Reviews of professor Joann Schrass

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Schrass is a great human being, she was very flexible with grades. Unfortunately, her lectures were mostly Youtube videos which made me feel like this class would be more beneficial as an online course. I felt more comfortable seeking guidance for the lab portion of this class from the person who was in charge of setting up the room than her.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Smart woman in her field but not cut out to be a teacher, her delivery of information is very poor as she skims over slides and gives you little guidance in your lab projects. Condescending when you ask questions and almost never provides an answer. I had to self teach on my own time to gain anything by going over slides and reading the textbook.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is extremely condescending and clearly isn't meant to teach. She's a retired microbiologist so she knows what she's doing but also expects us to already be on that same knowledge level as her. No explanations for labs, and if you ask questions she will be very sarcastic. Blackboard is unorganized and difficult to find material you need.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She's unorganized and expects us to know everything. The lecture is terrible it includes 100+ slides. The lab is terrible because we had to do 3 labs at the same time and write our lab results with little time. The test consisted of 50 or 60 questions. Lab quizzes only had 10 questions. However, the test and lab are open notes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor was not prepared nor organized at all. Instructions and expectations were all over the place and nothing was ever clear. Her lectures were very scattered and I felt nothing was gained from attending.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
After the first day of class I could already tell that there was going to be a communication issue. Nothing wrong in her eyes. The lab Manual was not in the bookstore but somehow it was not her problem.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Though this course has open note exams, they are not as easy as you might think. The questions are not straight forward; many are critical thinking questions. Each exam has 2 essay questions worth 10 points ea. Her lectures consist mostly of skimming over Pearson's power points. It's a lot of material in a short amount of time. E-textbook required.