Horrible, confusing and atleast partially insane. I would never take another course with this lady. I had her for my genral anotomy lab and she was OK but for neuroanatomy she is horrible. Unfortunately she is the only professor at CSUS who teaches neuroanatomy.

This was the hardest class I have ever taken in my life. Carter seemed pretty cool, but I found her to be very intimidating. She really knows her stuff and seems SURPRISED when no one else does. Take good notes and try to make sense of them on your own.

This class is impossible to get an A in. I know for a fact that over half the class is failing her lecture exams and we're only passing the lab exams because she's not teaching it. I come to class and lab everyday and study for 2 hours everyday and can only manage a B average. She yells at you if you ask her something too..Don't ruin your GPA

Hands down the worst prof on campus. Constantly belittling students. Tests on stuff not in the book or notes. Don't even think about asking her for help. Extremely irritating to listen to in lecture.

Dr. Carter goes way over lecture time, has disorganized PowerPoint slides that are from previous unrelated classes to Histology, doesn't like answering emails and questions because it wastes valuable class time, assigned online quizzes without giving students permission which resulted all students receiving no credit. Study everything from BIO 22.

Im not even in her class but attended one lecture because a freind of mine was in there. She is horrible..makes her students feel dumb and doesnt like answering questions. Goes way too fast on lecture. Bleh! Thumbs down

most HORRIBLE teacher in the history of BIOLOGY!!!! I'm a straight A student and happened to fail the first 2 exams so far. Dont email, powerpoints are word for word material from text = useless! Grade is detemined by 5 tests, 10 quizzes, 10 online quizzes and 5 lab practicals. Studying doesn't even help.

DO NOT TAKE HER! SHE IS ABSOULTELY AWFUL!!!! PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE ALL BODY PARTS NAMED AND MEMORIZED IN THEIR SCIENTIFIC FORMS AS WELL AS READ CHAPTER ONE AND UNDERSTAND. SHE GOES THROUGH LECTURE TOO FAST TO WHERE YOU CANT COMPREHEND IT OR EVEN WRITE DOWN WHAT SHE IS SAYING. RUN RUN RUn!

She talks way too fast durin lecture, doesn't stop and doesn't want you to stop her lectures so no questions can be asked at all. She says she knows the material, I believe it. I just don't think she can teach the material.

This was the hardest class I have ever taken. I studied at least 3 hours every day and was lucky to get a B+. Dr. Carter is a genius however she expects you to know what she knows. The test questions are EXTREMELY tricky. Don't expect much help from her, she makes you feel like your stupid when you ask a question. I would never take her again.

Worst teacher I've ever had. She doesn't teach anything, you teach yourself. Be prepared to memorize every detail of almost everything in the textbook. She is inconsistent, rude, unapproachable, and can't write test questions that anyone can understand. Half the battle is deciphering her bad grammar, misspelled words and typos. NEVER TAKE HER

gets off track really easily, needs to be more organized - missing one question of a quiz brings down your grade it sucks doesn't always explain things right

Hate to hear it hate to see it, had her for Lab... Awful professor. Be prepared to teach yourself. Doesn't reply to emails. Oh, and as for online quizzes, she has modules with correct answers, and half the time the correct answer comes up as "wrong." With her as a teacher your wasting your time and money.

Reason for low rating was due to her inability to teach properly and not clearly tell you what is expected on her exam. Came unprepared in class and mostly read from her powerpoints so most of you're learning is on your own. She is nice and caring, assignments are super easy but ruined the whole biology learning experience.

I was excited for this class looking foward to it in the beginning of the semester but she ruined the whole learning experience for me. SHE TAKES FOREVER to respond to emails you are lucky if she responds. She does not know how to teach properly. She is rude to her students, and just avoid her and take a better class where u will learn.

Lectures too fast + doesn't record lectures for people who need to get a better understanding of material. Turned the chat off in zoom meetings taking away our only way to collaborate with other students to ask for help. The only way for students to ask questions is to interrupt her and she gets very mad about that but we can't type them.

By far the worst professor I have ever had. She doesn't care for her students. She gets angry when we asks questions. Lecture's too fast.

She is probably one of the worst professors I've ever had. The class is self paced with A LOT of quizzes and 4 Exams. She is awful at answering emails or questions because she gets very defensive. She is not "tech-savy" so it makes online learning difficult. Textbook is optional but I suggest getting it because you're gonna be teaching yourself.

This is the worst professor I've had. Do not take this class. She is extremely rude and disrespectful towards her students. She's unprepared and doesn't know how to teach. I tried using the book, but it didn't help at all because most of her questions on quizzes don't even make sense. She doesn't reply to emails.

This professor did not go by her syllabus. A week before finals she assigned 7 quizzes and a few minutes before the finals she was changing times and points causing students to be confused. the exam was badly organized and was full of repeated questions and of pictures we could not see. I don't recommend anyone to take this class.

If you get placed in her class.... SWITCH ASAP. She's so difficult doesn't even teach, assigns so much work. Her quizzes/exams make no sense and isn't even on the notes. she's rude as hell, just switch trust me

Very rude and unapproachable to students. Never replies back to emails. Majority of tests and quizzes are not based off of the lectures. Be prepared to self-learn throughout this course alone, or do not take this professor at all!

RUN, she is a Handful. Totally disrespectful to students in class. She only assigns quizzes and exams(& 2 essay assignments). She left us to figure everything out, those exams will drop your score badly. The exams had topics from sections we hadn't even started. It was one big mess, save yourselves.

Professor Sprowls was very rude towards classmates in class. Be ready to teach yourself and read the book. Her lectures are very confusing . The exams don't even make sense. Please switch out!!!!

This professor is hard to reach and if she responds then its hours later. She makes all assignments just quizzes and if you get one bad grade on a exam or quiz it is hard to get back up.

she literally just doesn't teach. she sits there and give you old lecture slides and just assigns test. easy money for her

The course is an intro class that is extremely hard. I have received A's in all of my science courses for the past six years and even got accepted into UCD as a bio major. I graduated at the top of my class. The point of this though is that the class itself is taught through a book and power points are useless and the exam/ quiz layout is WEIRD.

A couple of people dropped in the beginning. MCPs are just confusing. Not enough time for tests. I have the book (recommended) but I question if Im gonna pass anyway. Quizzes are ok, be prepared to get a lot of 8/10 s. I have a C rn and Ive only taken one exam so far. :(

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. Every test is worded in the weirdest way possible. The tests barely and I mean barely contain whats taught from her. PowerPoint presentations are flooded with unnecessary information that dont help prepare for test and quizzes. Multiple classmates reported her to the school. Tests have insufficient time limit. Felt rushed

Just awful. Dont take this class. If I were you I would look for another bio10 teacher.

I am not surprised at the number of people have come on here to warn you about Professor Sprowls. I thought I was the only one who seemed like the tests were off subject but it is clear that I am not. If you try to reach out to her she does not respond or will speak about a totally different subject. Please save yourself and your GPA look elsewhere

I don't really feel like I learned anything, effort they put in is very little. They do seem nice though from emails, but that's it. There goes my grades...

She is a TERRIBLE professor. She has no clue what she is talking about and she has the audacity to make her course asynchronous which shows show lazy and unprofessional of a professor she is. Please drop this class because you will save yourself big time. Youll learn more from peers rather than her which is sad. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS

This professor is the worst I don't understand how she became a professor with the lectures and grammar she has. The tests/quizzes are confusing because of the way she words them so you have to guess what she wants as the answer. 80% of what she says in class is not on any of the quizzes or test

She uses a lot of off-topic examples and all of my quizzes are 8 out of 10

Very test heavy. Majority of questions on tests are confusing and don't make sense.

Tests don't match up to lecture nor book material.

For a beginning biology course, she makes this extremely difficult. You can read the book and go over the slides/modules yet none of her questions on the tests make sense. This class is like 80% test dependent. Half of the questions on those tests have horrendous grammar to the point you have to guess to what she is saying. Find another teacher.

Don't. This class is useless, waste of gas, and energy. She reads off the slides and makes irrelevant comments. In my experience, I get disrespected by her when I ask about anything. Last time I try to mention any comments or concerns because shell straight yup yell at you as if you were her kid. A high school education is better than her.

If you get this professor, RUN. There is a reason her rating is so low. She is rude and does not take criticism well. She will not listen to you and her quizzes make no sense, only a few things come from the note. Join a discord server for this class with fellow classmates, some people really help. I recommend the app Socratic for help on quizzes.

I would have to say Sprowls has decent lectures and I do feel like explains some topics very well. But when it come to our quizzes and test their awful, her grammar sucks and words her exam/test questions very open ended. It makes it hard cause the question itself is very generalized but the answers are generalized as well so its hard to answer

Find literally any other professor for Bio if you could. Her lectures feel pointless because the majority of her topics on her lectures are not on the exam. Her lectures are just so broad while her exams nitpick and go for the little details. Just find someone else if you can, then if not good luck.

DONT TAKE ROSALEE CARTER SPROWLS...save yourselfs. This lady is "teaching" an intro to bio course, and is treating it like med school. Literally run. Her exams are written like a 2nd grader, (in terms of grammar) and are on things that she didn't "teach". She also has an inflated ego; and NEEDS to be humbled.

Test questions irrelevant to what she talks about in lecture and reading

just saying hi and bye to this professor, she is very terrible with her grammar and irrelevant questions

Great person, not so great teacher. Went over the syllabus, explicitly stated (on the syllabus as well) that attendance was not mandatory but begins to take attendance without releasing an email or statement saying that she would. DOES NOT CHECK EMAILS. Unwilling to respond and help with lockdown browser issues (there's a lot). AND SO much more..

These so called quizzes don't match any of the lectures, have horrible grammar making it very hard to understand quizzes. The notes she shows during lectures are out of order and she is constantly going far ahead for a topic we have yet to reach. Overall horrible class would NOT take it again. Find another professor if you want to pass.

Gives the impression that she cares about what she's teaching. That's where the good ends, most of your grade is based on quizzes. Sometimes the answers for her quizzes make no sense, and makes it seem like there could be multiple correct answers for one question. Says that attendance isn't mandatory yet grades people on attendance.

Worst professor I've had by far. I feel bad because she has dyslexia, but she cannot properly phrase her quizzes. The quizzes happen about 2-3 times per week and account for over half of your grade. She also takes up too much of class-time ranting about things that aren't appropriate to the subject matter. Avoid taking her if you can.

RUUUUUUN. When I read her RMP I thought everybody was just complaining but she really is not a good professor. The amount of grammar mistakes she makes leaves me scratching my head every 30 secs. Slides are all over the place good luck learning off of them. Quizzes and Tests are not clear at all and are way too hard for a GE Biology class.

TAKE ANY OTHER PROF! most of your grade comes from the 2-3 weekly quizzes which have LOTS of grammar and spelling errors. Lecture is a story time about her life. Went to her office hours for help in the class and she recommended I change careers.. uses a lockdown browser for quizzes/exams that literally isn't compatible with Macbooks. #HumbleHer

I thought everyone was just whining when I read the reviews before arriving to campus, but within the first 2 weeks, I dropped her class and joined another Bio10 class, if you can try to take another professor. From what I hear she covers the chapters too fast, leading to no learning, leading to people not even attending class. Switch if possible.

Switch professors ASAP. A lot of quizzes and exam. Her grammar was bad that I would have to guess what she was trying to say. GE classes are supposed to be easy but this GE class was hard. It wasn't worth my time showing up to her lectures. Just save yourself and find a better professor

Switch professors ASAP. She just rambles in all of the lectures and doesn't make any sense. There is no point in going to class because she makes no sense and will go on about pointless topics. The exams are extremely hard because they are worded horribly and lead back to no reading or lecture material.

She reads off the slides and never actually teaches. She always has wrong answers on quizzes and makes them confusing on PURPOSE. Even if you do know the material, she makes you guess the answers. For a subject pretty easy, she makes it hard. 3-5 quizzes per week, she talks about things that won't even it. Would never take again.

Expects you to be at LEAST 5 chapters ahead of her lectures. Quizzes were so hard I wanted to cry. Makes you feel inferior if you try to correct her and does not understand the material herself. Read the textbook and pray every night if you do plan to take her and plan your all nighters too. Lectures were based off of her repeating the textbook.

Save your time, GPA, money, and sanity. Pros: Seems caring Posts lecture slides Will extend assignments if lecture content is not "taught" Cons: Does not teach what is on slides, quizzes, or textbook Quizzes are nowhere near what you go over in class Yaps. Way. Too. Much. Sidetracked 24/7 Requires a lockdown app, not compatible with Apple Devices

Avoid this professor at all costs. Her lectures are a mess, with frequent grammar and spelling errors, and she covers the material too fast for any real learning. Quizzes and exams are unnecessarily difficult and confusing. Unstuck study could be a lifesaver for studying, but this class is still best avoided.

She is the worst professor I have ever seen in my whole college career, I want to come back after 3 years and confirm she is for sure the worst professor in CSUS.