Reviews of professor Anne Dervin

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Dervin took a long time to respond to emails & I would often have to resend a follow up email days later to get a response. Your grade is made up of 38 lesson quizzes at 1% each, 4 written assignments at 3% each, a midterm at 25% & a final at 25%. If you need a fine arts gen ed credit, it is a pretty easy course to take.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Horrible at responding to emails. Her grading is all over the place - clearly she is at ISU to be a clarinet professor exclusively. She seems to care, but I know that she cares more about her studio class than other courses. She's a very nice person, just not great at creating an effective classroom setting for her students.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Dervin was interesting. She was very nice, and she had a good class set up, but she scared me to death for some reason. If you make sure to turn in all the assignments, you'll be ok, but if you miss one it's very scary having to reach out to her. She makes it very clear that she wants people to reach out with questions, but she is terrifying.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Finished this entire course in a week. Yeah, a week. 38 quizzes (all on quizlet), a midterm, a final, and 4 writing papers (all of which are on quizlet). Easiest A+ ever. Take her if you need credit for fine arts. She said that you can finish it all if you want. Its up to you. I put zero effort in

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This class was taken as a Gen Ed. If you are looking for an easy A in the fine arts category, this is the class to take.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Easy A. Would definitely recommend taking for a fine arts credit.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
There are roughly 39 online quizzes (use quizlet for help) throughout the semester, but she gives weekly reminders for the ones due each week. 4 Writing Assignments. 1 Mid-term. 1 Final. ALL online. You can work ahead, which I highly recommend. The mid-term/final take questions straight from the quizzes. **TAKE MUS 152 ONLINE, NOT IN CLASS**

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took this course because I needed an elective and figured it'd be cool to take an easy music class as I love music, but know little about it. Overall the course was just okay. Her TA seems to grade all the assignments and she's kind of a tough grader for no reason. Multiple weekly quizzes, up to 50 questions in total which is a bit ridiculous.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I loved this class! The TA graded most of the assignments, but I learned a lot from the feedback on the written assignments. It was an online class, so you were teaching yourself. Both the TA and the professor were accessible out of class and answered questions that you had. There were four written assignments, quizzes, a midterm, and a final.