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Quality4.0
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“but honestly avoid it like the plague”
CMNS1115 - 1.0 rating“Most of us were perpetually confused during lectures”
CMNS1115 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
83%
Textbook Required
56%
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COMM
3.0
(2)CMN1110
2.3
(6)CMNS1210
2.0
(1)CMNS115
1.6
(5)COMMUNICATIONS
1.5
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CMNS1150
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COMN1115
5.0
COMM2010
5.0
CMNS1111
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Reviews (122)
Very unclear -once you figure our what she wants you can learn something
Don't know what she expects or wants. Not very clear and boring class.
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her lack of people skills leads me to believe she only reads books in her free time.
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Super nice and helpful--a great course!
very hard
She doesn't know what she's saying, the whole class was confused, she can't stick to one topic, and she thinks she's funny.
One word: HORRIBLE AND RUDE!! I hated this prof so much that I withdrew from her class. Stay away because she will mess up you GPA!!
Horrible
AHHHH! stay away! TERRIBLE AT COMMUNICATION AND SHE TEACHES A CLASS ABOUT IT?! RUDE! UNHELPFUL! TELLS YOU WHAT IS REQUIRED IN AN ASSIGNMENT AFTER THEY ARE HANDED IN. NOONE EVER KNOWS WHATS GOING ON IN THE CLASS. GPA DROPPER FOR SURE
It seems that she may have a split personality! One day she will tell you what to do on a paper and the next - she will say something completly different and confuse herself even more and everyone in the entire class! She's out to lunch! Keep copies of your papers -she will misplace them.
She is rude, un-helpful, and egnorant... she only cares about herself, is always late for her classes, and calls students in her class "stupid". She is a heartless women, who only cares about herself.
Stay away from this teacher. I handed in a perfect paper and she failed it because I didn't hand in my "process drafts." The one I handed in was my first draft, the lack of errors on the paper proved that I had no need of process but she failed me because it wasn't her way. She doesn't make sense.
WACK JOB!!!!!
Rude, cant teach, very unclear= horrible teacher= stay away from her class
She is the most annoying **** in the whole world. If you take her class you will regret it. Avoid her at all costs.
It boggles my mind...a communications teacher who can't communicate clearly and effectivly, yet that is what she stresses in her lectures. DO NOT take her. She is wacked. She picks your grade out of a hat, dosnt base it on assignments. She screwed me over. Just pleasssse, DO NOT take her.
not a very good teacher.
Constructive criticism:(1)when you lecture, don't jump around with your ideas.(2) Mabey you should work somewhere else.(3)you teach communication but your sentances do not flow together when you speak(4) i used to love to write and express myself, i don't anymore.(5) i think you are a bad teacher:(
Evil scorpian ****
Very unclear, unorganize, time-wasting teacher
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Very VERY disorganized. If you need structure do not take her class.
VERY CON THIS TEACHER!!! She is extremely unclear you have no idea what is going on and then when you complete her assignments and hand it in she says its wrong and then finally tells you what she wanted! HORRRIBLE!!! YOU ARE MAKING A MISTAKE TO TAKE HER!! DO ANYTHING YOU CAN TO AVOID THIS WITCH!
Her course syllabus had no due dates!!! I tried to write a project outline for her but i didnt even know when anything was due!!!she was soooo disorganized i had to withdraw from her course. totally rediculous. If you have to take communications choose a different teacher.
She was terrible, worst teacher. Scribbles for notes and makes them illegible. One great thing about her is she is a pretty easy marker. I was in a Tues/Thurs class and i went to one thursday class the entire semester and managed a B+ by just doing the assingments.
I hate this teacher. She is a ****ing ****. She teaches communication yet has no ****ing idea how to communicate herself. In a class of about 25 not one single person understood her. People in my class started a petition against her. If you call her with questions, she NEVER returns your phone calls. She'll flunk you/your assignments for no reason
worst teacher i have ever had! every class was a light show and she will lose your homework and tell you that you never handed it in! takes attendance by remembering if she saw your face that class or not. RUN RUN RUN! you will not get the mark you deserve!
Please!!!!! Do not take her class!! She is terrible and you will regret taking her class!! Don't waste your money on her!! You can do better!
She wanted us to summarize a table of contents. Does that even make sense? Isn't a table of contents basically a summary of the book?
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Teaches us how to communicate effectively, but she doesn't make any sense when she communicates with us..bah humba
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I can easily say that this is THE WORST prof i have ever had. This is a communications course, yet, without exaggeration, none of the students i asked knew what was happening in this class. Hands down worse prof I have ever had in my 4 years in college and university. Don't take any of her classes. There goes my GPA booster
She is the WORST teacher that you will ever have. She loses assignments and says that you never handed them in, she treats students like garbage and is disrespectful to people. She does not explain things properly and snaps at you for asking questions. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS YOU WILL LOWER YOUR GPA - DO NOT CHANCE IT
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HORRUBLE!!!!DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS!!!she turned it into a psychology class so we are summarizing all self-help books and one of them isnt even in print anymore! she called us illiterate 3+ times! our class went from 15students to 6! oh she doesnt believe in textbooks because theyre all written wrong!
Waste. Of. Time.
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This Prof is rude, boring, and doesn't know how to communicate even though she is teaching a communications course.
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I am going to be totally honest here, I took her Communications 1105 night class. She does not have an outline or syllabus for her teaching. She is very unorganized, boring, and lazy. She only gives checkmarks for feedbacks! She has no idea what she's doing, she lets the class out early and doesn't even know what the due dates are for her asnments.
this professor is not at all helpful, very rude, classes are boring and a total waste of time.
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Rude, boring, plays favorites. I don't know how she even has the job. She's terrible. Doesn't keep track of her assignments, doesn't know what she teaches, she teaches stuff learned in Elementary school. Seriously, last person I would recommend for Communications
Treats students like they are idiots. Has no clear outline and not is not very nice.It would be nice if she enjoyed her job and put some fun into the class. Self help books are a personal choice and not a good choice for a communications class.It would be nice to have a text so what your learning is clear. I would not recommend her class.
She's just a *****. never take her class!
Loses assignments, cuts class early all the time, a headache to deal with. Not recommended.
DONT TAKE HER CLASS... YOU WILL REGRET FOR SURE! she doesnt know how to teach at all. she cant communicate to students, but her teaches communication. WHAT A JOKE!
I dont think she wants to be a teacher. She marks likes you should be a proffessional because she used to be a professinal editor. You have to listen and make your own notes but she is unorganized and unclear. The next day she may repeat or think she handed out a paper. She is actually a very rude person and plays favourites. Not just compaining.
She is poor teacher and I do not understand why she is teaching. She is extremely incompetent and incapable of being a teacher, period. Do not waste your investments on this moron!
terrible teacher, sounds like a chipmunk or something and can't communicate anything
She's not really suited for the job. Her handouts will talk about attractive design, use of white space, while the handouts themselves are poor examples. She doesn't explain assignments well and they're not practical. The use of self-help books instead of textbooks is very unprofessional and contributes to the lack of practicality of the class.
Unless you're forced to take a class with her as an instructor, I do not recommend it. Teaches simple communications classes but somehow manages to make them more complex than any other classes.
Don't waste your money, time or effort with this person. She is disorganized, extremely rude, not at all helpful, makes sure the whole class hears her when critizing someone's work. Has no teaching skills whatsoever. No textbook, her way or no way. All over the place with her instructions and assignments and gets things totally mixed up.
she doesn't teach, instead, she sits and critizes students' work. I learned nothing at the end of the course. she is rule and disorganized. she is a communication teacher and she barely knows how to talk to students. horrible instructor.PS GPA killer!
Very spiteful, insulting if you don't write with perfect grammar. Uses Self help books written in 1940's as texts. Inconsistent, changes mind constantly and gets mad when you can't follow her instructions. Would not recommend to anyone. Avoid at all costs. Very frustrating class, enormous amounts of homework. Does not apply to real world at all.
Worst teacher I ever had. Makes you do way more work than the other teachers. She'll give you memos to outline your assignments but then she'll spend 15 minutes (which was how long the average class lasted) to expand on it and change things around contrary to her memo! Biased marker. Total hypocrite & makes you read outdated carnegie books.
Took her course a long time ago. Asked us all to write a 'summary of our educational history'. Once she found out I had been raised in the NT, she insisted that I should take ESL. Horrible, horrible teacher. Take anyones class but hers.
Terrible teacher, she is teaching communications and she can't even communitcate instructions to the class!! No one knew what the hell she was talking about. Her notes are incomprehensable, with circles and arrows all over the place. She doesn't teach just criticizes everyone. Over half of the class dropped out. Warning: Don't take this class!!
her class is ridiculously hard for a communications class, she makes us read a self-help book that doesn't even relate to workplace writing...GPA killer...if you're in her class, drop it within the first week.
She is the only comm teacher i know that cant communicate her ideas. Her favorite thing to do after her 10 min of teaching in class is make u sit in the front of everyone and let her belittle your writing. Become a favorite to do well, sit in the front and take notes, youll need them later to deciepher what she means anyways.
Terrible teacher, her teaching style is chaotic and unorganized. Does not like to answer questions or help with assignments. Turns a class which should be extremely easy, to a class that will confuse and frustrate. Avoid at all costs.
I read through the previous comments, noticing how some students say she's rude, i thought it was a joke. But little did I know... she IS rude, and plays favorites >.> Doesn't help you at all with your assignments, 2 hours of your work, takes her 1 minute to finish her feedback, the other 9 minutes belong to her criticizing the crap out of you.
i dont think i have every been so frustrated before. her directions and wording are so hard to understand, you'd think she was speaking another language. the course itself seems like elementary school work but maybe that is her angle.. make it known as a college course solely by little or no explanation.
One of the worst teachers I HAVE EVER HAD. She is so frustrating. What she teaches is NOT relevant to what the course is about. This course is meant to instruct workplace writing skills. No one understands what she wants us to do so the grades are poor. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. GPA KILLER.
I am writing to FOREWARN my fellow students NOT TO TAKE HER CLASS! At the present moment, there are only a handful of students remaining in her (once full) class and we still have next to no idea what it is she is asking of us. Her assignments are unclear, her explanations are indecipherable and her passion for the subject is questionable.
DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASSES OF HERS. A complaint needs to be filed and THIS TEACHER NEEDS TO BE REVIEWED. Her assignments and instructions are extremely unclear. She is teaching a communications course on practical work writing but she has trouble with very BASIC communication. I seriously believe she has a cognitive problem/needs to RETIRE.
Do NOT take her class! I have never had a "bad" teacher at Douglas and have nothing negative to say about the college itself but I hope that they look at these comments and re-evaluate her employment. Her instructions/marking is unclear and changes constantly. She has also made up her own format of writing that had no set guidelines.
Very good teacher, polite. She has a reserved teaching style, which I prefered. Assignments are easy, NO EXAM just graded on coursework. Recommended
When you think of tanking 'practical writing' make sure you don't take it with Sangha. She will distroy your future instantly. Your marks will be very low more than you can imagine. She is a wicked person. Just to let you know......
If you are thinking about doing cmns1115 with kate sangha, save yourself some time and peace. She is very strict about everthing (can't take breaks for 3hr class, or eat in the class)
Kate is definitely quite the character, the class itself wasn't that hard, and once she goes through the assignments, class was sometimes only 20 minutes long! beware, she doesn't let you eat in class. Kate is not afraid to speak her mind, and shes a strict marker Just pay attention in class, and if you're good at writing, you should be fine.
Kate is very good and knowledgeable teacher. you can gain many valuable skills for your life if you follow the process which she provides. But you need to understand what she is asking in assignments and if you are providing according to the instructions or not. i will recommend this class if you are willing to learn and gain something.
Kate was by far the worst prof I've ever had. Very unclear with instructions and doesn't let you know it's wrong until it's already marked and then she belittles you about it. No breaks and no food in 3 hour lecture.
She is all over the place and does not know how to properly explain assignments to students.
Kate Sangha does not provide clear instructions for assignments. I did not enjoy her course because of her abrasive personality. If you ask her questions about what you are supposed to do her replies are rude.
In my opinion, one of the worst learning experiences I've ever had. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS FROM THIS PROF
For a communications teacher she is NOT clear. This class should have been easy, but it was not since she would not explain our assignments. She would get irritated when students would ask questions about the homework.
Sangha's weakness as an instructor lies in her inability to clearly convey information to students. Most of us were perpetually confused during lectures. 1115 with her also fails at its main goal: learning business communication skills. The course content included reading self-help books and summarizing them into a report. I learned nothing.
Kate is a good instructor. She does teach how to read, think and write reports & proper workplace emails. She does have lots of instructions on her assignment, so take notes and ask questions if you don't understand. She always gives extra time to work in class so you will get enough time to get feedback from her.
From the 1st day you will be completely lost. We literally summarized self help books for 13 weeks. Communications? She can barely explain the work and then retracts. Her handouts are very unclear and definitely not concise. If you want to add more stress and worry in your life then feel free to take her class. but honestly avoid it like the plague
English/Communication classes are always boring, but it's something we have to do. This is a college class not high school. She does have lots of instructions on her assignments, grab a coffee before class to stay awake, take LOTS of notes while she's taking so you won't forget anything. She also gives plenty of time to do your work in class.
Kate does not know how to deliver messages which is ironic for a communication professor. She is set in her ways, rude to students and will belittle your work in front of the class. Her assignments are irrelevant to workplace writing and her description of the course and assignments are unclear. Kate expects you to teach yourself because she wont
All of the reviews are true. This teacher has no clue what she's doing and really should be removed from the school. The class involves Sangha promoting self help books for 13 weeks so if you dont think that those 2 books are relevant to business writing you better run
all I have to say is drop the class and save your money, time and sanity. Kate is by far the worst instructor I have had. She is rude to the students and acts as if all questions asked are stupid questions, she wants you to read between the lines and just completely understand her obsession with her self help books. I learn nothing from this class.
Kate is by far the worst instructor i have ever had. Yelled at for eating a granola bar in her class because "her class is not a cafeteria" even though her 3.5 hour class has NO BREAKS. When i asked to clear up my homework instructions i got told to read to read the instructions over and over and over. That was that... DO NOT TAKE WITH KATE
It is good to know I am not the only student who thinks this prof is past her expiry date. Her material is irrelevant and outdated. Don't ask questions in her class because you will leave even more confused. Will belittle your work in front of class and good luck getting any form of useful feedback from her. You're just an inconvenience to her.
Heavy Assignments with very unclear criteria. Hard grader and horrible feedback. Communication skills are not strong even though thats what she teaches... Avoid this class at all costs!!!
Kate is savage. I think the majority agrees that she makes you work for her classes. But I think besides teaching English she definitely teaches you how to build character and work hard to get good grades. She doesnt teach you English she coaches you how to challenge yourself.
Read the syllabus!!! All the information is in the material she gives. If you can do this, you will be fine. The reference books she uses are dated but still very relevant!
I had to drop this class because Kate was the most demotivating professor i have ever had. She will make you feel incompetent. Once she has her mind made up about you she won't acknowledge you nor help you.
By far the absolute worst professor ever, my class of 30 ended up being 13 people after just 2 classes because more than half the class dropped out. She is a crazy witch woman that should have stopped teaching 40 years ago, and you can clearly tell she hates her job and everyone in the class. Will make you look and feel stupid if you ask questions.
She is a very bad listener and doesnt really care to expalin what she wants from you. if you will fail this course or score bad not your fault.
I do not feel like she spent enough time in class going over material in the course content, instead she went over content from the self help books she wants you to use for your assignments. I do not feel set up for either business or academic writing.
Shes more of a self help, alternative healing guru than a professor. She thoroughly enters a realm of mental and physical health improvement seminars. She emphasizes that goals are a burden and strategies are the sole key to successful writing, along with Self-awareness, conscious, free-will, and imagination.
extremely disorganized and comes off as unprofessional. Refuses to give the syllabus until week 2, does not provide anything online. Lectures are very confusing and unstructured, assignments have little instruction and a difficult marker. Gives assignments and says they are "prep" for a report but wont give info on report. would never recommend.
She overloads her students while not giving the full story on the assignments. She belittles ESL students in front of the whole class. She's so disorganized it's unbelievable.
She was honestly the worse professor I have ever had. Was straight up mean to her students and kept talking for ALL of the class, when she expected us to finish in class assignments... would not recommend her unless you follow her "guidelines" 100% and have really good business writing skills already
The only thing I can say is drop her courses, unless you have really good understand skills and writing skills.
very disorganized. She wants the students to prepare a so called 'Report' but never gives any clear guidelines to it. All she wants the students to use are some random self-help books she 'shows' in class and magically conceive a report from the photocopies handouts of the books. she literally makes faces, if someone asks her a doubt or a question.
She is the most intense prof I have ever had. If you don't show up to class she will call you out in front of everyone. She even kicked one guy out of the class. You have to have strong English skills: reading, writing and listening. You have to listen 100% of the time in class or she will call you out. DO NOT RECOMMEND!
I was really disappointed with this instructors teaching criteria as she is unorganized, lacks communication within her feedback, emails and class instructions. This instructor doesnt do much to help her students succeed as many students are always left confused with unanswered questions. I would not recommend taking her after this experience.
Dont do it
Term project: a report on how to b a better student using photocopied pages from self-help books that u had to return @ the end of class. No real opportunity to take notes since she just switched sheets on the projector, underlining a word b4 going back to another page & pointing. Never made eye contact, just stared @ the wall the whole lecture.
Dont take it. would give a0 if i could. You never know your grade, she only marks like 3 reports which she gives little criteria on and is very judgemental about. heard her say "What are you even doing?" to students, when she never even told us what we should be doing. Whole class confused when she finishes her lectures ur suposed to take notes on?
Find another prof. She even clearly stated that English must be your 1st language in order to succeed in this course. She will give you photocopies of self-help books and tell you to turn it into a 20-page "report" on "communication." I have never seen so many students confused and at a loss of what to do in my entire education.
Got this Prof? Drop the course. Assignments are extremely unclear and vague. The class barely had to do with learning about business writing, more like let's read, take notes and write a paper on her favorite boring authors. If you don't write what she says, you will fail. She also gives every student different advice and marks everyone differently
If you are not constantly listening and making sure you hear and write down everything that she says, you WILL have a horrible time with this course. Critical information for assignments are sometimes only shown on the projector for seconds at a time and never repeated again. Avoid this professor at all costs if you want to keep your GPA intact
She is the worst prof
Experienced same difficulties as everyone but I actually did well in this class despite how tough she is. GOAL to pass: listen/take notes, don't complain, stay positive, help each other. Avoid complaining classmates! Her tasks/assignments are very simple but we tend to complicate it. Project-based, no exams. hard 4 non-domestic students but do-able
I can tell you one thing she is a joke, she is the worst human being you can meet in Douglas college. Her instructions are vague and unclear just like her old and miserable life. She does not give feed back what so ever. I think I can learn the same education on youtube for free. It almost seemed like she enjoys giving students a hard time.
Guys DONT TAKE HER Class She is the worst professor ever , she doesnt give any detail response . She will tell you the same thing to read and re read the description . Never encountered such an arrogant professor .
Don't take her in any capacity. no feedback given whatsoever on assignments. feel lost during each assignment. has no structure whatsoever. she will respond to emails but that's about it. not worth it whatsoever. just don't do it
Kate sangha is probably the worst professor I have ever had she takes FOREVER to answer your emails and gives ABSOLUTLEY no feedback on any of your work submitted, she just tells you to read and re read the instructions that are unclear and definitely favors some students don't ever take her class u will be teaching yourself the whole time.
Absolute garbage teacher she is woeful unclear assignments and zero feedback given, grades every student differently if u ever get her drop the course immediately or u will be turned into a self help guru reading these bs books in a damn communications class I haven't learned a thing about communication.
Imagine a worse professor, and then comes Kate Sangha. To think she teaches a communication course but doesn't know how to communicate herself. Late replies to emails, stupid assignments. I have never seen an instructor so full of ego than her. She thinks she owns English and the only way you can learn how to write is by following her stupid method
how do i even begin to start this.. this was most definitely the worst teacher ive ever had. Instructions so scattered you will have absolutely no idea whats going on - she doesnt reply to emails, she's not present in class or clear with her instructions. AVOID THIS CLASS AT ALL COSTS - save yourself the money/time this is a F with a pricetag.
Don't take this prof :) The grading policy and expectations were unclear, she was rude, and just... there was nothing good about this course. I withdrew for a reason.
GUYS JUST DONT. Her reply to everything was "re read the course description " , she is the worst professor I have encountered till now . Please avoid at all cost.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
83%
Textbook Required
56%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B-
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Stable
+0.14 avg changeRatings by Course
COMM
3.0
(2)CMN1110
2.3
(6)CMNS1210
2.0
(1)CMNS115
1.6
(5)COMMUNICATIONS
1.5
(4)Difficulty by Course
CMNS1150
5.0
COMN1115
5.0
COMM2010
5.0
CMNS1111
5.0
CMN115
4.8