Reviews of professor Sara Rutzky

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She was really nice and answered her emails really quickly and was willing to negotiate about bad grades but I just felt like some of the assignments were not necessary. So really I just did not like the way she ran her class. It was a little overwhelming at times because on multiple occasions she would give us 2 long labs instead of 1 lab.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sweetest professor Ive had so far and is always more than willing to go over anything you dont understand in her own free time. I personally had a great experience in her GEL111  course and would 100% recommend it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I love Dr. Ruzky. I thought I would hate geology, but she made it really interesting. She's super caring and responsive. Her class definitely does have a lot of homework (discussion boards, multiple labs, etc.), but it's worth it just to take her class. Easily my favorite professor of the semester. Take her class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Take her!!! Professor Rutzky is by far one of the most caring and informative teachers I've ever had. Never was super interested in geology but she made it such a fun class. Even online, she was amazing. If you do all that she assigns (which isn't a lot), it's super easy to pass the class. I highly, highly, recommend.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is a science course & lab combined into one, so be prepared for a ton of weekly work. Each week there will be a mandatory discussion board, homework assignment, and lab. At least three of the weeks, there will be two separate labs due (which was a bit stressful). The tests are proctored. She is very responsive via email and is willing to help!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Rutzky is an amazing educator. Geology is hard, and she doesn't make it easy, but she does do her job to make it understandable and teaches her material. Her lessons are easy to follow, she's very responsive to db's and e-mails, she's very clear about her grading criteria, and will give extensions within reason.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Rutzky is an amazing professor who truly wants you to learn the material. I did have to take tests in the ILC but we had study guides for every test. She responded so quickly to all emails and was very nice about changing grades if you disagreed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I was no fan of having to take Geology, but Ms. Rutzky made it better. She was very kind in her emails, and had a reasonable extension policy if we had valid reasons we couldn't do an assignment by the due date. The final exam also did not count for an extremely high amount of our grade, making the rest of the class a bigger buffer, but MUCH work

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Rutzky is truly an amazing professor. I have taken both Intro to Geology and Historical Geology with her and would take any other class she offers. She knows so much about geology and the class is strongly based around class participation of helpful guided notes. She breaks up the lecture by encouraging class discussion. Very kind, very helpful