Reviews of professor Nora Boyd

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I registered for Philosophy and the Human being however, this class teaches nothing about Philosophy, it is all about climate change. This is highly upsetting considering it is not listed in the course description online when registering. This class is discussion led however, Dr. Boyd often leads discussion too heavily.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Boyd is passionate and knowledgable about environmental philosophy. However, she expects students in a core class to have her level of knowledge about philosophy as well as tons of free time. She grades only a few things- one project is worth 40% of our grade- with unclear expectations while giving little feedback. One of the worst professors.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This class was a breeze. We had three papers to write throughout the entire semester and she is an extremely fair grader. Only one paper is your own and you must read it to the class, but the other two are just reviews on others papers/presentations. These are easy grades. She doesn't care about attendance or participation.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Would not recommend. She assumes you know about philosophy and her class is called philosophy of the human being but we only talked about climate change which as so boring. takes FOREVER to get assignment backs and you will have homework due at least twice a week

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Be prepared to teach yourself. The readings are hard. You can go to her office hours and ask for help understanding them and she will always respond with "just read it again." She is a harsh grader. There are two weeks left of the semester and she only has 10% of the grade in. And I had to learn physics on my own to write one of her essays

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While Dr. Nora is clearly well versed and knowledgeable in her field of research, her teaching skills are lacking at best. Dr. Nora focuses a lot on the environment, however she should also focus on her ability to teach. I would suggest you look elsewhere unless you want to teach yourself an entire course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was AWFUL. She is an amazing person but not a good teacher. Her assignments were only out of two points and the test was out of 20. The class average was a 10/20 and it tanked people's grade. DO NOT TAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!