Reviews of professor Nicola Matthews

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Genuinely the dullest professor at HSU. I know Economics isn't the most exciting thing in the world, but Professor Matthews makes the class borderline unbearable. The way she teaches different terminologies and sections in class is so monotonous and repetitive, it's as if she's just reading from the book and expecting you to figure out the rest.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Matthews is by far the worst professor ever. She makes the homework higher stakes than needed tone. It's as if she's trying to fail the entire class. I completed all my homework thoroughly throughout the homework and on two of them she gave me below 50% for not answering the exact way she would answer her oddly worded questions.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Only graded work is in class assignments, quizzes, and midterm/final. Quizzes/tests usually have confusing wording on questions. Cant use electronics so get ready to write in a notebook and keep all electronics in your backpack. Overall she's nice but the quality of her teaching isn't that good. Lectures are boring and often times confusing.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Exams are cake if you can manage to stay awake in lecture. Participate during lecture with non-obnoxious questions and you will be her favorite student. A bit of group work, but nothing too integral to your grade if you do your part. Focus on lecture material over book material, I cracked it maybe three times all semester. Pleasant in office hours.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
While Professor Matthews is very nice and seems to know a lot about Economics, the lectures are boring at best. The readings she assigns every week are extensive and dense, as are the tests. The tests are worded very oddly so pay specific attention to that. Heavily weighted quizzes are given randomly during the semester to ensure youre going.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
First things first im glad this course is no being offered any longer. Professor uses extremely old notes with typos as well as very boring lectures. The text book also was $100. No group or room for participation! This class feels like we are set up to fail.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I've never rated any professor, but because of my unfair experience, I believe this is necessary. She doesn't care at all about whether you're learning. She just yaps and yaps to finish the lecture notes she saved from 10 years ago and grades at the lowest point possible. She doesn't care about her students point blank.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst professor ever! Treats homework like exams and gives people Fs even if most of the answers are correct. Awkward wording on assignments/exams. If you don't answer the questions exactly how she words her answers, she takes off massive points from your grade. Never taking any of her classes ever again! NEVER AGAIN!