I don't think she should even e a teacher. She has a rude attitude. She doesn't help you at all and she doesn't even tell you what will be on your test.

Worst teacher ever. Very inconsistent. I would wait for grades for 4-6 weeks on average! I would get an email from her about 4 weeks after turning in an assignment explaining why things weren't graded yet. Sounded like excuses to me. She doesn't respond to emails. Her tests are hard. Avoid if possible.

This teacher is absolutely useless if you take her online course. She constantly made excuses about why she had not uploaded grades & when I tried to contact her - 6 times over 3 weeks - she never once responded to my question. I had to drop the course since she never answered questions about the assignments. AVOID THIS TEACHER

No. Just, no. Her personal beliefs are more important than history, apparently. She once spent a whole class period showing us pictures from her Facebook page and crying the whole time. Other people have said that she knows her history, but she constantly gives incorrect informationdatesetc. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

She's horrid. Never responds to emails. Takes forever to grade your homework. She uses vulgar language in class. Her syllabus is super confusing. Seriously the worst teacher I have ever had.

Syllabus & blackboard a complete mess. Unorganized & contradictory dates. Never removed last semesters dates so constant late notifications. Online class but requires you to report to campus for orientation, mid term, final, & to watch 2 movies. Does not return emails. I wish I had enough room to post the unprofessional communications from her.

Is very hard to get into contact with. Her due dates were very hard to understand because one thing would be on BB and another on the course schedule. Would not take a class with her again. If I could rate her a 0 I would.

She is terrible. She should not have a job period. She hurts more than she helps. She inspires no one. She actually hurts her students more than helps. She will even go as far as to make fun of them in other lectures. Avoid, avoid, avoid

She is crazy.. I took her HIS 202 class over the summer. the class was easy but she is super super picky when grading, so you did have to put in work. my main issue with her was her rude comments on your work and how insane she acted in her annoucements. it was worth it to get the class out of the way but I would not take her again..

I highly recommend not to take her class. She is rude and I feel like I did not learn anything in her class because she gets off topic too much. Her assignments seems to be easy but she is a picky grader. I will not take her class again.

This professor offers specific details about what she wants for her assignments, and then gives you a poor grade on the assignment for doing exactly what she asked. She is a nonlinear speaker who rarely talks about the actual topic of the lecture, and her grading is extremely inconsistent.

She's a bad teacher, but easy to pass. She gave me a ZERO on my first assignment because I didn't use MLA-formatted citations on a VOCAB assignment, but gave me half credit on it after talking to her. She gives out extra credit like its candy (10 points for donating 4 cans of beans). Missed an entire module (out of 4) of assignments, but got an A.

Cant stay on topic, is very hard to get in touch with, and wouldnt recommend this instructor to anyone.

I took her this pass fall. She is ALWAYS rambling off Topic. She is very sarcastic . Her test has nothing to do with the lectures in class And her instructions on assignments are never clear. She TAKES FOREVER TO GRADE THINGS AND NEVER RESPONDS TO HER EMAILS. I wouldnt recommend taking her.

First off, she doesnt teach. She lectures and goes off on rants about problems that have nothing to do with the class. She makes you do vocabulary for each module, but your definitions have to be 5 sentences long for each word. She also gives quizzes and essays. Overall, her class is easy, but you teach yourself and have to deal with her nonsense.

There is so much I can say about this lady. She does not help any of her students. I don't know what these other responses are talking about, you can email her a question and she will completely disregard it and simply reply with the most dumbfounded response. I learned more history from a cotton ball than this teacher. Please listen and drop her.

I am currently taking HIS 202. I like history, but this class has been horrible. I have sent several emails for clarification on assignments, grades, etc. and have never received a response. There is a serious lack of clarity and communication. I have also noticed some ranting and talking down to us students.

Do not take her classes. She is extremely unprofessional in the way she speaks to her students and will snark at you for no reason. Nothing is clear in the class, and don't think emailing will help, she will send back a sentence as a response to a paragraph. The class was not hard, but the busy work assignments she gives are pointless and long.

Just pick a different course. Her syllabus was wrong, the lectures were out of order and untitled, her instructions were unclear, she attached the wrong files. Her responses to any e-mails asking for clarification ranged from non-existent to snarky to downright confusing. Dealing with her incompetence was harder than the course itself.

If you have any other option to take from another professor, please do so. Professor West is very unorganized, expects the MOST from you while she takes months, yes months, to grade assignments. Don't expect an email back from her or if you do get one, it'll probably be short and rude. Syllabus doesn't line up. Probably worst professor I've had.

She is most definetly the WORST teacher I have ever had.. She takes MONTHS to grade and don't even bother emailing her.. she won't answer. she'll always come up with an excuse as to why she is not active. Her lectures are everywhere, she can't stay on topic for more than 2 minutes. Her Syllabus is not accurate. Do Not Take Her.

Very difficult to get in touch with via email. She does take a long time to grade but gives good feedback when she does not get you confused with another student. Her lectures are difficult to listen to as she strays from the topic at hand a good bit. You will learn if you manage to figure out which of the 5 books you are supposed to read from.

Pamela West is by far the worst professor Ive ever encountered. She provides high-school level work with high-school level explanations then expects collegiate level responses. She is not helpful. She does not answer emails. She always has an excuse but does not have a heart. I 10/10 recommended that you find another professor. She is terrible.

I wish I could have withdrawn while I still could. Her content page is extremely unorganized, Ive missed a couple assignments because of that. She gives out high school level assignments but expects college level responses. She never responds to emails either. I do not recommend taking this class.

Glad I dropped the course while I could. Her lectures are just her rambling about her opinions and not the actual topic, which makes it very unclear for knowing what to study for.

The professor makes you watch other colleges lectures then just comments on them. The test questions go "what is the difference between my opinion and the other professors opinion". I never know what to study for, it is all over the place.took points off a discussion post because I didn't put the students names in my comment when I was replying.

Never got to take her because I didn't do her attendance quiz within a time frame she made up in her head. It was due two days after i was removed. I was dealing with my other classes first so it's a very bad look for her. It tells you all you need to know from a professor who doesnt even follow her employer's due dates

Drop this or don't take this class for History 202. The tests makes no sense, they take hours to do and is a lot of reading/watching lectures to try to understand the questions. Tests are 2 parts one multiple choice and the other 2, 550/750 word essays on topics that make no sense and are hard to talk about. Just my experience though.

I would not recommend taking this professor. But do what you want

She is entirely degrading to POC and other minority groups during her lectures and laughs it off. She is degrading towards students during lectures and says it's a joke. Her lectures are nothing but her rambling on about her beliefs. The tests quiz you on her thoughts, even if they are invalid. Absolutely unprofessional and horrible class.

I would not recommend taking this professor but hey I am warning you. Her test, quizzes, and homework is based on her opinion and is a tough grader.

She gives mediocre class, expect you to respond with college-level responses. In discussions she wants a "short answer" of 650-750 words. Unproffessional, she vents about her personal life a lot. Makes racist jokes. Unorganized. A good thing is that even tho class is in person, she makes quizzes available for 2-3 days.

Awful professor. Class is down to about 10 people at the end of the semester cause most people dropped. Learn about her and her favorite Ivy League professors opinions on history rather than the history itself. 2 part tests, 1 part multiple choice, other part she expects 6-700 words on how she feels about the other professors lecture.

worst professor Ive ever had, largest number of drops I have ever seen. Incredibly picky about citations, yet copies and pastes hours long YouTube videos of Harvard professors, then will give a half hearted response on what she disagrees with, in which you will be expected to write multiple essays a chapter on. that is the entire class. STAY AWAY

The absolute worst experience I have had ever. She is very neurotic and posts several hour-long videos about other professors' insights, and most of her class is based on her opinion. She is picky over MLA citations and make sure you do everything just how she likes it because if you mess one thing up its a wrap. Very rude and a waste of my money.

While Professor West did have extra credit assignments, I found them to be pretty difficult to do. Professor West is also a tough grader and is very specific about how she wants things formatted. I had a hard time with her class because she was very lecture-heavy and spent most of her lectures talking about how other professors were "wrong".

This professor is insanely disrespectful towards students. She made a comment to me how students who attend Jefferson state are not special and if they were they would be attending Samford. Do not waste your time or money with this teacher. She should be fired immediately.

The teacher rambles on and on in each lecture. She makes tests off of lectures, yet says nothing worthy of remembering in class. She always goes off track and will spend around 1/10 of the lecture on the topic, if I'm being generous. She seems to be biased in her teaching and when she disagrees with other lecturers, she discredits them.

The lectures are all based off of opinions instead of facts in her courses. She offers extra credit assignments, but when you format in MLA, which is required, your work is flagged for copyright and AI. I would not recommend it!!

Pretty much what everyone else is saying.

Mrs. Pamela tends to teach in her own way. I was very behind on so many things just from missing two classes. She hardly ever follows the notes, if you are a very note orientated person DO NOT TAKE HER. She tends to ramble on her own thoughts and ideas a lot. A lot of her homework is long very specific essays and she is super strict with grading.

Very lecture heavy, chaotic and makes things complicated. Very religion oriented.

I'm sure she is a nice person, but during class she is wildly inappropriate. She yells, calls students names, calls people directly out for assignments in class that weren't done in class. You could easily do her class online and never attend in person. She doesn't even teach the content she just goes on rants about her personal life and opinions.

Do not take her! She will knock off points for MLA and never tell you why it is not MLA enough for her. Her tests are too long, she rambles about her personal life, and there's no point in attending class because nothing she says is on the tests or discussions.

Don't take this professor for any course!! Her lectures are based on her opinions and doesn't enhance your understanding on Western Civilization. She is very unorganized and will constantly take off a lot of points for not doing MLA format on discussions or including works cited page when it was not mentioned on the assignments or rubric

Wouldn't let me take my midterm because I got my wisdom teeth taken out and showed a documented excuse but "no retakes" tests are based off of her opinion and her classes are just her rants about whatever she feels like. Compares herself to Harvard professors and makes you take a test on why they're wrong. She's very racist and homophobic

She was a terrible professor. I took her online and she refused to answer my emails or my comments on Canvas. She grades based on opinions and not the rubric. She posted 1 to 2 hour long lectures and wanted you to know almost every quote. Her lectures make no sense and she rambles too much.

I was doing part 2 of the midterm. I dropped the class literally 5 minutes ago as of typing this. The whole class is just writing; the midterm no lie was 3000 words. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. YOU WILL WRITE TILL YOUR FINGERS BLEED.

Just took the midterm (5 hr) its just essay question, they all revolve around the same thing it's her opinions vs another historian Dr. Merriman. Literally disagree on every point he makes, essay & discussions are validating her opinions compared to his opinions. At that she contradicts her own statements sometimes just to fit her narrative its sad

I wrote the last review enough words cant explain why u shouldnt take this class. We r halfway through she hasnt responded to any of my emails or comments. she purposely doesnt put in all the assignments in the grading book so ur left guessing ur grade until either i assume she put in the rest of the assignment or grades at the end of the semester

Virtual class with one essay per unit based on lectures (about 8 total, ~4 hrs each). I didn't do any reading. Midterm/final are long with multiple essays. Pamela ignored emails, claimed rubrics existed when they didn't, and gave no guidance. Extra credit vocab saves your grade. Easy A if you play the format, but very poor teaching. Bad instructor.