It might be nice if she actually showed up when we had a guest speaker...you know, show some interest in the course perhaps. Tutorials are AWESOME, TAs AMAZING. No final, which is nice and the journals are an easy mark if you incorporate the readings and tutorial content. Lectures are a snooze fest except for guest speakers who have been great!

My only complaints: not enough instructions on what they were looking for in the journals (besides vague references to class, articles, and book) and they were marked HARD by the TAs. In some weeks, the DVD was like 3 hrs long. You gotta add in the fact that you need to rewind the DVD sometimes so the time you spend is much longer than that.

The class is great, but the prof's inability to be organized ruins the exp. She has unrealistic expectations and a hefty workload even when she knows she cant mark them in time. You get details of your assignments one week before it's due. 3 papers; each is 12 pgs long. She won't reply to emails and leaves students concerned w/o addressing them.

Very disorganized class and her expectations of assignments are not very clear. Criteria tend to be given within a short notice, which puts everyone unsettled. Even the way of handing in the assignments too.

I would not recommend her for Crim 315. She does not reply to students email and all you see if her emailing about her events. She looks down on students.

Did not like this class. She constantly sends emails about events and passed on emails from other people but does not reply to students. Unclear and disorganized. A lot of work but it took about 4 or 5 weeks to return our first 12pg paper out of 3. This class had to final exam, it was my first class finished and is the last class to send in marks.

Her lecture was boring and useless. Only thing interesting was the guest lectures. So basically she taught us nothing.

Horrible should not be teaching I'm not sure how she can teach

I tried extremely hard to get A in Brenda’s class, but received a B mark. Brenda is a hard marker, but a very poor instructor. The class is filled with cheap sentimentalism that Brenda thoroughly encouraged. Brenda gave vague verbal instructions for the essays that are worth 35% each. Brenda, please give written and detailed instructions.

Very disorganized and unclear of expectations on papers.

Brenda doesn't teach and only gives you information in support of her ideas. It's not worth your time to attend class. Tutorial is 2 hours of ice breaking games each week and not much else. Paper dates changed without warning. The only positive is that the grading is reasonable and if you put in some effort you can pull off a good grade.

Brenda is a very kind and knowledgeable Professor, but she is quite disorganized in class and hard to listen to at times. That being said, attending lecture is not at all necessary in 315 because there are no exams and the papers are based on readings and lecture notes posted online. Simply attend tutorials and you are ok-TA KRYSTAL IS AWESOME!

Brenda is a really nice lady, but she assigned so much homework and her papers are unnecessarily long. Would not take another class with her

(it was Crim 103)super sad excuse for a criminology class, worst class ive taken in my young academic career, she has so many different excuses to not show up for online lecture, the worksheets seemed to barely relate to course content. Dropped stats 203 to take this course, shouldve just stayed in there.

oh my goodness. i can't even describe her inadequacy. although it was an in person class, brenda canceled more than half of the lectures with a range of excuses. one day she was stuck in a different city, the next day a tree fell in front of her house, then she simply canceled without reason. she gave us nothing and expects so much

PART 1: Terrible x10^10. She somehow made this in person class an online one and proceeded to cancel majority of the classes during this semester. The fact that she could find so many excuses to cancel them amazes me. It ranged from being sick 2 weeks in a row to being emotionally burdened by an insignificant event, to being busy on her work.

PART 2: She puts in minimal work but expects us to be detailed and meet every single one of her expectations as well. Her assignment instructions are super vague and will only give out the informative and detailed outline of the assignments if students bombard her email with questions about it.

PART 3: Her focus on this course does not revolve around psychology at all, rather Indigenous studies, which is her field of work. If you want to take this course, take it with Evan McCuish. His course is specific to psychological deviances and crimes. I fell to my knees cause I can't take this class anymore and wasted 600 bucks. Trash ahh class.

Brenda was consistently having "wifi problems" which led to her posting lectures weeks late, or not at all. She has high expectations for students engagement, but engaged very little herself. Never answered any emails. Appeared to be prioritizing other projects and pursuits over her students and the course. Course papers were especially long.

PLEASEEE DO NOT TAKE CRIM 103 WITH HER IF YOU ACTUALLY WANTED TO LEARN ABOUT PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF CRIMINAL AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR. She first of all made this an online class with cancelling all of her in person classes except for 2! The amount of excuses she had to come up with were hilarious because why am I paying for an in person class.

what an absolute joke of a course. I can't believe that this person has a job that pays decently well like a university prof. She is cheating her way through life with this joke that we call crim103. Something has to be done about this. We should be refunded for what is this atrocity of a university course.

DONT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!! Take a different teacher please!!!!!!!!!!! The recent ratings on this prof aren't for nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take another course or save your hard earned dollars!!!!

cancels classes at the last minute, rarely shows up, doesn't actually teach anything, talks a lot without saying anything

Worst Crim class ive taken so far. This isn't even psychological explanations, rather indigenous perspectives. She made so many excuses for not showing up to class like ive never seen anything like this before.

Worst professor in sfu, cancels lectures and uses the most dishonest excuses. Completely disregards the fact that students taking criminology need to learn certain topics to help with understanding upper level courses by completely changing Crim 103 to her class. Needs fired ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't feel like i learned anything new from this class in terms of criminological theory. Brenda's speciality is restorative justice, and when she did lecture, it was pretty interesting, but it was not what I paid to learn. I paid for an in-person class and got an online class that was loosely based on course material.

(part 1) I do not recommend taking ANY courses with this professor, she actually made criminology uninteresting with her constant rants of god knows what!! The TA was rarely helpful and when it came to asking questions about the paper the TA nor the PROF would be able to give a clear answer up until the FINAL WEEK!!!

(part 2) My mark for the paper outline and annotated bibliography were decent but still!! What is this?! The TA was Chelsey Lee and she also taught this course to which she told us to refer to Evan McCuish another CRIM prof here at SFU. THATS CRAZY

(part 3) I feel bad for everyone taking this course like I am! By the way she was also crying in a few of the zoom lectures which I thought was odd because there was no professionalism whatsoever. Attendance was semi-mandatory (mainly for tutorial).

There actually needs to be something done about this professor. How can she get away by teaching us a course like this??? Why is she even teaching if she cannot actually hold an in person class because her life is apparently so complicated. Someone needs to email the dean about this or something. This class will waste peoples money and is not okay!

unbelievable course that has nothing to do with the name: psychological explanations. all we talked about was indigenous stuff I didn't pay my money to learn. She was crying in the online (supposed to be in person) lectures, super unprofessional. make sure when taking Crim 103 that it isn't with brenda Morrison. sad class. waste of money.

Brenda cancelled 8/10 of her lectures and seemed to want to pursue her own little passion projects rather than teach us about Crime and Deviance. She didn't talk about crime and deviance at all and it was Indigenous based, not criminology based. Her own TA referred us to a youtube playlist because Brenda didnt teach us anything. 0/10 dont take this

Brenda canceled all but two classes to attend to her personal projects and left us to deal with her annoying laptop in zoom classes. We had no solid outline for our term project, you had to dig for information from recorded lectures. The TA was nice but we wouldn't get our grades or feedback in time to add changes to our next work. Don't take it!!!

Brenda needs to be studied. She taught us NOTHING about the psychology of crime and deviance, setting us up to struggle in our next courses. Class was always cancelled, or didn't bother giving a notice. We paid for an in-person class but were given an online class. She rambles about Indigenous people for the entirety of every Zoom lecture. dont.

Do not take this class with this teacher. She teaches nothing that has to do with psychological explanations and all to do with indigenous explanations. It seems she neglected this course to be more present for her other courses.

Terrible course she didn't show up and the essay was worth 45% of the grade that had nothing to do with "psychological explanations".

she just compared a domestic terrorist with someone who chopped down a tree...

this class is so interesting so its extremely disappointing that for an online class students have to beg the professor to post the weekly materials and she neglects to open assignments til right before the deadline but does not provide extensions. She seems nice but sfu should have someone else who can actually support the students run the course

Dr. Morrison's teachings are irrelevant to what is listed in the description of this course as there is nothing about biogenetic, psychiatric, and psychological explanations of crime and deviance. She instead focuses on Indigenous and social explanations, which although are important, are not what we PAID to learn. Nothing about psychology. AVOID!!

I am a third year student and I can confidently say this is the worst professor I have had at this school so far. Her lectures didn't teach us anything, I wouldn't recommend going. She assigns heavy reading and video material, like being assigned 2 hours of video to watch and a bunch of readings. If you are enrolled, find a different class or prof.

I waited 3 years to get into this class because the enrolment system sucks. Brenda does not cover ANYTHING about psychology and barely touches on her own lecture slides. No point in going to lecture, honestly don't waste your money if she is the prof. You won't learn anything or benefit from this. Extremely disappointed and SFU needs to fix this.

Brenda is very messy and goes on rambles during lectures without making a point. She quotes more people in her lecture slides than actually giving us information and definitions. DO NOT TAKE!!

Brenda is genuinely one of the worst profs I have had as a 4th year. She is so messy, we are a month into the course and she has been so unprepared. She doesn't reply to e-mails AT ALL, her lectures are so jumbled that I don't even watch them anymore because they teach nothing. Only plus is the TA so far is absolutely lovely

I cannot urge you enough donot take this course. The assignment guidelines and vague, Tutorials are a waste of time and the work load is huge and sporadic simply because this prof is unorganized.

Brenda's teaching methods are completely USELESS for the average person. Her lecture slides are mainly confusing quotes and she ramles about everything and anything that could not be any less related to the course. I have attended every lecture and tutorial and have not learned a single thing about psychology or criminology. DO NOT TAKE

Brenda's lectures are pretty much pointless. Assignment guidelines/rubric are nonexistent. She is also extremely disorganized. The tutorials are just games and ice breaker activities. The TAs are nice but Brenda does not seem to put any effort into this class. We had a critical essay assignment due during reading week so that was quite annoying.

unorganized does not begin to describe her, does not post/open materials on time, provides criteria for papers then reveals weeks after the due date that it was graded on criteria never told to students to make it more difficult to get an A, the semester is almost done and we have not received a single grade back for the entire course

Horrible, most of the things she rambles on about in lecture has nothing to do with course material. I understand that cultural appreciation is important, but I'm here to learn about criminology, not indigenous studies.

Learned more about the psychology of deviance and crime from saul Goodman

BRING FENT!

If you can take this course with a different prof DO IT. Brenda is horribly disorganized and taught no core concepts. We got random emails for podcasts to listen to for Monday lecture ON A SUNDAY NIGHT. No real grading criteria, it was posted on lecture slides and wasn't even written by her. This should be an easy class but she makes it awful.

not it, boss

if you think ur gonna come to class, don't. literally nothing mentioned is relevant

Disorganized teaching style.Course was fully focused on indigenous concepts and teachings rather than psychological explanations.Tons of random readings & long podcasts.Expectations for the final 12pg essay were unclear until last min and my wonderful TA mentioned asking her many times for clarification but could not get any. Don't take her class.

so disappointed as I was excited to learn the topics that shouldve been covered in class. What a waste of money and time. Slides filled with quotes- and worksheets were due every week (you can submit them late though in exchange for marks off). She obviously has white guilt which probably causes her to focus on irrelevant indigenous topics.

Brenda is nice but this course literally is not what the Course description says. no need to attend lecture as you aren't tested on anything. paper had unclear expectations and she was unable to provide concrete feedback. save yourself and just take this class with another prof

clearly has white guilt and everything has to do with aboriginal culture. Please don't take her class. Professors should not include their political and personal beliefs into their teachings as I have learned nothing in this class.

I tried to switch classes but failed. This course is NOT psychological and is all Indigenous based- which is important but not what is described when enrolling. The slides are all quotes. There are 'worksheets' every week as well and the final is 12 pages which had the criteria changed multiple times and locked until asked not to be. Don't take