Prof Baker is always there for help if you need it. Tests are very fair & if you study, you should be getting A's. She's really nice too :)

Great prof! I love her teaching approach and her videos - super helpful and informative. I've never seen a first year class where almost everyone attends prior to this class.

wonderful prof! very helpful and engaging. her way of teaching and lecturing made it very easy to understand the concepts. her tests were fair. I would deff recommend taking this class with her!

Great prof, helpful, interesting lectures and material. Provides videos on how to do better on tests, exams, study skills very beneficial for first year students. She is one of the prof's that cares about students succeeding and provides us with resources like tutorial test practice for the first test. Read the text, pay attention in class got A.

My favourite prof so far! Incredibly fair and straightforward. Keep up with the readings, understand the material, and you're bound to get a great grade!

She's an awesome prof, I wasn't interested in soc until I went to her classes. Now I'm majoring in crim! & She's super nice!

Favourite prof at utm. Soc of Education is generally a very easy course but her lecture slides and lectures make it even easier - very clear and exams are fair.

She is a very nice and clear teacher, but her tests are hard. SOC is a hit or miss course, either you get it or you don't. The essay is a pain to write.

Literally THE BEST prof at UTM! She is super nice and her lectures are very clear. She even posts additional youtube videos for unclear topics. Lectures are right from the book, so you don't need to worry much about reading. Go to class and enjoy her lectures!!!

Probably one of the best profs that i had during my first year. Great experience

Do attend Classes!! She is a habit which is called "ticket out the door" non-randomly. It is basically you have to prepare a Q-card, you will be asked a specific question about the lecture that she just finished. For example, you might be asked to give specific example for a theory just introduced in the lecture.

She is an amazing prof, her lectures are useful to attend, she explains topics clearly, provides plenty of opportunities to ask questions as well as a positive learning experience! I want to be a teacher one day, and I love her teaching style - this is a prof who gets it!!! Can't wait to have her again for Sociology of education in the fall!!

She is an amazing prof, her lectures are useful to attend, she explains topics clearly, provides plenty of opportunities to ask questions as well as a positive learning experience! I want to be a teacher one day, and I love her teaching style - this is a prof who gets it! Can't wait to have her again for Sociology of education in the fall!

Love her! She's such a great prof and can't wait to take SOC of education next year with her! Her exams are fair, straightforward: multiple choice and short answers.

This class was among my favourites, the material is very interesting and Baker pulls in a lot of real-world examples to make it even more so. She is very clear with her expectations, the assignments have instructions and rubrics. However, the assignments are marked hard but she provides you with a lot of opportunities to get help for them.

Baker is a such a sweet professor! The most clear-cut lectures and expectations too, perfect for a book-learner like me. The course itself is dry, but she puts interesting examples throughout, and I enjoyed her straightforward lecture style. The lectures and tests were very book based, so as long as you read, you'll do well.

she is so passionate about what she does. Her lectures are long but you definitely won't be bored as she uses lots of contemporary examples to help you make connects. The assignments were marked a bit tough but she provides so many ways to prepare for them. Participation and class attendance are crucial as her tests are basically based on lectures

Spoke well and was passionate about what she was teaching.

Tests are fair, straightforward and easy. Writing assignments are difficult not always clear feedback, no feedback on tests for mistakes. Gives many chances for participation marks.

Although the class material was not that interesting (SOC221) she managed to make the class more engaging and provided examples. There are quite a bit of assignments in this class (3 written and 2 tests) but all the smaller written assignments are working towards your final paper. Tutorials are only based on attendance so that's an easy 10%.

THE best prof at UTM. I have been taking her classes for years. Initially, I was slightly intimidated but she is one of the most down to earth, approachable professors I have interacted with. She is extremely knowledgeable about her research and cares deeply about her students. Her lectures are NEVER boring and really interesting. Highly recommend!

Prof Baker is an amazing prof. I've taken several courses with her and she is always willing to help and is very knowledgeable. The lectures are interesting and there is lots of participation and discussion. You can choose your assignments and pick the one you want to do. Overall a great prof. Doesn't hurt that she's also really cute.

10/10 would pine and take her class again

This course was so much fun. If you go to class, take good notes, and overall read the book you will be fine. if you use "mind tap" and do the practice quizes online with it you will pass the tests. The SOC final was really easy, it was 65 MC and two short answers that were only supposed to be up to 5 sentences. Shes a funny professor, I reccomend

Excellent prof that cares about her students. You have every opportunity to succeed as long as you put in the effort. If you do not study, you will do badly... but that will be on you. Her tests can be tricky, but if you read the textbook and make good notes you will do very well.

Really engaging and interesting class. You need to study to do well though, but if you go class and keep up with readings everything is fair.

If you show up and put in the effort you'll definitely do well

You will use your textbook! Keep up with your readings and attend the lectures shes big on examples from lectures! Good solid prof dont slack and youre guranteed a good mark

A great professor that I'm glad to have again this year. Assigned readings are reasonable in length, with SOC100 (compared to other courses I took). Helped that she also gave good lectures as well. Even though I went through a rough period last year mentally and emotionally, I still managed to do fairly well and keep up. Very balanced and fair.

Prof. Baker is my favourite prof! She is knowledgeable, really down to earth and engaging. She cares about her students a lot, knowing a lot of them by name and makes her assignments and tests fair. In our class, she would read your assignments and would sometimes even mention something insightful a student wrote in a paper to the whole class.

I wish every prof lectured as well as prof baker. her tests are straight forward (multiple choice/ a few short answer), along with her assignments. as long as you go to lecture you will do great.

Professor Baker is an amazing professor. Soc224 was a delight to take. She has a specific grading rubric. Follow it and you will flourish. Go see her TA's for help and office hours. See her too when she has office hours. If you work hard and do the reading you will flourish. Also she does in class "tickets" so you gotta be there for participation.

She was a great prof. the lectures are all interesting and she ives additional information during lectures that are 100% on tests and exams so its wise to show up. the only thing thats annoying is that she stop lecturing is she hears a whisper of talking which gets overdone. but overall this course is an easy A.

Professor Baker is very supportive and happy to hear and learn questions and criticism. She is a professor that is happy to work with students and excited about new theory or ways of learning.

I found her lectures and the textbook readings extremely interesting. Test questions were taken from both lectures and the textbook. Reading the textbook made it a lot easier and she's always available to talk after class. I would not recommend this as a bird course and I could see how it may be difficult if you don't have an interest in sociology.

Professor Baker is an extremely qualified and thoughtful professional, and her competence is easy to spot even in an online course. I marked that attendance is not mandatory, but It was recorded lectures. If you failed to study, read the text and watch the lectures, you will not succeed. The grading is challenging, but fair.

The lectures are very easy to keep up with and they give out a lot of information. The readings are pretty long but they are usually discussed in lecture. Due to the online format, we were only allowed to see 1q at a time on tests, which was frustrating for short answer questions. She is also a bit hard to approach over email.

lectures were prerecorded and all you had to do to earn marks was do (non cumulative) tests and two rather simple homework assignments. it's very easy to get a good mark in this class as long as you do your readings on time; the content was easy to understand and you didn't need to memorize, just understand the concepts well.

Prof Baker is the BEST. I took multiple classes with her (including SOC100) and she is the reason I fell in love with Sociology. Honestly unsure why she has a lower rating. Lectures are interactive and enjoyable, readings are great and the classes are interesting. She is also very kind and approachable. 110% recommend!

Prof Baker is very professional and literally cool..also kind of hard to describe. Her impact in SOC100 is eclipsed by Prof Innocente because she is less charismatic and extroverted. Nonetheless her lectures are interesting but kind of forgettable, precisely because of the dual-professor nature of SOC100. Don't be afraid of asking her questions!

A lot of UTM students flame this course and the profs (Baker and Innocente) because it is very textbook reliant and the lectures are honestly just recaps of the chapters with some extra info (so still go). People who say the tests are confusing and poorly worded just do not take notes and complain after. Prof Baker is super kind and clear.

She give great feedbacks on any questions and is really chill during lectures.

Professor Baker was great in SOC100. She's interesting, funny, and expands on the ideas of students critically. The textbook written by her and Innocente is easy to read, just long. But once you have it down, you'll do great on the tests. Unlike her co-prof, she never made jokes in poor taste, and managed the class when people were loud or rude.

Professor Barker made the lectures so interesting and fun! She made me realize how much I love Sociology!! One of my favourite profs for sure

Professor Baker was the best part of SOC100

great professor , funny , passionate and caring

Honestly, she's not a bad prof. For sure passionate and makes class interesting, but the course load is really heavy. It requires a lottttt of reading, and the tests are all based on the textbook. If you're thinking of taking this as a bird course or an elective, don't! The TAs are also a hit or a miss.

For those commenting that soc100 is supposed to be a bird course: it is NOT. This is coming from someone who has taken a spec in crim. Soc100 is meant to be gruelling to weed out students not meant for the program, and to teach first years the demands of university learning. Don't take a course because you want an easy way out, do the work.

She is great and so are her lectures. shes pretty clear with the content and doesnt stray off topic. If you dont do the work or study then you obviously wont like the course, do with that what you will

She's great, doesn't deviate from the content, and is nice during office hours.