Reviews of professor Basia Ellis

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor loves to help her students further understand and explore research methods. the class was pretty straight forward- lectures twice a week, one homework assignment. The homework is typically a lengthy article but if you read the questions first it tells you exactly where to look. Definitely valued and respected her students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Amazing person, Very hard class. Every assignment is based upon article readings and the articles are dense and long. She is very smart and tries to show you that, but to the point where you cannot understand what she is teaching. Final is worth 45% and midterm is worth 30%. Tests are tough and only ask about specific details on the dense articles.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took her for 123 and Im really enjoying the material. I am taking another of her classes over summer. She has lots of readings but I didn't mind too much. I thought they each tied to her lecture material clearly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Ellis is very passionate about research methods and thats obvious, but she has a lot to work out as a new professor teaching this course. She grades harshly, doesn't grade consistently and her expectations are unclear. Tough class, I'm an A student and I wont be getting an A in this class. So happy this semester is over because of this class alone.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Ellis is clearly passionate about her qualitative research. However, her enthusiasm-rather than inspire-comes across as pious and obtuse. Get ready to read tremendously long research papers every week with little bridge to the lecture material. Canvas integration of class is very poorly integrated. Good luck.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Amazing professor, difficult material. Only met the 1st week. Following weeks you watch her recorded lecture which is max 75min and complete the R&R assignments (3-5 questions based on the lecture that you watched.) After that 1st week of us meeting we only met at our scheduled time to review for the 3 exams. R&R and exams are the only work you do.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm honestly surprised by this professors scores. She is an incredible teacher and you learn so much in her class. I took 18 units this semester and even then, her class was manageable. She is not an easy A, but I've gotten an A+ both times I took her. If you see her during office hours to discuss test scores, she might waive certain questions.