Reviews of professor Sara Durgan

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's cool. Can't use laptops in class but idc. If you go to lecture and take notes you'll get good grades on the knowledge checks (online 15 questions in 15 minutes). All points are cumulative. If you have to miss class you can meet with her, she'll reteach you the lecture. Movies are good and there are 13 easy extra credit points at the end.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's a grad student who is disinterested in feedback. Class is based off of online Check Points for 30 points weekly that are extremely hard and have no correlation to lecture. Attendance not mandatory and I wouldn't go if I were you because you could just flip through slides at home. Wish I took it online, waste of gas going to lecture :/

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class should be easy. Instead the prof makes the test questions so specific that you practically have the memorize the textbook to get a good grade. Took a quiz about the MAP of south america and the questions asked about the climate??? Why? No point in watching the lectures they do nothing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Sara is a great professor. No tests in the class, just short question quizzes at the end of each chapter. The questions are lecture-based so, attending class is recommended.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Durgan is a solid teacher. Her lectures are clear and she tries to tell stories to make them interesting. You need the book to answer some of the questions in the knowledge check. Her movie quizzes are fair and some of her selections are actually quite interesting. Just do the assignments, pay attention and you will be fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She's a good professor and actually traveled to a lot of places that she lectures about so it's more engaging. She has a quiz once a week on the lecture online but it's short. She also posts the powerpoints and it's all open book. The only reason I say it's mandatory is because she adds a few questions that she only talks about in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lecture had little to no relation to the online quizzes posted on canvas. Although, the teacher is very nice, your grade will suffer as you complete the knowledge checks. The knowledge checks made by the teacher are very specific questions mainly from the textbook and not from the lecture. i would not recommend taking this course with this teacher.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you go to class, you definitely do not need to read the book. her tests are all material that is just straight from the lecture. she posts her slides on canvas but some of the test questions come from random facts she says in lecture that aren't on the slides so if you really want an a on her tests you need to go to class. homework is easy

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Durgan had a lecture every week that lasted 2 hours long. The lectures were really interesting and she was able to tell us some amazing stories about her travels. All of the tests were online. Test every week following the lecture.