Reviews of professor Maia Toteva

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She grades VERY hard. I shouldve dropped this class when I had the chance. I would NOT recommend this class. It sounds easy but its basically art history, with online quizzes, hardly any support from Dr. Toteva, and a lot of reading. Toteva is lacking, she is very monotone and does nothing to support you considering it is very hard to communicate

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
300 word discussion post, respond to 4 others 100 word minimum, respond to all responses to own post "to continue the discussion." You will also have REVEL readings and quizzes, 2 chapters a week. You will also have a midterm and a final. You will also make collages, take pictures, make art, etc.
If you need a fine arts credit, don't deal with her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very good professor overall. There are quite a few essays and discussion boards, but she gives you plenty of time to prepare for them. Several opportunities for extra credit. Exams are not too difficult if you just study the review she gives you. Attendance is not mandatory, but after 5 unexcused absences, it starts to affect your grade.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is the STRICTEST teacher Ive ever encountered. Assigned seating chart in a lecture hall of 100+ Students. Deducts points for electronic usage, and for being absent. Gives poor reviews for test therefore you HAVE to pay attention and attend class or you wont pass. However, She does know her stuff and seems to be a nice lady.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want to feel like youre in grade school again take this class, surprised there was not also a bathroom monitor along with the TA. Grades ridiculously, bad study guides, makes up her own policies pretty much, not very professional or particularly nice to students- was hoping to take this class to boost my GPA but in fact it hurt it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Feels like you are in middle school with a hall monitor essentially. Easy enough course, though.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The worst professor I've had at Texas Tech. I would spend hours on hours studying for these tests to end up failing them each time. She provides you with a study guide, but there is so much extra material on the study guide than what is on the test and takes forever to go through. I would rather eat sand than to sit through her lectures

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Overall good experience in the class. She gave 4 opportunities for extra credit (1 for each test), had one essay, 2 discussion boards (easy A), online homework weekly, 4 exams. If you don't show up to lectures you wont pass because tests are lecture heavy and she drops grade after a certain amount of missed classes. It was manageable in my case.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
First of all, She is a nice person. I do not believe she made the class as easy as the other professors, but compared to my engineering classes I found it an easy A. I can see why most people in my class were upset, they came in expecting her to hand out A's like Oprah. Do not do what they did and blow off the first exam, this tanked their grade.