THIS LADY IS HORRIBLE. I DON'T KNOW WHO THOSE STUDENTS THAT SAID SHE WAS AWESOME BECAUSE THEY ARE LYING. MS.STENSON HAS NO SYMPATHY FOR HER STUDENTS WHAT SO EVER. SHE IS TOOOOO STRICT ON ATTENDANCE. HER TEST GRADING IS VERY UNFAIR. SOMETIMES SHE EVEN GETS THE WRONG ANSWER ON SOME OF THE TESTS. I DID NOT LEARN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN HER CLASS.!!!

very very very very bad and strict. If u r genius take her.

Hard,lectures are boring, only and only power point.

Don't go to class!You'd be better off studying on your own than take notes from her(oh, by the way, she does not give you enough time to take down any notes!). It's a waste of time where you can study of other classes!

I did not care for her. She makes everything seem very simple in the lecture and when the test time comes you will be clueless. Extremely hard to keep up with homework. Rather than assigning a weekly assignment, she may assign 4 or more assignments due in a week. I never liked chemistry and she made me dislike it even more. I wouldn't recommend her

Avoid this professor!! Her priorities are very warped. She constantly wastes class time getting students to fill in empty seats towards the front of the auditorium. She treats students like they are children and not individuals who are PAYING her for knowledge. She may know Chemistry, but she has no clue when it comes to teaching.

The rudest instructor I've ever known! She is NOT helpful. I got better answers by talking to other professors.

She thinks this is the only class you have and fills your days with unnecessary amounts of homework. Worst teacher I've ever had. She really needs to stop teaching because she obviously does not like doing it and she is not good at it at all. If we have to learn chemistry like this, she could at least learn to speak proper English. Bob's Ur Uncle

Stenson construe everything verbatim from the book. She skims through topic and even skips slides telling us its not important. When exam day comes the test are way more in-depth. Homework rarely helps with exams and not to mention a excessive amount too. DO NOT TAKE STENSON!! WHATEVER YOU DO I REPEAT ANYONE TEACHER WILL BE BETTER!

She uses sapling for homework and it's not belonging to exams just she wants money from students! She take all time in class without explaining material working group! I guess she cannot explain just she can read the slides. You will find out on exams differently, what you see in a slide!

She was the worst teacher I have ever taken at South. She is terrible at explaining and she reads directly off of the power points. I do not know how she hasn't gotten fired yet when half of her class always drops.

Not only is she one of the hardest professors i have ever taken, she is rude and unapproachable. She makes you feel dumb and will not slow down her lecture to make sure the class understands. Her test are difficult even if you study for weeks. DO NOT RECOMMEND.

Dr. Stenson was the hardest class I have ever known. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY in order to receive a drop grade. I didn't think her lecture were helpful AT ALL. She teaches very quickly and moves on without you. She is also very rude with an attitude when answering your questions, DO NOT TAKE HER. My GPA is taking a hit because of ONLY THIS CLASS.

She's a really rude lady. I did fine because I already knew most of this stuff, but I would not recommend her if chemistry is not your strong suit.

Hardest class I've ever taken (and probably will ever take). When I tried to ask questions she looked at me like I was stupid. Her lectures didn't do anything for me and reading the book was pointless because it never was in line with what she taught.

Doesn't really teach and wants you to rely on your "group" members to teach each other. Also makes homework and online quizzes ands tests due before you learn the material and/or the day before a test that isn't even on that material.

Horrible prof. Incredibly unapproachable. If you go to her office, don't expect a friendly face. She will call you out in class and berate you just because she can. I don't recommend.

Literally the worst teacher I've ever had in my life. I had an A in chemistry 1 and, then received a D in chemistry 2. I even went to tutoring at least twice a week. She will not round up your grade and, she's rude if you try to ask questions. I didn't miss one day of class and she gave me a 69 as my final grade and did not round it. TERRIBLE!!!!

Hardest there is

You will leave this class knowing more about Chemistry, but don't expect to make even a B if Chemistry is not your strong suit. The class is extremely fast paced and homework only counts for 5% of your grade, the other parts of the grade are made up of the exams and participation. I would not recommend taking her unless Chem is your best subject.

VERY DIFFICULT! Gives extra credit, but it's SO much busy work that it will cause you to get way behind in the actual class, and never be able to catch up. She is not very encouraging, or helpful. She's available to meet with, but often times talks down to you and makes you feel ignorant and discouraged.

On the busiest week of my life, she had homework due Monday-Friday that was 3 sections ahead of what the test would cover that we were taking Wednesday. Each one took up to 2 hours to complete and were mostly short response due at 6pm. Homework was only 5% so I had to just take zeros to do good on my tests that week. Test hard if not prepared, GL.

She just goes through slides very quickly without caring if her students are getting it. The slides are available online so theres no point in her going over them in class. She should be teaching instead. Tests are very difficult and graded accordingly. Not encouraging and seems to want class to fail. Most frustrating class Ive taken. Bad teacher

Told us the third test was gonna be the hardest. Took the test and thought it was easy, but I didn't have time for the last question. Ended up making a 63 on that test, even though I knew the material, because she graded the last question for 30% of the test. She literally didn't warn anyone and it took me from a low A to a C in the class. Unfair..

Absolutely terrible. Avoid avoid avoid Has 1 question on tests thats worth 30-40% of your grade and its one of the hardest chem 132 question that was ever created and its just you and a piece of paper and you can show all your work for a problem and get the right answer but if its not enough work or she doesnt get it, she will mark it wrong

When class evaluations came out she said professors are humans too. Well, STUDENTS ARE HUMAN TOO!!! She gives an insane amount of work for one student to handle just for this one class, is super rude and treats them like they're stupid. She is missing the big picture that we are students LEARNING she should not get mad if they're struggling.

Avoid taking her at all cost. Her exams are set up very odd and she cramps so much on to one exam that 85% of the class is still in there when she calls time for class to end. She goes over slides during lecture so fast you cannot hardly take notes. The amount of homework given is ridiculous. Overall the worst professor I have ever had!!!!!

95% of your grade are her ridiculously hard tests with only 5% being around 1,000 questions on Sapling. She also has extra credit, but in order to do that you must read an entire book and do another 1,000 problems. I used over 300 sheets of paper on homework alone. She takes pride in being the class that kills pre-meds dreams of being doctors. Rude

Know the slides before going into Class! Know the syllabus! Avoid asking questions, she doesnt like them during lecture. Assigns homework from book for extra credit, hundreds of them. Do not take this class if you are Engineering. Very frustrating class, she takes on the responsibility of weeding out premed students through her class. Bad teacher!

DO NOT TAKE HER FOR CHEM. She flies through power points if she knows she's running out of time, HEAVIEST GRADER, and the homework she assigns does not help. I repeat does not help. I spent SO MUCH TIME STUDYING for this class and still struggled. Do not take her.

Dr. Stenson is one of the worst professors I've ever had. She belittles her students in class for not understanding material. She is unreasonable by not allowing students to take notes their own way during class. You will be drowning in homework with inconsistent due dates. Getting an A is doable, but the amount of work will shorten your lifespan.

DO NOT TAKE HER. She is a really nicely, but her teaching overall is terrible. I am not understanding the material, she gives excessive homework that really does not correlate with helping for exams. She has a bonus opportunity, however, it has a lot of requirements that follow and you don't have time for. Again... DO NOT TAKE HER.

Very good, clear lectures and was glad to help, but once quarantine hit, she gave up on teaching completely and simply assigned more homework and gave noncommittal answers like "check the powerpoint" or "read the chapter" when students ask for help, even if they are asking for clarification for something in the powerpoint or book.

Do NOT take Dr. Stenson. She gives way too much homework (busy work) that is basically due every other day. She gives extra credit opportunities, but the work you have to do for the extra credit is insane. You never really know what is going to be on her tests so you basically need to study everything possible. If you choose to take her, GOOD LUCK.

DO NOT take her. Her lectures are hard to understand and very fast-paced. She also expects you to understand all the material before class. She has assignments due almost every day and nobody finishes her tests before time. Extra credit such as "failsafe" is an option, but if you want a life, the don't do it because you'll be swamped with work.

group based learning was something she pushed which was horrible because depending on classmate to teach you what we read the night before is asking for trouble. Makes you show up to her office 3 time before she will arrange a meeting for office hours. So if you work good luck. Incredibly rude when you ask for help. Openly calls people stupid.

This professor is extremely homework heavy if you have a job or are even a full time student I do not recommend taking her EVER! She doesnt help explain really ether so have google handy to teach you chem

She expected us to do the homework before going over it in class. Missing even one class would disqualify you for a drop grade. In her office she is cold and not inviting. She doesnt seem to care about her students at all and tries to pass it off as, You are adults, figure it out to get ready for the real world.

Prepare to feel stupid. If chemistry wasn't challenging enough on its own, Dr. Stenson makes it a condescending nightmare. Workload is unrealistic. I genuinely tried to appreciate her as a challenge that could improve my chem skills, but it turns out passing was all but unattainable. This class was retaken after already having passed it with a C.

I would not recommend Stenson to anyone. She uses tophat and gives you a ton of assignments for points. She has grading schemes to help you pass with a C but you must take notes on EVERYTHING you do. She doesn't really explain stuff well just talks and clicks through slides. She also will make you discuss stuff with your classmates during class.

She's really extra for no reason! It's like she expects you to know & learn every single thing at an extremely fast pace. She goes through lecture at a lighting speed. Even when I went to her during office hours, she was so condescending & rude that I was just over it! She does offer extra credit, but it really DOESN'T help your grade at all.

TAKE ANYONE ELSE!!! Her lectures are intense & her tests can be difficult because so much information is covered. She does provide a lot of extra credit opportunities, but they'll take too much of your time to complete. I honestly just recommend anyone else!

If you would like to do a minimum of 3 hours of homework outside of lecture every day, then take this professor. Every day you will have at least one assignment due, which can take anywhere from 1-5 hours. If you have a heavy course load or need to work during the semester, do not take Dr. Stenson.

Covers so a LOT of material, so it is not clear what you need to know. I failed an exam and when I talked to her, she said I was doing everything right, but not answering questions to her liking.

I have never had such a hard professor. Professor Stenson genuinely does not care about or for her students. I had her for 131 and in class someone said they couldn't understand how to do a question and she said "That's not my problem." You have to earn a drop grade in her class, and it requires a near impossible amount of work to be done.

Do not take her. I had to drop the class before I failed it. She throws way too much info at you in lectures. She's not willing to use her time in class to help students by working out a problem and tells us that it's 'our problem' and that we should be spending 3 hours outside of class studying the material. Extra credit isn't even worth the time.

Horrible professor. Who gives a 170 question midterm quiz for a chemistry class? Who forces 6 hours of homework nightly just to get by (5-7 homeworks a week)? She does. She doesn't lecture very well, doesn't give us any material before the class and simply expects you tobknow everything about the chapter she hasn't even lectured on.

Absolutely terrible teacher her exams have no consensus on what is going to be on it there was an exam where we mostly talked about theoretical yield and there was one question about it the most part was polyprotic and one question spanning half the test making it harder.Never had a worst teacher DO NOT TAKE HER

Never met a more difficult person in my life she gives an insane amount of homework difficult tests with subjects she obscurely goes over extra credit that does nothing working for a drop grade and really rude in emails

Her lectures while funny are breakneck and difficult to follow. She gives a lot of homework, and extra credit that is both not good for the grade and mandatory for a drop. Most of the class dropped, some after first exam, most of the rest by midterms. For homework expect 5-8 per week. Many in class discussions, so get friendly. Do not reccomend.

Extremely difficult professor. She goes over lectures in a flash. Ton of homework and it always takes an eternity to complete. Mandatory practice exams are even worse. Taking her will take a massive chunk of your time away in the semester, and even then you're not guaranteed to pass with flying colors. Challenging exams too. Don't recommend at all.

I really did not enjoy Stenson's class. She was extremely lecture-heavy and gave so many homework assignments that were due almost every day of the week. Her homework problems have an option where you can only have so many chances to get the right answer, and it docks you for every incorrect. I studied every night and still failed every exam.

nothing like the book, and she provides you with very little study material for her exams. Her exams include options as "none of the answers are correct see my work" and there is almost always a possibility more than one answer is correct. Her lectures are almost riddles as she tries to hint the material at you, instead of actually explaining it.

She has no regard for others and that they may learn different will not let you take pics of the slides and she doesn't post them so her lectures are interesting but pay attention or you get left and you cant come back she assigns EC and HW but it is overwhelming take someone better and someone who understands and has progressed with the times

worst prof i have ever taken she is unforgiving and gives lots of work i have never put more work in and gotten less out of a class. she is at the bottom of professors i have ever taken

get ready to work she can be helpful but overall she is bad at her job

horrible class and ran poorly, too much work and bad lectures

Expects everyone in her class to have an insane chemistry background. Worst teacher I've ever had at south. Will make you feel stupid if you ask ANY questions at all. Quick to yell at the class for any reason. Doesn't post lectures. Exams are insanely hard. Doesn't work practice problems. Uses EXCEL for math so even more confusing!

She gives way to much homework and doesnt seem to explain concept well.

She likes to use lecture time as practice time. So basically you'll see slides with blanks and be expected to know what goes in the blanks. She'll make you do small groups to talk about what goes in the blanks then you'll likely discuss it. She expects you to know the math portions without really going over them. All I can say is good luck.

She assigns homework almost every day that takes about 4-6 hours to do if you want to complete the whole homework. She says that "you don't have to do it" even thought it's 10% of your grade. Exams are that highest percent of your grade, so focus on those. Did not do well because I did not have the time to do everything that she exspected of me.

She is my least favorite teacher I have ever taken. First class ever to get something below a B. She expects you to already know chemistry without even teaching it. Her lectures are long and they require you to know the information rather than her actually teach it. Test are 60% of grade and practically impossible. Avoid her at all cost. Rude also.

I've been at South for 6 years and have never struggled so much in a class. I don't know if it's for bragging rights or if it makes her feel superior, but she doesn't care if you learn, and talks down to you if you don't understand. I've never had a “teacher” less interested in teaching. Dread college in general now just because of her methods.

The absolute worse class. Never take this class ever it is so hard and the exams are much harder than any other chem professor. Take Coym instead, much easier exams. She gives a ton of extra credit but it is super time consuming. I ended up dropping this class and taking two summer classes and it is well worth it.

Literally the worst professor everrrrrrrrrr. I dropped the class days before the last day to drop because she is bad. You are basically only graded on homework and exams. The exams are so much harder than the other professors. Take the class with Coym and enjoy your life.

Lots and lots of homework. Gives extra credit but takes 3+ hours to complete. She expects you to already have a well known concept of material before her class and exams are extremely hard. Powerpoints cant even be seen outside of class and no pictures allowed in class. Take someone else.

Her exams are worded very weirdly and will leave you questioning your sanity. She expects you to already know the material she teaches and that alone makes the class very difficult. She is a very nice person and is very funny but in my opinion she is not a very good professor.

If you can take a different professor for this class, I would highly recommend. The tears and frustration and not worth it. She makes you feel like a 5 year old.

her grade system is based on a total of 3 exams and the final so even failing one puts you in a bad spot. On her "hardest" exam she took a 2 week vacation leaving us with substitutes who used their own lecture material and left the entire class to struggle. in short- she did way too much for a gen ed course.