Reviews of professor Lisa Beard

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Seriously painful to take the class. They test on hypotheticals like "If this person walked into a bar what do you think...". The readings are long and easy as are the discussions in class which make it hard to sit through. Assignments are not posted ahead of time and sometimes will just pop up on weekends. Professor is nice teaching style is not,

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Beard is a kind person, however, this class was entirely self-taught. Their lectures are just repeating the readings that are assigned, however, most of the readings are interesting. Weekly quizzes were harder than necessary, and the reading journals are easy but annoying.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This class was fairly easy (I got a B+, but I swear it's easier than it seems). Dr. Beard was nice and pretty helpful and very passionate about what they teach. Nothing really bad to say about this class, just a lot of reading, watching videos, and listening to podcasts.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Administration: 16% - easy reading journal, hard readings 16% - showing up to class 18% - easy weekly quizzes 3% - self reflection assignment 15% - midterm essay 32% - final essay A  94 Quality: The essays had dumbed down topics, class time was spent on group discussion among fairly lost students. Easy A, not much learning. Not a lot of teaching

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Beard is a great Prof that will work with someone who is willing to put in the work! The class was heavy on the reading and group works which really helps out everyone in the end because they allow you to gauge how the class is doing in readings. The class is graded by a few things so it's really important to show up to classes and participate.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Plsc is VERY heavy on reading articles and is more about the history of racism rather then American Government