Reviews of professor Shona Adams

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Easy course, not a good teacher. Very very disorganized. Boring lectures. Very condescending tone toward students. Lectures often went over time for no reason, making it difficult to get to other classes. Seems like a nice person but not at all an effective teacher. Useless textbook, lectures repeated textbook content directly (boring). Avoid.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
First of all, she does not just read off the slides and the lectures are not boring. Listening to lecture on the other hand is not necessary per say, but she gives LOTS of hints for tests if you do pay attention which will save you a lot of time in the long run. The weekly quizzes are much better than a midterm, but a CUMULATIVE exam kinda sucks.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Shona seems sweet but not a good prof. Lectured about material that wouldn't be on the final. Always an issue with marks not being calculated properly for assignments and exams. She submitted the final grades, then 2 days later had to change everyone's because she didnt calculate properly. Very annoying!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Very nice professor, clearly passionate about the material and very knowledgable and approachable. Lectures were a little disorganized in terms of chapter progression and identifying which slides were for which chapters. But overall solid class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Shona is super knowledgable and extremely caring. However, she's not the best teacher, lectures are jam-packed, long, and textbook heavy. I got a B and didn't go to the last half of the lectures, super nice lady but wish the lectures were more personal as she's sUPER passionate about what she teaches

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great prof and participation was worth 20% of the grade. So just show up and use your iclicker to get a decent mark in the class