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Sylvie Taylor
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Summer 2021 - I took this class over the summer to get it over with and tbh I probably should've waited. Dr. Taylor is condescending and her expectations are not made clear. When working on your research project she won't let you move on to the next step until she gives her approval, so my group would wait for almost all of class time for her to get to our group to check our work. Throw everything you learned from 100B out the window, Dr. Taylor refuses to accept your work unless it's done her way. The feedback she gives on assignments is very limited, so it's tough to know exactly what she wants to get a good grade.
Summer 2021 - I took this class over the summer to get it over with and tbh I probably should've waited. Dr. Taylor is condescending and her expectations are not made clear. When working on your research project she won't let you move on to the next step until she gives her approval, so my group would wait for almost all of class time for her to get to our group to check our work. Throw everything you learned from 100B out the window, Dr. Taylor refuses to accept your work unless it's done her way. The feedback she gives on assignments is very limited, so it's tough to know exactly what she wants to get a good grade.
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Summer 2025 - I thought she was okay. I took her during the transfer summer program with AAP, and it was a very easy class. She has you read an open-source textbook and screenshot your answers to the quizzes at the end of the chapter. They were all foolproof quizzes that you could retake an infinite number of times, even without reading the chapters. In reality, you could just do them all in a day and submit them for easy points. Her lectures were not engaging. She would go on long tangents about semi-related topics. She was approachable at first, but then she began to get passive-aggressive when students needed clarity on rubric requirements. My best advice is to read the directions, despite how vague they may seem, and submit the draft. She will then give you feedback if anything is missing, which would replace any low score you had on the first draft once you submit the final. The group project was alright. I would advise following her format on the directions she gives you, as well as incorporating micro-meso-macro levels of analysis to every ecological principle in the slides. I would not take her again and would rather choose a different professor who is engaging and is okay with answering clarifying questions.
Summer 2025 - I thought she was okay. I took her during the transfer summer program with AAP, and it was a very easy class. She has you read an open-source textbook and screenshot your answers to the quizzes at the end of the chapter. They were all foolproof quizzes that you could retake an infinite number of times, even without reading the chapters. In reality, you could just do them all in a day and submit them for easy points. Her lectures were not engaging. She would go on long tangents about semi-related topics. She was approachable at first, but then she began to get passive-aggressive when students needed clarity on rubric requirements. My best advice is to read the directions, despite how vague they may seem, and submit the draft. She will then give you feedback if anything is missing, which would replace any low score you had on the first draft once you submit the final. The group project was alright. I would advise following her format on the directions she gives you, as well as incorporating micro-meso-macro levels of analysis to every ecological principle in the slides. I would not take her again and would rather choose a different professor who is engaging and is okay with answering clarifying questions.
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