Reviews of professor Callie Parrot Bower

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you're neurodivergent, do not take her Drawing I class. You'll only do gesture sketches and nothing else, every day, for the whole semester. Creative freedom is basically sapped. She doesnt like music, talking, or phones, and she's not lenient with attendance. She's OK for beginners, but if you're an artist, take someone else like Bass.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Once you get the hang of how she does things, the class is easy. Memorize art works, the artist, and some facts and you'll pass on the tests. One group project (easy) and Nelson-Atkins Museum paper (time consuming, but easy). Must show up for most of the classes to do well on the test. Teacher is kind of scatter brained.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She definitely knows what she is talking about. She reviews her notes every class and it gets annoying. Make sure you study for the test or else you will not pass.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Callie is one of the kindest professors I've ever had. She is so sweet and really knows art. She had a lot of good insight and the tests at the end of each unit wasn't just a standardized test-they each differ on a lot. I recommend this class but only if it's with Callie.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her lectures are very straightforward. Her tests are more wrote memorization than comprehension and application. If you need the art credit take the class otherwise don't.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is very strict about you being on your phone. She will cut the lecture to scold about you being on your phone no matter the reason. She will also randomly call on students in the classroom as well. She sort of treats the class as if it were in high school and not college where people are paying for the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took her for Survey of Art in Spring 2020, she was my favorite teacher until she went off on a random kid that came into class during the middle of student presentations to get the belongings he had left behind and she made him cry. I will never forget that hence this review 2 yrs later. You never truly know what someone is going through. Do better