Patricia O'Reilly

Worst experience ever. Rude, rude and rude. Not approachable. You have a question? Her response: look it up , use google, I'm not doing the assignment for you . Zero support, not clear, rambling, reads from slides then goes off on a tangent , hard to follow, learned nothing. Such a disappointment of a course. Avoid ppl.

The prof projected her feeling of being tired onto the students in the class. It's uncomfortable. However, one positive is that I appreciate that she makes apologies when she needs to.

Not a good prof. Her structuring of the course is absolutely insane. After 3/12 weeks, students are essentially made to present and lecture the rest of the class on the material. Then she makes a quiz compiled on what was taught. Barely any communication on what she wants yet she has a very narrow expectation. Didn't learn anything in 12 weeks.

Avoid! Her grading scheme makes no sense. She gets students to do the lectures for her. Assignment outlines are disorganized and she changes them weekly which makes completing the assignments very hard. Overall very bad!

Avoid this prof. The prof is very condescending and rude. She is not easy to talk to in or out of class. She changed the presentation outline continuously throughout the course, which made it confusing for the different groups. She is nit-picky, unprofessional and often does the things she critiques other people about.

Patricias lectures are *fine* in the way that youll learn lots but they are not entertaining. POL 501 had exactly 3 assignments Participation w/ 10%, Assignment 2 w/ 40% and the final w/50%

Caring during COVID, and was really my first prof to take it seriously. Grade is on your project and test, so few things and the paper can seem daunting. She doesn't do email, but is accessible during her office hours religiously.

Her lectures are mostly just reading off the slides. Her tests are weird, a lot of the questions have nothing to do with class content but you can pass them if you study. Participation marks and the assignment were worth a lot and very very easy.

it is not easy to communicate with her

Her grading on our presentation was harsh but less so on the written assignments. Her instructions outline what she wants, so don't overthink them, even if they don't seem to make sense. I don't know how much I learned from the lectures that wasn't on the slides and she often got details of her examples wrong.