Reviews of professor Sophia Knight

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Knight is not clear with her lectures. Very heavy on participation projects with material completely different from what is talked about in class. Grading is very blunt and you will never get a perfect score on any of the assignments. You will get docked on one of her own homework questions if it's not answered HER way specifically.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
took her for discrete, we had a week to do a 10-question assignment, and could ask questions, if tests are confusing she gives points back, super straightforward forward and she always asks for feedback. absolutely loved her!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not great or bad

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor, really dumbs down things for class. Hw once a week, you get a sheet of notes on exams, participation grade in class every now and then. Only thing I warn about is if you are a CS major (used to having a lot of mistakes and still getting a good grade), if you get one thing wrong on a problem on exam, half of your points are gone.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Encourages collaboration with peers, gives good examples, and makes sure everyone understands the material. My only criticisms are no prepared slides (everything was written in notability mid-lecture) and exams were much harder than homework and quizzes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sophia teaches some extremely difficult classes, and therefore you can tell that her priorities are a bit different to the average prof.  For example, she tends to try harder to be ready to answer the more difficult questions than the more foundational ones.  This can be frustrating when you feel lost, but quite helpful if you are able to keep up.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is one of the hardest classes I've taken but it turned out to be interesting and my grades are better than I expected. Good professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is hard, but Dr. Knight makes the material interesting. I was confused and not getting good grades on the homework at first, but after I talked to her a few times I started doing better.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Knight is a new professor at UMD, but she has been phenomenal this semester. The material you cover is tough to understand, but the mandatory participation helps. The homework is graded very fairly, and she goes over any hard questions the next lecture. The same goes for the exams. You get a sheet of notes for the exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is one of my favorite classes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
avoid at all costs. worst teacher i have ever had. she cant explain anything an a understandable way. super hard grader. if you don't understand something she just tells you to "think about it" or "look at it longer". even the TAs cant answer any question cuz they have no idea what she's teaching either.