she absolutely sucks as a teacher and for some odd reason really had it in for me. Never again will I take a history class and ESPECIALLY not with her. She weezes cant speak correct english, her jokes are corny, her tests are long and when she asks for suggestions she doesnt ever head them. Worst teacher ever!!!!

Worst teacher to do a online class with.

Worst teacher i have had a CCC.

mcfarland is prejudice against women she is nice to the men and treats the women like dirt i and several other females in my class were treated un fairly one girl had a doctors appointment for cancer treatment and was not given a chance to take a make up test another had to work and got docked late points don't ever take her class!

This is the WORST TEACHER I have EVER had. She goes off on tangents, discourages debates and discussions in class (I asked about Tesla when talking about Marconi, she became extremely defensive- that was just one occasion of many), she's disorganized and unhelpful. NO leeway for illnesses or emergencies in regards to attendance. DO NOT TAKE.

I feel like for a 103 online class it was way to frustrating and difficult.

She won't take ownership of any problems that occur. She allows for students to answer questions with exact phrasing from the book. After doing this, she gave me a 0 grade for the quiz. She said that I didn't answer the question. I sent a picture of the time stamp on my submission to her. Refused to give me full credit because she "overlooked" it.

Extremely unhelpful feedback in that there is none unless you mess something up, in which case her feedback is telling you that you got a zero. Her Moodle page is a huge mess of links to assignments of which you'll only only answer a small percentage of. Overall, just a sloppily put together course.

I would never take this class again in this world . Your opinion on homework or in class don't even matter . Grading is terrible You can read all of the passages all you want and answer correctly still will be grated down.

She whistles when she talks so you can barely understand her. One of the sites used crashed and I was marked down for it. She's terrible. I can't stand her.

I was enrolled in an online HST 102-103 course and was not pleased. She is an extremely harsh grader on weekly assignments without thorough explanation. Her tests are 50 multiple choice questions and students only have 20 minutes to complete them. Would not recommend this instructor.

What should have been an easy A was turned into a fight to get a B because of the way this class is structured. The weekly assignments are easy, but if not worded in the exact way she wants you get no points. Constantly people are told their response is too short or too lengthy. She is very hard to please and thinks History101 is the end all be all

Exams that are 50 multiple-choice questions in 20 min. This is barely enough time to read the question, read the answers, then choose the best answer before you have to move on. Very nit-picky about marking down your answers to assignments, even if the answer was correct, she will find something wrong about it. It's like she wants you to fail.

I added the Hilarious tag simply because Trish Mcfarland is a joke, her lectures are great until you realize that it has nothing to do with the homework, and the homework should be easy until you realize that its behind 3 different pearsons paywalls, Get ready to buy a 100 dollar textbook for all of the work to be based off the online course

I have been in college for four years and Mcfarland is by far the WORST instructor I have ever encountered. You get 30 seconds per question in her class (50 Q's, 20 min), she accepts no late work or retries. Her questions are so open ended (why is this important to you) and then she will give you an F if she doesn't like your answer. Dropped class!

This teacher has taken one of my favorite subjects and made it my worst subject. I guess she believes that explaining something the same way 20 times will help me understand it better, which it does not! STAY AWAY FROM THIS COURSE AND OTHER CLASSES LECTURED BY HER! She does not do partial points for partial correct posts, its either all or none.

She goes on random tangents that make it very difficult to follow her lectures. She's also an extremely difficult grader and gives you little to no feedback on assignments. Her tests are ridiculous and extremely difficult. Honestly just save your money and take the class with ANYONE else.

Trish is not a very good instructor. Her grading criteria is unclear, as well as her feedback. Despite teaching 100 level history, she has the expectations of graduate level students. She has no lecture notes, study guides, or willingness to expand on ideas. I would not recommend this instructor to anybody that values themselves as a student.

Moodle was extremely disorganised; spelling/grammar errors. I emailed her and she got confused as to which class she was teaching!! Deadlines and expectations for posts are confusing and by the time youve figured it out, your grade has already suffered. Comments on your posts just to say youre doing it wrong. Generally unhelpful; dont recommend.

Her instructions are unclear and her grading is completely inconsistent. A problem that didn't matter last paper suddenly matters for the next one. She asks students to use their own words and urges them to not look directly at the textbook, then docs points because it doesn't "sound correct". Would strongly suggest not taking it.

First of all I would not recommend her as a teacher. She is generally a nice person but as an instructor she is not. She doesn't give helpful feedback, nor does she really pay attention to her students when you ask for feedback. She's so vague, and doesn't really answer anything when it comes to grades. She has hasn't been a good teacher for me.

This teacher is awful. She seems like a genuinly kind individual however I dont think she is fit to be teaching. Inconsistant and unfair grading. even if you complete the work you will recieve a 0 if its not up to her standard, which by the way her grading standards or rubric is not even mentioned anywhere in the course.

I would never recommend this professor. This is the only course I have taken in two years that I genuinely detest, this professor is extremely hard to please and her grading is tough and unclear. She will say "too much detail, shorten your sentences" and then the next week "there's not enough detail" Do not taker her course!

worst professor i've ever had. her grading was so unclear, assignments were unorganized, extremely hard to please. I practically copied lines from the textbook in my assignments, yet she told me my information was incorrect. I have a 4.0 GPA and I dropped the class on Week 6 because I had an F. save yourself, and never take her classes.

Feedback you receive is vague and conflicting. Even after having an in person meeting to discuss what I did incorrect, I received criticism and barely given any feedback of what to do better. Instructions for assignments do not match with what she actually expects and grades you for. She is quick with grading and fast at responding to emails.

HORRIBLE GRADING SYSTEM! She gives me extremely low grades on all of my weekly assignments bc its "not part of the reading" when it was 3 pages of the chapter? Biggest pet peeve is she asks for "not complete sentences and bullet points instead. But you can't be vague you have to be complete." She makes absolutely no sense. SHOULDNT BE TEACHING.

Spoke to trisha for further explanation on the weekly ungraded assignments of Outline of Conflicts. Went no where, so we had a zoom call. Pretty much

Her feedback is nonexistent. Asked her why my outlines were wrong, refused to give examples of what shes looking for or any advice. Said to reread the text and instructions. Lecture feedback she doesnt want you to ask questions about the book but about her presentation, but also make sure you verifying questions in the book first.

Terrible teacher. When I turned in my reading list, she would grade me good. Then came the tests. She would grade me VERY low on things that got a good grade on on my lists. When I asked, she gave LITTLE TO NO FEEDBACK. She gave me incredibly low grades and made little effort to answer questions, and blatantly gave me misinformation at one point.

Listen, I no nothing about college, I JUST started, but I would rather go back to highschool then take her class again. She gives little to no feedback, and her grading is VERY difficult. Will give out 30 min lectures just to say NOTHING from it will go to the quizzes. And her study guides will be very vauge.

I don't even think she has given someone a grade above a C in 2025. She acts like she should be a university professor when she is barely qualified at her current position.

Easily the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Talks about a whole lot of nothing in her lectures and then expects you to answer questions regarding the lecture. She then proceeds to say how bad your responses are and gives you reasons a 6 year old would come up with. Stay away from this teacher!!!!

Imagine a world where if you use the textbook she bases the entire class on, on any assignment you get a complete 0. I used the tiniest bit of information on my PLO paper and she gave it a whopping zero. If you make a slight mistake on something get ready to have absolutely no credit.

I had to withdraw from this class because of how difficult this professor was. The coursework would be easy if not for her strange grading tactics. If you use even a little bit of the textbook that is required reading: 0. If you have an opinion that she disagrees with: 0. If she doesn't like your wording: 0 Stay away!!!!

This professor is extremely difficult to get feedback from. She does a general feedback but if you email asking questions she will get defensive and avoid answe

She doesn't follow her own grading rubrics and will give students 0 for little to no discernible reason. Afterwards, if you email her or try to do anything to change it she gets defensive and doesn't take it well. She also doesn't follow her own material and will often forget it. She has memory problems and it stubborn.

PLEASE do not take this teacher. I am a science major and have never had a teacher grade so harshly. She asks for your opinions and then tells you that they are wrong. Just don't do it.

She will grade so harsh on each assignment yet wont show a example of what you are supposed to do. I dont recommend taking History 103 by her.

repeats the same assignments every week, grades extremely strict, it almost feels like you have to be a mind reader to get full credit.

When you email her she gets defensive especially regarding if you are able to see a past submissions so you can see where exactly you missed points on she believes that you don't need one?? Her rubric is all over the place when it comes to assignments. Why get a book if 90%of the time we just used her lectures. It is extremely frustrating

Does not respond to questions. Refuses to give help.

Doesn't follow her own rubric and just gives 0s with no explanation. Horrible professor would NOT take her class again.

McFarland's expectations are so ERRATIC that I'd rather have a Magic 8 Ball give me a grade because it would still be more sound reasoning. Do NOT take her class! You can turn everything in, on time, and still FAIL her class. I've never left a review before but she is nit-picky, condescending, and unecessarily harsh.

Please do not take Patricia's online class, She graded my feedback saying, "It doesn't make sense" I used her words from her lecture. If it doesn't make sense, then your lecture doesn't make sense, which raises the question, Is she even qualified? She ran away from our meeting like a undiciplined child. please do not take her online class.

Unlike any other instructor I have had in the past. Almost set up to fail because the grading scale and her judgment are unclear and can be described as opinionated at best.