Reviews of professor Laura Vares

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Vares cares about her students and is genuinely interested in hearing what they have to say. Expect to read and take notes on several books throughout the semester. Staying up to date on the reading is key to being successful in the in-class discussions. There is a large paper due at the end of the semester, but she gives plenty of time.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I highly recommend NOT taking SO206 with her ONLINE. Any class online is going to be hard, but the amount of work she gives made it incredibly hard. I'm positive I would've had a better experience with her had I done it in person over the course of a few months, but a 7-week, reading-intensive course was a bad choice on my end. She seems very nice!