Reviews of professor Patricia Sullivan

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Sullivan is a great lecturer. You definitely need to attend class to do well on the weekly quizzes. I recommend doing all the readings, cause they show up on the quizzes, midterm and final. She doesn't post the lectures or slides, but if you show up to class and pay attention you'll be fine. Midterm and final are relatively straight forward.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE PWAD 250 WITH SULLIVAN! If you can wait, take it another semester with another professor. Lectures are extremely unclear, grading criteria is never established, exams had oddly specific questions, paper midterm and final were graded extremely harshly by the TA and prof did nothing about it. Sullivan is knowledgeable but not at teaching.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Sullivan was a knowledgeable, engaging lecturer. Graded based on weekly quizzes (as long as you take notes in lecture you will be fine, plus the lowest 2 are dropped), midterm, research paper, and final. The research paper was daunting but plenty of time and feedback was given. You have to attend lectures and read to succeed.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I recommend both this class and Professor Sullivan. She is an understanding professor that is available to help you with anything you may need. We were graded on weekly quizzes, a midterm, a final, and a 14 page paper.  Lectures were slow and boring at times, but this class is an easy Gen-ed to knock out! I recommend this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Sullivan is a nice professor and willing to help if needed. Lectures considered boring unless you have a passion for the content. Midterm and final difficult and had very specific questions even though they weren't supposed to be based around meticulous memorization. Take very good notes on lectures and readings!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
ok prof but the grader grades unreasonably. would take points off your written work for petty reasons like you are not using the exact term she uses. The factuality of some questions is questionable: questions asking things like which factor is "the most" important are confusing since even the academia probably doesn't have a consensus on that.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class itself is not bad, the Statecraft simulation is very fun, the papers arent bad, and neither was the final. However, Sullivan is an incredibly dry lecturer and it seems as if she has little knowledge of the material. Hard to pay attention in lecture because of this. Take the class but not with her if you can.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sullivan is a good lecturer and makes it very clear what needs to be done to succeed in her class. There are weekly quizzes, a final and a midterm, and a final research project that's a bit difficult. Recitations are required but you don't learn anything in them. Good intro into Public Policy.