Reviews of professor Phoebe Williams

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Williams is one of the most caring professors I have ever come across in undergrad. She generally wants her students to succeed, and never made me feel bad for not understanding something during office hours. Now I will say that I felt like her exams were hard to study for, as she never gave a clear criteria for them. But that is the only con.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Williams is incapable of teaching. She appears to have no expertise whatsoever on any of the topics taught, and simply reads off of the PowerPoint without explaining anything. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS- you'll literally just have to teach yourself everything from the textbook.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She's a pretty new prof but it's clear she loves teaching and wants students to learn/thrive in her class. Makes a difficult class manageable and stresses understanding rather than memorization.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Williams is the most considerate & caring prof I've had at W&M so far. For her online molec cell class, we had modules with a series of lecture videos & a weekly discussion & open-note quiz. She was very responsive to emails and the textbook was good for supplemental info and for the quizzes. Not an easy subject, so put in the work & ur good.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Williams was an amazing professor. She made everything exciting to learn especially when you are learning about sorta boring topics. Super helpful if you do not understand a topic and will make study groups to help. Additionally, she gave the opportunity to make up a bad test grade because she believes one bad day shouldn't hurt you.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Possibly one of my favorite bio professors at this school. It's not the easiest class but she really works hard to make it easier. Espeically with covid she was very accommodating and really worked hard to make it easier for us to succeed

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Lectures were terribly disorganized and she just glanced over things that I thought were important. Most of class time is spent looking at data from scientific studies and trying to extract conclusions rather than learning material. Tests are fairly simple-based on concept/method understanding- but are curved if average is low.