Reviews of professor Elizabeth Friesen

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Friesen is a great professor. She has a passion for politics and is extremely helpful. She answers questions during and after the lecture if you need additional help. She offers a 5% extra credit to boost your grade during the semester and is accessible outside of office hours if you need to meet with her.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She makes things seem more complicated than it actually is. I would recommend to just read the textbook. I honestly learned nothing when i would attend lectures and left more confused than when I entered.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Friesen's world politics class is very interesting, and she lays the material out so that it is easy to understand and easy to pick out the major themes. She is very willing to make time for students to answer their questions (during Covid, she had a weekly Q&A session). The TAs for her course are also really great.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
States facts rather than teaching and elaborating (which is essential in a first-year course). The textbook is much more helpful than her courses so I would invest in one. Its hard to stay focused in her class unless you come from a political or economic education background because she flys through content and expects a level of prior knowledge

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures were a but boring, but she clearly knows what she's talking about.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures were incredibly vague and repetitive. Monotonous and a little quiet. Didn't really learn anything from class, so attendance wasn't mandatory. She posts the slides every week anyway. But do the readings, you will learn a lot from them, but unfortunately not from her.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Although the lectures were rather repetitive, the overall quality of the course is really good, theres no surprises on the exam, and as a professor she makes everything possible for her students to make the best of their grade.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures were somehow boring despite interesting content. She seems very smart but isn't a good lecturer. She chooses to pack in so much information that she doesn't have time to answer any questions. She goes so quickly that it is impossible to keep up with your notes and you can't supplement them later online because her slides suck.