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“This professor may be one of the worst professors I have ever taken”
LIT232 - 1.0 rating“Good professor just too harsh on grading so if you're looking for an easy A go elsewhere”
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If yo spend time talking to her after class and she gets to know you she will be kind. If you hide in the back and make no effort, she'll bomb you.
Be ready to write! She is very kind to you whne it comes to helping you at writings, but she only really gives you merit when you truly show that you ARE REALLY INTERESTED in improving. YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK HARD IN HER CLASS
Professor Gibson is amazing! If you put the effort into reading the books and paying attention you can ace this class. Pe patient and always talk with her. Not only is she a great professor she'll inspire you to do things you never imagined possible.
shes alright if you do the work, dont take her intesive wrighting class. she is very critical on everything. over all att is nice but a quize everyday and papers the books are interesting. and she is all about sex so there are many sex conversations. is you are ready to do the work take her.
If you put a lot of love and effort on your assingments she will notice you and appreciate your good work by rewarding you with awesome grades. She allows students to do rewrites when she notices their sincere interests on perfecting their writing skills!But her lectures are a mess! All over the pla
She is a great teacher, if your lazy you cant take this class. A quiz everyday, lots of reading. She is very strict on her grading. Her class goes by quick you really leave her class with much knowledge but she is hard if u dont focus, she is not afraid to fail u, but if u want a challenge take her
This professor is terrible. People think that she gives a lot of work so that you learn but it seems that she is more concerned with failure. Everyone in the class is pulling C's i dont know how anyone would recommend her!
Plesse don't take her, I was a poet prior to my tasking of her class and I know i was good but she discouraged me. Please don't be fooled by her lecture on the first day, don't take her.
I love her. SHe knows what she is talking about. She hates lazy people and she hates people that are in college because they HAVE to be in college. She will destroy your work but when you rebuild it, you realize how much better your work is. I became a better writer in general because of her and I was a good writer to begin with.
This teacher sucks! In the matter of one semester, 5 novels are to be read... many papers and she discourages you if you dont do EXACTLY what she wanted... and she enjoys talking about SEX in class! WHO DOES THAT?!
This professor is critical and inept. She spends the class time speaking of irrelevent issues and makes you rewrite papers 1000 times. She is impossible to please. She is under the misguided impression that her class is the only class there is. If you have a lot of time to spare, take this class. In a nutshell, she sucks.
I want to write my papers and be finished with them all this revising she lets us do keeps interfering with me staying ignorant. It's like you have to learn something before she will give you a better grade. who does that?
shes ok. but she doesn't even allow students to use the bathroom!!!! are we in 3rd grade? and all she wants to read are her plays and poems....boooorrrrrriiinnngggg
She is way too full of herself. She makes you read about 50 pages a class and makes you memorize detailed essays for the exams. She is unnecessarily easy. I am not just saying this because I got a bad grade, because I didnt. She also makes you write two papers that are not easy, her grading is severly unfair. Stear clear or her!
She grades based entirely on how she much she likes you and that won't be a whole lot if you disagree with her silly ideas even once. Her syllabus and comments on your work are full of errors. The post below that she was full of herself was spot on. If she likes you, she will gave you an A for bad work and I know this because I saw it.avoid her
This Professor is a real piece of work. She makes you read a lot of pages for her class. Her books are boring. She some how links everything to sex and i mean EVERYTHING. She has no respect for her students at all. Infact she told our class that slaves wrote better then us. She constantly makes you revise her papers, which are a waste of time
She thinks TOO much about her work but it's just BORING! I got an A in her class, but her attitude is discouraging. She has you read about 10 books for the semester and she is very critical about your essays. This is ironic because she edited my paper incorrectly like others have stated. She needs to get a clue about what being black really means!
She thinks that she is God's gift to the entire black race. She believes that she is the only person who has ever been thru struggle iun her life. She disrespects each and every person and will "murder" any intention you have of becoming a great writer. When she corrects your essays/papers she makes countless mistakes. She needs to wake up!!!
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she is extremely bias, talks more about herself than anything else, if you disagree with her forget about getting an A even if you deserve it.
Gibson is a great teacher. I love her books becuase they have to do with today worlds. she is trying to teach the 21st century students morals and values. she is hard on he rpapers but trust me ull learn alot. she is great she knows what she is doing. take her if u want to really learn.
This class is heaven. She gives great literature, only asks that you read and take ridiculously easy quizzes, a couple of papers and her final is optional if you do all the previous work. She just holds great class discussions so you don't really need notes b/c the class is so good. Take her! She is easy, fair & interesting
This professor challenges you. There is a lot of material covered in this class, but at the end, you will have gained alot of knowledge.
She is AWESOME! Your writing will improve guaranteed! Only thing is she tends to go on tangents and strays from talking about the readings. She talks about sex alot, but she's hilarious. Everyone enjoys this class.
Gibson is a great teacher take her if you get the chance BUT she expects you to WRITE LIKE A COLLEGE STUDENT! this doesn't mean that she is hard but she makes herself very clear on what she wants... and she gives quizzes everyday
Loved her class. Walked in scared out my wits but left w/ an A. She gives quizzes everyday but it forces you to stay on top of the readings instead of waiting to read the entire book the night before a paper. She drops the two lowest quiz grades & her quizzes have bonus questions. If you get an A/A- on them & the 2 papers, no final exam for you.
SHE CARES ABOUT HER STUDENTS ACADEMIC SUCCESS. SHE WANTS US TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE PROFESSIONALLY. SHE IS THE BEST. I RECOMMEND HER IF YOU WANT TO LEARN. IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE STUDENTS THAT LIKE THE EASY WAY OUT AND ARE IMMATURE THIS CLASS IS NOT FOR YOU. THIS CLASS IF FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE.
She wants everyone to write as if they are in an ivy league school. She is a very harsh grader. not a single person got above a b- on the midterm due to her overly scrutinization of our papers. choose a diff prof if u can. i wish i had listened to the comments before mine.
assigns massive reading assignments. and gives daily quizzes on very specific info. u cant get by on sparknotes.. she drops the 2 lowest quiz grades, but even still, you cannot take this class if you already have a full sched and/or work. she thinks the world revolves around this class. she always goes off on tangents usually relating to sex.
One of thee worst professors, i've ever faced through out this entire semester. She makes you read every night, daily quizzes, and the way she grades is unfair, she wont and will not give you a second chance, please do not take her!!!!!!
Uses real life examples to explain the material. Easy during discussions, but harsh when it comes to writing assignments, tough grader.
horrible teacher. Her opinion is the only one that's matter. Everybody needs to write like a writer. Her lectures are messy and disorganised and have nothing to do with the books.
Professor Gibson is a very ahrd professor. She gives daily quizzes everyday thoughout the semseter. Reading the books are a must, the sparknotes and cliffnotes does not help at all. The midterm and the final are so ridiculous.She really expects everyone to write like her. The only thing that makes the class intersting is her examples that she uses.
Good professor Hard grader through, You really have to proof read ur writing before you hand it in but she does give u a chance to make it up if u got a bad grade. She gives DAILY quizzes on the reading if u miss a day she also gives u a chance to make the quizzes up. There are 2 papers and a final the midterm is a paper and the final is a paper. T
she is not easy w hen it comes to writting quizzes every day so u must read and sparknotes will not help cuz she picks the least obvious detals from the book good class discussions and she makes u really think and learn just make sure u read becaus eif not u will fail and her papers u must have a draft overall i would take her again
If you are here for an easy A then get out of her class. Prof. Gibson will challange you mind & your morals. She makes you laugh but dont take that lightly because if you dont do the readings & put your all into class it will make you cry. Strict yes, worth it yes. If you are here to learn, which i hope you are then take her. You wont regret it.
She's a bad professor. The assigned material wasn't discusses in class, but quizzes were given daily. Also, there were three papers.
This professor is serious when it comes to writing and grammer. she is very interesting, but challenging at the same time. if you want to improve your writing she is who you want to take.
she is hard. im not going to lie, she is a good professor, interesting and knows her stuff but she grades your papers as if u were a writer already i left her class traumatized she quizzes everyday and there is a lot of reading...if you like to work hard then take her but if you don't then i recommend u don't take her
Horrible Professor that is more interested in teaching you about her personal life rather than actually teaching. She can't spell than has the nerve to be a tough grader which is difficult when she can't seem to spell at all. Professors like this should retire as she seems to be out to collect a pay check rather than teach. Do not take this class i
Very interesting and humorous lectures. Mostly a listen and read and writing course. Participation is not a big thing in her class as she likes to talk.
She's funny and has a lot of personality, but that's about it. She does't teach anything other than the obvious and loves to talk about irrelevant things. The books are vaguely discussed, just the obvious again. She is extremely picky and a hard grader, which is funny because she has a million mistakes on everything she gives.Did not learn anything
Words can't truly express how I feel about this woman. She's s lit professor and can't spell for her life. She takes away cell phones in class. She loves to give you horrible grades for no reason. Quizzes are easy if you actually read but she makes you read like 80-90 pages a night.Doesnt make any sense that she won professor of the year.DONT TAKE!
Very hard grader which is really unnecessary. She can't spell for nothing but she puts stress on you about grammer. DO NOT TAKE!!! SHE'S HORRIBLE!!
Spring of 2011. She is one of the wrost professors in john jay. Can't spell for nothing, but she goes crazy on your grammer. quizzes every class. Lots of reading and a very very HARD GRADER for no reason. DROP THIS CLASS ASAP. SHE PUTS PEOPLE DOWN JUST BECAUSE SHE GOT SOME EDUCATION. DOES NOT HELP WITH ANYTHINGGG.
HARD GRADER: her stamp is dedicated to tell you, you cant write NOT HELPFUL:she attempts clarity but rambles.GREAT TEACHER; picks good readings, & draws a connection to your life. note these moments are rear, barely goes over the reading material. Will have you look at ur writing differently as far as tense consistency, clarity, and real thesis.
IF YOU ARE LIKE MOST STUDENTS WHO WORK + GO TO SCHOOL. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. TOO PICKY, RAMBLES, UNREASONABLE, PROS- LEARN LIFE LESSONS, INTERESTING READING MATERIAL
Although she comes of as a ahrd ass, and her grading is seemingly strict, gibson grades you on your performance at the end of her class. While in her class you may get F in the begging of the semester, but if you improve your writing you will get a higher grade. she is a good professor where you will learn. She curves your grade.
Strict on attendance and paper and readings, If you dont enjoy taking quiizes everyday then dont take this professor...shes cool but strict
She is the best I love her. I don't understand how people get to college and expect to not do any work. Her Poetry Class is an Easy A if you do embrace it and do what your suppose to. You should definitely take her for poetry you will not regret it, you'll learn A LOT.
Overall, very unhelpful and unfair. Claims she goes over guidelines thoroughly, instead she rambles on about subjects outside the topic at hand and would rather exercise her bloated ego. Contradicts herself as well when approached on reasons why she marked errors on an assignment especially since she grades extremely harsh. Steer clear of her.
One of Those Professors you cant appreciate until you get to Grad School. Period I was the the comment that bashed her for A-Z. But Now I realize what how much I've learned and taken away from this class. Thank You Gibson
Professor Gibson is not everyones cup of tea, but if you follow her instructions and read the material it would not be hard at all.... she makes class fun, she is funny and best of all very smart. i enjoy the class because i'm learning a lot not only from the readings and novels but from her as well. thank you Professor PJ Gibson.
She's awesome, you will literally learn in this class. Took her twice & do not regret it. Her classes are definitely not boring, one of those professors who relate things to the real world to help you understand. Quiz everyday just do the assigned readings. Two papers (2pages max) a take home midterm and a final. If you fail, its from pure laziness
She is nice but too harsh on grading and she has you read like a hundred pages for class, quizzes every day. Good professor just too harsh on grading so if you're looking for an easy A go elsewhere!
Too strict on writing assignments.
She is a good professor. She wants students to think! I enjoy her class. A lot of quizzes Her choice of novels are good. The only problem I have is her grading on papers. I understand that she wants you to learn and write well but not a writing intensive course. She is strict on that. If you can write well, like to read, you'll be fine!!
Gibson is a great professor. She keeps the class interesting by relating the novels to real life. Have to buy a lot of novels but they're pretty cheap so it's not that bad. Interesting book choices, quiz everyday so READ, midterm paper, final paper + in class portion. Overall, if you write fairly well and read everyday, you'll do well in this class
Gibson is probably one of the worst graders I've ever come across. She literally gave the whole class a rewrite for the midterm essay. The only student that actually received a grade (A-) got a C+ after the mistakes were fixed for the same essay... Easy class if you read daily but things get really weird as the semester progresses.
Such a poor grader, you must avoid this class at all costs before you end up in jail for fighting Gibson. Besides her giving at least 30+ pages a night and a quiz after, we finished like 4-5 books in one semester. Don't do it to ya selves
I took this class as a gen ed requirement. If you don't like to read and if you think you're a good writer don't take her. She will criticize every written assignment that you hand in but by the end of the semester you'll be a better writer. She knows what she is talking about but if you're looking for an easy A don't take her.
Prof. Gibson's an inspiring teacher who respects her students like no other. If you show you care about your grade then she will help you pass. If you are struggling, she's always there to help. Although she is a very tough grader and expects a lot of work out of you each night, she knows what she is teaching. You must work for your grade. Take her
IF YOU WORK AND GO TO SCHOOL , THIS CLASS WILL BE ONE OF THE HARDEST CLASS. 100 PAGES TO READ EVERYDAY. QUIZZES ON THE READINGS EVERY DAY. VERY VERY TOUGH GRADER ON PAPERS. THIS WILL NOT BE AN EASY A. HATED THIS CLASS SO MUCH. IT WAS SO BAD EVERY ONE DROPPED OUT. THERE WERE ONLY 6 OF US LEFT AT THE END. ..
She assigns 4 books to read throughout the semester, gives quizzes on the the reading in every class. 1 mid and final paper. she'd criticize your paper like you don't know how to write anymore. Tough grader!!! take her unless you already have a professional level of writing skill and love reading everyday. OR stay away!
She is the stereotypical old school professor that thinks technology ruins everything and our generation is crap. She is passionate about reading and writing. Quiz every class, A lot of reading, but the reading selections are interesting . Midterm paper, and 2 part final.
I love her . She's an inspirational lady and knows what she's talking about . Took her for LIT 03 . NEVER met anyone's so down to earth and fully aware
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She is such a sweet professor, however she is an extremely difficult grader. She will make you rethink your writing skills but your writing will improve by the end of the semester. Quiz every class, reading about 100 pgs per night, mandatory attendance, and don't you dare take out your phone in class
She's a great professor, she will really make you improve your writing. There are quizzes every week based on chapter readings of the books she assigns. The books are very engaging though so if you enjoy reading you'll love this class. There are only 3 assignments, and tbh the first two were very simple, just make sure you proof read!
This professor may be one of the worst professors I have ever taken. Be ready to read 5 books throughout the semester and to take a quiz twice a week base on the readings. She gives out two rolling journals which dose not really make sense and her grading are tough. She speaks about her self and her mom a lot. Do not expect a A easily.
Professor Gibson really is an amazing professor but no she is not an easy A. Her class inspired and developed my writing in so many ways. Her work over the years as a screenwriter really helps her as a professor because she teaches with such passion. I truly recommend her class for all writers who are open to critique and growth.
AVOID! Worst professor I have ever taken... Tough grader is an understatement. Majority of the class received Fs and Ds on all assignments and then expects you to redo them 2-3x each to receive a half a letter grade higher. Chose the worst reading material and gave quizzes every class.
She is the HARDEST professor I have ever taken... but I dont regret it. She helped my writing, Im noticing a lot more grammatical issues that I probably wouldve never noticed if I didnt take her class. By the midterms over half of the class dropped the course. If you dont plan on working hard, get out.
I have never felt so disrespected by a professor. Im not claiming that she is bias but she really needs to stop singling out people making them nervous. I try so hard to do my best and she doesnt acknowledge it. Be ready for many readings and dont do the bare minimum, give the MOST you possibly can. I will never take this class again!!
Easily one of the worst professors Ive came across at John Jay. She is extremely unprofessional and biased. Good luck if you take her. I should have dropped the class when I had the chance to. She is extremely rude and doesnt care about her students, only her dog.
She refuses to learn how to use her email. She makes us send her our home addresses to mail us back our work and grades. She refuses to use blackboard. She changed her class final exam twice literally one class before the final class. She grade so harsh for NO reason. She is a GPA ruiner. She is nice but she is a GPA ruiner. Do not take her online.
Disaster. Technologically illiterate, unclear 100% of the time, and overly-political. No grades until the last week of the semester so nobody had any idea as to where they stood. Clueless as to how to use blackboard/zoom. Lectures were always boring & dragged out to overtime. You're on your own trying to navigate the course. She is nice though.
Professor Gibson refuses to learn how to use Blackboard. We didn't get a grade for assignments until the end of the semester and the way she grades is extremely unfair for the amount she teaches. To get grades back we had to send her our home address. And don't depend on her answering her emails, she'll respond with "Received"
This Professor is sweet but made virtual learning extremely difficult. We had to have our homework, weekly assignments, midterms everything MAILED back to us in order to know our grades. She made this class so much harder than what it needed to be. Reading is a must. Wouldn't recommend her at all.
Avoid at all costs. For this course, we needed our midterm to complete the final. The problem is, she doesnt know how to use Word so she hard mailed us back our work. As a result I and many in my class have not received most of our work OR the midterm. The blame was put on us for not receiving it and we were threatened w/ incompletes. Lovely.
DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. Does not give feedback on any of your work. She does not use BB, she uses USPS ( yes the united State postal service ) to grade your work, she loses work via email even if she sends a confirmation email back to you saying she got it. She is just the worst professor ever. Avoid her.
Extremely tough grader, got a c- on the midterm because of a formatting error. The comment she left was careless mistakes are costly, very rude. Quizs every week, learned 0 from this class. Very disorganized, started class on August 25th did not have a finished syllabus till October 5thDO NOT TAKE ANY CLASSES THAT SHE TEACHES.
Class Info
Online Classes
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Attendance Mandatory
95%
Textbook Required
31%
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