This is not a blow off class. The teacher is nice but I feel she is a terrible teacher. I sat in the front of the class and took notes as well as used her note-takers but something she always said was "There will be stuff on the test that we didn't review." The point is to teach your students. Not have them struggle. Look somewhere else students.

She is the most rude person I have ever known. You ask her for help and she refused to help you, all she will say is read this or read that, you tell her you did and still can not find it well you will never get a response back or if you do and she thinks its a dumb question she will send you a e-mail back with a two ward response "blank stare"

Extremely unorganized. The material (as said before) is not difficult so this class shouldn't be this stressful. The instructions on assignments and due dates don't make any sense. I've asked for clarification via email because I'm taking the online course and her responses are short, unhelpful, and rude.

Very unorganized. Probably the worst class I've taken at TCC so far. The material is pretty simple so it should be easy but its not. Her lectures are power points straight from the book so you could pretty much teach yourself what she teaches. She is very rude when you ask questions and her due dates are all over the place. Don't take her.

Personally, this teacher was not very organized and didn't respond to emails sent to her in a timely manner. She assigns a ridiculous amount of homework, quizzes, discussion boards, video and surveys weekly, Plus there are 4 exams throughout the semester including final. I don't recommend this class if you have full time classes/ full time work.

This teacher isn't available when you need her. She does not grade your work in a timely fashion so you can know your grades. She updated her syllabus late which caused confusion among the students.

Bowman is hard to reach and slow to respond to emails about class issues. Also, she is using proctorU for exams which makes it incredibly difficult to find time to fit in her numerous tests/exams. Also, I had tons of issues with how she would lock down all the material until the previous work was done. Many issues with proctorU (only with her)

Test heavy, uses a system that is difficult for working adults. Proctor U is not a friendly system when you have to do class work in between LIFE!

Unorganized in a way, lots of things that is not understanding, tons of work and very hard to understand. The test and quizzes do not follow what she teaches.

Do not take her! Several quizzes a week based off of dated materials. Late grading papers. Assignments are mostly busy work. Her tests are not pulled from the very little teaching material she provides. All she gives is a power point and a fill in the blank sheet, and not always even that. Some of her test answers are contradictory and even wrong.

Her blackboard page is ATROCIOUS! She posted 5 assignments all due within the first few days of the course, 3 of which had no link on any of the 10 tabs of her blackboard, and another that was an ESSAY due the first week. She also fudged up the gradebook and had assignments due WEEKS before class even started. DO NOT TAKE!

This professor provides quizzes over material that is not included in the course, she responds late to emails and grades your work late. I had assignments that was completed from January through February that had no grades until the middle of April.

If you are planning on taking Professor Bowman for Govt 2305 online, goodluck! She gives crazy amounts of homework that are very time consuming, no reviews for the tests, the tests records your face and screen and is 80 or so questions (not all multiple choice), she responds late to your emails, and takes forever to put in grades!

Disorganized lectures that do not match information on quizzes and tests. Hard to find grading rubrics and hard grading criteria. Rude and unapproachable. This is a common core class, there is no reason for her to treat it like it's the MOST important class you'll ever take (because it isn't). Find a different instructor.

If I had to read an encyclopedia from the front cover to back, it still wouldn't take up the work and effort this class equals to. In fact, Id read an encyclopedia twice before ever reconsidering to take this course again. She gave loads of homework and even took off points without an explanation why. Madelyn Bowman is the absolute worse Teacher!

Don't recommend this teacher. You'd have better luck teaching yourself through a textbook. Doesn't respond to emails, when she does it seems like she's too busy to give a full answer. Test's and quizzes don't match up with the homework. Weird grading (some assignments were only .5 points towards the grade) DO NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYONE

For a class thats primarily taught through a third party platform, theres an outrageous amount of tabs on the blackboard page, some of which lead to nowhere. Theres wrong due dates on just about everything some things even say they were due YEARS prior to this semester. Instructions on assignments are mostly unclear or straight up missing. AWFUL

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. I have never had a problem with a professor until Professor Bowman. Some assignments are worth 0.1-0.5 points, you will have over 10 assignments due in 4 days, get ready for fill in the blank exam questions, and her feedback on your assignments? Makes you feel bad about your work. Very unprofessional and overall rude.

I finished this semester not knowing if I past or failed because she is just not putting grades in and its the last hour of the semester. She will not answer what you asked in your email. The class was just so unorganized. The book she asked us to get half way through the semester made me sound dumb for using the textbook. .1 rating

Def should not be an online professor. TONS of course work, tests are 80+ questions long with short answers and no study guide is given. You will have no idea what exactly to study as there is there 2 books, her lectures + extra reading to go thru each week. Her course is all over the place. Oh, and ZERO communication from her if you email. Avoid.

Not the best professor... the test are extremely long. She also claimed that she would drop an exam grade and never did. She does not provide you with any feedback. I spent the entire semester frustrated with this class.

To pass her class you need a free schedule. She would wait to unlock folders with hours of lectures until the afternoon the day it is due. Her instructions were confusing and her assignments were old. She not only didnt respond to emails, but she would complain to the entire class if enough of us emailed her.

Please do not take this class There lots of better professor! class is very unclear and long proctored tests never responds to email! 0/10 course please stay far away from this class! Awful just Awful

DONT make the same mistake I did. I made deans list last semester and this class is going to prevent me from doing the same this semester. There is so much useless material that you will never see on a quiz or exam. With this low of a score you would think she would tweak her material by now. Ive never had such a bad experience in a class before.

The lectures are way different from what is on the quizzes.

This Professor is very unorganized has a very cluttered canvas course and inaccurate syllabus. Very politically biased and will let you know her personal irrelevant opinion on politics.

She doesn't reply to emails or message boards without you waiting days or weeks. She gives tests back to back as well as mini projects/ essays that don't explain the instructions. She only tells you the topic and says to watch a video, and then boom, that's it. Also, her due dates are the same regardless of what she makes mistakes.

This Professor was 100% awful. She takes months to reply to emails, whichever way you try to communicate with her. She does not keep up with her syllabus schedule which throws off her whole class, and during finals, she didn't even open her exam on the correct date, which she posted herself. IF YOU CAN, DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS. SAVE YOUR GPA.

Do not take Professor Bowman's wintermester class. Highly disorganized. Way too much work crammed into just 2.5 weeks. She even said in one of her emails that she did not take any of the material out from her regular 12 week course. This was a 2.5 WEEK COURSE. If you're trying to contact her, don't email, but contact her directly through Canvas.

This professor is very disorganized. You will need to search for where and how to turn in assignments. You'll have to memorize all the info in the chapters for testing and the exams include multiple paragraph essays. Good luck! And good luck with all the Proctoring.

She gave tons of assignments for one week. Long and complex discussion board and assignment topics mostly every week. Exams were 82 questions, timed and proctored, and covered topics/subjects that are just simply impossible to remember and know everything. Very overwhelming.

Very tough teacher

Her expectation of an exam essay is absurd. I got 57 questions right out of 60 on the multiple choice section and wrote a 550-word essay and she gave 6 points out of 25 on it. barely passing the exam.

This was absolutely the worst class I have ever taken. For one there is SOOO much homework. insane amount of homework, so do not take this class if you plan to have more than one class. She uses respondus lockdown for her exams DB, lots of general homework, quizzes and papers. It is REALLY heavy load. Also she will not respond to you at all.

I took a 5-week online course over the summer so I understand that we didn't have as much time to cover all the material but she rushes through everything. There's WAY too much homework and daily assignments, and she would also have us take 1 to 2 tests every week, along with her multiple discussion boards and busy work that didn't contribute much.

Assigned enormous amounts of homework. I would've found another class if I had the option

Terrible. Unclear on all her lectures and expects you to understand every concept immediately.

Just no. Avoid this professor

She assigns so much busy work that either doesn't help you learn the material or it covers concepts that aren't on any of the quizzes or tests. She also makes you do multiple discussion boards and gave us 1 to 2 exams per week. I hope she changes the way she teaches

Please avoid her.

One of the questions on her assignments was wrong and I was confused so I emailed her. After trying to communicate that the "correct" answer choice didn't make sense, she just told me she couldn't help and that I needed to figure it out on my own. Completely unhelpful and rude. I would avoid her class if possible.

The course requires you to have to pay for a $140 textbook per semester to take the class. And there was over 10 assignments due in one day.

Get ready for a whole lot of reading AND SO MUCH HOMEWORK! She'll end up making you pay $150 just for a textbook where she puts all her work at.

She assigns so much work in one day. Some of the links that she posts dont even work

Most of the links in the class don't even work, and she assigned so much work in one day.

no good at all

Bad with communication, uses a browser that does not work for most students in my class but has not changed anything to accommodate. Assigns assignments which some are short but many are lengthy and tedious.

Requires a lot of busy work, all textbooks, this has to be one of the most boring class I've ever taken. also requires A LOT of writing, so much so that I have to write more in this class for discussion boards and other stuff than my ENGLISH class. She doesn't even teach you, she just assings things,

Professor was very disorganized from day 1, she never even showed to her first class and claimed she sent an email dispite never doing so. Dispite reading the textbook in depth and having open note tests her class quickly dropped my grade and she was not helpful at all. DO NOT TAKE HER!!!!

Avoid at ALL COST. The notes she provides for the test are nowhere near the same. Get ready for a test or quiz every week. Plus 30 homework assignments that only add up to 20 points at the end if that. The test are 77 questions they are not all multiple choice. Seriously save your gpa and take a better professor!!!! Very unorganized.

THE WORST CLASS EVER. RUN. Test are 77 question and are more than multiple choice. Lectures are not helpful at all she is completely unorganized. Test every other week, and quizes, and every single week you have 10 homework assignments. Had professors not be lecture heavy in the past and still learned more from than her. Please DONT do it!

Absolute mess. This teacher was unable to keep the schedule for the due dates in order, and the lectures were terribly paced and presented.

Multiple quizzes a day, long assignments, study guides that had nothing to do with the test. Each of the 5 tests was 80~ questions including multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank, and 1-2 essay questions. Made us buy a $70 textbook that we never used in the class. AVOID!

Dont take her class; she doesn't reply to a single email THROUGHOUT the semester. As a prof. you have a simple job of communicating with students who paid money and their time. Its just going to be you and your computer. She will post assignments a day after the due date; when your grade drops, she claims she will fix it, but never does ignoring u.