This woman was crazy.

lectures: she goes on and on about useless crap homework: she gives homework for everyclass but not a lot. you can finish it in like 2 or 3 hours tests: just study for them and you'll do find. she gives you online studies to help fairness: she has favorites and others that she dislikes grading: she wants everyone to be as good as her. she is a

If you have more time any are not going to do anything else but this class, then maybe you will not stress out about her workload. She briefly explains her assignments in very broad detail to the point if you spend a lot of time like me on a project, she probably will rejects it. FINALS...she racks up the work.good luck studying!!I learned nothing

I hated this class. It was awful from start to finish. I would recomend never taking this class. NEVER!!! Davies is an awful teacher and is very ****. She also hates athletes. This was the worst class I have ever taken in my entire academic life.

Awful awful teacher. Had her for 3d, not only was the workload insane, but she clearly picks favorites. i did nothing to have her hate me, yet she picked on me and said stuff to me that even my friends couldn't believe she said to my face. I had to hold myself back from screaming at her. Would NOT recommend. Ever.

I'm sorry, but if you have to spend every class trying to get people motivated to do the super hard work in your super awful class, then theres clearly something wrong with you.

Absolutely horrible. I have never felt so helpless in a class before. In fact, I have never scored below a B or dropped a class before. This teacher not only left us in the dark, unaware of her expectations or even the direction of the class, but on occasion even mocked students in front of the class. Her class was a complete waste of life...

Awful teacher. disrespectful. unprofessionally condescending. discriminating. i feel bad for anyone taking her course, you will not be getting the grade you deserve folks.

I hate having been assigned to this teacher. She is vague, unorganized, and overall just not the teacher to choose for design. She switches between hard copy instructions and word of mouth instructions, and its honestly just no easy. I battled for my b. if it weren't for the last project I would have had a C-

WASTE OF MONEY- absolute arts and crafts class. overly concerned with content of book, rather than structure of the book. The binding techniques learned are not that complex or interesting, EASILY learned via online tutorial. Expects you to dedicate all of your time, money and life to her class. LOTS of busy work.

The absolute worst professor I have ever taken at SCAD. She is terrible is too many ways to describe with such a small character limit. She is unclear about guidelines, assumes you know everything about 3D Design already, works at a snail's pace, doesn't care what you think or have to say, and constantly trails off in class, wasting your time.

She spends a lot of time demoing but you are left still feeling very unclear about what she wants. She is very broad in her feed back and you walk away not knowing how to fixs things to make it better. All and all I would not take her again!

not good at all

Being in this class is like going back to elementary school art class except you spend tons of money to be talked to like a child. For being a teacher, she really didn't teach me anything. Everything I learned was outside of class on my own with little to no help from Ms. Davies.

Davies is terrible incarnate. Painful demos everyday, she's annoying, passive aggressive, and her grading is sporadic and unpredictable. If you got stuck with her prepare to be taught be the child of Nick Cage and a sad middle aged woman. No creative freedom. If she gives you a suggestion you better do it. Beware, she might call your project racist

I learned nothing. Unclear grading criteria and material list (Caused me spent a lot of extra money). No creative freedom. Repeat project subject (Did 3 sculptures and they were extremely difficult). Her writing assignments were even more than my English composition class. Avoid her unless youve already have lots of 3D design experiences.

The professor is not respected by most of my class and is often even laughed at. She does not have control over the classroom and is talked over. Davies has somewhat pointless demonstrations and interrupts the class during their focused work to give them. Her professionalism could use work as well.

This class is supposed to be a practical but dont expect to actually work on your projects during class time. No, shell take up the entire 2.5 hours with lecture style demos and powerpoints. Her jokes are lame and she is shady to students that are not her favourites. Overall, this class was a super headache.

Literally the worst professor I have ever had. She is extremely passive aggressive and tries to be funny but her jokes fall very, very flat. Repeatedly, she has not respected a student's pronouns and she also treated an international student like they were an idiot because her English wasn't that good. Never gives ANY class time to work.

Do not take her. Unfair grading. She treats the class like lectures not studio. Projects are time consuming but you are given literally no time at all to work on it in class because shes to busy giving lectures or demos. The demos are in most cases pointless. She talks to the class as if we are 10 and belittles you.

This class is a studio however you dont get anytime to work on projects. Not only do you have to do a 3d project but you also have to do research and create at least a 30 page PowerPoint on the research and include the process through each project. More like a lecture course then a studio. Demos on demos that take up basically all of the class time

If you can, please, for your own sake, do not take her class. Very harsh grader feedback is not helpful at ALL. "This has potential." Be prepared to spend a lot more money than just the stuff on the syllabus. "Client Presentations" aka essays in the form of powerpoints seem to be more important than the actual project.

Definitely one of the worst professors Ive ever had. Photoshop tutorials take up a majority of class time, critiques are either 7 seconds or the entire class. Was also very passive-aggressive. I learned nothing about design and all the projects felt like middle school arts-and-crafts. Barely anyone in our class actually respected or liked her.

She is passive aggressive if you use zoom and she touched me inappropriately on presentation day before class. DO NOT take karen davies under any circumstances - she should not have a job at SCAD

I refuse to call her a professor. This woman has bias against students if she doesn't like them personally, gives us no time to work in class and lectures the entire time which is extremely unrelated and unimportant. Very passive aggressive and rude to students. She also tried hitting me with a stick during critique. Don't take her. Embarassing.

Don't take Davies. It's not a difficult class but it's incredibly boring, she once read the elements of design to us off a slideshow. She has the constant energy of a disappointed mom so you feel weirdly guilty the whole time. Also the class is expensive, to the point where the materials were not accessible to myself and some other students.

She is a very tough grader. She isn't clear on instructions.a

Most expensive class at SCAD probably. You will be at ex libris, hardware stores, Blick, and 50 other places just to prep. You will spend close to or over $100 for every project. Snarky passive aggressive remarks towards students. You just sit and watch powerpoints just to make similar powerpoints. This class will cause you loads of stress. RUN....

Prepare to spend lots of money, and waste lots of time in class. The projects dragged due to too many requirements, and critiques felt forced and awkward. She addresses a lot of questions with a condescending tone, and spends way too much class time on unnecessary demos/ lectures. I wish I took this class with another professor.

Profess Davies is very unkind towards trans students. She constantly misgenders people even after being corrected, and is overall very disrespectful. She gave us a week and a half to work on our final. She can be condescending at times and overall the class is difficult and not enjoyable. Do not take her class.

She is very passive-aggressive, so condescending, and overall does not give clear instructions. She expects too much from students and way too overambitious. Her feedback is not really that helpful, and rather than giving constructive criticism she judges your work.

I had completed one online course with this professor, which was subpar due to her lack of helping students and rigorous grading. I ended up taking her again on campus, to which I promptly dropped the course. Very egotistical and downright vile. Humiliated me in front of the whole class for using sensory aids I had accommodations for.

It's honestly appalling that a professor this closed minded and harsh can be teaching at a school like SCAD. Half the school is film majors but she doesn't care, and will grade and give feedback on your work incredibly harshly. Rude, bad with technology, inaccessible, overly complicated assignments, and unrealistic expectations. DONT TAKE.

The professor seemed annoyed whenever asked questions by email, An early assignment during the quarter had little info on the important areas she wanted us to cover, a tutorial would have helped, no makeup assignments, ELOs meant nothing,tried asking her help on an assignment, said one thing and never replied after just unnecessarily difficult time

Unprofessional, condescending, and rude. She gives a lot of homework with almost zero guidance. I think she believes every student only has her class for the semester since there is something she requires everyday, regardless of it being an online, asynchronous class. The workload is insane.

Not very kind or understanding.

If I could give her a 0 I would. The only good things about the class are the fun projects and that she gives time in class to do them sometimes. She rarely gave good feedback and criticism. The way she grades is ridiculous, giving good projects bad grades. Overall she isnt worth taking, take any other professor if you can help it.

One of the worst profs I've ever had. I'd rather drop out than take her again. she wasn't understanding whatsoever after I had a loss in my family, harsh grader, and expected students to have a golden star project with barely enough time to work on said projects. Don't take her. Save your money.

Do not take Karen Davies for any class. Not only did she show clear bias in the classroom environment, but she also offered little feedback during critique, and when she occasionally decided to give her feedback, it did not feel professional or knowledgeable at all. She is out of touch- both regarding students and technology.

She is the worst!!! Heed my warning. Not sympathetic at all, nor helpful in or outside of class. She does not read her emails nor does she respect her students. She makes you buy extra materials like you rich. Her demos are at least 1 hour each and she does not let you speak about the projects made during critique. She only gives negative feedback.

Classes are 2.5 hours but very little class time is utilized for projects. Bare minimum materials cost 250$+. Professor completely made up or forgot project details on a few occasions and it will affect grading. As long as this is a required class, just get it over with, but be ready to have your patience tested more than anything.

I am very disappointed with this class. Of all the classes I have taken at SCAD, this was by far the worst. She does not know how to use Blackboard at all, so there is never any homework posted, just the projects, and there is very little info as far as project guidelines. Overall, I have gained little to nothing from this class.

She gives very little time for difficult assignments and isn't helpful when you ask for guidance usually just makes it clear you're doing it wrong. She rarely checks her emails, and the materials are expensive, with extra items not listed on the syllabus.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR Unorganized, condescending communication, and unclear expectations. My documented accommodations for extended time were ignored. I was told I had an extension while sick, but details were unclear, and I still received a zero. The class was stressful and extremely unsupportive.

Her class could have been really interesting and fun but she and her personality ruin it. She doesn't care about you and very clearly has an ideal type of artist in mind when grading. She was not reciprocative of any of my ideas in class and was often snarky and/or rude to students who didn't quite align with her. Ruined my quarter. Avoid