Reviews of professor Frauke Seemann

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Seemann is a caring, great professor. Lectures are very peppy, and she does expect heavy class discussion/involvement. Although, homework and at home assignments are excessive, with about 125 questions per assignment every week, sometimes 2 a week, but graded upon completion. Recitation is kind of unnecessary, just a rehash of vocabulary.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's got an accent, so be aware of that. She loves to answer questions students have as she goes through the lectures. She's really nice and wants the students to succeed by trying to take critiques or suggestions from her students. The course itself is hard, so make sure to understand the material.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Final is optional, no exams, but is an extremely harsh grader. There is group work every other week and individual work as well. The individual assignments are horrible, there are no answers online explaining anything or in the book. She doesnt explain any questions on the group or individual assignment as well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hard to understand, heavy accent, and talks really fast. Powerpoints don't make a lot of sense. She doesn't explain things well and thinks you should understand.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She lectures using prezi which can be confusing at times. She talks pretty quick, but she encourages you to raise your hand to let her know of any questions you might have. Lots of group work (so pick good ppl). I never really knew how to take notes nor study for exams, I would say just type out your notes and attend lecture.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you get stuck with a bad group your basically stuck doing all of the work all semester. She lectures like she's talking to a room full of people who have studied genetics for over ten years, not students. I highly doubt a single person in my class actually learned anything from this course. The textbook is impossible to understand.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please be wary of taking Human Genetics. Her lectures are done on Prezi and barely has any information on the slides. As far as group projects/individual assignments go, she does not elaborate on what is expected. There is no such thing as rubrics in her class. She will never answer any questions you have without being extremely condescending.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
No exams. Hws/Quizzes/Group work is only graded. Group work is 40% of your grade, yeah. She appears nice but has very snarky comments. Youll do fine if teachers pet. Final exam is optional but will replace overall grade, major risk. I have 90s/100s but only one 70 from first group work & some how got a B. Group work is a major part here. No curves

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She doesn't inform students of what she wants for presentations. Everything is left up for interpretation. I would email her asking what she was looking for or if she had a rubric we could follow off of and she wouldn't answer the question. Unnecessarily difficult and overall frustrating course.