very dour, sarcastic, condescending to students

I don't mind the amount of work she gives. What bothers me is her horrible lecture skills. She talks way too fast and her words are very unorganized; even the TA said that it is unacceptable. She is not very friendly either. Be prepared to teach yourself from the textbook.

She's honestly the worst professor I've ever come across. Boring and monotone in lectures and reiterates the textbook verbatim. After so many years of terrible reviews, I'm shocked she's still qualified to even teach. You only get 1 attempt for the online quizzes and they're timed, which isn't fair. She has no empathy and is rude to students.

The only good thing I could say about her class was the extra credit, which will be something you want to make sure you partake in. Her lectures are boring and monotone, she is very condescending to students, and the amount of information given in lecture is near to impossible to know in the given time frame, especially for the final.

Good luck. She literally does not care about her students. Shes assigned two reading quizzes (which do nothing but destroy your grade because theyre ridiculously long and timed) as well as a homework assignment due DURING FINALS. No time to study for other classes. All about hers apparently. One of the hardest classes Ive ever taken.

She requires a lot more work outside of class than needed which can get difficult to manage unless this course is the only course you are taking. The weekly lecture quizzes are just as hard as the actual exams. The only easy part of her class is homework but thats like 10% of your grade. And we still get assignments due on finals week.

hate her. she does not care about students. don't show up on office hours, don't reply students' email.

This class is ridiculous! There are weekly homeworks that take forever, quizes 21 sometimes 22 question in only 25 mins. Weekly discussion boards that are useless and take so much time. Her lectures are extremely dry. And in them she talks like you're a bio grad student. DO NOT take this class with another science class! You won't have a life!

This class is a complete waste of time with an absurd amount of work. Professor Duwel must think her class is the only one in existence. This class had 2 quizzes a week, 2 lengthy hw questions a week, a pointless discussion board due every week, and 4 labs a week along with exams. She is dry and boring and assigns way to much work.

avoid this class at all costs. for your own sanity sake.

She literally thinks she is the only professor to exist and gives SO much work. For example, one week we had 2 sets of hw questions we had to answer, 4 bio labs, 2 bio lecture quizzes, and a discussion board. Her exams are so difficult with not enough time to answer most of the questions. I'm taking anatomy right now too & I can't even study for it

Does not care about students and belittles them. Is disrespectful and does not respond to questions on emails. Makes changes to assignments on the syllabus (adding assignments and getting rid of assignments) without updating students or updating syllabus. Posts assignments late without giving an extension. Acts like this is the only class you have.

THIS CLASS IS A JOKE HAHA If I had a choice, I would NEVER take this class. The TAs are not helpful and their grading is so ANNOYING! I would spend hours on labs and get under 70s on them. This class is hard and challenging and gives SO MUCH WORK that it is not worth it. If I could go back in time, I would change my major so I don't have to take it

Not understanding to her student's workload. I understand having a work-intensive course, but the work we receive is way too much for a freshman with other science courses during a pandemic. haven't been able to study for any class because I'm solely doing her work. I'm not even studying for her class because I have to finish the work first!bad TAs

This is a class that is much clearer if you only read the textbook, lectures can often be confusing, and she will rush through material. She does have a lot to cover, and this sequence of Biology is dense. The way to succeed has been to read from the book, which is also dense, but those exams are lethal, not to mention quite poorly phrased.

Talks a mile a minute and is impossible to follow. She posts assignments late and her Blackboard page is not very well organized. Would not recommend

Making this course online makes the course 10x harder. Pain in the bottom to deal with her class. Her lectures are all over the place its impossible to get A.

You have to be reading the material in the textbook to have any hope of passing. Her tests do not reflect what it on her slides or the textbooks so you will most likely fail, so get ready for that. She was so unorganized and extremely hard to follow. Average test grade was70% or lower. If I could give her a lower rating I would. DO NOT TAKE HER

Do not take this class unless its the only class you are taking. This professor assigns 4 pages worth of questions as a homework assignment twice a week, along with 4 lectures that consist of listening for about 4 hours, plus two quizzes a week. The exams are NOTHING like the quizzes, lectures, or what we are learning. The exams make no sense.

Biweekly exams weeks 1- 5 and then weekly exams weeks 6-10. She doesn't upload work for the week until Tuesday when its due Wednesday. No time to study bc by the time you have time to, things are already due. Labs are harshly graded and you lose points for questions they didn't even ask. Failed to mention 75% of this class is asynchronous

Dr. Duwel is passionate about biology and has a lot of in-depth knowledge but she is not the best teacher. Lectures are confusing, jumping back and forth between concepts. Her quizzes involve material that, while related to the topic, has never been covered in class but she expects you to know it anyway. Sends out emails late, answers emails never.

I personally did not like professor Duwel, her lectures were very confusing and hard to follow. She wanted us to know information that was never discussed in class. She was also very last minute when it came to posting material. Overall if you have the choice to take her, DONT.

If I could give this professor a 0 for rating I would. I would very much rather quit college all together than have to take her again.

Her lectures are confusing and consists of her reading off the lecture. shes also very rude when it comes to labs. overall I would not recommend unless you hate bio and wish to continue hating bio

She goes around to check that everyone is on task like a kindergarten teacher, posts material as late as she possibly can, doesn't respond to emails, is horrible at formatting questions, gave us flipped classroom so you have to watch lectures on your own, WHILE making lecture still mandatory to attend. The total experience is just awful

She does not like freshman. None of my fellow students have had good experiences with her one on one. Since it's the first year back after COVID, she recycled her zoom class meetings from last year to use as video lectures this year. We would have 3 hour-long lectures to watch and take notes from in addition to attending in person lectures. Not fun

She reposted the same video lectures from last years zoom calls that are 45 mins to an hour long. She is very vague with information and its hard to score high on her exams. If you can take anyone else, TRY HARD

Boring lecturer (coming from someone passionate about bio). Recorded lectures were also hard to follow, badly organized. I generally just followed the slides without the actual lecture. Class itself was not too difficult, though.

Professor Duwel should obviously not be a professor. Her inability to teach and her rude attitude left me hating biology.

If you're a CCI major being forced to take this class for your science requirement good luck. The work isn't hard but you definitely have better things to do than memorize info useless to your major. Duwel frequently puts trick questions on tests and is somehow still shocked that test grades dropped heavily once she started teaching. Poor lecturer.

absolutely do not recommend her I did not learn a single thing in this class when she was teaching it, she just made us do in class questions and it was extremely unhelpful

worst prof at drexel. acts like students are only taking her class. LONG hw (weekly) & weekly quizzes. lockdown browser exams. weekly exams when learning abt diseases. rude and condescending. doesn't teach in class. posts b/w 2-5 zoom lectures weekly (abt 1hr/each) and expects us to watch them before class when she posts them on sunday night..

She is the worst. If you want to learn all online go ahead and take the class. You literally have to sit and watch hours of her covid lectures. At least that class got lectured. The format of having to watch her lecture other people is ridiculous. Don't waste your time.

Dr. Duwel was by far the worst biology professor I have had in my life. She did not explain the course material well, never responded to emails, and made studying biology more of a chore than a good learning experience.

Teaching style is not great. Reads off the slides during lectures. Expects you to know stuff when it hasn't been taught yet. Active learning was stressful, she would walk around and make sure you are paying attention. Often was late to lectures and would go over the class time. Exams were hard as well. I did not like this professor.

Really upset about the transition from Togna to Duwel in the middle of the term. Everyone felt the difference. During lecture, Duwel just reads off the slides and really doesn't do a good job at expanding on topics. Active learning is really stressful, the activity takes forever and she walks around and scolds you if you are like talking to anyone

Way too much work for a 3 credit class. Assignments sometimes felt useless and just like busy work.

She is tough in lecture but better in the lab setting. She has about two lectures the whole year than the rest of classes are quizes or case studies. About 5 exams in the term, one every other weekend. Expects you to watch lecture videos online.

I would give her a zero except you literally can't. Hard grader, assigns a ton of work and we had 5 exams in this course over the span of 10 weeks. You can't ever catch a break with this class because you always have exams, quizzes, and work. She doesn't even lecture in person and expects you to watch all her lectures online during your own time.

Yeah on top of terrible lectures 3 days a week watch more lectures that can span more than 2 hours like why do these people still teach just retire such a sad excuse for a class

Duwel did only one thing during lecture- read off the slides. She skipped entire slides and missed entire chunks of information. She also decided the Bio 131 class would be better off learning an additional chapter instead of reviewing for the final. She does not seem to know how much content is found in micro biology.

None of my professors this quarter have infuriated me as much as this one. Her lectures are her just reading directly off of the slides, and her slides contain so much extra information that it's hard to learn what's actually important. A lot of it feels like a waste of time. The course has become significantly harder since she took over.

Overall, she is insane. She reads off the slides and posts the same lectures online from quarantine that are the exact same thing and continues to read off the slides. Each video is insanely long and you can get bored very easily. Also, she made the exam into two parts which is absolutely doing a lot since we have other finals to worry about.

She is very wordy and she essentially just talks at you, not to you. I did not learn anything about biology from her class. In fact, I walked away knowing less about the subjects. I had never been more confused in my life.

Avoid taking her at all costs. Terrible teacher who makes learning impossible because nobody wants to watch her ridiculous lectures for 3+ hours which aren't helpful anyways. Tests are pretty difficult, why even give an exam the week of finals lol. Bring back Togna, Duwel shouldn't be a teacher.

she is the worst teacher ever. good luck kid praying for you

she will make your life so incredibly difficult for no reason. very unaccommodating and doesnt answer emails at all. theres a lot of group work, so be ready for that. her slides or over a decade old and dont even include a lot the stuff she wants us to know for her tests, so be ready to self study almost everything

Workload in this class is almost insufferable. Professor is absolutely no help. Lectures consist of reading slides that are very old. Combination of lab and lecture work is almost impossible to keep track of. Exams are every two weeks and require studying many ideas that are not included on the slides, so be ready to teach yourself the course.

Reads off of slides like it's not even funny. #don'ttakeher You are cooked if you get her negl

all i can say is good luck. hours of lectures each week. her lecture slides are filled with words and her study guides are just her lectures copied and pasted, essentially. expect to have to know everything even when the exam doesn't test you on all the topics

If you want to take her, don't. If you value your mental health, drop out. She is so mean it's not even funny. I was gonna change the rating cuz I thought she was nice but oml. I lit almost passed away after each week of attending her boring classes n TA's of hers are annoying too. All over your business like girl it's literally not that deep.

She deserves a 0/5, Professor Duwel genuinely cannot teach. She is knowledgeable but next to impossible to follow along with. She uploads multiple 45-minute plus videos a week on top of lectures that are torturous to get through. She cannot clearly explain anything, reads off very old slides, and makes you feel dumb if you don't understand.

The lectures were very unclear. If you have this professor you're going to have to teach yourself.

It's ridiculous how we even have two different professors for each five weeks for biology, but the switch from Professor Togna to Duwel is very present when you take this class. Pointlessly long lectures, so much forced group work, never elaborates in her own way; at this point just watch the videos on Pearson or Crash Course. She's no help.

Brutal....

Reads off slides, does not properly orient students for exams, and exam questions are not within reason.

Duwel is probably the worst professor at the acclaimed Drexel University. Avoid her at all costs. Dr's Togna and Smith are astronomically better than she is. I'm baffled at how she even got hired in the first place. She is monotone, reads directly off slides, skips slides quickly, had horrible exams. Stay away from her and pray she is fired soon.

If I could give her a zero I would. The worst professor I have ever had. She reads off slides and expects everyone to understand and already know the material. It's so frustrating, she changes the dates for exams all the time and assigns work whenever she wants without saying anything. You have to figure everything out yourself, she's no help

She just reads off of the slides and if you ask her a question, she asks like it's the biggest burden of her life. Oh and don't even try to access her via email she will NOT reply. She also accused like half the class of cheating on the first exam and then got so mad when the average was a 30%.

Dr. Duwel has to be one of the worst professors I have taken at Drexel so far. Her classes are very unorganized, so be prepared to have no idea what's going on. She doesn't explain what will be on exams, her slides aren't super helpful bc a lot of the time in lecture she just rambles about stuff and says "this won't be on the exam." LIKE WHAT WILL?