RUN AWAY, very far away. her lectures are poorly done. she lectures a week ahead of the reading.and she gets this manical grin whenever your trying to answer something. also for no real reason she will use latin/foreign language words for things, then sometime later give the actual word. do not go near her, ever

Do not take this class. It is a complete waste of time. I had no idea what was going on the entire time. Horrible Teacher. Can hardly speak english and does not speak in sentences. The only words she writes on the board are in latin. Easy grades though. I did not learn one thing in this class but still some how managed to get an A.

Horrible

completely useless teacher. she taught nothing, and i learned nothing. mid-term and final exam are impossible to study for, and i never seemed to earn higher than a B on any of the essays or quizzes that i studied hard for. DO NOT take this class, avoid it all costs!

Too much expectations. Many assignments very untypical and doesn't make sense such as writing 2000 word research paper about an image rather than history itself, and writing paragraphs about a map. Expects wide range, deep memorization, such as geography. Most of the notes are expected to be self-written. Expects everything to be done on one's own.

supposed to be hist 102. teaches like 352. this prof seems to have the expectation that everyone in class is a history major therefore, great for history majors if your not a hist major she doesnt care. grades memorization of geography. does not help does not give study guides. always keeps class 5-8min late looks down on you if your not interested

Thoroughly awful. Completely nonsensical. Neither her lectures nor the book teach any history, no guidelines for assignments, cannot ask an answerable question in a first-year survey course, etc...

My biggest issue as someone who is an education major is that there is no structure to her lectures. I feel that after taking her class and not being confident in European history to begin with, her 100 level course was more a 300 level course. I really would not recommend her as a professor to anyone.

Gives extremely long readings. DOES NOT GIVE CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO MEDIEVAL BALTIMORE PROJECT. Very confusing when giving out grades. Will lower your grade even after giving you a specific grade on the group project and was told that she always does this. Very unfair and not worth your money. I advise you to not take her class.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. This professor is rather unfair in everything that she does. She's very passionate about the subject but she does not take criticism well. She forgot to place an order for books at the beginning of the semester and just kept claiming g that she did. Grades harshly even on very easy assignments which is arbitrary.

The class is supposedly entirely focused around writing the paper, but a lot of the class time is spent discussing historical subject matter that does not pertain to most students' essay topics. It is also unclear what assignments are due for credit and which are optional. Most of the required books and reading have been of no help to me.

Worst professor on campus. Entirely too challenging for a TSEM class. Assigns a ridiculously long 15 page paper about the Inquisition and provides no help. Definitely do not miss class, even if you are attending a funeral for a friend because she will not care at all, even if you have a note. Terrible, terrible professor.

I am a history major, and early European history is my favorite subject in all of school, and yet she made this class almost impossible to enjoy! I could never bring myself to pay attention!

She's unclear about assignments. The syllabus had many mistakes about when assignments were due and thats what we were expected to rely on. So due dates would change all the time and mess everyone up. Theres lots of reading assigned but never any quizzes or uses for it except for your final paper. You're allowed three absences but that's not enough

I am a graduating senior and this is by far the hardest class I have taken, to the point that I was concerned I would even pass it (and graduate). Tests are based heavily on the lectures, reading the text won't help much. She keeps the class 5-10 minutes after it is over every single day (don't take a class that's across campus right after).

Seriously. This class is extremely difficult. Extensive amounts of research.

By far the worst professor I've ever had and worst class I've ever taken. She is rude and does not act very professionally when talking to students when they ask questions. The lectures have no real structure to them and she does not make study guides. Be ready to work and focus on a paper with little to no value on the actual purpose of the class.

Bottom line is this, it is absolutely unclear what she wants from you. She lectures on and on and on but you zone out within the first five minutes and time stands still. Her Medieval Baltimore project seems fun at first but the draft is due today and my class literally has no idea what we are doing and she is no help. Avoid her class.

She is extremely unhelpful. We as a class are so genuinely confused on what we have to do in her class. We have asked for help, we have asked for clarification and she only makes us more confused and unsure of what we are supposed to do. She makes the Medieval City boring. I did not know it was possible to make that content boring. AVOID!!!!!!

Rita Costa Gomes was a very active student-communist leader in the 1970/1980s in Lisbon Her organisation, UEC, publicly humiliated highly qualified teachers and her own fellow colleagues who were not communist. She was extremely orthodox, intolerant, cruel and arrogant. Her communist membership helped her a lot with her academic career.

She is by far the worst professor I have ever had. The class seems endless as all she does is lecture non stop. During our break we all discuss how nobody has a clue what is happening. She randomly calls on people because nobody wants to talk. For the Medieval Baltimore project, she didn't give us a rubric or any details of what she was looking for

Costa-Gomes was by far the hardest teacher I have EVER had. She would lecture on and on which is fine, but only if it makes sense. Her lectures were never clear and concise and she doesn't give a clear study guide for the midterm and final. She taught this class as an upper level, despite it being a lower level class. Steer clear of her.

Professor is very knowledgeable and passionate about the course material, however she is not very good at lecturing/teaching the material to a class. Her lectures drag on and don't really make sense. Her quizzes are just as confusing and are always on very obscure parts of the reading that one would normally look over to retain the bigger picture.

God help your GPA if you take her.

The professor's interactions with the students suck. Emails were not responded to and when you ask a question you either got a blank stare and ignored in some cases. the main project makes no sense w/zero guidelines and when you ask what she wants it gets more confusing because I don't think she even knows. I'd say more but I ran out of characters.

I am a history major, and this professor made me want to forget about European history in general. Readings never matched what is actually discussed in class. Exams have no study guides because she says "the book is your study guide". An absurd amount of material that only she knows, all packed into a 100 level course. Do NOT take unless necessary

DO NOT TAKE HER PLEASE. I BEG. I can go on and on about how bad she was as a professor. lecture heavy, she doesnt use blackboard so you wont know your grade and very few assignments.

I had her my freshman year for TSEM and she was awful. Nothing made sense, she was rude to students, and literally made me cry because she accused me of trying to get out of attendance when I forgot my nametag. Awful.

I had her for TSEM first semester of freshman year and this woman scarred me for the rest of college. None of the due dates on the syllabus were accurate, the grading criteria was unclear for every assignment, a ridiculous amount of reading was assigned for the class, and she was overall kind of rude to the students. Bad professor, 0/10

She will change assignments last minute on you. Do not take her class. She is unclear, boring lecturer, and overall would not take again.

She obviously means well and is a nice person but she misses when it comes to understanding that freshman year students aren't able to write a 15 page paper by the end of the semester while also dumping 5 other medium to large-sized writing assignments on them throughout. I would definitely recommend swapping your class for a different professor.

While a very nice woman her class offers little to be enjoyed. She treats her 100 level course as if it's a 300 level course. She is late to class everyday and will keep you past the timeframe of the classroom. Everyone in my entire class feels the same way, we literally talk about it while were waiting for her to show up. Class is brutally boring.

She gets distracted easily/rambles often. When asking for private clarification she will talk at full volume so everyone can be a part of your private conversation so if you have anxiety I wouldn't recommend taking her class. If you have to leave class early even if it's an emergency she will make comments about deducting points.