Reviews of professor Svitlana Matviyenko

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's unclear with her works, she barely replies to students and her first quiz, made us write about 100 words for definitions (0.25 mark x 8) + 2 MCQ. (3 marks for 10 questions.) she got complained by 50+ students. I would NOT recommend to take.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's really passionate but she somehow manages to still be boring. Her lectures are long and her slides aren't very helpful so you have to listen closely. The class wasn't hard though and if you do your readings you'll be fine.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I appreciated Svitlanas transparency with exam and course structures. Not once was I confused about what was happening in the course. However, I barely learned much from her lectures. She does a poor job of explaining concepts beyond what is shown on the powerpoint slides. Thankfully my TA was awesome so I was able to do alright in CMNS 130.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
OMG, worst prof I've ever had. Assigns ridiculously high-level readings for a 100-level course and doesn't explain it at all in class. If your TA doesn't know what's going on, neither will you. Extremely boring lectures that just make things more confusing. Only good part: very straightforward exams, easy to ace if you prepare.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Covers a list of important terms at the beginning of each class yet often fails to define all of them meaning that you'll have to find them yourself. Slides are fairly useless so you're forced to go to lectures which are difficult to pay attention to given how dry she is. Luckily the content is pretty simple or else this class would be impossible

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very nice prof; she spends time going over the readings in class. Few slides, mainly talks ... material is quite boring and her delivery is not that exciting. Usually spends 10-15 minutes per slide, though there are times where it was more 30 mins. Final and Midterm were pretty straightforward, but the course was only marked by a few things.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
In order to do well in this class you need to attend tutorials and pay attention. My TA was great and thanks to her I did well on the exams. Material is boring and lectures are unorganized only way to stay organized is by Tutorials. Lots of long, dense and difficult readings, majority of them are useless to read don't fall behind and you'll do well

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lectures are hard to understand shes not very clear and rambles alot, she doesn't give lecture slides until after the lecture. We were given 3 writing assignments where 2 were due one week after the other, we also had a video project and midterm. Courtney, the TA for this semester was great though! no final as well