Reviews of professor Elisa Mandell

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Workload is easy for the most part. However, online courses rely on constant communication from the professor to keep students up to date on grades, assignments, and exams. Leading up to finals, the class had not heard back from an assignment and what our final would consist of. Turns out, there wasn't a final but that was never communicated to us.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Impossible expectations I wrote above/beyond what was expected(mult pages more)still got graded harshly I always get A's. Overcomplicated simple assignments Not helpful when ask for clarification. Disrespectful and rude in emails when I just needed clarity I complained to the dean about unprofessional responses I didnt learn anything new Pointless!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Though not liked by most in this site, I believe Professor Mandell offers an okay teaching style. Due to COVID19, Mandell is very compliable to changes and she does offer a study guide when exams are around the corner. Though the class was asynchronous this fall term, she managed to lessen the work load, but you should really work hard for the exam

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take this professor. Electronics are not allowed. Everything must be hand written. Slides are not provided. She goes through slides very fast. Avoid this one at all cost!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She doesn't allow eletcronic notes, only hand-written, but also doesn't go slow enough to let you take any real notes down. Her powerpoints are disorganized with no text, so all you have to go off of is her word, which is just her giving info that will not be on the test. 

VERY few assignments, only two tests and one museum assignement. 

AVOID.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Theres honestly so much reading its crazy. Every week you have to read two articles that are literally 20+ pages and write a discussion on it before class. You have to attend class and participate with class lectures and discussions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Literally cannot fathom how incompetent this professor is. Completely NOT computer savvy. Convoluted lectures. You REALLY gotta write everything she says word for word and figure out what were the most important points. Her tests aren't too bad IF you have a crib sheet (cheat sheet essentially) and actually somewhat pay attention to her class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The worst professor I've ever had. I have her for 201B and she did a good job. When I have her for 300 online, she is unprofessional and disrespect to me. Email is the only way you could contact to the professor when taking online class. But by the way, she answering my email, she is very rude and mean. Ignore her if you could.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If this is the only class you take over the summer it's not bad. Not great, but not bad. There is reading and a writing assignment every week, but they aren't too long. The final writing assignment was min 1 and max 2 pages...Not video lectures to watch, but there are grammar readings every week.