She is a very cute and sweet person. There is a LOT of difficult reading for the class, but you can get by without doing most of it. The class ended up being kinda boring though.

very helpful and a great teacher

very nice, helps if you go to office hours, lectures are sometimes out there. if you do the readings and listen in lecture..the paper and final wont be bad at all. i got a b+ and i didnt even read 2 of the books

She's very nice person and I recommend going to her office hours but none of the papers were graded till the end so know idea where we stand . tests are fair. readings are not always necessary to do but are much more interesting than the lectures.

She was very helpful and approachable. She gave us the questions to the test before the test happened, which was very helpful. She goes off on some tangents, but focuses on the main points which are guaranteed to be the questions she asks on the tests.

So helpful and eager to facilitate your success. If you have a problem, see her in office hours, she is willing to put forth time to help you succeed if you take the time to go see her. Go to class and you can practically ignore the readings- but give them a once over before exams.

Great teacher! Really knows her stuff and is very helpful. Very fair in her grading and assignments are manageable. You can learn a lot from Prof. Smart!

Ignore the last comment made. Smart is a wonderful teacher and a very fair grader. The key is to actually do the readings and pay attention in class. Otherwise you will end up making stupid comments like the last ignorant moron who left a bad rating.

very sweet professor, gives you exam questions a week in advance, helps keep the pressure off and by doing so I actually retained more information! great experience I recommand taking her class.

She's an excellent professor. She's always happy and a little spacy sometimes but she teaches theory very well and shows the best videos in class. The hour and a half lectures do get a little boribg but it's an easy A and good if you have any intrest in the social sciences.

Great professor. Very nice and very helpful. Tests were nice since she gave the questions out a week in advance, so i could actually prepare. some things in lecture are erraneous, but going to class helps a lot. the hour and a half class sucked, but the videos were pretty interesting.

she's an awesome professor. he's very helpful Both her upper level and lower level classes we easy. Just do the readings and the assignments. SHe explains things and answers quetions very helpful nice likes teaching and helpin her students take her course!

best professor ive met in bing! classes are easy as long as you really go to classes & really listen. you dont even need to do the readings much! wasnt used to her accent at first but if you really pay attention, you know that shes unwrapping everything for you. very helpful during office hours.

I seriously heart Prof. Smart. She's one of the better professors in Bing. Go to lecture and pay attention (not difficult she's very entertaining), you will do well. Her assignments were fun and relevent. Very personable, very willing to help. I HIGHLY recommend taking a class with her.

Super nice, and fairly easy workload. Lectures can be a little boring at times, but her niceness makes up for it.

Pam Smart is my hero :)

Pam Smart is my hero too.

Pam Smart is super AWESOME.

Dr. Smart was one of the best teachers for an intro class that I've ever had. if you talk to her one on one, she is more than happy to talk to you about any issue with the class you may have. although the readings are lengthy, there is not too much busy work and the material is very interesting and rewarding.

Whoever is saying dont take this class is apparently a freshman, & does not know about the other classes on this campus..This class is extremely easy..all you need to do is study before the test...SHE GIVES YOU 7 TEST QUESTIONS BEFORE THE TEST(including the final)AND USES 4 OF THEM..all you need to do is study the 7 questions & you can get an A

oh...and she is mad nice....and truly wants to help her students...it isnt the most interesting thing in the world...but its not that bad....she has a small accent, but its not even that bad

I think she is an excellent teacher, but I think the material covered in class could have been more interesting. She is easy to talk to and is always willing to help. She cares a lot about her students and has an excellent sense of humor. However, the class and her tests are too easy.

I hardly put any effort into this class and still ended with an A. Lecture can be interesting sometimes, but she sometimes forgets what to say and stutters. Easy class, though. So I think it was worth a little boredom

I. Love. Pam. Smart. She's just so great. She doesn't realize how funny she actually is, so her classes are priceless. She's really hardworking and really respectful, if you're the same to her she'll be the best professor you have. Doesn't spoonfeed work, but it's not terrible - TAs are great in office hours. A great, great lady. Highly recommended

great teacher, great class.

Pamela Smart is my hero too. Has a perfect blend of wit and skepticism to go with really interesting material. She manages to take even mundane reading material and make it relevant, even enjoyable. Her lecture and coverage on Magic and Technology in photography was one of the best lectures I've sat through, period.

Pam Smart is great! Her classes are interesting if you do the reading. If you don't, you'll be lost and bored (and probably should go back to high school.) She's very nice and witty. Willing to help you out and clarify points if you ask. I recommend this class.

Lectures are very boring. But overall its a very easy class. Essays are simple and are not graded hard. You have to do the reading or else you'll be bored and lost in class. Had to force myself to go to class-so boring!

Professor Smart is a really good teacher. She states from the start that you must do the reading AND go to the lectures and I completely agree with her. If you do no read what she assigns the lecture will be useless and you will end up lost. She does a good job at explaining the text, overall it's a good class that you have to put some work into.

Professor Smart is great! She is hilarious most days, and offers help when needed. The course is easy if you do the readings. If not... you'll be lost and have difficulty doing well on essays. Overall, a fun and interesting course.

Just want to say, this was the best lecture I've ever been to- Pam Smart is amazing. SIT IN FRONT FOR HER LECTURE- she says the funniest things and she makes eye contact with you, and loves when you participate. If you don't sit in front... (there's a reason people call her boring- THEIR OWN FAULT for sitting in back, in the dark)

I am surprised by the ratings. Prof. Smart is witty and her lectures are thought provoking, interesting and extremely relevant. The assignments are open ended and involve personal creativity as opposed to regurgitation. If you read and come to class you'll do fine Also, she is from New Zealand, not a foreign county. Her accent is clear.

She makes class very interesting, you would be a fool not to attend. There is minimal work (2 papers, 2 tests) and as long as you go to the lectures they are relatively easy. She also gives the test questions out ahead of time so you can prepare.

2 exams - questions given to students ahead of time & 2 papers- 5pages each. you need to do the reading and get notes from class so you can have enough info to complete reqs. she is so nice, class is easy! all you need to do is read and write what she says = A. day before test can ask questions, recommend!

Professor Smart was great! In class, shes witty, comical, and very passionate about her subject. She explained topics clearly and adequately. Outside of class, shes very accessible and eager to clear up issues. The class overall was very interesting, and Prof. Smart made me view the visual world from a completely new and refreshing perspective.

I wouldn't recommend this class for someone who just wants the A gen-ed requirement. I didn't do as well as I would have liked in this class. Your entire grade rides on 2 papers and 2 exams which are short answer so if you're not a good writer (like me) you're screwed. This class is hard if this is not your thing.

Very smart lady, and more importantly, interesting!

What else can I say about Professor Smart other than she teaches a really interesting class, and does a great job doing so. While she isn't the most organized human on the planet, her lectures are very interesting and enjoyable. She gives test questions out before the tests, which makes the emphasis on the class about the material,not about grades.

She does make the effort to teach, but the information is useless except for a few interesting main points. 2 5-page papers and 2 cumulative written exams. Except for 3 books, the weekly reading is 10 pages. Aim to memorize the main point made for each reading. She'll get to that point, even if it takes her an hour and a half. Not recommended.

Know what she needs, you will be good.

I took several classes with her and she was my adviser for my masters degree in art history. I thought her classes were great and she fantastic. I'm surprised by the low ratings as all the students I knew sincerely liked her.

A wonderfully quirky professor with a talent for expressing ideas in a fresh way. She really tries to engage her students and get a conversation going in class. Wants the best for her students and if you do the work, your efforts will be rewarded.

Professor Smart is soo nice and funny! I really liked her. The tests were very easy, you literally had to try to do poorly: she gives you the essay questions before the test. Prepare your answers and you will be fine. Plus she has a really cute new Zealand accent so that's fun.

Dr. Smart is a bit kooky but I've never met someone who knows more about museums (this class was Museum Studies). Sometimes she would go off on tangents, but usually would teach all the info she needed to. A reading or 2 every week, but not too much. 2 tests (5 questions that require less than a a page answers) and 2 short (3-5 pg) papers.

A really genuine person. Museum Studies was great and everyone liked her. She can be a little spastic but you can tell she really knows the material and wants you to do well.

Really nice style of teaching. Really wants to engage people in a discussion if you like learning from conversation! Quite self aware in her style and causes a laugh almost every class. The reading is a lot but it will make the class more enjoyable. And if you're lucky she will bring her dog in.

Professor Smart is a really caring and passionate professor. She really wants you to do well in her class. Just go to class and participate and she will like you. Her lectures can be kind of disjointed but otherwise she is great.

Professor Smart has been my favorite professor at Binghamton so far. She's very well versed in her topic and you can tell that she is extremely passionate about her research. She cares about students and wants you to do well, as long as you pull your own weight. Readings are fair, assignments are fair, and grading is fair.

Professor Smart is so sweet and just wants her students to engage with the material and learn. There are occasional pop quizzes, but they are not hard as long as you skim the reading. There are two papers and two written exams for which the questions are given to prepare for in advance. Very easy to get an A as long as you show that you care!

This class is so easy for credit. There is a lot of reading but you don't have to do it because she covers it all in lecture! The concepts are very easy to grasp. There are 2 written papers and for the midterm/final she gives you the actual test questions in advance. She is a very lenient grader and is very passionate about what she is teaching.

Lectures were mandatory but there was very little homework. There were 2 papers and 2 tests that were all subjective writing and the grading was lenient. Tests require preparation to do well but if preparation is done then the test should be extremely easy. She likes to keep the room dim which made it difficult to stay awake at times.

I feel like Professor Smart made me enjoy this class much more than I initially thought I would've. I thought it would be boring and while it was at certain moments, I felt as though her lectures helped me understand the material more. Lectures are the key part of the course, and there's a big emphasis to pay attention and engage in them.