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She is a very nice and caring professor. She is extremely helpful and wants the best for her students. Her exams are exactly what Dr. Bee gives, so don't expect her to be any easier. Tests are the same in both sections. I would highly recommend her.. she definitely knows what she is teaching and loves doing it.
Absolutely awesome, love having her..very passionate!
Extremely nice professor. Cares about her students and will always make time to meet outside class if you need extra help. Tests can be very tricky(same exam as Bee) but she explains things very well. She def. knows her anatomy and I would take another class with her in a heartbeat.
Best Professor for Anatomy! There is never a dull moment in the classroom with her. She loves what she teaches and she is very down to earth! Take her! She makes you think outside the box. Exams are not easy. But if you read your notes every day and attend each class you will be guaranteed a 4.0! Good Luck!
This is one of the best professors I have had at Oakland! She is extremely smart and very passionate about what she is teaching. She does go off on a tangent sometimes but overall she is a great professor! Exams are tough but come straight from the workbook! I would love to take another class with her. Definitely recommend her!
By far one of the best professor's I have ever had. She's so quirky and actually CARES about her students, which you don't often see. TAKE HER!!! You won't be sorry!
OU's best professor. My only negative comment is that I wish she teached more than just this class. She is so amazing! Knew my whole class on a first name basis, and actually cared about us. LOVED HER!
She was fantastic, hopeful to have her again in the future.
Dr. Craig is a great professor! She was very quirky with her examples but I thought they helped explain the concepts better. It's a very hard class but she is always willing to talk about medical jargon. Truly cares and really knows her stuff. The exams aren't bad but I feel that it would be better if she had wrote them and not Dr. Bee
Dr. Craig was very nice and enthusiastic about Anatomy, she definitely knows her stuff. Exams were impossible though. She didn't write them and didn't adequately prepare us for just how difficult they are - they're made to trip you up, so study hard, like every night. She's really approachable, so she'll be willing to help you out if you want it.
Amazing. Best prof ever. She always makes time to help. Exams are difficult, but she tries to keep the class relaxed while taking them. Very smart professor. This class is not an easy "A". Be ready to study everything in the Anatomy Workbook. I couldn't recommend a prof more highly. Take her!
Prof Craig is an outstanding professor. This class is a ton of work but she makes going to class worthwhile. I wish she taught more classes.
Professor Craig is one of the most helpful professors that I have ever had. She truly wants all of her students to succeed in her class and she does everything that she can to make sure that it is possible. However, I will inform you that this is an EXTREMELY difficult class. The material itself is very hard and confusing and ourexam score were low
Craig is a very intelligent woman. However, she has a difficult time keeping focused on the lecture. This was her second semester here at OU, and she was still adjusting. Patience is required if you decide to take her class.
Spectacular professor! Hands down, she is the best science prof I've ever had. She makes the subject at hand extremely interesting and tries her best to teach you higher order thinking. She reinforces ideas with interesting clinical connections. The class is not necessarily easy, but it is not hard either. Study consistently and you'll do fine!
Very smart professor. She has the potential to be one of the schools best science professors but she is almost always late. She is never organized and a lot of the time you will not know what is due when or many other things.
This class is difficult but professor craig is extremely friendly and always willing to help you outside of class. I would take a class with her again for sure.
wouldn't take again...studied my butt off and got a 2.6 she kept re-enforcing that anything above a 2 pt. in this class is wonderful, but it's really not. What we covered in class, was not what was on the exams...study out of the "optional" textbook and not the workbook you use in class. She gets off track a lot, and behind the other sections.
Very hard class no matter what professor you take...however, with her we hardly had time to look at the cadavers because she would lecture for 2 hours and you would have about an hour to look at them, which is mainly what you need to know for the exams...plan on going to every S.I. and open lab if you take her, you will need it.
This professor is very nice but hard. Her exams are very hard and the lowest one gets dropped. Her online quizzes are very easy than her tests. The only good part about this class is that she extends her exams and quizz if the class is behind. She also has in class quizzes which are hard but if you work as a class its very easy to get points back
I was surprised to see that this professor had such high ratings. I was disgusted by her level of disorganization and inconsistency. The lab itself is a difficult course but she amplifies the difficulty by failing to prepare for lectures, not testing on what she covers in class, and constantly mispeaking or writing questions with errors.
Professor Craig really cares about all of her student. We were behind the other sections, but she pushes test dates back so the class has time to let the info sink in. She does go off topic sometimes, but if you study everyday & memorize everything in workbook you will do great! She is very sweet and will help you if you are having trouble :)
She is a good professor but always falls behind bc she likes to explain it thoroughly. Get to drop lowest exam but exam has trick questions. Just need the workbook and study all the material from the WBk n u'll do fine. Lots of info so u just MEMORIZE it n u'll learn it. Bones and Muscles very important,so study hard so you can drop the 3rd exam!!!
Do not take classes with Mary Craig! She seems really nice, but she was usually at least 15 minutes late to each class, horribly disorganized, talked off-topic, fell behind the other sections, failed to cover all the material, wrote confusing exams, and her TAs routinely made mistakes that forced her to drop questions from exams. All frustration.
Took this class at the same time as the lecture. Lab was ten times more confusing than lecture. The assistance given by the TA's was unreliable (teaching false things). Exams seemed to have been written quickly without much preparation. Many questions tested material not covered in class. Very nice, but not well suited to teaching.
Honestly, the most awful professor I've had at Oakland yet. She was not helpful the least bit; she was late for class 15 minutes each time, and she never responded to one email. She postponed every exam, and we had exactly one week to study the new material for the final (the entire Cardiovasc., Digestive, Urinary, and Repro. systems). Do not take
She is the nicest professor! She actually cares about students and will do anything to help you out - you just have to ask! Would love to take from her again!
She was always late to class, even on exam days. She gets off topic often and is forced to move exams back because she takes so long to cover the topics. Her tests are extremely difficult and many things tested aren't gone over in class.
Took so long to cover topics that we ended up taking the third exam four class periods late and had to rush through the final unit in two days. She didn't teach to the departmental exams which were always full of mistakes. Was always late and then spent half the class "reviewing." She loved her subject but couldn't pull herself together to teach.
She was an okay teacher at first.She went over everything carefully, responded to questions thoroughly and reviewed material from prior classes.BUT all this, combined with her tardiness to class caused us to fall severely behind so that she spent two days on the final seven chapters and had to completely drop one more chapter.I don't recommend her.
I like Professor Craig! She knows her stuff and genuinely wants to help students succeed. If you go to lecture and take notes you don't need the book at all. And she drops the lowest test grade :)
This class was great with Craig. People always find a reason to complain about their professors... Do not miss a class, take good notes and if you need extra help, go to SI or open labs on the weekends. And get a Netter book for studying at home. I had to work very hard but was successful.:)
This class was horrible. Craig cannot clarify anything in her class. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS It will ruin your gpa and semester
This class was a nightmare. Professor was frequently 15 minutes late or more, including exam days. Anatomy isn't exactly an easy class, but Craig made it exponentially difficult with her near impossible exams that contained multiple errors and were "challenged" afterwards. Mean score for exams was around %60. Avoid. This. Woman.
Mary Craig is a kind professor.However, if you want to do well in this class, it isn't enough to just attend lectures and study ppt notes. You have to read all the sections and chapters in the book that she puts on her reading lists. Some ?s on her tests ask about small, specific details as opposed to just broad concepts.
She is very passionate about Anatomy, but doesn't know how to teach it. I've never been so frustrated with a class. A lot of trick questions, and multiple multiple choice which are worth all or nothing. Not a well structured class.
PLEASE do not take this woman. Dear God. She is intelligent and passionate, but EXTREMELY disorganized and she treats it like its a joke. She tells us "not to worry" when we haven't even got through a chapter and have an exam the next day. She really needs to pull herself together. Very frustrating class.
This professor is extremely unorganized with her information. She puts information on the tests that she specifically said she would not be there and makes it impossible to understand exactly what you will need to know for each test. Unless you are extremely intelligent or memorized the book you will not do well in her classes.
She's almost always late, her online quizzes have incorrect answers, she's always running behind her syllabus, she makes mistakes & gives out incorrect info. Her exams have typos and contain info we didn't learn. She's scattered and unorganized and her power points reflect that. She doesn't prepare you for higher level anatomy classes. Don't take
really nice, can't teach, super unorganized, nearly always late
She is very nice and is very knowledgable about anatomy; however, she cannot teach. I have never had an issue with a professor until I took her class. I have always loved anatomy until I took her class (and I'm a physical therapy major). She's very disorganized, confusing, often late, and her online quiz answers were wrong a lot.
Terrible do not take!
She is very nice... Having said that, she is unorganized and often late. All of the tests have been postponed by at least a full week, giving almost no time for the last two units. She is very knowledgeable, but makes what she wants you to know confusing and often goes way more in depth than necessary.
She's a nice teacher, but is very unorganized. She showed up to class 14 minutes late. Usually she's always late. We ended up weeks behind. It's hard to get a hold of her during office hours as well. If you are serious about learning anatomy, you should register for another teacher. Also, some of the stuff she talks about in class isn't accurate.
DO NOT TAKE HER! By far the most unorganized professor I've ever had. She is constantly late, never actually teaches you what you need to know. You will learn more about her life for the first two weeks than you will anatomy. She changes test dates for every test leading us to be super behind. DO. NOT. TAKE. HER
She is the sweetest lady, but she cannot teach well without going off on tangents, and wasting class time. She always loses class time to her stories and then pushes exams back but still doesn't teach. I think she is an awesome person, just a bad teacher. Exams are easy and full of trick questions too.
I was told she was a professor to avoid for this course and it's true. She is highly disorganized, it's like she doesn't think things through. She said she did clinical work, she knowledgable but it's best if she stayed with clinical work instead of teaching. She gets off track and she didn't even post the syllabus online.
Do not take her. Just don't. She is a very nice person, but cant teach AT ALL. She kept pushing test back and at the end of the semester we had three lectures about the nervous system then were given our exam, and then were given three lectures and had our final. And she still expected you to know the stuff for the exam even if she didnt teach it.
She was an absolute nightmare. My class made so many appointments with the director of the biology department that he had to email are whole class, cancel all other appointments, and he himself had to rewrite our final. She has a very jumbled mind and often comes in, up the 15min. late. If you email her, do it 30 times or you won't get a response.
SHE IS TERRIBLE & VERY UNORGANIZED. Makes no sense, lectures are all over the place, tests don't have anything to do with what you learn, falls behind easily so we didn't learn half of what we needed to and tests are always rescheduled weeks later, draws on herself to identify structures that no one is able to see because it is a lecture class!!!
She is the worst professor I have ever met. She gets behind and off topic. You will learn only half the material you need to move forward with higher up classes. You are required to buy her website when all the stuff provided on the website could be done through moodle easier. I have filed a formal complaint. Do not take her ever. YOU WILL REGRET.
DO NOT TAKE HER. Just don't. By far worst professor I've ever had. She is a very sweet lady but I promise you will not learn half of the material you are supposed to learn because she is so unorganized and behind schedule constantly. Quizzes and exams cover material we never went over in class and that is not even relevant. AVOID AT ALL COSTS
You will struggle. I have always had a knack for anatomy until I took her course. She teaches a sophomore level course as a med student course. Goes into far too much detail and gets off track, setting you way behind schedule. You will not cover material you should. Very nice lady, but extremely unorganized, unclear, and difficult to follow.
This is the worst class I have ever taken. It will completely ruin your GPA. You study like crazy just to see that almost every test question wasn't in the notes. She writes her own exams, and sometimes a question will have multiple correct answers. Do NOT take this class.
Mary is a sweet woman who truly knows her Anatomy, however I don't recommend taking her course. If you take her, you're better off studying at home than coming to lecture: on average we finished 5-10 slides during class as she easily gets sidetracked. She was very unclear on what we had to know for exams and always fell behind on lectures.
She wrote the workbook you need and during her lectures she just reads directly off her slides for you to fill in the blanks in the workbook. Oftentimes her powerpoint and workbook will have wrong answers so it gets confusing and it's hard to study. Would never take her again. Her tests are hard and the way she does them doesn't make sense
I had her for both lab and lecture and she is very resourceful. She was one of my favorite teachers I have had at Oakland so far and is really nice. The class consists of online quizzes, i clicker points, and tests. Participation points come from the i clickers. Extra credit is available.
I had her for bio 205/206 in the summer. She explained most everything well and was funny and very nice. The class is not too hard if you study. I ended with a 4.0 in her class. Her tests are straight forward if you memorize everything you need to know about the anatomy of each part. Make sure you study every detail and you will do fine!
I really like her. she gives you a ton of tools to study for her exams but it is also a lot of material to get down and she doesn't provides study guides. In general however I think she's funny and easy going!
amazing! always gave good explanations and made class fun. She is the sweetest lady. This class was all memorization though so you need to put the hours in and memorize everything not ignoring a single detail
She really lets her passion for anatomy show when she teaches. She really cares that her students are gain a knowledge on the subject. That being said this class is very difficult. You really need to study and memorize a lot of stuff. Attending SI will help immensely. There are four difficult exams (lowest grade is dropped), and some online quizs.
Profesor Craig is fantastic! I absolutely loved taking her class. Not easy by any means, you really need to work hard. She's very helpful and really wants her students to succeed. Would definitely take this class again.
If you are not in lab at the same time as her lecture, do not take her. She would frequently ask questions on exams not explained in lecture or the text, but was explained in lab. For homework she asks questions that revolve around a medical doctors diagnosis that you have to google 99% of the time. Online quizzes and exam answers don't match up
Professor Craig is a genuinely great professor. Although I didn't do as well as I'd hoped in her class, she really has a passion for Anatomy as well as teaching. She grades fairly and gives you chances to earn points back by reassessments. I highly recommend her!
She is incredibly disorganized, we haven't covered approximately 1/2 of the material because she goes off on tangents about non-anatomy related things. You will find the class dull, and hard to understand because she uses her own book which is filled with errors. I managed to do well in the class only because I have a lab with a different professor
Craig is so unorganized! She arrived 15 minutes late to the first exam because she didn't print the exam ahead of time. She does not cover all the material before exams then give you incorrect and confusing information about the unlearned information that is being tested. Overall she is a very sweet lady, she is just not the best professor.
Craig is an angel. Anatomy is not easy at OU, especially if you have no background info. However, I have to say she's very accommodating to students that need extra help and she'll work with you. If you have her as a professor, make an effort to get to know her. You'd have a hard time finding someone else so passionate about the sciences.
Don't get me wrong, she is an amazing person. She is very passionate and educated in her field. But, she has a difficult time keeping on track. She is always talking about stuff we weren't tested on, and we wouldn't cover all of the material being tested. I wish she would have been more cut and dry.
Professor Craig is a gem. The content is difficult, but she makes it as easy as possible for her students. If a large majority of her students miss a question on an exam, she throws that question out. She does have a tendency to go off on tangents, but if she doesn't get to a certain part of the unit before the exam, she doesn't test on it.
Professor Craig is a very sweet lady but a very hard teacher. The textbook required is literally word for word from her powerpoints. She goes off on a lot of tangents and talks about things that are " upper level" and we are not going to be tested on. This was by far the hardest class I have ever taken.
MARY CRAIG IS THE WORST TEACHER I HAVE EVER HAD. SHE TEACHES FROM HERE OWN TEXTBOOK AND GOES WAY OFF TOPIC DURING HERE LECTURES. SHE DOES NOT GIVE YOU SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON WHAT THE EXAM ARE ON AND EXAMS ARE BASICALLY YOURE WHOLE GRADE. MY SUGGESTION IF YOU ARE ENROLLED IN HER CLASS IS TO GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE RIGHT NOW SHE IS AWFUL.
Of the four units we had in a semester, we never finished a single one because she ALWAYS goes off on tangents. For example, Unit 2 is muscles and we got through the upper body and part of the quads, and were just expected to know the rest for the exam. Her exams are worded very weirdly as if she's trying to trick you. 1000/10 don't recommend.
Wonderful lady with a passion for what she teaches. Her textbook is just a printout of her slides with access to a site that hosts the PowerPoints and quizzes instead of using the free site moodle. We ran out of time with all four sections, and so skipped some sections or skimmed over them. In a class that builds on itself this makes it difficult.
The material in this course is heavy, there's no avoiding that. Craig is the most reasonable professor and will give you points back on exams if you talk to her. She also gives 20 point re-assessments if the average on an exam is low that can add points to your grade. The TA's are AMAZING and so helpful!
Just don't.
Professor Craig is very nice, smart, and willing to help her students get involved. But she is very scattered and all over the place. My class was behind and would skip over the last portion of test material in each unit so we never learned lower body muscles or bones. Good thing I had the lab with a different prof. You must be patient.
Professor Craig is the best! She cares about her students and wants them to do well. Although I've taken anatomy classes before, I felt like this class really taught me what I need to know. She is so knowledgeable and could always answer every question. Plus she gives many opportunities to boost your grade!
take a different professor
Shes really passionate about the subject, but extremely disorganized. her textbook is quite useless because her slides are exactly the same and theirs alot of stuff she skips in the book that we dont have to fill, just be ready to do your own work, honestly found the TA more useful then her lecture.
Very passionate about the subject but unorganized. Takes a long time to post grades for anything. She is disorganized during lecture. The book required for the lecture does not line up with the slides and often leads to confusion. Overall great, but if not getting your grades in a timely matter or a disorganized lecture bugs you, take someone else.
Craig is a nice caring professor, but by far the most unorganized & disorderly professor Ive ever had. She always messed up grades & would say she would fix them but it would take her like 1 month. Lecture was just reading off the slides, learned more in lab w/ a different professor then in her lecture class. You definitely have to put in the work
You could never be sure that you grade was what you had earned because her grading was so messy. She constantly defended her disorganization by saying that she was chosen to be on too many committees and SUPER busy. She never got all the way through a unit, would get off topic easily and then rush through the notes to get to where she wanted to be.
Professor Craig is a good teacher but her grading doesn't really make sense and the lectures are filled with notes from her own textbook. For a basic anatomy class, the material we learned was way too specific for what I felt was important to pass the tests. I wouldn't have done as well if I hadn't taken the lab with a different professor.
Amazing professor. Her lectures are in depth and great. Exams are hard, but that's expected at the 2000 level. I don't understand the complaints about the timing of her grading. Exams were graded within 1-2 days, 4 at most. This class is meant for future health professionals, not pansies. She's stellar, take her class. Read complaints with caution
LOVE HER. Most caring professor and really tries to make sure all of her students are doing well.
She is a very nice person, but she just reads off of the slides from a book she wrote, but there are so many typos in the book, and it doesn't even match up with her powerpoint. If you've never taken anatomy before you REALLY have to work hard, but none of the anatomy prof are good at OU so good luck.
She is very good at explaining material and answering any questions at any time. Would definitely recommend.
Professor is VERY passionate about anatomy! If someone has a question she will answer and if she does not know it she will find the answer and share it with the class. Workbook is huge, time flies by and we can not fill it all out. she will mainly only test you on what is covered during class. Sometimes workbook and powerpoints do not match up.
Professor Craig is very passionate about anatomy and truly wants her students to love the subject too! However she often doesn't get through all of the sections. For easier anatomy class at OU with more General knowledge then take her. If you want to learn more and have more in depth knowledge then take someone else. Sweetest lady ever tho!
Sweet person, not good professor by any stretch of the imagination. Wrote a book that you must purchase for the course when it could be free, it does not always line up with the PPT which can lead to irritation and confusion. Gets way behind in lecture which is sad because it is an intro course. Exams worded badly like she is trying to trick you.
There is an insane amount of work for very scarce grades. Professor often contradicts previous statements and her own book. Very sweet personality but not great with teaching even the most basic material that she herself seems to not understand
Unless you actively want to be overworked to the point you cannot take any other classes, or maybe you like spending 4 hours a day just on one class. I recommend going to literally any other teacher. Just dont take her under any circumstances, like dropping out would still be the better option
Please do not take anatomy with Professor Craig. She is super sweet, but the exams are really tough and there are questions on stuff you were specifically told not to study. She never finishes a unit and then 2 days before the exam tells you that you must learn the other half of the unit she didn't finish. Save yourself the stress and irritation.
Please do not take. Absolutely never gets grades in in a timely manner, so you dont know your grade until finals. Is so beyond unorganized its truly unbelievable. Never in my life have I seen someone like her. Never finishes a unit and skips around and doesnt grade anything correctly. She got an 80% taking her own exam with us. Im an A student.
Absolutely terrible. Please avoid taking anatomy with this professor. Tests are on things you haven't learned and you are expected to teach yourself the whole exam. Doesn't respond to emails and is extremely unorganized. I've never been so unnecessarily stressed in my whole life.
Im begging you do not take. Change your schedule around if you have to. Its finals week, grades arent in. Those in are graded incorrectly once again. Ive emailed 4 times the past two weeks about one quiz, said she would fix it and hasnt. Today she told us to not email her about grades bc shes Busy. Gives so many excuses to her incompetence.
I have never had a professor so unorganized. Many topics we did not cover in class because of getting off-topic during the lecture. The textbook has typos and is hard to learn from. The tests are so challenging that the professor has trouble knowing the answers. It feels as most of the questions are trick questions. The team tests saved my grade.
extremely unorganized, doesn't follow the syllabus & accuses students of "point-mongering" when we email her about our scores because SHE doesn't update/ upload grades correctly. when she goes over exams, they're so hard that even she can't get the questions right. always finds excuses for not doing anything right (i.e. "i had a meeting!") insane.
unorganized, easily distracted, doesn't teach, & overcomplicates exams. she won't put in grades, or if she does they're incorrect. she's completely unreachable, so emailing her about it is like talking to a wall; if she does reply, she'll find an excuse for why she messed up or will blame you for it somehow (a new development). go w/ ANYONE else.
Professor Craig is an amazing women! She truly cares about her students and you can tell she loves teaching. Anatomy is a hard concept to grasp and even though this class is hard, she tries her best to teach it the best way possible. She wrote her own book for the class and its much better than the $300 one the other prof. are charging! Take her!!!
RUN AWAY! Take it with anyone else!!!!!!! RUNNN WHILE YOU CAN!! Theres so many better options.
take anybody else if you can, if not consider not taking anatomy that semester. This class was very disorganized to say the least.
Best professor I've ever had. She cares so much about her students and her exams are easy if you study! The best way to study is by doing the fill in the blank workbook she requires for the class. Print out the slides and write notes on the side that also helped for me. I wish I could retake the class that's how much I enjoyed it!
She is very passionate about the subject, but she just does not relay that information well. Class would go over 20 minutes every time, never finished lecture notes, and she would ramble about other things that have nothing to do with what we were learning. Take another professor if possible.
Craig is a good professor but a terrible lecturer -- I don't recommend taking her for anatomy if you're not also in anatomy lab to actually learn the material. Her fill-in-the-blank "textbook" is not helpful or well-organized. She was lenient with exams and really knows her stuff.
No grades are in before finals, except 2 assignments and auto-graded exams. Class was extremely disorganized and she would lecture on for 4+ hours / skip our lab. A good amount of exam / quiz content had nothing to do with what was learned in class. She decided that taking her dog to day-camp was appropriate during class and lectured from her car.
Dr. Craig is awesome! Class was a little disorganized at times, but that also lends itself to spontaneously discussing topics of interest. Content was quite easy, although do make sure to read the book as a few exam / quiz questions will come from this material. Some of the other reviews on here seem to overexaggerate so read with caution.
Goes off on tangents often. This leads to the whole course material not being covered. Then she'll either go over class time to finish or assign it for the students to finish because she lost track of time. Overall not very helpful, and would test on some things not having to do with the lesson.
Truly a nice person, but avoid as a professor at all costs. Will cover 20% of planned material and then introduce topics not remotely discussed in class or slides on exams / quizzes. Often deletes key items from the course-page and forgets about it. Does not respond to emails whatsoever. Took 2.5 months to grade our midterm. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
There are so many ratings of professors that say that the professor is disorganized, doesn't grade quickly, and has horrible lectures. Professor Craig is all those things, and she defends every single one of these traits. Her knowledge on anatomy is questionable, her exams are not crafted by her, but by a question and answer bank. Avoid this prof.
DONT TAKE. I am an A student & did not do good at all. Take anyone else you can. She is a good person but not a good professor. Does not prepare you for anything on the exam. Youd get marked wrong on quizzeswhen it was correct. Would go off on random tangents. If you want to learn & do good in this class take someone else. I reccomend Kauhn!!!
Mary Craig is the reason I changed my major. I was a health science major, and I changed it to bio so I wouldn't have to take her horrible class. She doesn't teach, talks about everything except anatomy, and has impossible exams. She told me over zoom she treats it like a 3000/4000 level course. No thanks. I will keep my 3.8 and stick with bio.
Prof. Craig has good intentions and a very kind heart. She loves what she teaches. However, she does not successfully teach a lecture. She often would assign us to go over the material ourselves and the lectures are soo heavy that it's hard to keep up. Exams are almost impossible with how many units it goes over.
Professor Craig is very knowledgeable, she is passionate about the material and there is no denying that. However, she goes over the class-time to lecture, and if you cannot stay, you have to watch the recording outside of the lecture time. There's material that you are required to learn on your own. This class was extremely difficult for me.
Avoid this professor at all costs. I'm not sure how she is in person, but she moved our course completely online. She does not finish lectures on time and will lecture for an hour after class to finish notes. Unorganized, due dates are typically wrong, exam questions are confusing, and days late to email replies. Also grades are typically late.
Her exams are crazy difficult, and she grades her case studies like they are real. She goes on so many tangents during lectures and it's really hard to follow her. Treats the course and students as if they are graduate students.
Avoid avoid!! You will not be able to learn with Mary Craig. Lectures were just a bunch of PP's with fill in the blank words (not helpful at all), and she goes over class time every day. Exams are jampacked with information (anywhere from 5-12 units on one test) This is no way to learn and I am extremely disappointed with Prof. Craig.
I'm only a week into this class and I can already tell you I do not recommend this prof. I am retaking this class and the only reason why I can kinda understand her is because I already learned this material from a different prof. She is a nice lady and is very passionate but her teaching is not very good and very hard to follow.
HORRIBLE. unorganized, confusing, and doesnt follow the same curriculum as the other 2 anatomy lab prof. Makes you buy an $80 access to a third party site in order to view lectures and quizzes. Site is glitchy & gives false information lots of times. She takes forever to upload and grade things & when you email her with questions, she gets confused
I registered for inperson lecture, and it was changed to online at the last second. I did not learn anything this class. Lectures were all over the place, often on long tangents which made it super hard to focus. This also meant that students had to learn the material that she didn't get to on their own at home. She doesn't respond to emails either
Lecture heavy, very short breaks. Lectures all over the place. Highly unorganized. Never on time. Exams within 4 days of each other, lockdown, hard, w/ less than 1min per question. Her dog barks constantly during lecture & she talks through it. Takes meetings during class. Required $150 text SHE wrote/ has access code to a required 3rd party site.
WORST, HORRIBLE, UNORGANIZED
Professor Craig is a very nice woman but her course is difficult. It wasn't until after I had already started her class that everybody told me I should've chosen a different professor. She doesn't grade anything and her Moodle page is very disorganized but she is the most lenient science professor you can have. Also, the lectures are interesting.
shes so unorganized. constantly has assignments due at the wrong time, or the wrong day listed for when its due. unhelpful when you ask questions. gets distracted during lectures and you never know what is on tests. does not prepare you at all. you basically have to do all the work on your own. id rather teach myself from a textbook
Professor Craig is the most unorganized prof. If you are thinking of taking her online, please do not. I did not know my grade until exam 3/4. She does not regularly grade things and her online page is so disorganized. Online exams are quite tough as you have roughly 40 seconds per question and require intense studying. I took her fall semester.
Very nice woman, but very disorganized. Try to find another professor in-person for this subject. The tests have an incredibly short amount of time to complete long questions and the YuJa software constantly is watching you and malfunctions a lot. I didn't even know my grade more than halfway through the class because she takes so long to grade.
Very nice but her class is incredibly disorganized and the exams are hard since you get maybe 40 seconds per question. "In-practice" assignments and test questions are ridiculous. She forces you to get Yuja Verity to proctor exams and it never works. I still don't know what my grade is since she doesn't grade anything till the end of the semester.
Professor Craig was extremely unorganized. Her moodle page as well as her lectures were all over the place. Students were forced to use Yuja proctoring and it would malfunction for everyone during every exam. She grades everything at the very end of the semester. Exams are also very difficult and you only have around 30-40 seconds per question.
Please do not take this course if you are passionate about anatomy, and genuinely want to learn the subject. Her 'lectures' are just recorded zooms from covid. She has very poorly structured exams. Mandatory online material does not align with tests. She does not respond to emails, and if so it can take WEEKS. Spelling and grammar errors on exams.
For the love of god run, run as fast as you can away from any and all classes this woman teaches, she is tenured and cannot be fired, and let me tell you she takes advantage of it. We don't get through class content EVER, and she tests on the stuff you don't learn. I recommend Chris K for all anatomy stuff, really anyone besides Mary.
Professor Craig's class was quite disorganized, with an outdated Moodle page and unreliable Yuja proctoring for exams. However, the lectures were engaging, and Unstuckstudy's study tools helped me prepare for the challenging but fair assessments.
This professor has horrible time management. She does not keep up with grading so you never actually know what you have in the class.
She. Never. Grades. I waited 2+ weeks for one of my exam scores, and I am currently days from the end of the semester with only exam scores in, despite having multiple assignments, participation points, etc. She is a nice person and gives extra credit often, but does not teach the content well and makes the exams too in-depth for 2000 level.
Please do not take Mary Craig if you have any self respect. She: Gets distracted during lectures and goes on random tangents on stuff you won't be tested on (this is supposed to be a pretty introductory course and she treats it like a med school course). Never grades ANYTHING in a timely manner. Takes weeks to get emails back, even with follow-up.
Professor Craig was the only professor for this course, and I would absolutely not take her again for future courses. She grades MANY weeks after work is submitted, so you don't know your grade in this course; the semester ends tomorrow and I still have no idea what my grade is. Moodle course page and due dates are so unorganized.
Anatomy is a difficult course and requires extra effort. Pros: She offered so much extra credit that it offset a bad exam grade. There's only 2 required assignments for each unit and she drops the lowest exam grade. She offers great feedback and helps in understanding concepts. Cons: She does grade slow.
Absolute worst professor I've ever had. Horrible at responding to emails, extremely long lectures because she goes on rants, distractions during lecture, always behind, didn't grade anything till the 4th month, semester ended and shes still putting in grades that were due 2 days ago, acted like this was medical school, has to curve every exam.
She's a very intelligent women but do NOT take her class!!!!! She is nearly impossible to get a hold of or in contact with. Office hours are hit or miss and she doesn't respond to emails. Very hard grader and very high expectations. I can say confidently this is the worst professor that I've ever had. Didn't give feedback either.
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