Reviews of professor Kelly Smith

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Kelly is passionate and is experienced in what she teaches. She is always willing to help and is very accessible outside of class. She is scatterbrained sometimes but her personality makes the class engaging and interesting. She is always constructive in her criticism. I have found that MEJO121 has you figure out a lot on your own however.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Getting a B in this class is easy but there's really no clear path to an A. Grading seemed very random and when asked she never really clarified how to do better. She is a very nice person and if you ask for help she will, but this class is mostly you teaching yourself.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I don't normally write these but I was so frustrated this semester that I feel like I have to. She doesn't grade fairly, and when confronted about that she doesn't give good feedback and is unhelpful. Getting a B is easy, but good luck getting an A. Also, this class is self taught. She's a generally nice woman just not a good professor!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really like Kelly but she's given half a semester to teach us all about creating a short documentary (how to work a camera, shooting techniques, editing, Adobe Premeire, etc). It's a lot to take in but she really cares about teaching us everything she can. She will give honest feedback on EVERYTHING which is awesome.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Kelly Smith is very passionate about what she teaches, but I would not take this course again. I had to self-teach all of the material, and it was especially hard as an online course. We were supposed to have classes M/W but she only occasionally held an "optional" class Monday and cancelled almost half of the Wednesday classes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Class is based off of 3 papers (2 two page papers and one 7 page paper), a midterm, and a final. Both the midterm and final are relatively short in comparison to the amount of time in history that they are based on. She is an extremely difficult grader when it comes to papers so if you are not a strong writer I would not recommend taking her class.