Class was very easy but incredibly boring. Don't bother buying the book, I didn't and still got an A. Her english is good but sometimes it's impossible to read what she writes on screen. This was her first time teaching a class, and while she's definitely knows a lot about the subject, her class was still very boring.

No reason to buy the textbook. Exams are difficult, and require quite a bit of studying for a 200 level class which I found out the hard way. For this reason it was irritating not to be able to miss more class my senior year. She is really sweet though and explains things very well. She knows her stuff.

She is a great professor. Very helpful. The people who did bad were the people who expected they could not go to class and not study. Maybe a bit more difficult if you are not a science major but overall pretty easy and interesting. Her writing can be difficult to read. Go to her office hours. She is amazing!

Lots of information for a mini course. Don't buy a book! She randomly passes around attendance sheets, so go to class. Quizzes count as extra credit.

Though the class may be boring (compared to eecs 314, which is the class I was overlaping, it actually seems exciting), go to it. If you go to lectures, pay attention, you will do good on the exam. There is a lot of information, but once she tells you what you need to know, and there really isn't that much.

Okay instructor; definitely chose interesting course material (can vary by section). Lectures were kind of dry & I often fell asleep or left early. Gives extra credit for being in class & for quizzes, which was tremendously helpful. I got an A+ just by cramming right before the exam. Some questions did require having been in lecture though...

I took history of the oceans and coral reefs. I found both classes interesting. Most of the concepts are pretty basic and if you do her study guide and take good notes you will ace the exam. You must attend the lectures! As far as mini courses go, it doesn't get much easier.

Very interesting material that had a lot of potential to be interesting. However, I fell asleep during almost every lecutre. Regardless, I still ended up getting 100% on the final.

I took a Coral Reefs mini course with her. She was very knowledgeable and helpful. The final is the only grade, and quizzes are extra credit. I ended with over 100%. Easiest class I've ever taken in my life. And even though I'm really bad with accents, I never once had a problem understanding her.

All of her 1 credit EARTH courses are amazing for non-NS kids

Super easy class and a very nice lady. Barely did any work and there was no exams or papers, just six online assignments. Nothing about the class was difficult. Showing up to lecture was extra credit and got a 100% on every assignment. Lecture was not the most interesting but could have been worse and often got other work done in class.

I took Arnaboldi for Earth172/Environ111. The class made me think about sustainability on a deep level as well as a day-to-day basis. She's a very nice woman and makes it easy to succeed. All of the information is from her powerpoints. She gives out a study guide for exams at the beginning of the semester, so just fill it in. Overall, easy A.

Professor Arnaboldi's first-year seminar- Coral Reef Dynamics was a very interesting course. She is very knowledgeable about the field and was good at answering questions and explaining things if you didn't get it the first time. Exams and presentations are straightforward and overall I learned a lot.

I love Michela, and I have taken 3 classes with her. She's very humorous and open to getting to know students. Most people know her from her large mini-courses, but I would recommend taking a smaller sustainability/oceanography course with her. Her lectures are very clear, and so are the rest of the materials she presents.

She is a very relaxed professor. The material is dense but the exam was an easy surface-level overview of the material that she covered, plus she lets you use a notes sheet. She moves pretty fast through the slides, but they are all posted ahead of time. The HWs are a bit difficult and sometimes unclear, but she made a couple of them extra credit.

This class was so easy and involved almost no work. Went to class literally one time (on the first day) and still got a good grade. Take with friends so that you can study for the online assignments together.

i'm astounded at all the low reviews :(( dr arnaboldi's lectures are mostly very interesting and engaging, save for a few on very dry topics that would be difficult to make interesting. her study guides tell you EXACTLY what you need to know for exams, if you go over these theres no reason not to get an A. i put in minimal work for a good grade

Dr. Arnaboldi has been my favorite professor thus far. Her classes are lecture heavy, but she tries to keep them interesting in my experience. There are multiple extra credit opportunities which balance out the occasional weirdly specific exam question. She is a very lenient grader in my experience, as well.

Michela Arnaboldi is a great professor. She taught very well and, with the exception of some odd exam questions, the class was very easy to pass. As long as you did your work and participated in discussions, you received an A. There are also many extra credit opportunities. Nice woman, too.

Dr. Arnaboldi is a great professor. She handled her transition to online due to COVID-19 very well. As long as you show up and take good notes in lecture, you will do well on the exams!

In the switch to remote learning she went to recorded lectures and more assignments. However, these were not difficult or long. I also found her to be very understanding and she really cared about how her students were doing. Her homework was not long and she graded easily. The project and book report was flexible.

Overall I think that Dr. Arnaboldi is a good lecturer, and she was good at simplifying and explaining everything. Since the class was remote and asynchronous, there was not much engagement with other people in the class, but I still learned a good amount.

asynchronous and remote, watched 2-3 hours of lecture recordings each week with a quiz and 3 exams total, there's a lot of extra credit. lectures were pretty easy to understand

She gave lots of opportunity for extra credit and students were given multiple attempts on quizzes, plus our lowest quiz grades were dropped. Her lectures can sometimes be a bit messy and graphic heavy. There were clear study guides for each lecture that helped a lot on the midterms. If you take good notes, you will do well.

Michela is an amazing professor and such a caring person! I took her intro ENV111 class and another class she taught at the Bio-station and they were both so fun and educational. She provides clear directions and I would highly recommend going to office hours if you have any quesitons.

Dr. Arnaboldi is really interested in glaciers, her lectures are a little sleepy which is not great since you need to pay attention to all the lectures since that's the only thing the exams are on (no readings). Besides the exams, which are manageable, I had to do two easy presentations, a tedious but easy paper, and some canvas discussions.

Dr. Arnaboldi explains the material very well. This class in particular was nice because it pushed for library research culminating in a final project that is intended to be installed on campus. There were no exams and only simple assignments that went toward your final project. It was a new project, so the direction was a bit unclear at times.

she's really caring and if you do all of the assignments, you will get an A

Dr. Arnaboldi was such a great professor. Almost all assignments were optional (daily quizzes, free-response questions, etc.), but they were good practice for understanding the material. She was super helpful and would make time to explain any confusing material. The class material itself was super interesting and fun to learn about.

Loved taking this class! There were many opportunities to get the grade that you wanted, and you could never lose points because the grading scale only goes up. If I was a freshman looking for an easy A and a fun class I would take Earth 156 a hundred times over again.