pretty boring prof. seems to play favorites with some

Unfair!class seems easy but she makes it very hard

She makes 10 mistakes with each breath in her lecture. She obviously wanted to be a kindergarten teacher because she treats the class like that- we had to sit and color for 2 hours! If you want to get any serious learning done, don't take her.

Things we're fine until her Screenplay Assignment. She saw my work two weeks prior and didn't tell me I was going in a direction she didn't like. So come grading time she totally screws me over. It's a nice class but I don't like at all how she didn't bother to tell me after two workshop sessions.

Schiller is utterly clueless and her class was a waste of my time. Her grading system is not consistent and completely random. She is not precise on what she wants. When it came time for end of semester presentations, more than once she would call out students on being incorrect in front of the entire class, something I saw as unneccessary and rude

I had an awful experience. The class has A LOT of work, but that was expected. Just do the work and you'll be mostly okay. But she gave a "holistic" final with barely any guidelines... so I talked with her daily regarding my plan. She said that my idea was fine, I wrote over 30 full pages. She gave me a D and said I didn't understand the final??

This was supposed to be an ENGLISH class, it wasn't at all. She is condescending, treats students like children, and is just outright awful. I have never disliked a prof as much as I dislike her. Her maps are ridiculous, you can spend 8 hours on the thing and be really critical and only receive a B-. She is just outright awful.

This class was very hard due to the fact that she will change the guidelines of what she expects with a paper. Also when you ask how she is grading something she does not know and makes up a grading scale out of nowhere. Another thing that is wrong with this class is she tells you to write something out of nothing with no explanation.

she is ridiculous. she expects perfection from papers out of a 100 level english class.

DOOOOOOOOO NOTTTT HAVE THIS PROF she is by far one of the worst professors out there, she has a terrible personality and is just flat out rude all the time, she will approve a thesis and then give it a D while she is grading, has too much pride to realize that she messed up in grading and is just flat out terrible

I would not wish this class with this professor on anyone. Dr. Schiller is rude, and a tough grader. Every paper topic was super specific but very very abstract. Once she realized everyone was failing, she started giving random extra credit just to help us pass. If you do get stuck in this class, USE OFFICE HOURS. It's the only way you'll pass.

I have never actually gone out of my way to rate a professor, but out of my 5 yrs of school she has by far been the worst. Mandatory class, OK. Lots of homework, fine Being rude, unclear, unreasonable, and going out of her way to make the course more difficult, not okay. I wish I would have listened to everyone else's comments.

Out of 12 semesters, 6 years, and over 48 CMU professors, I can honestly say she is the worst one I have had. If you're not considered a "smart" student, which is basically if you haven't taken creative writing, then she will not pay attention, listen, or help you during the semester.

I had to work EXTREMELY hard to pass this class. I've seen some say she's only hard for those who don't appreciate the class but I found that to be untrue. I wanted to love this class but she grades very tough (she gave me a C because she didn't like my subject). She seems nice but she's not very clear on instructions and will punish you.

Susan does not communicate with her students at all. There was no clarification on what the exams/quizzes/papers were on, and was not helpful at all about what she expected. She was very rude to her students as well. You could not ask questions about clarification either, there was no way to pass this class.

Dr. Schiller is the WORST educator I have ever had over the course of my life. Jus bad at teaching; when she came to "look over my paper" she just told me to move things to certain places and write in what she said instead of leaving me with the tools to become better myself. Also, her input was not optional, as critiques should be. Horrible class.

I took her writing intensive class, there were only 2 papers. She is not clear on her grading criteria and her feedback is condescending. She has little respect for her students opinions.

She hates her students and talks to them like they are idiots and doesnt respect them. Do not take her class.

She is horribly mean. I stopped going to class because I could not handle her rudeness. She was a tough grader and does not care about her students. She does not give good feedback and often marks things down for no reason. CMU does not have a survey for her if I could I would give her zero out of five.

She is horrible. Do not take her class.

Teacher is awful, she grades so hard and her feed back is awful. i got help from the writing center multiple times and i still got bad grades. Essays are weird topics and stuff you will struggle with writing. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER

Worst professor I have ever had. The topics she chooses for these huge essays that we do are stupid. I don't know how she expects us to write so many pages about something barely any of us have any interest in. Not to mention, her comments when she grades do not feel like critiques. She's rude about it and they have not helped me get better at all.

I would not take this class again & especially with this professor. We had to do 3 essays in which the topics made no sense & she never explained to us what they were exactly. How do you expect your students to write 4+ pages of something when we don't even know what to do. I had this class online due to her not being on campus and it was boring.

I pride myself on being a good writer. Never in my life have I been graded so harshly. All the things we write on make no sense. There is no way to get credit sources on vague topics. And then she will go through your paper and tell you to take out everything!! A six page paper on some nonsense quote. She is condescending. Mean towards students

Confidently can say she is the worst professor I have ever had. She is rude, grades on confusing criteria with an iron fist, gives asinine cookie cutter assignments that analyze convoluted quotes that she states must be spoken about as if her opinion is an objective truth or you will fail the class, and is completely out of touch and not helpful.

this professor is absolutely awful, would NEVER take this course with her again. She is not compassionate and does not care if her students succeed. The only way to receive a good grade is to go to her office hours and suck up to her. She is terrible, and made this class a living hell.

She made this class extremely difficult with very unclear grading guidelines. She would tell us one day that if we made a certain mistake in our paper we would fail the entire paper and then showed us an "A paper" the next class period that had the exact mistake she said would make us fail. Overall she made the class harder than it needed to be.

awful.

Very unclear, will explain something and then almost contradict it. Rude. HARD grader regardless of how good of a writer you are

She was very rude when giving feedback or comments on essays. Her word choice is very condescending and makes you feel dumb. She did not allow you to work with others for help, and her essay topics were so out of the ordinary and extremely hard to write about and understand.

Professor Schiller is a very tough grader and does not give clear feedback. Her essay rubrics often do not align with her feedback comments and her essays have very strange prompts. I feel bad for anyone who had to take her class!