Heather Diack

Amazing professor, you can tell she is knowledgeable with what she teaches, but she also value participation and hearing opinions, comments, and/or questions from students.

Her communication and organization skills are weak, feedback is scarce, many lectures are led by students, and getting help or clarification outside of class is extremely difficult.

Though Diack herself is very kind we are overall graded on very little things which means one bad grade can tank your entire grade in the class. What makes it worse is that the grading criteria changes every time - this is mainly because she doesn't actually grade anything herself it's all graded by TA's who don't follow a set of grading criteria's

Has great lectures, really knows what she's talking about and does a great job of explaining it. Assignments and tests were all really straightforward. I genuinely just enjoy hearing her talk about art history.

You can tell she's passionate about the topics, but more often than not she lets students "take over" the class with their comments. That being said, I often felt that comments that weren't entirely in agreement with her thoughts weren't appreciated.

Lets students take control of discussions, are more what they think rather than what she has to teach. Assigns 40+ pages of readings every week, then has lectures repeating exactly what they say. Only two assignments that were given back without any helpful feedback. Both exams were online multiple choice and she didnt care people were cheating

Respectfully, I think she has little experience with teaching. It is good that she tries to ask for opinions and get students involved, but that's too excessive to learn from a professor not from classmates. This was careless since half of the grade was decided by the two tests. She stressed notetaking is important, but I could never take any note.

I really appreciate that she is passionate in her lectures. I enjoy the student discussions in class and the homework she gives has a clear guide and she gives really helpful feedback. Overall, it was a great class!

all the material is random texts, articles, etc that dont even really get discussed in class, class was almost purely student opinion, not actual lecturing. she didn't seem to care if people cheated on the final or midterm either (both were online, open note, completely unrestricted) and told us the average for the midterm was a 94%...

She's very caring and open for questions. I'm not really into history though so it was tough to stay interested. She seems nice and the course load isn't too heavy though.