One of the worst teachers I've had. Doesn't know how to manage time properly in class. She assumes we're all on her level when it comes to learning R when clearly we're not. She never teaches it in class. The data lab is a must if you don't know R. One of the only profs to give a test the week of thanksgiving and a case study as well. Why?

Avoid this class, take online if you have the chance. Tests were nothing like lecture/notes, lectures were extremely boring, huge focus on R coding which she doesn't teach but you're expected to know how to do it on your own.

Take the online section or Leslie Hendrix if it all possible. This was one of the most unorganized classes I have taken at Darla. Homework was mainly R coding while in class was dull lectures regarding material (mostly) learned in STAT 206. You will need the data lab to complete all case studies because Beth will not provide help at all.

Lectures are heavy and inaccessible. Projects given and graded incredibly hard with no explanation on what is wrong. She gives cases 1-4 to do using R code and will not help you. She sends you to the Data Lab who does help you, but she takes points off because it is wrong even though the students are majoring in MGSC. I would never take her again.

Simply put I do not think she wants to see her students succeed. Not helpful for guidance. Send you to the data lab and then marks students down for the work that major specific students help them do. NEVER take her is you have the option.

Sweet person but that does not help students succeed in class. Lectures are not engaging at all very dry and do not help with the tests. Information on tests are nothing like the notes. The notes are not organized in any logical information, but it's not like they actually help for the exams.

She treats you like you are stupid if you ask her any questions. Even though any and all questions are justifies no matter how "stupid" because her lectures are horrendous. For your own sake do not take her class ever.

I took her class online during Covid and she was not understanding about anything. Work during her class or have other obligations? She doesnt care at all. Made the class harder once online while all other professors made class not as hard in a difficult time.

Personally I found her to be exceptionally rude and arrogant even while teaching. All her lectures seem scripted and like a robot is teaching. Uncompassionate to all, even those seeking help. Worst class I have ever taken in the DMSB. Honestly the school should be embarrassed. She does not display the characteristics DMSB values.

Avoid taking her at all costs. I went to office hours for help and got turned away to the data lab where they actually helped me. But then prof Walters told me their work was wrong and it brought my grade down. Her tests are extremely unforgiving; she doesnt cover the material on the test. Somehow she made things even harder during a pandemic

I have never attended lectures that are so inaccessible. No matter how hard you study or how much you pay attention in class the material on the test does not line up with what she teaches. She spends more time discussing her years at Chic-fil-a than teaching useful information. Somehow everything connects back to her years working there... not

Okay at teaching during lectures but the test don't see to reflect the information we learned in class. The coding assignments are basically impossible by yourself. I tried to go to her for help but she will just send you to the data lab. which is not accessible during the covid crisis. It really hurt the class grade, stay clear of this professor.

Walters does not care about the success of her students. Her lectures have NOTHING to do with any material on the exams. Studying for exams is near impossible because the lack of resources she provides to her students. If you go to her for help, she will send you to data lab. I don't know how she is still with the school. An embarrassment to DMSB.

Professor Walters is extremely lacking when it comes to preparing her students. All of her lectures are useless for exams outside of the review the class before. She takes days to reply to emails even when sent through canvas (she won't reply is emailed).She expects students to learn the material and she will reinforce it which isn't teaching.

DO NOT take her. Her lectures are practically useless for the assignments in coding (which is the hardest part), she's unclear about what will be on test, and extremely unapproachable and unhelpful. If you ask for help, she'll send you to data lab, which usually doesn't help.

Her ratings speak for themselves. In it for the pension, not student success. Absolutely take someone else. Lacks the ability to understand a students view point, flexibility, transparency and empathy.

Keeps talking about work in chick fil a. Lectures doesn't make sense, videos isn't related that much to the exam. worst professor ever. She doesn't care about students, not at all understanding about what the student needs, I don't get why she still teaches.

Professor Walters is by far the worst professor I have had at University of South Carolina. She comes off extremely rude and often talks down on her students. She is not flexible for students at all, even during a pandemic and online classes. Clearly in it for the money and has no care about student success.

This is by far my least favorite class in college and this professor does not make it any better. About 70% of her class time is spent on history of datasets, while only 30% is spent in R and with examples. She also is only able to help during her office hours. You will be learning most of this class through practice. Also lectures outside of class

She's super boring during her lectures so just read the textbook if you have to take her, but I'd recommend just taking with someone else. Got As on every exam but gonna finish with a B or B+ because she is a terrible grader. The group projects make no sense and she doesn't help kids out so everyone gets awful grades on them. Zero communication.

I mean she is hell to listen to. Her lectures are just her chatting to herself, highly suggest you take somebody else or are a self learner

HORRIBLE!! When I say she's the worst Professor I have had in 4 years at 2 different schools I mean it. Not helpful at all, confusing, posts videos of her reading a script instead of teaching, claims her office hours are her helping you "for free", I could go on. This class could have been an easy A, with another teacher. Please save yourself!!

She is a nice lady, but shes a terrible teacher. Class is very difficult & she offers no help. I would highly recommend taking a different section with a different professor, unless your pretty confident with statistics.

Probably the worst teacher I have ever had a Darla. She does not help you with anything even though she tells you to come to her office hours if you need help. You work with r, but then in class only talk about probability it makes no sense. Take a different professor she has no idea how to teach

Do not take this Professor by any means. She doesn't teach during the class time and expects every student to watch hour videos weekly that she doesn't go over during class. Would definitely not take this teacher again.

Worst teacher in Darla Moore. Can't go 30 seconds without talking about chic-fila.

Worst professor I've had. R is the hardest thing in this class but she barley teaches it! The online lectures deal with stat but when you actually go to class she can only go thru 1 problem in an hour. She gets side tracked so many times in class as well which wastes everyone's time. Take a different professor trust me you will thank me later.

She is actually the worst, I am sitting in her class as I type this. She expects us to learn everything outside of class, and then instead of answering questions during class time she rambles about the most useless things ever. Never clear what she wants on projects. Does not care about how her students do, office hours are useless, just sends away

If I have any advice to anyone taking this class will be to never take Walters. You have to go to class for attendance but the class is actually useless it has no correlation with the notes. Rambles for an hour and 15 minutes every class and you'll leave more confused than anything. You teach yourself everything. Especially R. RUN FAR AWAY .

It irritates me so much that the DMSB hasn't gotten rid of her yet. She doesn't put any effort into her teaching and it shows cause none of the students know what to do. She'll tell you to go to the data lab for help but then tells them to not help us at all?? She's probably a nice lady but teaching is not her thing at all.

I implore you not to take her class. We spend the entire section discussing irrelevant background information to problems we don't ever get to work through. Her "flipped" classroom gives her the excuse that "it was in the lecture" instead of answering your questions (and she'll use it against you too). Condescending and fake. Stay away.

Don't do it. Did not take her willingly and wish I could have had literally anyone else. Her classes are irrelevant to the material (that we teach ourselves) and she is extremely unhelpful, was extremely condescending multiple times when I asked her simple questions. Anything I learned from this class was self-taught or from the data lab.

Absolutely brutal, whatever you do, do not take this professor. Save yourself while you can. If you want to learn about Chic-Fil-A this is the class for you because that is all she talks about.

Absolute worst professor. You have to completely teach yourself with an absurd amount of video lessons every week, just to show up to class and discuss the 1% absolute most simple portion of the "lectures" for 75 minutes. Ridiculous "teaching style", especially given the difficulty of the course. Irresponsible of the school to allow this.

She relies heavily on lectures for homework, but when it's time for class she barely teaches. She doesn't give study guides for exams and doesn't spend time reviewing with you either. R is challenging, but with the right teacher, I'm sure it's manageable. I've had to go to the data lab instead. There is no way I would take her again.

She is actually the worst, never felt more lost in a class in my life.

She is the worst professor I have had at USC. Only talks about ChicFilA and teaches you absolutely nothing. Gives honor students questions to review for exams but not her regular classes. Good luck if you have her.

Came here to write about this professor but it seems like everyone already gets the message. If your a student, do not take her. If you were forced to take her like I was, goodluck to you. If your an administrator, please do something about this.

I never wore my seatbelt on the way to class because I wanted to die before making it to her class. DO NOT TAKE. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

All I ever learned attending this class was how much she loves Chick-fil-a. Every single thing on the exams I had to teach to myself. The class is totally useless, might as well skip and teach yourself everything. I'd rather get curb stomped than have this professor again. By far the worst "teacher" I've ever had.

she actually sucks

The lectures are entirely statistics and the homework is entirely coding in R. R is the most useless skill I have ever learned. Her exams are 50% of your grade. The homework is on codegrade, which has a technical issue almost every time and if you get one problem wrong, then you aren't getting higher than a 70%. Good luck!

She yaps too much about herself and has an annoying voice. attendance is mandatory. assigned seats. won't let you leave early from class. She calls people out. no phones.

She is very self-centered lectures are very boring assigned seats i-clicker attendance necessary wont let you leave early no phones

Worst professor I've ever had. Accuses her students of cheating for no reason. Cold calls on people in class and requires attendance. Makes an easy concept way more difficult than it needs to be and has the most boring lectures. I thought I've had some bad professors before, but wow was I in for a surprise with Ms. Walters.

She is happy when the class gets above a 70 average. No extra credit. Tests are worth 65% of grade and don't translate that well to notes. Specifically makes the content harder than it is on purpose.

The other reviews rating Walters at a 4.0 are misleading and inaccurate. Walters does not care about how well the class does, no matter how bad the class average is. Condescending and rude, and her office hours don't help because she tells you to go to the data lab for any questions. DO NOT TAKE WALTERS.

I am 99% convinced that half of Walter's 5.0 reviews are her going in and writing them herself. if you want a good outlook on what her class is actually like, read a review that's 3.0 or lower

Knows this is a hard class and still is bad at explaining, cold calls on people, and does not have any sympathy if you don't do well. This has been my worst professor do not take her there are better out there.

Three class sessions in and I can already tell that every single negative review on here is accurate. How are we suppose to learn and complete homework when all she does in class is ramble and then copy and paste the code? The 'notes' provided do not cover any of the formulas required for the homework, either. Only 17 more weeks of this.

The class consists of two different things. Her pacing back and forth talking about something completely unrelated to the course. Or, her pacing spending 25+ minutes walking through a simple concept that could be explained in two minutes. Takes attendance every day, has a seating chart, and will tell you to put your phone away like its HS.

haven't even had the first exam yet. I just know she is a horrible teacher and extremely annoying.

not a good teacher cant keep up with her in class and she expects you to. She doesnt explain the material well she just expects you to understand what she is saying.