Reviews of professor Sara Mathis

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you end up with her like I did, I will be sure to keep you in my prayers at night. Good luck to all who end up with her. My advice to you is to read every assignment rubric down to this last letter. Her favorite thing to do is sneak little pieces of criteria in there and then destroy your grade when you don't follow it. Take anyone else.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A great teacher, but feedback is extremely harsh on assignments. She conveys and applies the information read in the textbook in different activities in class. Be ready for group projects, where you all get graded the same on delivery and content, so if you get slackers in your group good luck!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hardest class ever for a 100 level! My 200 level classes are a thousand times easier than this class. Such a nit picker grader and not caring or understanding. This class does not help you with public speaking at all. So please do yourself a favor and take it with someone else.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
OMG! This class was a struggle. Comm is an unnecessary requirement and it wont help you in public speaking. This is more of an English class. Dr. Mathis made this class very hard and boring. She takes off points for smallest thing possible. She is a tough grader for no reason. Dont take her unless you really have to. I worked very hard to get A-

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Never met a more unprofessional, condescending teacher. She called all of our work abysmal and that we had the worst work she had ever seen. Even if our work is that bad, it is so discouraging to disrespect your students like that. In addition, she is so incredibly unhelpful and her grading makes no sense. Please take somebody else. You´ll be glad.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is very helpful, and makes sure that you're doing well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Mathis is hands-down the most unhelpful and apathetic person I've had the joy of interacting with. She has shown that she truly does not care for her students, even in the midst of a pandemic. The class was extremely rigid and harshly graded and left no room to learn or be creative with speaking. I put in too much effort for a subpar grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She cares a lot on about your success in the class, and was very responsive to emails. Definitely recommend!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do not take this class with her. She gives out way too much work. On top of that it's very difficult, the textbook is no help, and her directions do not help. The other Comm 101 classes at Mason are tough, if you can please take a public speaking at the community college or if you are already in Mason, try to take this class at community college.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Mathis is nice. However, work is often redundant. For ex., every week, we must answer multiple choice questions in an online textbook, and then complete blackboard quizzes in which the *exact* same concepts we had just read about are slowly narrated to us. The concepts are far too simple and easy to warrant this repetition. It is tedious.