terrible

She is not a good teacher. Her lectures are dry, read from a piece of paper, too fast to take notes, and do not relate to the textbook information. Her TAs that teach our section classes are much better than her.

I hate this class. Lecture is BORING!!! All she does is read from a piece of paper and acts as if she could care less about history. Lecture quizes were supposedly "random" but she gives them at the end of EVERY lecture. Text book reading are a big part of the class, but they have nothing to do with lecture. THIS CLASS IS BORING!

This class sucks!! If you take this class you just might shoot yourself!! It is so boring. I have never had such a B**** for a teacher. She calls people out for texting or readying other material and tries to take them from you.

She is not a very good teacher. It got to the point where the students had to ask for visual aid to understand what the heck she was talking about. Very boring and TAs are responsible for your grades. You have to read the books and even though attendance isnt required she has a lecture quiz at the end of every class.

The worst professor in the history department, i have taken two of her classes, i am an A student and have resulted in a C grade, do not take any classes with her as her teaching style is horrible. that is my only warning.

Awful

shes terrible way harder than other teachers, mean and expects WAY TOO MUCH for students who HAD to take her class to graduate.she makes you read a ton and to pass you have to go to class bc of clicker questions. definitely avoid her class if possible.

Tries to work with you, but does not take your personal schedules into thought. I have never had a class as tough as this one. I worked my butt off to stay on top of things in this class, and it still was not enough. I only needed this class to fulfill my history requirement. I bought 4 "textbooks" and never used them.

Makes you read a ridiculous amount for homework, gives reading quizzes everyday, and gets annoyed that no one discusses the readings during class. Her lectures suck and she expects you to know terms you never learned for tests. She grades the reading quizzes extremely hard. Its impossible to get a 100% even if you read. DO NOT TAKE HER EVER.

Seriously the worst teacher I've ever experienced! Her lectures are AWFUL, the amount you have to read weekly is ridiculous (she strongly believes that shes the only teacher and class you take) and there's absolutely no electronic devices allowed (she is so rude if she sees one). Do not ever take this class!!!!

she sucks. the exams are so broad and hard. She puts up a power point with nothing on it and talks extremely fast and expects you to take notes word for word on what she's saying. Her tests are impossible to study for. She's by far the worst teacher I have ever had.

This teacher is the worst lecturer I have ever had. She spends time on the least important things and I learned absolutely nothing from this course. Her lectures are impeccably boring and her class is super hard. If you can, DO NOT TAKE HY 103 with her. I even took APUSH in high school and that class was 100x easier than this one.

She is by far the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. She puts up a powerpoint with maybe 10 words on it and then talks ridiculously fast and non stop for the entire lecture. She gave us OVER 200 terms to study for the midterm for 3 of them to be on the test and 13 pictures for 1 of them to be on the test. Impossible to pass this class: 0/10.

Her lectures are not mandatory, and her powerpoint have nothing to do with what she discusses. Its hard to follow her in class, and you won't get anything when trying to study from them. Definitely a hard class and not worth my time, I wish I would've dropped and taken it with someone else. She also wasn't helpful when I emailed her several times.

The review below is mine, dont know how Awesome was the result it ended up posting with.. shes awful.

If you want to spend 9 hours reading a week to take a 5 question quiz for a lower division class and literally not know what is going on, then this class is perfect for you. Not one of my classmates knew what was going on. Her lectures make no sense, just a bunch of random facts that don't connect. My upper division classes are easier. Good luck!

I do not recommend taking her class. She does not use a textbook. Her powerpoints are extremely vague. She is constantly jumping around. High expectations but bad at helping students meet those expectations. She does not record lectures so if you miss something in your notes then good luck.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. She is so scattered and her powerpoints are so out of order. She doesn't even talk about what she is showing on the powerpoint. If you miss class you have to teach yourself because her powerpoints are SO vague. Her tests are so hard our TA felt sorry for us. Her 100 level class is taught like a 300 level.

Dr. Kopelson is an awful teacher. She puts up powerpoints with barely any words on them and expects us to write down EVERYTHING she says in class. By the way no computer are allowed. I stopped going to class because I was not learning a single thing. Thank gosh that I had an awesome TA who knew how to be merciful and knew how bad she was. Terrible

It's an intro course that's run like a 300 level class (my TA said so). The amount of info and reading is obscene. She tests you on everything but only likes to discuss what she knows. She's the type of person who's smart, knows it, and likes to show off. She calls people out in class and seems like she likes being known as a "difficult" teacher.

One of the worst professors I have ever had. Her lectures don't make any sense and she speaks too fast for you to even understand what she's saying.

This 103 level class is more work than any of my 300+ level classes. 60-90 pages worth of reading per week even on exam weeks. You will also be tested on the reading so there is no way to get out of it. On top of this, her lectures are a waste of time, they're super unorganized and worthless. Horrible class with a terrible professor.

Dr. Kopelson's class was just awful. She makes useless powerpoints with little info on them and expects us to write it down, but you cannot use a computer. Grades weren't fair, Gives us 90+ pages of reading, for a 5 question test. I would spend hours and still fail them. For a class that is 100 level, it was harder than any upper division class.

Bored at home during quarantine? No need to worry, she will ramp up the work load to keep you busy all during the entirety of the pandemic.

Worst professor I have had at UA. Does not care about what you have going on, even during pandemic. Will upload assignments extremely late but expect you to finish a weeks work in one day when she finally posts it. Singlehandedly caused for an unexplainable amount of stress this semester. More work in hy 103 than most 300 courses

I do not recommend ANY student take this class. Compared to higher level history classes I have taken, this 100 level class was made extremely difficult for no reason. This class was disorganized, the grading scale is not clearly defined, the readings became repetitive, and I honestly can not say what information I learned from taking this course.

If you have a choice do not take this class. The grading scale is very unclear for the readings and she makes the assignments extra hard with barely any time to complete it. She adds a bunch of fluff requirements to projects and essays that are unnecessary. TAs do most of the work for this class.

Take another professor if you can. I took this class for a history requirement and it ended up being over half of this semester's workload. Lots of weekly homework, assigns projects with barely any time to do them, and has very unclear grading. I wish I had dropped this class a long time ago.

She is very unprofessional in the way she speaks with her students. She gives lots of homework and very large assignments and waits till the day its due to assign them. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASSS!!!

If you respect yourself do not take this teacher. She does not respect your time or sanity. She is a lazy lecturer. She is very rude to student. she gives unreasonable assignments. Just please don't do this to yourself. I should have dropped a long time ago. I'm a 4.0 student and im saying dont.

Do not take this class, I thought taking a class fully online would be beneficial considering I started to take classes for my major and I was so wrong. Kopelson assigns so much work over the course of a week and on a few occasions she didn't assign the work until 1 day before it was due. Does not answer emails in a timely manner.

This class is a ton of work and you will learn absolutely nothing. I have never had such a terrible experience with a professor. She is lazy and rude. Kopelson expects students to complete an unreasonable amount of work with little effort of her own. She has no respect for anyone else's time. The class was unorganized and honestly frustrating.

This class was unnecessarily hard, especially since it was online. She gave out so much reading as well as lecture videos, but would not post the material until two days before it was due. She is unsympathetic to her students even though we are all in a pandemic and have other classes. This is a level 100 course. Do not take her for your sanity.

She is the worst professor at the University of Alabama and it's not even close. She has no idea what she is doing. Class is basically hear read 10 stupid articles that are common knowledge then all class is going to be is talking about them. She gives more busywork than a brand new high school English teacher. she doesn't grade anything. She blows

if you start typing heather kopelson into google it autofills with "rate my professor" because how much this class sucks

Honestly incredible. Her class was like living in the twilight zone - it was as if a fourth grader who had a basic understanding of critical race theory decided to teach the "tragedy of Native Americans." She ironically gave less historical agency to Indian peoples then traditional academia. Assignments on 4 different websites. Comedy.

350 characters is not enough to describe how awful this class is or any of her other classes. She talks down to her students and is incredibly rude if you get anything wrong in class. She teaches like a middle school teacher. She writes every key word from the book that you say on the board as you go through the reading and thats class.

Rated both 1 bc its an easy class but shes a horrible teacher. No one knew what their grade was the entire semester. If a student performed the same way she did as a teacher they would fail out of school. Assignments on multiple websites. One is videoing yourself and its hilarious how pointless it is along with all the other assignments.

Possibly the worst teacher I've ever had. Calls students out randomly and asks them questions and will wait til they answer. Makes students do stupid assignments. This is only my second lecture with her and she is by far the worst teacher I've ever had. She's one of the teachers that ruin class. But at least she starts every lecture with Roll Tide!

Dr. Kopelson assigns many unnecessary readings that barely pertain to the class. In class, shes just going to make you feel like a straight idiot, staring across the room for minutes at a time, waiting for someone to give an answer, AND WHEN YOU GIVE AN ANSWER SHE DOESNT LIKE, you just get ignored and the room falls silent again.

She is not lenient at all. She made students read 250 pages of a book in 3 days. lecture is stupid and recitation is the only time you get any information, and all recitations are from her TA's.

DO NOT take her.Literally everything people have wrote is true. You have so many assignments that require you to go to different websites to access. Some of the readings are not even linked in blackboard.The TAs are not even helpful.Nothing makes sense.Again ,AVOID taking her.

If you want to be constantly stressed out, have to read so much to the point where you're sacrificing your grades in other classes, and overall want to cry, this is the class for you! This class is test-heavy and unless you can take time out of your day to study material that she doesn't teach in lecture, then chances are you are going to fail.

Save your GPA and your sanity and take this class with another professor. She doesn't care about students and acts as if her class is the only one you're taking. She assigns so much work to the point where that is all you're focusing on. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLAS!!!

Cannot put into words how awful. She is RUDE and gives an ungodly amount of work. Had to read 6 books including a textbook. REALLY stupid projects. Tests extremely difficult. Lectures so unhelpful. avoid kopelson at all costs.

Avoid at all costs, she teaches this class like it is the only one you have. Unless you want to be stuck reading 6 books and reading powerpoint that are absolutely useless then just don't take it. Her lectures barely give you any real idea on what is going on and you basically are just trying to remember dates and events.

She lectures for the whole 50 minutes mainly rambling about irrelevant info... wastes time cold calling on people when we don't know a lot about the material...GIVES A BOOK REFLECTION ESSAY DUE THE DAY WE COME BACK FROM SPRING BREAK...doesn't let us keep our tests to see what we could do better on. Just a horrible professor who can do much better.

Lectures are awful. She yaps about topics that have nothing to do with the assignments given making attending lectures useless. While attendance isn't mandatory, she does give out random bonus points at random if you do attend class. She only has a midterm and final but LOTS of homework that is on units she will "discuss" that week in lecture.

Very confused the entire time, don't know what she's talking about in lecture AT ALL being just pictures and worrying if she's going to call you out. The midterm/final were so incredibly hard, just write and cry and pray. When emailing her about assignments, no answer. Shouldn't be a professor/should at least do A LOT of work to become a better one

If you thrive off of auditory teaching styles, shes your professor. however, if you are a visual or tactile learner, you dont stand a chance. She speaks, without stopping, no words on a board, nothing visual to look at, very few photos. For the extent of the lecture. She is very opinionated (politically), and it shows through her teaching

For a 100 level course it is extremely tedious. Lots and lots and lots of reading. Powerpoints consists of pictures with little to no context and lectures are recorded but not available (why). Pray that you get a Good TA or you might not do well in this class. If you zone out once in the lectures, you're lost without any references to go back to.

She teaches like this is the only class you'll take. 50 pages of reading WEEKLY, along with reading 4 documents a week. Lecture attendance isn't required but if you don't go good luck passing. She is rude to her students and continues to ask questions when we don't know what's going on because of how vague her PowerPoint is and how fast she talks.

listen to every single bad thing every other person has said about this professor. do not take her class at all costs and if she's the only option, wait another semester. tougher than almost every single upper level class i've taken and i used to enjoy history classes. lectures are confusing, so much reading assigned per week, exams are hard.. DONT