Don't take this class in the summer with Dr. Freeborn unless you want a ruined summer. That's it. That's the review.

Reads off slides in a monotone voice. Not engaging. Hard to get an A+. But A is manageable if you work hardddd for it

The course itself is very easy and you'll easily get an A- to A if you attend class regularly and study a bit for the quiz. What I really hate about this professor is that she is very inflexible in many ways. The worst professor I've ever had.

Chelsea knows that people are taking FMST as GPA boosters, and is cracking down on it. This is essentially a dry and disorganized version of Kathy's 210. Demands for the project and final exam are like "less on the research/movie and more course content", even when it's not fitting so its a lose-lose situation. Also very confusing and inconsiderate

Dr Freeborn made class so dreadful and she was very rude! Some TAs graded kinda chill but in the end I wanted to end myself. She does in class activities and quizzes so show up on time or she'll act like you cheated

chelsea is a good instructor but the TA will ruin your marks. assignment averages are 70%, do with that what you will

Quizzes were confusing/worded weirdly and professor could be dismissive at times when asking for help. A lot of the content is very surface-level and repetition from other FMST courses. I would not recommend taking her.

Quizzes were very confusing and worded terribly. Heck, if you write like that on assignments, instant F. Email like that, ghosted. She was dismissive all the time when asking for help. Lectures were surface-level but readings were hyper specific (tested on stats). Just take FMST210 (with a different prof obv), you'll cover the same but better

Chelsea is a $#1+ instructor. Expectations were unclear + out of sync, reflecting the disorganization of the course. But it seems like both were looking for more course content rather than application and research. The reason for assignment averages is because she hates how FMST is a known GPA booster. iirc averages were in the mid 70s (fair-ish?)

DO NOT take this course for any reason. Everything is very unclear, and the rubric for the assignments are never even followed. The quizzes are heavily content based and nitty gritty with unnecessary details, also words changed so that things are contradictory. Also a terrible writer, she has no right to have expectations for students

I gave the TA the benefit of the doubt. Not sure where I stand. They do have to follow instructions, and it seems like Trapdead was tryna kill us over the GPA booster idea from elsewhere. However, she's too disorganized to sync with the TA. But the course format and lectures were a mess overall, and help/support was blatantly and rudely dismissed

I have a kid, and I can tell you that MVC doesn't reflect reality. A lot of assumptions made, I'm not white nor poor. Needs to set a page length, for clarity's sake. Seemed to prefer excessively long assignments, always asking for more and more length (conciseness is a scam here). To me it's less so difficulty, more so accuracy

Also figure out if you want outside sources + personal xp or not. I know there's too few guidelines, but that was explicitly there. Says we need to read instructions, YES that's true and a mistake I made the first time and learned from. Same goes on your end. Other assignments were marked too slowly, making it harder to do so

This course gave me depression

Don't have kids lol. The one thing I learned. #RestoreRoe

Do not take for any reason. The assignment rubrics were unclear, quiz questions were confusing, feedback was unconstructive, prof was dismissive, and the course is abstract by nature but what we heard from them was MISLEADING. Could've just been clear that they want us to reiterate course content in great detail (low mins and no maxes)

She started to use her "new written textbook" this year, the course has become very difficult (as if you comes to this class just wanna take easy&high score course). This quiz has become DIFFICULT you need to spend a LOT of time read the whole textbook to get a high score since she wants to make her textbook very "useful" and force people buy it.

30 MCQS and 3 short answer questions (250 words per question btw) in 45 mins is INSANE. She made her test 10x harder compared to before just because she wants us to buy her textbook (it's 80CAD for half a year acess). Its not an easy credit course from now on, don't take it if u don't care abt fmst.

The next Gateman

Made me hate family studies overall, even though upper year ones without her were okay, I feel like the whole degree is a waste of time. It's more like gender studies at this point, not a real field

waste of my money. so thats awesome

i bought the textbook that she wrote just for this class (Gateman move). Did the readings, came to every class even when sick (to mitigate her wrath). Quiz Qs were misleading + crazy specific about details that no one gaf about. Forced the TA to teach despite being someone from another major who took a better prof and has no knowledge in fmst

Just no, literally a nightmare

She's here for the $. Don't give in. Don't take her (cl)ass, don't buy the book. Obsessed with this social ecology theory (background is stuff no one knows or cares about, much less practices), but believes families are oppressive (why are you in family studies then...). I try to be positive about people, but that's just not possible with her

waste of space

This course needs to be reworked completely: asks dumb and some discomforting questions. Lectures were culturally insensitive opinions and quiz questions were on nitty gritties that no one gives a f(ire tr)uck about about. No one really participated or cared. Take Rafael Wainer instead

Ruined 2024. But a new year with her forever absent dawns. So does the nuclear family

Chelsea's an unengaging prof who cares about her own area of study that isn't even family studies. There was one in-class participation activity per week, which usually was a discussion post that you had to submit within minutes and couldn't edit. If you were ever sick and in the hospital, you got no participation marks all term

It's no game. And no games. She tried to destroy my Nintendo switch. BEFORE class started. But Mario kart ftw. Put Luigi and Diddy Kong into a kart so that they're escaping the clink together

My least favourite prof at UBC. Her lectures are broken and she is super unengaging. Also was super difficult to talk to, often didn't want to talk at all, and refused to answer questions or help. Feedback was non existent, just irrelevant rudeness and bigotry

The MVC assignments were expensive, costing real money to access. Also very eurocentric, if you don't believe in permissive parenting you're done for. Also the simulation made kids rebellious and located us in the hood. She was unwelcoming, uninclusive, would not recommend

Has an attitude and gets annoyed when students ask questions, often answering with something vague and unhelpful. Grades harshly and offers useless feedback. Doesn't use slides or supporting lecture material, class is mainly discussions rather than actual content, but still expects students to have takeaways from lecture.

Unclear rubric and assignment guidelines. Too lazy to double check her own work, so assignment deadlines on canvas vs syllabus don't match up. Grades harshly and is an unengaging lecturer.

Disorganized. Acts like we need to be good writers but that's not the case, she's a terrible writer (and speaker) herself. Can't communicate. Bad and hypocritical for family studies. Disengaged and closed off but expects people to engage. Syllabus misses some key info. Whatever's on is often inaccurate

Marks harshly and doesn't really teach. Assignments are unclear and syllabus is disorganized.

Not a good prof at all. Area of expertise is not FMST, so not sure why she is the prof for FMST courses. Very disorganized and expects students to be great writers, when she is not one herself. Seems to expect too much of students, while providing no useful information or course content.

She's not very welcoming or engaging, and appears quite disorganized. Is not a very engaging lecturer and prefers to have students present for the entire class rather than teaching herself. Course has no real takeaways, avoid this class if not required.

She honestly doesn't do a lot of work herself. The class is mainly discussions or students leading the class while she just sits back and glares at people. Some assignments are self-evaluated, probably because she doesn't want to do more work.

Very rude, grading is extremely biased, assignments and rubric are unclear.

Biased grading, super disappointing when she gives you a low mark for something you worked so hard on, just because it talks about other cultures or doesn't focus on a Western, Eurocentric lens.

Land acknowledgement means nothing when you support erasing culture and family altogether. Why is someone that wants all families to fall in a family class. No, she doesn't want great writers in her class, what she's looking for is not good writing. It's her out of style thing. Disengaged, and is in the wrong field and profession

Extremely tough grader. Exam question expect you to memorize random statistic and facts rather than concepts. Not very accomodating and forces you to buy her v expensive textbook. This course is definitely not a grade booster from any angle. In fact, its the worst grade I have received in the last 3 years

She knows that FMST is a GPA booster and hates that. But who is she to judge that? She doesn't even have a FMST background, and is against family values and hates everyone who doesn't reject it along with their own families. Poor speaker without writing and communicating and comprehension skills, expecting people to know only irrelevant things

This is not what I would expect from any human being. It's very rude. "If that's not your thing then drop the course!". Provokes people, and encourages people to drop the class! Feedback is nonsense, she's not even a proper writer

Course content is not a challenge, but it's bad and often inaccurate. Papers have no min, sure it's up to you how much work you put in, but what she's looking for is improper and unconventional, and she is extremely unprofessional. She hates AI and wants everyone who's ever touched it to die. She harasses people in discussion

Grading slow, instructions unclear, easy yet difficult to do well. Quizzes ask for so much and high-quality responses with limited word count. Feedback slow and general, cannot even improve for future assignments because it's not graded. I understand the low reviews now. Content easy and generic, but course too disorganized. Confusing expectations

gives me the creeps

Really negative and unengaging lectures. Written assignments were actually cool but criteria was always confusing and she couldn't explain them or answer questions, she was rude and got difficult