Reviews of professor Manjeet Birk

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This course is more of an indigenous history class than a WGST class. We studied Marvel comics, milk and honey and Beyonce. I learned nothing about WGST and she never used the intro book or recommended it. She is heavy on group work and won't help you with issues with a student because "this isn't high school". The classes were pointless and ranty.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Birk is one of my all time favourite professors. She is such an incredible teacher and gives the entire class the chance to partake in discussions (which means you could get away with not doing the readings). Her slides are detailed and interesting but aren't posted anywhere so you should show up & things discussed in class are often on exam.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I've taken two of Professor Birk's classes and think she's fantastic (although her classes are much more enjoyable in person than virtually). She, like most WGST professors, are very accomodating and teach such critical material. Highly recommend!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Wow, just wow. Birk is caring if you believe what she believes, if you say something that she doesn't believe she will "challenge" you that will become a rant fest that will last the whole class. All I had to do was show up, but if you read the articles, then all you had to do in class was say how it offended you and call it a day. Annoying class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Birk is well educated and knows a lot about what she teaches. However, she does not provide solid rubrics for her assignments and 30% of your mark is also participation based. Although it was an interesting class, I would not recommend it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Probably the best prof i've ever had. I was totally uninterest in gender studies but she is really elegant in her discussions and funny. She makes a lot of really good points and didn't judge us on our politics. She brought up a lot of interesting social topics. I'm really glad I had her as a prof.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This marking is unclear and a lot more difficult than originally expected. Was recommended this course as a GPA booster, but you have to put in work to get anything in the As. The class average was only 80. Feedback from professor was very vague and she rarely responds to emails. Would not recommend this class/prof. Did not learn anything.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
great and highly educated person, very caring and understanding, very dedicated to accessibility and developing as a prof, her lecture format is great if you stress about missing parts of a lecture, only negative was that the TAs and the prof were not on the same page about their expectations marking wise so assignments were hard to do well on