She is so very nice and helpful. It is obvious that she really cares about biology and her students. Class is interactive and fun and tests are fair and not difficult if you go over the study guide. I would highly recommend taking a class from her, she is never boring and always very friendly.

This is the first biology class I've ever taken, and the lectures make the material very easy to understand. The test questions come directly from the study guides, and almost all of that material comes from the powerpoint lectures. She's very enthusiastic about biology and it shows when lecturing and answering questions.

Very helpful, very nice. take her class

Easy professor. I was expecting this class to be a lot more challenging than it turned out to be. Some of her exam questions seemed like a joke...ridiculously easy. Others I was surprised to see on the exam because they seemed relatively unimportant. Anyways, somewhat helpful in office hours. I got an A and never even opened the book.

Really chill professor, helped me out a lot when I missed class, and with changing my schedule. Class isn't too hard if you go, and study for the tests.

I love Carrie! She's so helpful and nice! Good at responding to e-mail, fair grader, and willing to go the extra mile. She puts up the PowerPoints, but I went to class, typed up the notes, did the study guides and did fine on the exams. Easy class.

She's so nice and very helpful. Her exams aren't hard as long as you go to class and do any reading she assigns. She loves biology and makes classes interesting.

Carrie is a great prof. Her lectures are pretty fast paced but she explains things really well and it is easy to follow. She tends to dumb things down quite a bit which is helpful in some situations but in others it seems kind of odd. overall she is awesome!

Her lectures are a little boring, but overall she is a good teacher. She has a little bit of a weird style but if you go to lectures and read the book you'll be fine. Got me interested in becoming a bio major, I'd definitely recommend her class. Labs were the funnest part.

Great teacher. You'll barely touch your book. If you study her study guides and understand the material, you'll do fine. Make sure you always go to class and pay attention to the slides and what she says. That will be much more important than the book. You will use the book for study guides but you'll mainly rely on in-class notes. Awesome class.

Schwarz is really nice and helpful. Her tests are based off of what she covers in lecture. I would suggest reading/skimming the text before class and then taking notes in lecture. Her tests are pretty straight forward for the most part-- it doesn't really seem like she's interested in tricking you. I'd def consider taking another class with her!

Great Prof. Definitely the nicest one I've ever had and she works hard to make the class interesting. It was also super easy, I would say easier than bio101.

I've never had an instructor as nice as Carrie. She is literally THE NICEST and she cares about her students. All you need to do is study her lecture notes. don't bother reading the text since everything she tests you on is from lecture. The lab sucks and is a bunch of busy work. I want to have Carrie for another class tho. She is the best!

Kindest person ever, great sense of humor, intelligent, understanding, attentive! Cares what students think about class & teaching style. Goes above & beyond to accommodate our learning styles & help us with anything we need. Uses flipped class method: lessens homework & better solidifies material. Very specific test reviews. BEST INSTRUCTOR EVER!

Dr. Schwarz is so great. Her lectures are very easy to understand. She very good about answering questions fully, but her time management is a little wonky. Grades are mostly based on in class assignments and exams. If you pay attention in class it's a breeze.

She is great. Her teaching style was perfect for my learning style. Good pace of lecture, book kinda sucks though. Online lectures a huge plus. Could do a little better on choosing exam or study guide questions but overall she is great, helpful in office hours, shows interesting videos. Hard class, just do your work and pay attention.

Carrie is incredibly helpful and really easy going. She takes extra care to make sure no one is confused. Her tests aren't necessarily easy or hard, but if there's a question that not many people got correct she's more than willing to remove the question. Great professor, great class

Carrie is a great professor, she is incredibly smart and her lectures are quite interesting. The tests were definitely fair. I think this class is pretty easy, but that doesn't mean that you don't have to work. Studying is definitely necessary, but other than that you don't use the book. Overall would definitely recommend her.

Dr. Schwarz is incredibly compassionate, and genuinely wants to see everyone in her class succeed. Her test are straight forward, and if you did the reading and paid attention in class, they are an easy A.

The concepts for the class is pretty easy but she does drop obscure vocab into her tests, so make sure you study the "key terms" from the text. Also! Rent the non school version - you won't use the book enough to warrant the custom version's 250 price tag.

Carrie is a great Bio teacher all around. She's genuinely invested in student learning and is very willing to accommodate whatever people need. She comes into labs and helps you one-on-one, and always answers questions with clarity! I loved her class and wish she taught more!

Sweetest person I have ever met, truly wants her students to succeed - but you DO have to put the effort in, this isn't easy material, but Carrie will help you all the way. Tests can be tough and sometimes not very clear on study guides, but ask for clarifications and she'll explain very thoroughly immediately.

Carrie is a great professor. The material can get confusing, even for those who are interested in Biology, but Carrie explains everything to make it as clear as possible. She will answer any question you have, and is great at providing answers. But, that said, make sure you put in the effort to study appropriately, because tests can be tough.

Carrie is a great professor! She is very approachable and friendly, and her lectures are well organized and enjoyable to go to. Would recommend her to anyone for 204. Book is a good resource for if you don't understand something but it's not essential so I wouldn't recommend spending a lot of money to get it.

Great teacher, clear, concise lectures. Occasionally goes on tangents but somehow even those teach me course material. I have no complaints.

Amazing Professor and amazing class! Warning, parts of the textbook are helpful and needed, but you only use 5% of it... and it's expensive! The exams are fair and you will get an A if you do the work. I highly recommend Professor Schwarz!

Carrie is my favorite professor in the Bio Department so far. She provided clear study guides that correlated to the exams very well. If you want to do well, do the study guides and study the list of potential short answer topics. She goes above and beyond making sure her students have all the tools they need to succeed. Highly recommend.

Carrie is one of the most compassionate teachers I've ever had. She really tries to listen to student's feedback and needs and does her best to tailor the course around them. I definitely recommend taking any class she has to offer.

Carrie is the best Biology teacher by far. Also helps that the material is a breeze. Definitely would take again.

Carrie is an amazing prof! She is super fun with the material and really cares about her students. She is always available for extra help and provides additional study material. I would 10/10 take a class from her again!

Carrie is a good teacher. I couldn't work well with her lecture-type only because it was just straight reading off the powerpoint which became very boring. She's super nice and helpful when it comes to questions and she definitely cares about the learning of the students.

Definitely one of the best profs I've had. She cares so much about her students and the material, putting in extra effort to provide supplementary material for students who vocalize their areas of interest. I didn't need to use the book (haven't used it at all through BIOL206 tbh).

Carrie is very nice, so people will talk while she is lecturing and it frustrates her. Extra credit opportunity's weekly for lab (flowcharts). This helped me a lot. Lab office hrs to perfect my assignments. Lecture only has a few assignments which are helpful for test. She will give a quiz the Friday before the test. Mitosis/meiosis, life cycles.

Carrie is very clear, knowledgeable, and passionate about biology! She's so sweet and is always willing to explain things that might not make sense to you. She's also very involved, as she stops into every lab so you have the chance to work one-on-one with her. Overall a great professor!

Ive only taken one biology course at Western but I would take every biology class with Carrie if I could. Shes so nice and understanding but is also really great at teaching the material. If you dont understand something she will explain it in depth in her office hours if you go for help. Shes amazing. Her class isnt difficult if you do the work.

Carrie was a very nice professor, easily accessible out of class, and ready to answer all questions during lecture. I personally didn't use the textbook and I don't find that it made the content any harder. Her exams can be tough but she usually gives extra credit opportunities. Lectures are a good pace and overall she's great.

Sweet and caring professor. Her lectures are straight forward and the tests relate heavily to the tests. I used the textbook to help explain some concepts, but I would not recommend purchasing it. I wish I could take her class for the rest of the BIO series.

Shes one of the best teachers Ive ever had. Its so evident that she cares for her students and loves the material. Every single lab weve had, shes dropped by and answered questions for everyone. An amazing teacher!

I loved having Carrie as a professor. She was super caring about her students and always took time to answer questions as needed. Her class was pretty lecture heavy, but she did a great job at not overwhelming us with material during each lecture and actually making them interesting to listen to. Plus her study guides were SO helpful for exams!

Carrie is one of the nicest and most invested professors Ive had at Western. She makes every student feel like an individual and makes you feel very supported. Although I had a very hard time in Biology, she was always available for extra help and did everything to help me succeed. She is like a caring mom<3 everyone loves Carrie

Schwarz was excited about her subject, and her lectures were exceptionally engaging. However, her exams do not represent the simplicity of her lectures, study guide, and the textbook. They are extremely detail heavy, as any minuscule detail is fair game, even if it was not covered in the lecture, textbook, or lab. Overall, an alright professor.

Carrie is very passionate about biology and I really enjoy coming to lecture. The course its self isn't that difficult but showing up to class matters. Tests and quizzes aren't very difficult.

I love Carrie. She was always available outside of office hours and her lectures were easy to understand and her exams were reasonable and based on the lectures. Sometimes I'd get a question wrong because I didn't go through the powerpoint fully, but study the powerpoints and meet her in office hours and you'll do fine. Just put in the work.

She's a really organized person and super nice and good at explaining and is willing to answer all questions and go over concepts as many times as needed. Definitely try to take her class!

Carrie is a fantastic and caring professor who truly wants to see you succeed. Very open to questions during lectures. Her tests were fair and had no surprises. It was an early class but I had no trouble staying awake during her lectures. Definitely go to her office hours if you have questions. The labs can be frustrating but that's not her fault.

Definitely a class that was a lot harder than I expected, definitely want to make sure to go over the study guides thoroughly. Carrie is very nice and her lectures are really cool, its just a really dense class that you need to pay attention to the material. Labs are pretty cool as well a little strenuous.

Carrie is the most caring professor I have ever interacted with. She is kind and understanding and gives 200% to her students. I feel so very lucky to have had her as my professor for this online quarter.

Professor Schwarz was always incredibly kind and accommodating, and her lectures were super easy to understand, concise, and to the point. They were so easy to understand, that I'd even say her class was an easy A. If you pay attention and do the assignments, you're pretty much set.

This class was hard due to the long lectures. However, Carrie was kind and always willing to explain confusing concepts until we understood.

Carrie is truly a gem, I wish I could take her for all of the intro bio classes. She really cares about her students and wants to do everything she can to help you succeed. Her study guides are extremely helpful, and although the lectures can be long, she is willing to help you understand and set you in the right direction when needed. 10/10

Carrie is super sweet & her class was pretty easy with 1 or 2 small assignments & a few lectures a week! I did find that her powerpoints/lectures were a little unorganized & sometimes so much on a slide, I didn't know what key points to take away but despite this, it was super easy and I really liked the structure of labs with the same small group.

I didn't interact with her much because this was an asynchronous course. I really liked her recorded lectures and she was always available outside of class. Seems like a genuinely nice person!

Very nice and helpful. Online lecture videos were easy to understand and interesting.

Professor Schwarz is very kind and definitely cares for her students! She provides ample resources and lectures & offers office hours. She goes above and beyond to help her students succeed.

She was so nice, the class was online async so you watched lecture videos on a different topic each week, with one assignment at the end of the week. She had office hours every week and was glad to talk over the material with you. For the midterms, she offered test corrections for anything you got wrong to get points back.

Carrie is very sweet. Fair exams, good video lectures. She's a great educator to start of your biology series with. BIOL 205 is tough stuff and Carrie lays a good foundation for her students to be successful in it as well as in other future classes.

(Taken Online) Had optional Q&A times instead of class time and was very helpful during these hours & is very caring and understanding. Offers test corrections on exams & exams aren’t too difficult, just watch the lectures and you’ll be fine. Homework also isn’t too bad, aprox. 1 assignment/week and was pretty easy and straightforwards.

The online lectures were informative, the workload was not bad and Schwarz seemed very nice.

Carrie is an awesome introductory professor for the bio 200 series. Super light workload aside from lab so you have more than enough time to study and catch up on lecture videos. Her exams are more than fair, and you can do test corrections for exams which improve your grade massively after doing not so hot on an exam. 5 stars!

Professor Schwarz is kind, knowledgeable, and passionate about Biology. The lectures were interesting, she was very accommodating, and the tests were pretty fair and exactly what was taught in class. I really liked her as professor and would definitely recommend!

Had her a couple quarters back, really lovely class despite being stuck online. Clear lectures, clear instructions. Learned a lot.

Besides Dan, Schwarz is one of the best bio professors i've ever had. She makes things clear during lectures and the way her course is set up gives you less to stress about. Quizzes are online and there hard but you get three opportunities to take them and she takes your best grade out of three.

Amazing course! Everything is very well explained and guided in this course. Most of the learning for the in-class exams and topics can be achieved by reading the chapters and attending labs. Labs are super important for this course and are huge sourses of information that can reconfirm or explain topics from the chapters.

Carrie is really kind and helpful. She'll lecture for 2 of the classes and then does an in-class activities on the 3rd day. She had us do weekly quizzes that we could retake if needed, and are available through canvas. She cares more about making sure we understand the concepts vs memorization for tests. She also would come help during our labs.

Dr. Schwarz required out-of-class lecture notes and quizzes for credit, which was a bit much sometimes, but it proved effective for learning. She allows exam corrections which was very nice. For such a large class, she handles the individual with amazing empathy and compassion.

i would give carrie my life. she is extremely engaged, passionate, and knowledgeable.

Prof. Schwarz is lovely! She gives good feedback and cares about her students. She does ~10 take home quizzes throughout the quarter, and no exams. Her lectures are fun to sit through, and she goes through slides at a reasonable pace. She is very approachable, even outside of class.

Carrie had amazing lectures, and her slide shows were easy to follow if you were unable to attend a lecture. She also is insightful to any questions, and was very helpful.

She is very kind and eager to teach and help. She presents the material in an understandable way and her demeanor made a safe space for questions. Carrie if you're reading this sorry I fell asleep in the 8:30 sometimes

Had a blast in bio this quarter. Carrie was awesome, and while her lectures weren't always helpful in understanding the material, she was available to help out whenever you needed support. She was often present in lab as well which was really helpful. No exams, just weekly quizzes and a few assignments throughout the quarter.

Prof Schwarz is very nice and kind. She makes sure you understand and will go out of her way to make sure you do. She will answer any question too. Bio 204 is also a very easy class when taken with Carrie. No exams, quizzes once a week on Friday, and labs are pretty simple and straight forward. Great introduction to the world of biology

Carrie was amazing! She's so kind and personable, and loves to build relationships with her students. The work for the class was very light and all tests were online. I wish I could take all my classes with Carrie!!

carrie was so sweet and kind. although some of the course material was difficult to grasp, the actual grading of the class was extremely forgiving and easy to do well in. she gives weekly online, take home quizzes, that you get to take twice. you should be able to ace every one if you check what you get wrong. there was no midterm and no final.

Carrie is such an amazing professor! Her lectures always covered the necessary material, and she tried to keep things interesting with different activities every once in a while. Her study guides and practice quizzes for exams are almost like a cheat sheet for the real exam, and if you study them and the concepts on them well, you'll do great.

Carrie was great! Lectures were interesting and she is obviously very passionate about the subject and teaching. She always makes sure to post extra resources for specific questions asked during lecture, and is always very pleasant to be around. She even comes to labs to answer any questions and is honestly just a very nice person. I recommend!!

Carrie was great. Obviously cared a lot about the content of the course and also the students learning. Went to every lab and helped students constantly. Gave two chances on all the quizzes in the class making learning very easy. Great professor would recommend.

Carrie cares a lot about her students and their learning, which is great! Lectures have a lot of information but she builds in exit slips and class assignments to keep you interested. Exams could be very tough as there's a lot to memorize so watch out for that. Allows for test corrections and extra credit. Lab counts for third of your grade.

Carrie is one of the best professors I've had so far. She is kind and intelligent and truly believes there are no bad questions. She genuinely wants her students to succeed and understand the concepts. The content is pretty easy and the slides are all available on Canvas. She gives lots of resources to study for exams as well. Take Carrie!