10 quizzes and 3 papers. The majority of quizzes were essays, so they did take a while to do. She gives great feedback though, and using lectures and readings will help when writing the essays. I am not a history person, but she made this class interesting and fun!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this class online during winter term and it was extremely difficult. It was a lot of reading and a very short amount of time for quizzes. She grades very hard and the feedback is not always helpful. It was very fast-paced, but doable. You must read and participate in order to do well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Brown made a class I was dreading taking turn into my favorite class this semester. The French Revolution game made the work a lot more interactive. Her teaching methods are different, but in a positive way that connected me to my classmates in a way I haven't experienced in any other class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Brown is an amazing professor who obviously knows what she is talking about. As long as you do your work and participate, this class is easy. She is very strict when it comes to phones, but the lectures are so interesting that class goes by fast. The work load can be demanding at some times, but it is not too hard to keep up with.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took Dr. Brown during winter term. She always responded quickly to my emails, and always gave amazing feedback on my papers. Although she grades tough, she is very specific in how she wants you to cite and articulate your work. Great Professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Brown asks a lot in 440. She assigned five books and had short writeups required for all of them. She is not very good at communicating expectations for written coursework. The last paper was 7-8 pages and there was still a Final Exam that consisted of two essay questions. I would not recommend taking a class with Dr. Brown unless you have to.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Brown is a good teacher, but the class only has a few grades that are either worth 5 points or 10. Lots of reading and lectures and a huge game thats actually more fun than it sounds. Gives good feedback, but is a lot of work. Be prepared to read and to spend hours on quizzes throughout the semester.