Reviews of professor Katie Hinko

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hinko is absolutely fantastic for students who are intimidated by physics, she teaches everything with clarity and as if you have no background knowledge for physics. The final is only worth 5%, and the midterm corrections earn a LOT of points back, so grades are not as stressful. It's hard to access her through email, but she is a great prof.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is extremely disorganized and hard to reach by email. She constantly changes her mind about assignments, she's a tough grader, she puts most of the work on our confused TAs and she wastes a lot of class time talking about social issues instead of physics, which we basically have to teach ourselves.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
only group work pretty much no lecture

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class itself and its contents can be difficult, but most are easy to understand. Hinko is pretty disorganized and never gives a clear answer to questions we have in class. She is pretty nice though, but I feel like she needs to completely overhaul her class to make it more enjoyable. She also does coding a lot, and it really really sucks.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Sime people may say that the class is hard, but that is simply because physics is hard. Dr. Hinko was very kind and lenient, allowing students to get 40% of points wrong back on exams. Ex. I got a 80% on an exam, after corrections I recieved a 88%.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She was very caring and often fair with grading

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Hinko is extremely disorganized. Her classes have no structure whatsoever. Does not provide sufficient descriptions to students physics-related questions. For being a Physics teacher she is not very good at describing physics in a way that can help the students understand.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hinko was incredibly receptive to our complaints this semester due to us being entirely online, but she in general was a bit disorganized. It was hard to be certain about specific things. Also, we never got grades back in a timely manner. Furthermore, we never actually learned physics content through a lecture. We did group assignments everyday

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Find a different prof for physics.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course required a lot of work (in terms of hours put in), and there was a bit too much group work for an online class (IMO). However, Dr. Hinko was very caring and understanding & is flexible with almost anything if you reach out to her. The readings will definitely help you with the material--just make sure to really budget your time!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doesnt answer questions. Often late to class. Unorganized. Too much free time that it is impossible not to get off topic. Doesnt provide correct way to solve problems. Video editing skills are more important then physics in lab reports. Would not recommend.