Reviews of professor Lori Metcalf

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you want an easy A and a GPA builder? Take her class. She cancelled class every week. She only held 8 in person classes. Discussion Board every week (600 words), 4 exams (all answers found online), one 6 paged paper (go to court and write about it). She is incredibly nice but you can tell teaching is not her #1 priority since she works fulltime.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very unusual grading style. I have a degree in English & I have authored 2 books. I was unable to get the maximum points on her papers; she always found something trivial to dock points over. She also changed participation requirements after we submitted discussion points. No extra credit in the midst of a pandemic. Easy passing grade, though.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
We used yellowdig for this course which sucked, but that's not the professor's fault. The tests were very hard and there were multiple right answers for every question and virtually no feedback. There is a paper due every other week. Lots of work.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I learned a lot from the going to court and watching a trial. The professor is great and when I went to court , the employees were very helpful. The lectures are good and help with the tests.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
To start off, I did well in this class. This is an easy class in terms of material taught but my problem is with how it is taught & the prof's "teaching" style. She bends over backwards to defend the "justice"system & I recently learned that she defended the state of Arizona in the case of Mariam Abdullah's (an Arab inmate & victim of SA's) death.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easy A+, pretty much just do the work and you will get full credit. 4 Exams, all answers are found online. Discussion board every week, and one final paper assignment based on a court observation or topic she gives you if you cannot attend a criminal trial. She cancelled class VERY often, but attendance was not mandatory anyways.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Pretty basic and straightforward. Discussion and quiz every week. One 6-8 pg paper in week 5 of 7. Never left any comments or feedback on any work. Got full points on almost everything. Don't think she actually reads the work. Probably just scans them to make sure the main things are there and then gives full credit. Pretty easy class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
While the class is not too bad, she does a terrible job at running it. I emailed her and she took DAYS to respond, only to tell me I had to redo something I had already completed. That was the worst part! Her instructions are vague on every assignment and I find typo after typo. Very sloppy job!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures had no real structure to them. She would touch on some things but would expect you to read the book to understand the material. Weekly discussion boards (500 words) and peer responses (125 words) due each week. There are two written assignments. Exams are online. Classes meet up once a week and the other day is taken off to discuss online