Sara is a grad student, and she still has a lot to learn about teaching. She has potential, but her grading method is really unfair. No textbook, just a culmination of unrelated research papers that leave concepts vague and unconnected in the big picture. Lectures are off PowerPoints that rival novels in length.

She doesn't know how to layout tests or the classroom. There is an unclear class setting in terms of actually learning concepts and earning knowledge on the material. Although class is mandatory, I 've yet to feel as though I've gained any useful information that I can use outside the classroom. Learning how she communicates is essential to pass.

For the completely asynchronous class, Professor Knauz' 'lectures' are just videos of her reading the textbook, and at times I felt like we were learning the content at the same time, which was unsettling. I did not feel that the feedback given was ever helpful, and though she encourages you to ask for help, she hardly ever actually gives it.

In my time with Mrs. Knauz I learned a few things, however less were about psychology and more about how not to teach a class. Her method of lecturing was recording herself reading the book, which provided little to actually understand the material. She also felt way too overbearing and tried to micromanage, I am aware if an assignment is late.

Sara is not good at her job. "lectures" are her just reading off the textbook - at the slowest pace known to man. She does not explain anything, there is an overbearing amount of work assigned, and she will micromanage you like this is middle school. Grading is not fair, assignments are not clear at all. Would not recommend this class or 'prof'.

Sara's lectures are basically reading straight from the textbook. She cares very deeply for her students, however, this can turn into micromanaging assignments. Her grading is not fair at all, and assignment instructions are not clear. You will put hours into this class and feel like you got very little out of it. Just avoid her.

11/10 would NOT recommend. Lectures are slow and often times over half the content is irrelevant or pertaining to her life. Weekly discussion forums are excessive and unhelpful. Tests are incredibly specific and expect you to memorize a lot of the material. Was really excited for the class and taking it with Sara ruined it for me

This class is not hard, and its super interesting stuff to learn! But Sara is horrible at responding to emails, takes her review material off the canvas page before the exam, lectures are literally her reading the textbook SO SLOWLY and the tests are weirdly specific. you cannot understand a topic and get an A, she makes you know tiny details. NOPE

Sara Knauz does many of the things you dont want a professor to do and little of the things you do want. Lectures are her reading the textbook and it seems like shes still learning the material. Exams are confusing and poorly worded. She will micromanage and contact your advisor over small things. The only plus is 10 points (of 100) extra credit

Sara is one of the hardest professors I have had. Not because the material is necessarily difficult but because she lectures for sooo long, rambles on, there is no clear direction, and homework is super difficult. After taking this class, I do not feel like I could take a more difficult pysc class because I have no base understanding

very tough

This has been one of the worst professors I've had here. The format of the class is beyond confusing, it's very difficult to access homework and to navigate Canvas. The worst part are the lectures, there seems to be no structure to lectures, instead it's rambling about content unrelated to class and Knauz can be very rude at times too. Don't take

AVOID taking PSY3061 with Dr.Knauz. I do more work for this 3cr class than my 4cr classes. Lecture is a waste of time, she never knows what shes talking about, yet attendance is graded. She treats you like kindergartners, speaking very slowly and spending entire classes on "practice" assignments. I could go on forever, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS

I was excited to take this class, but Dr Knauz ruined it for me. Dr Knauz does not teach you crucial material that you can remember and use in the future, she instead makes you do in class activities with no clear direction to the lecture every class meeting. She rambles about things unrelated to course material. Do NOT take any course with her.

This professor is a lot to deal with. There is an excessive amount of homework, she infantilizes the students, and her Canvas page is ridiculously difficult to navigate. The traits you don't want in a professor, Dr. Knauz has them all.

PLEASE AVOID taking this class with Knauz. I'm a junior this year and have never taken class so difficult and a professor so redundant. She can be disrespectful to students for asking the wrong questions, leaving class early, and not engaging with her slow and boring lecture. There's a ton of homework with instructions that are beyond unclear...

Please DO NOT take her class, just as other comments said. All her instructions are not readable. Feels like they are all written in English but not necessarily in English:) The instructions can take up two pages and not even one line is stated clearly. No idea what she wants for homework but definitely will see points deducted:)

I can't even wait till the end of the semester to rate Dr Knauz. I'm a senior this year and she is the worst professor I've ever had. She has tons of meaningless homework with unreadable descriptions on Canvas. She had a disrespectful passive-aggressive smile to warn u "It's not wise" to leave the class early even ur group finished the classwork.

Sarah Knauz is one of the worst professors I have ever had. The canvas page is so hard to use and you just get so much BUSY work.Sarah will talk down to her students and treat them like children,talks super slow and will judge your questions. She is so condescending and will shame your group for finishing early or leaving class. she acts fake nice.

I'm a senior, and Sara Knauz is definitely the worst professor I've had. She doesn't teach, just assigns readings & useless busy work with unclear directions & strict grading. She's rude, she'll practically insult you if you leave early when there's no educational value from class, I only go because of the in-class assignments. Avoid her classes.

Dr. Knauz is the worst professor I have ever had. The class is filled with hours of meaningless busy work. Her philosophy of "learning everything before class" means that you only read the textbook and the lectures consist of independent assignments. Instructions are long but it's unclear what you're supposed to do. DON'T take this course.

I have never had a professor who is so incredibly incompetent. There is no syllabus. Our labs teach us nothing about the content. The project that is worth most of our grade? Her instructions are incredibly unclear and links poorly to the course. My entire group thinks she should not teach again.

Lots of homework, but none of the instructions make sense at all. I emailed her asking for examples of the assignments and she said NOPE. I am deeply afraid for how she will grade them. She clearly thinks she is above all of her students but it is comical that she thinks this when I could teach this class better myself.

Knauz appears to be nice, but that's about it with her good features. Class is online but labs meet in person. Class online is just reading and watching videos (that weren't made by her), and lab is literally casual presentations and little activities (very pointless). Don't take her class, she just got her PhD last year and it shows, ope --

I am a student at the University of St. Thomas, she worked here for a semester. I am a psychology major and she made me rethink my major. I took PSYCH 101 with her, it was absolutely awful. The material was not hard by any means, but her grading and instructions made no sense. I would write so much more if there was a higher character count...

Never had a professor so terrible in my life. Lab meets in person once a week and I think I've heard her speak maybe once a class period, and usually yelling at us for leaving early. Assignments are extremely unclear and grading is extremely harsh when expectations are unknown. I have learned nothing material wise from this class.

Worst prof ever. Shes condescending, rude, & not accomodating at all. Class is useless, just busy work & assignments with super confusing directions. Half the time I do the assignments from home during class time & still get credit, which shows how useless class is. It's all just reading, she hasnt lectured on a single thing. Never take her classes

This class has been torturous due to the awful layout of the Canvas page and the lack of feedback from this professor. The canvas assignments and "modules" used instead of a textbook make the information incomprehensible, and the assignments are repetitive and do not help me learn. She is passive aggressive/unhelpful, and grades assignments late.

She is hilarious, but hilarious in a not so hilarious way. Her instructions are so confusing that you doubt if you even know English. When you kindly ask her to clarify the instructions she would just simply ignore you. She'll tell you to think wise when you get an answer wrong.I truly wish to slowly roast in hell than to take this course again.

Sara Knauz should not be a professor. She does nothing in class but be condescending. The homework is busywork with incomprehendable instructions. I reach out for clarification and she fails to respond before the due date. The assignments build on each other and she says use feedback but she hasn't graded anything.

This is the most frustrating class I have ever taken. There is next to no feedback on a semester-long project that builds week to week. Lectures are useless and the only way to actually learn anything is through the textbook. She contributes nothing helpful to understanding the content. If I could write a longer review I would. Avoid this class!

this class is not worth the money. please don't take this class. attendance is mandatory, but there is nothing to actually be learned in class. its basically over an hour of working on homework while Knauz talks about who knows what most of the time. assignments are tedious. discussions are pointless. this class just aint it.

Assignments for this class are sooo tedious and useless, I feel like I've learned nothing. And what I have learned has been on my own time, since Sara doesn't teach at ALLL. I wish there were more tags that said horrible, condescending, and absolutely no help because that's how I would describe this professor.

there are not enough words to describe how awful of an experience this class has been. the U needs to stop hiring everyone with a pulse because it's starting to show. sara and this class are contributing to my decision to transfer schools.

Completely condescending, passive aggressive, and ALWAYS has an attitude. Unwelcome atmosphere, pointless assignments (which she does not grade), and unable to ask questions. Very unprofessional, worst class ever. Would not allow students to leave despite finishing all group work.

she is genuinely the most confusing professor I have ever had. the canvas page is confusing, the assignments are confusing, and she isn't helpful over email nor in person. on top of that she oversteps boundaries in every single lab and makes the classroom incredibly uncomfortable, and will make condescending comments and send emails if you leave.

Sara is so focused on diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion that I think the class name should be changed to reflect that. I did not take this class to only learn about that. Super easy class but canvas and any instructions were a joke because they were so confusing. Every assignment you do is based on DAIE. She takes days to email back.

Tbh the WORST professor I've had. She took forever to grade things, and does not grade fairly. She took a late penalty from an assignment because I had to re-submit because she didn't like the organization of it. She makes means comments about people in class that everybody hear. She also makes you write about diversity every week for 2 hours.

I never really leave reviews for classes or professors unless I feel like it is needed. In this case, it is extremely needed. This professor is very unprofessional towards students and gets angry when they leave early after work is finished. Makes inappropriate comments after students leave as well. Grades unfairly, just don't take this class.

All the coursework is useless. I feel that I have learned nothing from this course and wish I had taken something else. She has been assigning homework that asks us to prove our improvement through the semester and we are basically being forced to lie because she would not grade the actual answers well. She did nothing this semester for us

learned nothing. went to class for nothing. spend money for nothing. worst professor ever. never taking a class with this professor again.

Took this class to learn about biopsychology/neuroscience and learned about diversity. Assignments are busy work with confusing instructions. "Lectures" were a waste of my time. She was a bit passive-aggressive as well

I cannot explain how much I hated this class. She was impossible to reach outside of class and the assignments were virtually irrelevant. We did more focused on diversity, accessibility, inclusion, and equity than we did on actual course content. She treats you like a toddler and uses the "soft parenting" voice at all times. Literally never again.

I think it's sad how the professor feels the need to rate themselves a high rating on this page when they know their ability to teach is beyond poor. It took until the last day of classes for assignments from over a month ago to be graded which is beyond ridiculous when you think about how this is a semester-long project that requires feedback asap

One of the worst professors I have ever had, learned nothing from the class as we focused on issues outside of psychology more than the actual material that is supposed to be taught. Waits months to grade even the smallest assignments.

This class was a nightmare omg you could not pay me to take it with her again. This class was barely about sensation and perception and more about DAIE. It shouldn't even count for a psych credit because I didn't learn ANYTHING from her. Not to mention she didn't give any feedback the whole semester and good luck trying to reach out with questions.

Dr. Knauz is several months behind grading our big semester long project. So, we have all completed the project without feedback from her. The class is supposed to be about biopsychology but focuses more on diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. Assignment instructions make no sense. Absolutely terrible; awful; horrid.

She's clearly writing her own "positive" reviews, so that should say enough about her.

Very tedious class, not about sensation and perception at all

Lol the 5 star rating is clearly from her just trying to get her score up. I hope she reads these and realizes what a terrible professor she is. By far the worst class I've ever taken and the worst professor I've ever had, it's just busy work and useless assignments that we never got feedback on. Avoid at ALL COSTS.

Worst class I've ever taken. Professor should genuinely be fired.

homework is due today. semester long project is due today. final assignment includes fixing up your project to implement feedback from all other weekly milestones. not all milestones have been graded... all assignments are due today... let this be your warning to not take any classes with Knauz... did I mention that not everything has been graded?

Worst professor I have ever had, no doubt. The homework assignments are about the most random things ever and are worth ridiculous amounts of point (0.17??). Classes are mandatory but there is no instruction time, she either talks about stuff that no one cares about, or sits there on her laptop. Even if I got paid, I'd never take this course again.

Well! Sara may have cost me the deans list because I did not speak loudly enough during my presentation. Be prepared! You will be graded on things she does not warn you about in the rubric, or the canvas site because her instructions are vague but her expectations are specific! Seriously, do NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH SARA. You will regret it.

Dr. Knauz ruined this course! She was condescending, and took weeks to respond to emails if at all. Her Canvas was extremely confusing and she provided poor directions for assignments. She did not provide feedback on anything until the last day which meant no changes could have been made on the milestone project! Overall, an awful professor!

After having taken two classes with Professor Knauz, I highly recommend for you stay away from classes she teaches. In her classes, you have to teach yourself. She is condescending and does not respond to feedback well. Her assignments are confusing and leave you feeling unsure of what you have done instead of confident in your learning and work.

Made the mistake of taking this teacher twice. The class is only discussion-based and haven't learned anything. She's incredibly condescending. Her homework assignments make no sense and she hasn't improved on them. The whole class is pointless. You do basic synthesizing of research articles and that's it. Stay away from this teacher if you can >:(

Is the rubric asking the same thing three times? Write the same thing three times just in case. Don't understand what she's asking? Ask her when you can to clarify any confusion. Once you figure out how to write one assignment well, you get the rest figured out. Reach out via email? Contact the TA. They grade your stuff and respond much faster

This class was genuinely awful, profs lectures felt extremely unstructured and it was really hard for me to pay attention in class . By the time of finals, 60% of the points in the class weren't graded because there was only one T.A for 40+ students. Prof would have mic too close to their mouth which meant you could hear every breath and lipsmack.

I did not like her lecture style at all, the two I went to were unorganized, pointless, and dragged on. They were mostly discussion based which doesn't make sense for a lecture hall of 100+ students. Her assignments somehow have the longest rubrics I've seen while simultaneously being the most confusing, and weren't graded in a timely manner.

instructions stated 1 thing & rubric(published after the due date) would state another (ex: APA citation can consist of just the url, rubric would state make a complete APA citation). Received a 3% of total grade deduction for this(twice). When brought up she refused to acknowledge discrepancy. Our final paper (worth 33% of grade) was never graded.

This professor did not teach a minute of our class and valued "respectful debate," but this meant we were not allowed to disagree. She assigned at 3+ scientific journal articles to read per week and obviously did not read them herself, spreading misinformation from an assumption based on the title. This course had no structure. Avoid this professor

I can not believe that this woman has not lost her job. She doesn't teach! And she didn't even grade our final project worth 33% of our final grade! I spent so much time on the final paper and then to have it not be graded at all was a slap in the face. And she never even posted or emailed the class about the fact that she didn't grade it.

Assignments were given long, confusing rubric directions and graded to a hundredth of a decimal. Lectures were repetitively unexciting and colorless from what felt like a yap session. I didn't feel as though she respected my personal views on psych topics that I developed from my previous courses and was treated with passive-aggressive responses.

This might be the worst professor of all time. Horrible lectures that go nowhere other than an argument between her and peers. Homework makes no sense and graded so weirdly. Grades take forever to be graded. Bad.

I don't know how she is able to teach. Her grading makes absolutely no sense. Assignments are basically a riddle that you have to guess on. Absolutely avoid her if you want to protect your sanity. Pointless class.