Reviews of professor Laura Baumgartner

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A chap every week, with an accompanying hw packet (checked for completion, not graded). A majority of your learning comes from that. Very little lecture. In-class activities assume you have background knowledge (ie: u did the readings). Labs'll be tested later. Exams are concept (not content) based (concepts reading data, making hypotheses, etc)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Laura is an amazing teacher and provides the best help any way possible! She responds to emails in a timely manner and gives enough text and feed back to help with any questions or concerns!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Laura was an amazing professor! She offers valuable feedback and gives you opportunities to redo assignments that you do poorly on. She is always quick during school hours to respond to your email. As stated in previous review, her grading system is odd, but she gives you a checklist to follow to find your final grade. I highly recommend her!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class has a weird set up in the beginning beyond confusing. There is so much work due. The lectures are an entire class where she asks the questions to the class. The same 2/3 people answer. When asking for help if you don't know the answer she has you go through all of the content instead of helping to answer your question. Good luck

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
BEST TEACHER EVER! I wish she could teach all my classes. I am not a science person but she puts effort into making every one understand and gives you the take away so you dont have to memorize useless facts.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't skip, preps due at beginning of class! (Attendance itself not graded) COME TO CLASS PREPARED! Active learning classroom, not super lecture heavy. Uploads everything to D2L. Textbook used often, but lightly. She is organized, fair, punctual, flexible, passionate, funny, works with you as much as possible & provides tips to ensure success.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I absolutely loved having class with Laura! I didn't need to take this class for my major, but I ended up very glad that I did! I loved the community that was built in this class between Laura and us students. The tests were hard, but we were prepared well. She made the class so fun and is definitely an expert in her field of work. Loved it!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
An entertaining professor to say the least! Always keeps things fun and entertaining. She went out of her way to help me on multiple occasions and really cares about students. Such a joy !

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I will echo the past review, the her class has a weird set up, and you will not know what you grade is until midway thorough. SO many excess papers and "stuff" to do that doesn't count for a grade. Although she is nice, her questions are very vague. IF you have a heavy course load I would stay clear. Her "notes" are hand scribbled and unreadable

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's awesome, actually seems like she wants you to understand what she is saying