Elena was a very good teacher, she is extremely knowledgeable in the field and is very good at explaining things in more understandable terms. She is very easy to get along with and very helpful outside of class. As long as you attend lecture and pay attention you will be ok. If you plan to sleep in class or talk the whole time, take another class

i had alex alexiades for my lab TA. hes amazing nice and super sexy! elena doesnt actually teach any of the labs. it was a great and fun class

I didn't have her as a prof but she is my adviser and probably the best adviser I have had in my entire college career. She didn't make me feel stupid and she sat down with my for over half an hour planning out my schedule with me . She is the best

Elena is a fantastic instructor and wants you to learn. If you are not there to work, don't take this class. Very organized and somewhat demanding, be ready to work hard and enjoy a great class!

Great professor! The class takes work, but if you're a science major or interested in th topic it's worth it! I highly recommend the study groups that are for extra credit, they help a lot. Read the book and do the practice questions and you'll find the tests are pretty easy.

This class is really easy. Dr. Pravosudova offers so much extra credit that it's hard not to do well in her class. Her lectures could be a little more engaging, but she makes the material clear. Make sure to do the practice problems as the test questions are pulled straight from them. An easy A. Plus, the quizzes are online - open book...

I took a class from Elena a while ago, and although challenging, it was interesting. I have been working with Elena for almost 2 years now, and I am a TA for her Biology 190 course. She is incredibly down to earth and extremely helpful. She is very pleasant and a pleasure to work with all around. She is a fantastic professor, adviser, and mentor.

The class is chalenging but elena makes it possible to pass with an A. Go to lecture, do all hw, study from the review questions(which are straight from previous tests), and go to study group.... keep up and BIO 190 will be a breaze... highly recommended as a teacher!!

Didn't ever see her once. The labs are taught entirely by a TA and graded by the TA. Basic lab with some writing assignments. Basically, hope you get a good TA.

Prof. Pravosudova is a great teacher! She is very nice if you aren't disrupting class. She tries to do a lot of different styles of teaching to keep everyone interested. She likes it if you get involved too. You can tell she really loves this subject. I think she would be great in a smaller class, but her lecture classes were good. Take her class!

Pravosudova is one of the best teachers at UNR. To get an easy A in her class all you do are those practice questions she gives. When I took her class, literally all I did and got an A. She has a strong accent, but still understandable. She's very nice and sincere. If I had teh chance, I'd take her again.

She is my counselor and I took two classes from her. She is probably the nicest person I have ever met, and willing to help out in anyway possible, even if it is in a class she doesn't teach. Love her to death, and her classes are easy and provide you with everything you need to take upper division courses.

Decent teacher, rather difficult but you can get an A if you go to class, read and study a lot!

She's a really nice lady and she tries to make lectures interesting by telling jokes and using examples. Attendance is kinda mandatory... we get asked questions via clicker, but you only need to attend about half of all lectures to get full attendance points for the semester. Homework and quizzes are super easy, test are pretty difficult =[

I don't agree with the poster before me. Although decent writing skills are required, not a lot is required from the class. I started every major assignment after 12 am the night before it was due and got an A on every major assignment and an A in the class. Early on, make sure your lab buddies are hardworking and intelligent. Mine were awesome!

I'm a first semester freshman, and I got an A in this class. This class is not a lot of work, and it's not hard at all. I don't know why people are complaining.

I had her for an Biol190H and she was great! Many other people in the class didn't enjoy it, but what I loved was her clear passion for Biology. Because we were an Honors class, the class size was around 20 so we got plenty of individual attention. Many non-honors students don't like her class, but since we were honors, she loved us and was biased

Wonderful professor! Explains things clearly and makes it interesting. Lots of chances for extra credit, although quizzes and exams are a little difficult. Genuinely cares about her students. Absolutely love her.

Difficult class, but extremely fundamental if you plan on taking biology later on. You can tell she knows what she's talking about, she uses great (and funny) examples, and she is extremely helpful and very good with getting back to emails. Highly recommend her for any bio class.

She is very nice but I did not enjoy her lectures. She seemed to go off on tangents that did not help and her tests were difficult. I would not recommend taking her class.

I absolutely loved her class and the extra credit discussions really saved me when it came to exams. It is not easy at all, nobody told me not to take this class as an incoming freshman so I had a bit of a tougher time keeping up in the beginning. If you work hard, you will get a good grade, definitely not a class that you can slack off in AT ALL.

Great teacher, she gives you a lot of tools to succeed, its really hard to fail the class. With the help from all the click er and extra credit points I got an A in the class, even when I received C's on the test. Drops your lowest test score too!

Pravosudova is very enthusiastic about the subject so she's a better lecturer than most. Discussion groups help a lot, ask questions in class, spend some time looking over the chapters in the textbook and you'll do great. Quizzes sucked for me but if you get As on the tests then it doesn't matter. Good class!

Super nice teacher and easy. Just study the powerpoints and you will do fine

Elena is great! One of my favorite professors. She really helps you grasp the concepts in her lectures. However, you will have to put work in outside of class. This is not an easy A course. Read all the material before class so you understand it, then use Elenas lectures to help you clarify the harder points. (Come to class for the clicker points!)

Very enthusiastic lady, tests are difficult because of the unexpected Organic Chemistry aspects. Nevertheless, they can be prepared for provided you attend lecture daily, look over quizzes, and read the book. Oh, and the online lecture. She's friendly. Accent is clear and fine.

Professor Pravosudova is awesome! She's so enthusiastic about biology and she loves honors students! Her notes can be vague or confusing sometimes and the weekly quizzes are hard but she's totally fair. Let her proof read your paper and you'll get a 100%. Attend discussion group and do extra credit and you'll do well! She truly wants you to succeed

I saw Elena once for 30 seconds on the first day of lab, but that was it. It is a very organized lab with everything on webcampus. Your class depends on your TA, mine was awesome and helpful with the labs. The class has several weekly assignments, so staying on top of what is due is important. Got out early usually. The lab practical was alright.

She is very kind and intelligent. She enjoys helping her students and she gives extra credit. This class was easy except the exams were challenging. Extra credit for showing up to lecture.

The instructor has a lot of respect for Honor students. She is very helpful when answering questions and outside of class. She makes it clear that you need a strong conceptual understanding of the material in order to do well in her class. Her weekly quizzes and tests are fairly challenging. She is reasonable and fair with overall grades though.

She DOES give study guides for tests. You do have to study outside of class time but she tells you that on the first day. Its not super easy material, but study and read and you can get it!

I absolutely loved this class! She is so funny during lectures, and you get extra credit for attending and answering the Catalytics questions. The tests can be challenging, but if you read the chapters ahead of time, pay attention in discussion groups, and do practice questions, you should be fine! Very nice and helpful in and outside of class!

Elena is awesome. Everyone is complaining about not having a study guide, well its college so grow up. There are so many resources for that class that if you don't get atleast a B you are just lazy. Discussions are helpful and she gave 3% EC for doing questions during lectures. Super awesome during office hours and would take more classes from her.

Dr. Pravosudova is such a helpful professor and really cares about her students. She always makes the lectures fun and interactive and she makes sure that the students understand the material. I always was excited to come to class and learn new stuff, and because the learning assistants in the class are really cute. Take this class!

Professor Pravosudova I felt did an amazing job making sure we had many different exposures to the material we needed to learn. Through the homework, learning catalytics in class, and mandatory discussion groups, I felt it was really easy to study and understand the material. You have a lot of participation in class that can give you extra points.

Difficult class but easy learning. Many helpful resources

I got to know her before I took her class and she is a very caring, sweet person. I didn't do the greatest in her class but that's because I didn't try very hard. There are many great resources and you go over most of the material in discussion. You should read the book and go to class, where you'll get a lot of points. Tests are mostly MC

Her exams are tough bc she makes you apply the material it isnt just basic vocab. She is a wonderful professor and tries to make things as clear as she can. Learning Catalytics points are easy points so make sure you show up to class and do them! She does provide a study guide before exams. Difficult class if you slack off

Learning Catalytic questions are your best friend here (easy points so do them) She drops lowest test score, there are discussions once a week were you learn more clearly want went on in the lecture. She spends some lectures stuck on one slide so it is easy to get bored fast. Not bad professor her accents isn't bad like everyone says.

Dr. Pravosudova's class is memorization heavy, but the TAs are helpful for preparing for the test. Lectures are mandatory (learning catalytics) but you NEED to read the textbook because there is a lot not covered in class. Her class is structured to force you to memorize and review things so you have lots of things due throughout the week

Prof. Pravosudova was quirky, and I enjoyed her lectures. The mandatory discussion groups each week were extremely helpful, as were the review sessions held before each test. I found notecards and diagrams to be helpful when studying. Make sure to either write down or remember the dynamic study module questions for quizzes. She also uses LC.

Dr. Pravosudova is a good professor and makes the material clear that you need to know. Missing one or two classes won't hurt but Learning Catalytics is used during lecture for participation points. Having a good discussion leader is helpful to mastering the material (quizzes before every discussion). Keep a good schedule with weekly homework!

Forty percent of the grade is homework and some quizzes and sixty percent are tests. She's a safe bet to take. As long as you get like eighty-five percent or higher on tests you can get an A easily. Her tests aren't really hard and she drops one of the three midterms. Midterm averages are like low eighties so she's easier than most others.

Weekly homework assignments and quizzes, 3 tests, 1 final exam, mandatory weekly discussion meeting that also has quizzes, and learning catalytics in class. She is a good teacher, knows everything and teaches most things. Make sure you read the textbook and watch her online videos too. You can easily get a B or above if you put effort into learning

All biology 190 classes do Learning Catalytics questions during the lecture session which count as participation points and a way to take attendance, so you should definitely attend class. After exams, you don't get them back, but you can go into her office hours and view the tests to see what you missed.

Pravosudova is a good professor, but she can be super dry and boring at times. She does a great job of making sure students know the material through a variety of homework, discussion groups, quizzes, and LC questions. There are 4 tests including the final, one of the midterms can be dropped. She's an easy A as long as you put the needed effort in

This class can be passed with an A if you put in the work. The first and third test is easy but the second one is a lot more information so it's harder. If you attend class, read the book and study every week you will pass this class just fine. The discussion/recitation are extremely helpful.

Dr. Pravosudova is a great professor who really cares about her students. She gives two lectures a week and then there's a mandatory discussion led by a previous student. Overall, the class has some challenging concepts (especially exam 2), but other than that, it is very manageable and she explains things very well. She is also really approachable

Dr. Pravosudova is an amazing professor and it is easy to get a good grade in the class if you do the homework and study the material she tells you to study. She gives a lot of homework, but it does not take very long AND it boosts your grade since it's easy. I enjoyed this class and would take her again!

Dr. Pravosudova is one of the best professors I had. It is clear that she cares about her students and really wants them to pass. She does things to keep the class fun and interesting and is willing to answer any questions you have. There were about 3 weekly assignments which don't take too long to do. I highly recommend this course!

Pravosudova is a lovely woman who loves biology. She cares about her students and does her best to make the content as accessible as possible. She is very knowledgeable and provides a lot of resources to learn. Class is not mandatory, but you will miss the LC questions which are graded. Discussion group is also mandatory but very helpful!

I feel like Pravosudova's rating on here is too low. She is quirky and kind and adores biology. Biology is a tough subject, and you're gonna have to put in the effort to be successful just like any other class. Being on Zoom, I feel like she is one of the few teachers who adapted her class really well. Just pay attention and get off your phone!

The ratings here are too low! She gives so many resources to practice with and she explicitly states what you need to know for the exam. Literally so many resources given for practice questions or further clarification. It is a lot of work but if you keep up and pay attention to what she says, you'll be more than fine!

Was a very difficult and challenging subject but I think Dr. Pravosudova did an excellent job of explaining every concept. I would always look forward to attending her class since she always has a positive attitude and seems to really enjoy teaching. She did a great job integrating everything online. I think she should have a higher rating on here!

I think she did a great time adjusting to online class for covid. Discussion sections were really helpful. The exams are on the harder side, but she gives out study guides that are pretty accurate. She also drops some grades at the end of the semester as well.

I'd say my discussion and discussion leader were way more helpful than going to the main lecture with Prof. Pravosudova. The class is well-structured but fast-paced, so you just need to make sure you are keeping up with the content. Study whenever you can! Also, she gave random extra credit at the end, which was nice. Participate!!!

Great professor, she is incredible at teaching foundational biology.

I expected this class to be extremely difficult based on other feedback, but I found that as long as you are willing to put the slightest amount of effort outside of class time, you will be just fine. Your discussion leader also makes a huge difference. Just stay on top of assignments and, if necessary, watch the virtual lectures.

She has numerous ways for students to succeed, in-person lectures, online step-by-step lectures, LA's that walk around the class that help you with questions, extra credit homework for each test, midterm, and final, a discussion, and DSM homework that doesn't penalize you for wrong answers. Plus one test score gets dropped.

Dr. Pravosudova is a pretty good professor! Lectures can get confusing at times but she provides plenty of resources to help students be successful. Don't skip discussion, it's super helpful for understanding the harder concepts. If you do all the homework and study for tests this class will seem easy.

Great professor. She always says to read the textbook, but it's not neccesary because the online lecture videos, in-person lectures, and discussion meetings always taught exactly what you need to know. Attendance is mandatory in discussion and lecture. All the resources you need to succeed are given to you in this class.

Professor Pravosudova is so organized and made studying so much easier for me. She does Learning Catalytics every class, but you can sign on at home. The lecture videos also make in-person lectures less important to attend. Discussion section is mandatory, but its only once a week for 50 minutes, and it really helped me understand the concepts.

Learning catalytics every class for attendance. Learned more during discussion than lecture. Homework is long but fairly simple. Lots of drops. 1 exam dropped. Lots of extra credit opportunities. Video lectures encouraged to watch before lecture, but I never did. Lecture can be slow, I was there more for attendance and passive learning.

She is a very nice professor when you get to know her. The class does seem like an upper division but you are set-up for success. She drops either test 1 or test 3. Provides extra credit (avg of 4 points) before each exam. Watch online videos she posts bc there's answers to all LC Q's. Make sure to study good and you'll do fine!

Take Dr Pravosudova if you want an A. Of course the ratings are going to be bad for a professor who teaches a weed out class when everyone goes into college thinking they are going to be the next Derek Sheppard. She makes it very easy to get an A, study a little and youll do fine.

A great professor, cared about students succeeding and gave so many extra credit opportunities throughout the semester. Learning catalytics and quizzes almost every class so make sure to go. As long as you put in a little bit of effort you will succeed.

You 1.)watch an online lecture and fill out a provided note outline 2.) do a Dynamic study module 3.) go to class and review material with professor 4.) do an online homework assignment covering material 5.) take a short quiz the following class. FOLLOWING THIS FORMAT IS HOW YOU SUCCEED. You do more learning away from class but the SI sessions help

I think she was a very kind and caring professor. Sure the course had a lot of assignments, but they were very easy, and her teaching style made the material easy to remember and grasp. The discussions also really helped a ton, and she really does do a lot to make sure her students succeed. She would defiantly be happy giving extra credit as well.

Note outlines were super easy and if you went to the lecture you did not have to watch any extra videos to understand. She is very funny but she talks a lot and sometimes it can get redundant. The extra credit and dropping a test helps a lot!

This class provides many resources and information but is also the foundational biology class. It's a flipped-classroom style, so take notes before class from videos. Learning catalytics are graded in class. Drops an exam. Extra-credit also given. MDG helped a lot. I'd ask your MDG leader how they succeeded in class before reading all the reviews.

Dr. Pravosudova sets the expectation very early on in the class. She provides you with EXTREMELY clear outlines of the class and exactly what she expects you to learn from each chapter. She provides study guides, EC opportunities, and tons of resources. However, if you don't put in the effort, you just simply won't get the grade you want.

Professor Pravosudova's BIO190 has a flipped-classroom style but provides plenty of resources. Attend lectures, watch videos beforehand, and use unstuckstudy for study prep. The class has a learning curve, but with effort you can earn a solid grade.

Good professor! Class is structured so every week you read the chapter, watch videos, take notes, and do hw before lecture. Lecture and discussion review topics and reinforce what you learn on your own. TAs and LAs are very helpful. Four exams, midterm and final are cumulative. Either one of the other two tests or the LC questions are dropped.

Pravosudova is an amazing professor, she is the perfect mix of caring and business. The Online video lectures are the backbone of the course and are really well made. Slacked off in lecture and didn't read the book but studied lectures to do well on exams. Discussions are fun depending on your leader and I found mine to be excellent!

Dr. Pravosudova is one of the most genuine professors I've met. I was initially stressed out by the expectations, but you learn how to do good on exams after the first one. Provides so much extra credit that it's harder not to fail. Go to her office hours. Even though I never paid attention in lecture, she cares so much about your success

Discussions and lectures helped. Although pacing throughout the lecture was off, I did retain and review a lot of misinformation or things I didn't understand when I read the textbook. It's almost like a flipped classroom and the professor gives a lot of resources. The written parts of the exam are usually the practice drawings, nothing unexpected

A lot of the other ratings say that the class is lecture heavy but honestly if you read the textbook it's almost one for one to her slideshows. The quality of your discussion group leader is the most important aspect! Get a good discussion group leader and you will pass!

Definitely the most structured professor I've ever had. All grading criteria and assignments are very clear from the beginning. Flipped classroom style. One discussion a week. All of the materials are there for you to succeed if you put in the effort!

She is an amazing professor, she's VERY fair on exams, gives you all materials needed for success. Honestly, the people who did not like her didn't put the work in at home by watching online lectures before class (seriously helps so much, I knew all the content in class) and studying. It is not a hard course if you put in 30 minutes a day to study.

She was pretty good! I had her for BIOL189a, and I finished with a 91%. Mastering bio hw is really helpful for tests. Filling out the note outlines is a great way to study. I would take her again!