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I have been trained in dance for 12 years prior to Ms. Smith. She may have credentials for being a instructor, but as far as talent and technique go- SHE HAS NONE. She is very creative and leans more towards the modern dancy style when deriving shows.

She is so flipping weird!!! I geuss having a master's from UCLA doesn't say much. She doesn't stretch her students properly, she has no technique and no idea how to choreograph a routine. anyone can probably teach the class better than her.

she is really strict and if you don't show up to class she doesn't like you and if you suck at dancing she still doesn't like you, so make sure u are a really good dancer and always go to class even if you're dying.

This teacher does NOT know what she's doing! I knew more than her and I only have a very limited dance background. Students laughed behind her back. Shes a joke. COC made a big mistake hiring this woman!

Was one of the worst teachers I have ever had. Degrades her students. Makes it seem like she wants you to fail. Her test are ridiculously hard. Good Luck if you decide to take her

Her assignments were ridiculous. It was all busy work. She graded ridiculously and was extremely picky. She was very unclear and confusing about what she wanted, and almost never got back to me when I needed to get ahold of her. After the final grades were posted, she randomly added on a mysterious 75 pts causing me to get a B instead of and A.

WORST teacher ever! All her assignments were ridiculous! She is extreamly unhelpful and all her assignments were pointless and the directions were very hard to understand and follow. DONT TAKE HER!!!

She is AWFUL!!! terrible to get a hold of and has absolutely no idea what she is speaking about. I have no idea how she became a professor in the Dance Department. And I had to write a review for one of the company shows for her class and the show was horrible. The dancers COULD NOT DANCE! ha the dance show was a JOKE!

Horrible teacher!! Shes doesn't even know what she is talking about, just because she might be a decent african dancer, doesn't mean she knows ANYTHING else about dance! She is a horrible teacher!! Do not take her classes!!!

Online class is the worse. Seriously, this teacher is worthless. She takes forever to grade, never responds to questions, and she thinks she is an english teacher. You are looking at 5-6 assignments a week. Be prepared to spend money. You have to buy 2 different movies and spend money to go watch a performance. Everything she approves is far a

impossible class. took online dance, was all busy work, she over graded everything, impossible to get a hold of, worked twice as hard on dance as on all other classes i was taking combined. dont waste your time it will only be a semester of frustration.

Worst teacher ever. very harsh grader, and unfair. She cant spell for crap, but sits there and grades our papers and marks us down. Horrible structure of class, and is very rude. its her way or no way. DO NOT TAKE HER. she should not be a part of dance history. she makes dance look so bad. Take Professor Stanich instead.

Horrible instructor. She adds things on to her assignments after she grades them. She cant spell, but manages to grade our papers. Treats others with no respect, and is not very helpful. I really do not appreciate dance after taking the class with her. Required dance concert at 9pm at night. was not anything great. Make sure you read her directions

I took her short term online class. Ridiculously difficult if you have a busy schedule. This class should not be as hard is she is making it. I have never failed a class in my life and rarely get C's. I might fail this class. Harsh grader. This is the most difficult 100 class I have taken. I wish I would have taken this class with another professor

I'm in the online class and I honestly thought it would be easy. It is absolutely not. She assigns way to much. I just completed an assignment that consisted of 16 paragraphs. The assignments are repetitive. She is way nit-picky when it comes to grading. Her comments are rude. I would not recommend her.

I am currently taking this professor and this lady really gives way too much homework with such a small time frame to complete. She will not allow late assignments, she will post a comment on your grading and will not make any sense. She wants us to have spell check on our work yet she has plenty of errors herself. I would not recommend this lady

i would not take her again, not fair the way she grades. she wasnt that much help. Dont take her class.

The absolute worst professor I have every had. I am a serious overachiever and receive A's in every class. I took her Dance 100 class online. It was a nightmare. She did not have a syllabus articulating any due dates and posted some assignments the day the were due. Didn't respond to emails, and sounded annoyed when she did. DO NOT TAKE HER!

She is the most disorganized teacher I have had. I would not recommend her to anyone!! Steer clear! She gives the stupidest assignments and she has no logical way to run her class. She adds assignments late and expects us to know when she is going to randomly assign something. I am surprised she is even teacher considering her grammar stinks too!

She does not know how to budget time for each dance in the company. Her dance gets and hour of practice and looks horrible, but the student pieces get 20 minutes and are forced to finish or be cut. She is nice but does not understand how to run a company.

Mrs. Smith, please take these feedbacks and apply them to you teaching strategies. It will not only benefit you but the students as well. Future students, if you are looking for an organized and well structured online class look elsewhere. Horrible Professor.

This class was horrible. She is by far the worst online teacher that I have ever had. For your final you must attend a dance concert but does not make it clear to you that you have to get it approved and you will receive half credit if it doesn't get approved. There is way too much homework, and if you work with a friend on the work expect zeros

She isn't clear with her grading criteria and students suffer for it. I got zeros on assignments I completed for that very reason. Don't take her class. It isn't worth it. She also assigns WAY too much work. She said to expect 5 hours a week... more like 15 hours a week. Seriously, take a different class.

This class is terrible! I took the course online as I am not only a full time student, but work two jobs. Her assignments are time consuming, you need to check in periodically, and she takes FOREVER to update the gradebook! I went in hoping to rekindle my love for dance, but she's actually making me HATE the art, something I never thought I'd say.

In hopes of getting extra credit, I bought ballet tickets. I emailed her my proof purchase, which had my name and credit card information. But apparently, she wanted photos of the actual ticket. Unfortunately, I lost my ticket, but I told her that I took photos/filmed the show. But she never gave me extra credit, nor did she ever respond back to me

Online classes are convenient for those who work full time and have families. This professor does NOT take that into account. She leaves little time to complete assignments, yet takes FOREVER to grade. She makes you type out the questions, turning a 30 minute assignment into an hour or more. If you miss one thing on an assignment, no credit at all.

Vague answers when questioned what you did wrong and what she is looking for. DOES NOT respond to emails. Does not unlock assignments until late Thur/work like mad to make Sun deadline. Takes FOREVER to grade. Tons of spelling errors in her writing yet counts off for ours. Easy class if it's your only one and don't have a job, family or kids.

I took this online class along with a heavy school schedule expecting to fulfill a GE requirement without too much work. She takes this class too seriously and the work load is a dumb amount. The specifics she requires is unnecessary. I've never received a D in my whole life attending school but got a D in this class... that has to mean something.

Absolutely ridiculous. I took her class to try to learn about dance (i am not a dancer) instead of the music class and i have come to notice i hate this class so much that i wish i would have taken music. SO MUCH WORK, and not to mention most of it is just stupid work. I have also contacted her and no reply, sent it twice. Never again.

You can tell this teacher has no concept on how online classes a.k.a distant learning works. First off she would make homework due at awkward times, like a Wednesday which is odd for most online classes. She wouldnt post new material til after 1pm on mondays and often times wouldnt actually do it til tuesday. Never gets back to you either.

Expects ridiculous amounts of work for no reason. Discussions for this class are due Sundays yet the assignments need to be posted three days in advance and you are required to reply to 3 people on 3 different days. Does not understand that her students are adults and have jobs and families. Makes simple assignments complicated.

She requires you to submit videos of you dancing for the dance history class. Has very strict grading criteria that makes easy assignments hard. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. I am a 4.0 student and this class among the science courses i'm in was the one i had to work the hardest in not to screw my GPA

I passed this class by the skin of my teeth. It started out fairly normal, quizzes and discussions weekly. At some point, the workload felt like it tripled and it was constant research papers (?), with no quizzes. The workload was excessive for a 3 unit class. Prof was responsive and gave thorough feedback, though.

Was so difficult. So much work. Only take her for last resort. She Care about dance but way too much work. Its a dance appreciation class but its harder then most other classes

There are too many insignificant details that students have to follow, like the time you start an assignment. Be aware that she is forgetful and will contradict herself in emails vs syllabus vs grading feedback. All of her posts are filled with grammatical errors. The videos are also quite old. The online class has obviously not been updated.

This class has a LOT of homework. Requires you to add your name to each discussion thread even though it appears when you submit. No other online class requires this. She took participation pts off for this, doesn't grade right away so lost a lot of points for this b4 anyone even knew about this requirement. Got a B instead of an A just for that!

This is the worst teacher you can possibly take. She gives a lot of homework for a dance class that should be an easy A. She requires you to post a video of yourself dancing and also requires you to spend time and money to go to a dance concert. She grades terribly, if you don't do one specific thing like missing a question its an automatic 10/20.

I took the online dance class and I would not take her again. She gives tons of work and you have to be very specific with every little thing. The discussions, you have to reply to 3 people on 3 different days or else you get points taken off. The point of taking an online class is the convenience of being able to complete the work when you can.

Lots of assignments. Doesn't give you feedback until the last week of class. Horrible at responding to emails. Does not care about students. Does not allow you to make up assignments or to try to improve on yourself. Expects you to only care for her class and be checking in on her class 24/7. Requires you to check into the class every day.

Do not take. This class should be an easy A and overall fun to learn. It was not. She does not care about her students, she expects you to go to a concert and pay money. It is required to go on canvas everyday. Lots of assignments to keep up on. SHE GRADES TERRIBLY. She is not understanding in anyway. She will mark you down many points for anything

I wouldnt recommend this class because of the hilarious criteria. Drove me nuts I didnt even get graded for my final.

would not recommend. she contradicts herself in her grading, got marked down 15 points on an assignment for something i did and she contradicts herself in the email and does not make any sense. she stated that something was allowed as a library source in her instructions but got marked down when i used said source and will not give me back points.

I am a dancer and dance teacher who took this class for the purpose of gaining elective units while working toward my Bachelor's Degree. I can confidently say that Professor Smith has no idea what she is doing. The class was unnecessarily demanding and time-consuming. The professor grades very randomly and unfairly, and the class was unorganized.

The people on here were't kidding, She assigns SO much work. She doesn't post the assignments till Mondays 1pm & it's due on Wednesdays 11:59pm. I would have to post discussions on Fridays to do the 3 separate days to respond 3 people to get full credit when discussions are due on Sundays. It's really easy but SOO much work & not time flexible.

This teacher expects you to do 6 days worth of work in 2 and a half days. Unrealistic expectation, does not interact at all. Has you fill out the grading on yourself instead of doing it herself. This is a sped up class. Be ready to have close to no time to do any other class because this teacher is very demanding and not very involved.

VERY fast paced. Uses only other teachers lecture material for every assignment. gives no feedback. final had me answering over 40 questions on 3 separate dances each, essay format. Instructions are complicated with poor grammar and questions on assignments are a struggle to answer. no comments for grades less than 100%. would NOT take again.

Seems like the "good scores" here are written by her lol. It is a tough class that will have you very frustrated and working hard. Do not take her classes coupled with other difficult classes. She comments thank you for full credit assignments but won't comment anything if you got something wrong. Instructions are hard to decipher. bad at teaching.

She's not specific with her grading at all. I would never take her class again. She grades when she feels like and gives no feedback at all. She also does not respond to her email. She does not know what she is doing as professor at all. Do not take this class. Especially if you are in other tedious classes.

I have never wrote a review on a professor but I felt the need to for her because this is the worst class I have ever taken. She has us do her job for her by putting the grading prompt at the bottom and checking off each thing we did and if you don't do it then you will lose points. She contradicts herself in all assignments. HORRIBLE PROFFESOR

Dropped this course because this teacher was so unpleasant. I was really looking forward to the Non Credit Yoga Teacher training courses. Its a bummer she is the only instructor for them. I wish I could take it with another instructor. She is just really rude and it made me uncomfortable.