AVOID HER AT ALL COST IF U LIKE YOUR GPA AND DONT WANT A HEADACE FOR NO REASON. she can be honestly unreasonable and can come across very rude. I overall got a good grade and still will NEVER take her again. She fight with you and changes her mind about what she wants after you turn things in and grades people poorly for it. The whole class suff

do not take this class. she is the worst prof. ive ever had. class is pointless, does not talk about anything on the test at all. makes you read 100 pages per week. online tests are very challenging, does not prepare you for them. everyone in my class failed the first test. cancels class a lot which is the only good thing but gets annoying

This was the WORST class ive taken. Thames-Taylor was awful. Between her ridiculous lectures that had nothing to do with the exams, and her lack of actually covering any information at all, class was pointless. everything comes from the text book but she doesn't actually cover anything from the text and she's picky. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS!!

STAY AWAY. She's so full of herself, and never admits she's wrong. She wastes class time talking about irrelevant issues AND NEVER TALKS ABOUT THE READINGS SHE ASSIGNS US! She's also extremely bias, she never talks about any other view point than the african american one. Absolutely horrible teacher and person. STAY AWAY.

I have never had a complaint about a professor at WCU before, but Dr. Thames-Taylor is completely deserving of one. She cancels class almost once a week, does not return papers in a timely manner, assigns too much reading and doesn't go over it, gives vague and meandering lectures that do not relate to the subject, and is an impossibly hard grader.

Dont take this class! Its ridiculous how hard it is. She makes you read 100 pages a week, then doesn't even go over the reading in class. She rambles on about incomprehensible stuff and is impossible to take notes on. She doesn't go over test material and the test are incredibly hard. I had to drop this class because it was so ridiculously hard.

Worst teacher/professor I've ever had. She's rude and impossible to talk to. She thinks that no matter what college students are hard. Prepare to work hard and still do really bad unless you happen to be an history buff. Really unhelpful.

Absolutely the worst professor I have ever had. She constantly gives her oppinons on race and doesn't talk about the test material or anything useful for that matter. Alot of the time she'll tell us what she did over the weekend. And even if you don't listen to her and just read the book, it still wont help you.

She is one of the WORST teachers on campus, she does not discuss anything relevant to class. She gives tests with questions right off the AP tests and does not explain anything. she tells us constantly how half of us are going to fail out of school. She also spent a whole class period bragging about her new iPhone, do not take her!!!

one of the worst professors at this university. so unhelpful, rambles on about topics to do nothing with the class. tests are impossibly hard. outlines are graded unfairly even though they take hours. DO NOT TAKE HER

Terribly difficult and grading is unfair. I worked so hard in this class and still did not do well. I did extra credit work but didn't receive the full extra credit points. I learned nothing in class and she goes off topic every day. Do not take her.

If you want to know details about the Sandusky scandal, that she only uses Apple products, or how her husband ran a red light in DC & they got the ticket in the mail, then take La Tonya. She is a brillant person, but doesnt know how to teach. I went to every class, read every chapter, highlighted the book, & took the online practice tests & got a C

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She was the worst teacher I've ever had. I had to withdraw from the course. She is not helpful and thinks that she makes no mistakes. It will not benefit you to take this class. I loved the material but had to drop it because of her. I would have failed and I did great on all the practice quizzes but she made the tests impossible.

i took T3 for two different classes while at WCU. The courses were ideal for my interests. she isnt a hard teacher or even unfair, she is just completely useless as a teacher. half our classes she arrived to late, the other half were spent talking about her personal life or were just simply canceled inexplicably. again she wasnt hard,just braindead

DO NOT TAKE HER! She is awful. It's her way or the highway. Half of her lectures don't even relate to the subject matter. She always says she won't waste your time but she does. Tests are online and you get two attempts but they are impossible. You have to read the book to 'pass' this class. Makes the class way harder than it should be.

DON'T TAKE HER. I ended up dropping the course because i knew that my gpa would be jepordized. She gives 4 tests and they're all next to impossible. SO much reading; NO explanations. DONT TAKE HER.

DO NOT TAKE HER! Gets very off topic, doesn't teach at all and puts material on tests an quizzes that wasn't taught. I wouldn't have passed if it weren't for the 2 attempts on the test. Doesn't care about her students and thinks shes the greatest thing. Also don't buy the book if you have her because you end up not using. Avoid her at all costs.

very lively upbeat keeps you awake however a lot of the times im left confused as to why shes talking about certain things. super hard test give you two chances to do them though and they are take home. overall unless youre amazing at history i wouldnt take this class.

She is very opinionated and that shows on her test. She is crazy and barley teaches you valuable American history. Spent more time on the civil rights and skipped the whole end of the book due to talking about the civil rights. .

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!! I read all of the reviews on here and did not believe them and now here I am withdrawing from it halfway through. She expects you to read so much from your textbook and read lectures and watch videos and somehow remember very specific things from them. Doesn't even teach in class just talks about whats on her mind??

Ridiculously long syllabus. Off by 2 wks by end of semester (w/ no inclement weather). Late to most classes. Doesn't stay on topic/lectures. Pushes around due dates constantly. No manual grades until past W date. Class is imbalanced & disorganized. VERY stressful if you are a full-time student w/ a job and a household to maintain. Not worth it.

Great person to know, but a very opinionated prof. Isn't the best at time management/ grading papers on time/ anything with time. Rarely lectures on course material but rather her life stories (which would be fine for office hours but not time I pay her to teach me). With that said, she helps you become a more critical thinker, even when it's hard.

Does not thoroughly explain assignments, but expects you to know whats going on. Dates on syllabus are always wrong but blames it on students. Nasty attitude and is not respectful of her students. Very harsh grader and nasty rude comments just an overall nasty person.

I went to a prestigious high school and this class was very difficult. She is very hard to understand and follow during her class time. She is often late and then expects to keep you after, even though we have classes right after, and across campus. Often doesn't talk about the course's content during class, instead about her life. All online tests

she is really really bad please dont take her class i shouldve listened when i had time to switch. Doesnt teach during class time comes late and hold us after. Made the class into african american history when it was supposed to be your average us history course. Lastly expects you to take notes on 20+ page lectures on your own time.

This teacher should not be teaching shes very passionate but makes the class very unenjoyable and I shouldve listened to this websit the first time

Unbearable. She does not teach during class time and will talk about her personal life and try to connect it to class (spoiler alert it does not work at all). Spent most of my time in class ignoring her life story and trying to figure out what the point in attending class was. I highly regret taking this course.

She does not discuss anything related to the course in class, only talks about herself. She has unrealistic expectations for all of her students, and will keep you after class at least 5 minutes every class, even if your next class starts in 5 minutes on the other side of campus. lectures are 15-20 page essays expected to be read for homework.

One of the worst history professors on the campus and department. She loves to hear herself talk, she keeps you past class time. She doesn't even teach, she puts on a video and sits on her phone and get mad at you for not doing work. Toughest Grader, very meticulous, and overall just not a nice person to deal with. Avoid at all cost.

When it comes to thames-taylor, all I can say is if you see her on your schedule: drop the class. She does not lecture, talks at length on unrelated topics, and never sticks to her own syllabus. Her motto is also that she is NOT your first point of contact if you need aid in her class, and she is snappish, and rude when students have questions.

Never ever take this class she is the worst professor she dosent even teach she just makes you read her lectures and yells during class about who knows what. Literally if you see her name on your schedule drop the class immediately. The worst class ive ever had to take and made me want to drop out every day

My one recommendation is to drop this class immediately. She only lectures about herself and random topics and then expects you to read the actual lectures for the exams. She does not stick to the syllabus even though she preaches she does and constantly reminds you that this class is the end all be all in your career. Steer clear of her

This was by far the worst professor, I had all semester. She expects you to know everything and offers ZERO help. She simply does not care about you, if u take this class, beware of the difficulty.

Worst prof ever. Very abrasive. Still makes me afraid to take other history classes. We didn't receive a syllabus for at least a month. Later, she couldn't even stick to its schedule - every due date was inaccurate. She took months to grade papers, and deadlines bunched up near finals. Almost all grades were essays with bizarre formatting rules.

The most vague professor ever. You are sure to be confused with criteria for papers. There are no tests which is nice. Takes forever to grade and is not thorough in terms of deadlines, She tends to change her class schedule and deadlines around to benefit herself. And cannot keep politics out of class. Do not take

You have to remember every small detail of reading and what she said in class to pass exams. Only graded on exams. Extra credit brings down your grade instead of helping. Definition of someone who became a professor for pay with no background knowledge of teaching.

Barely follows the syllabus, is late to every class, dismisses class late, and makes extra credit hurt your grade. Only talks about her social life during class by showing us her FB posts and achievements. She ends up posting super long lectures on D2L for us to teach the content to ourselves. Unprofessional, unorganized, and uneducated. Avoid her!

Horrible! Talks about herself, does not cover what this class is supposed to. She goes over time and gets extremely rude if you try to leave to get to another class. I witnessed her yell at a girl who tried to leave for her next class and she demanded they drop her class since they were being "disrespectful" for leaving 5 minutes after class ended.

I really wanted to like Dr. Thames-Taylor's 1960s class during the Spring of 2022, but I learned little to nothing. Her lectures were very opinionated and never gave any real subsistence. She fails to follow any schedule, which left me and others confused the whole semester. Very harsh grader as well. WCU really dropped the ball by hiring her.

Her style of teaching is not the best. She goes on unrelated tangents that have nothing to do with the class and switches topics in the middle of lectures. She personally does not care if anything is going on in your life outside of class because her class should be your first priority. She does not care about her students at all.

This professor is extremely unorganized and comes at least 15 minutes late to each class. She spends the entire class talking about her personal life and showing us pictures from random trips she takes. Nothing is made clear and her lectures have no connection to what is in the textbook and syllabus. She announces tests the week it's due.

Despite her class being very easy, she is not a good professor. She was two weeks delayed in giving us a syllabus that I wouldn't even consider a syllabus. She expects us to know the information from the syllabus/textbook for tests but won't teach us about it. Instead, she takes class time to talk about her personal life and the trips she takes.

During class time she is never on time and never stays on topic. She sets ridiculous time limits for test that give you less than a minute for each question. Claims she doesn't teach but didn't tell us about our lectures on d2l until 3 weeks into the semester. If your doing something on your computer she will kick you out of class.

By far the worst teacher I have had to take from. She doesn't teach in class, rather makes you read her 10 page essay format lectures and expects you to have it down pat. She takes it out on the class when you don't know the answers and even threatened to doc points when you don't know the answers in class. AVOID

Very nice lady but horrible professor. She is incredibly disorganized, changed almost every due date for assignments at least once. We did not receive our syllabus until week 5 and did no work for about two months. She crammed in all essays (4) in the last month. Her lectures are not structured and she spends half the class talking about herself.

Extremely Liberal. Our class was "history of the south" she said the thesis of her class was that all southern white people are like Dylan Roof in the end, the kid who shot up a black church. Doesn't try to be moderate. and follows no real schedule. Don't waste your money on her classes. Loves to talk about herself. She is extremely disorganized.

Told us the day before class starts that it will be on zoom once a week after signing up for a 100% online summer course that had no meeting times on mywcu. Gave us our syllabus week 3 of a 5 weeks course, which she didn't follow any deadline. Also squeezed all of our assignments and test in the last two weeks.

Make sure to go to class as attendance is mandatory and you will be called out if you miss. She stresses showing up on time, but often shows up 5-10 minutes late. Her class lectures do not align with the syllabus and she teaches using Wikipedia and/or Google. Her lectures are extremely hard to follow. Exams are online.

Dr. T was the most disorganized and unprofessional teacher/scholar that I have ever experienced. I wish I would have dropped the class when I had the chance. She is disrespectful to her students and only cares about talking herself. WCU really dropped the ball with her.

t3 is the most disorganized and confusing teacher I have ever had. She uploaded the syllabus weeks late while promising from week one that it will be uploaded "soon" or "next week", and when it was finally uploaded it is diorganized and hard to follow. She is a lazy professor who makes learning difficult.

Dr. T3 is one of the worst teachers I have ever come across. She is a nice person but should not be a teacher at WCU or anywhere for that matter. She changed the course name, taught from Wikipedia, and gave the syllabus 5 weeks into the semester. She wastes a lot of class time sharing personal information and I always felt angry sitting in class.

Dr. Thames-Taylor is neither a competent teacher nor a scholar. She is very opinionated, self-absorbed, self-righteous and unprofessional. Nothing in class so far has related to what we are supposed to be learning. She is wasting the time and money of students and the university.

T3 was probably the worst professor I have ever had. She spent the whole class talking about life experiences that had no relevancy whatsoever. She changed so many rules and deadlines without mentioning anything including test and quiz due dates. Attendance was mandatory but out of the 200 or so questions on tests, maybe 20 she taught in class.

if i have to hear her say "what happens is" one more time i might freak out. i swear she says it every other sentence. don't take her

I have never hated or been so frustrated by a professor in my life. Makes you memorize a 22 page syllabus just for her to pick and choose when she follows it, uses class time to talk about herself, and has not uploaded a single thing in a timely manner. She should not be a professor at this university.

Shows up late every single class, lectures are dumb, she pulls everything from wikipedia and calls that teaching. Changes due dates and assignments and guideline's and expects us just to know. Got no feedback until finals week, thanks for the feedback now when its useless. feedback is rude, unprofessional and personal. Extremely hard to talk to her

You will not know a single grade until the last three days of the semester, you will learn more about Tonya's p

Easily the worst teacher I ever had. She was late to class everyday and used the rest of the time to talk about her personal life that had 0 relevance. I was lucky if she ever even talked about the material. She taught so little that nothing on the final was covered and then said we were not entitled to know what was on it. Never take her.

I usually try to give positive reviews, but this professor is just plain awful. She changed the due date of the FINAL EXAM the week it was due which killed my grade, used 70% of the class time to ramble about her personal life, literally never brought up some crucial exam material, and got incredibly rude if you didn't do optional assignments

She was ALWAYS late to class yet would always rant about how disrespectful it is for people to be late or to not show up to class. She constantly changes due dates and policies and expects you to know. She makes you memorize her complicated 20 page syllabus yet chose when she wanted to follow it. Her class was incredibly frustrating

I don't recommend her at all. This is probably the worst class ive ever taken in my life. She teaches by google and searches everything up. Then she expects us to find her "lectures" that she has taught in the past that she doesn't teach now. Like how are we supposed to learn. My whole class was completely lost and doesn't understand a thing.

she's always late but gets mad when her students are late or don't show up( even if they are sick). she teaches from google and it's the biggest waste of time. she expects you to follow her syllabus but she doesn't even follow it herself so due dates are always wrong. if you want to be extremely frustrated this is the class for you!

Genuinely one of the most frustrating teachers I have ever had in my entire life. She literally glazes the absolute hell about herself and always starts class talking about emails and messages students have sent to her about how good she is, tries to embarrass you in front of the class, she YELLS when she teaches, LONG syllabus, talks in circles.