makes fun of retarded people in the films she shows, I don't appreciate her sense of humour

One of the hardest profs I've had at Ryerson. She needs to realize that Ryerson is not even a real University and psychology here is just a service department. Very tough marker. Brutal exams. She's not funny either.

Worst among all the psychology profs I took at Ryerson!!!!! She is not a good prof. Take her course if you want a bad grade. She has no mercy on anyone. She marks harder than your usual prof. She doesn't care about students

Professor who is very unhelpful. Highly recommended to avoid this class.

Everything can go wrong in this class.

If you want F grade, then go ahead and register in her course. Her exams are tough as nails. Terrible course social psychology!!!

This prof was reallly really bad. Clearly avoid her I'm telling you otherwise your semester would be too painful. She gives hard exams and she will ruin your interest in psychology. I had friends at U of T where she taught some years back they also found her very tough.

If someone perceives that she is hilarious, then she is hilarious. If someone perceives that she is hard, then she is hard.

she is extremely a worst prof

This person is a joke. She clearly does not Psychology and I do not know how in the world Ryerson allowed her to teach a advanced Psychology course. She clearly is a horrible marker. If you are lucky, the highest you could get away is with a D or slightly better grade. Tests are not fair and her teaching methods and materials are inferior. Avoid...

terrible prof with no knowledge of psychology! Her teachings are difficult to understand and boring. never reachable. doesn't understand what student asks for. doesn't say exactly what she is looking for. looks for reasons to not give you the mark or fail you.

Hardest marker ever. Does not explain the grade she gives for assignments. Hardest exams I've written.. Overall very rude. Highly suggest selecting another professor if you want a good mark in this class.

Exam review is a joke. The exam was the hardest thing i've ever done, even though it's online and you have your notes with you, they will not save you! There were three components she graded us on, midterm, essay and final all heavily weighted. Discussion board is mandatory but there is no participation marks for it.....

WORST MARK IVE EVER GOTTEN. Exams are ridiculously difficult. Assignment was marked horribly. Highly recommend not taking this class if you can help it! A good grade is far from achievable.

The worst professor I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. The entire course has 3 components: all of which have no CLEAR SET criteria or feedback. You just get a grade (a few days before the course is over by the way) and thats it. Her modules are ridiculously lacking: you essentially attempt to teach yourself the textbook. AVOID.

The final exam is tomorrow morning, less than 24 hours away, and we have still not recieved our assignment marks. The course is comprised of a mid-term, assignment and final exam. This is so unprofessional and ridiculous. She has not made any announcement or sent out any email letting us know why we havent received our marks, or apologizing.

You teach yourself the textbook, get tested on the most ridiculous questions possible, do an assignment with no clear instructions, then go into the final without receiving your assignment mark (you also dont get your midterm back so you cant see why you got the mark you did). Her modules are less than 10 pages long and arent checked for grammer

This professor was the worst one I have ever had. Her modules are several pages long and are extremely irrelevant in terms of weighing it next to the textbook. You are graded on three things only (one midterm, one assignment, one final) and it takes FOREVER to receive your mark (still waiting on the final). Unclear instructions, limited feedback.

She is everything you do not want in a professor: rude, condescending, disorganized, late, as so forth. Her modules were ridiculous and her assignment instructions were not clear. She gave us our assignment the NIGHT before our exam (she released them around 1130pm, when the exam was the next day at 10am) I was so stressed I couldn't sleep or focus

Looking back, she was the absolute worst prof... ever. If someone's reviews on this site are under 10% would take again, and she has a LOT of reviews, that alone speaks volumes and should tell you something. All of us would not take time out of our day to leave negative reviews if she wasn't THIS bad. Avoid her, I PROMISE you.

This course needs to have a new professor. This one is the worst professor I have had. I don't understand why she teaches when she doesn't seem to care about the students. Her exams are super hard and she marks extremely hard. Stay away from the course if she's teaching.

I took Dr Burke for an online class, Psy300, and she essentially does not teach this class at all. You're on your own to read the textbook and her voluminous lecture notes. The exams are multiple choice but tricky and also badly written (factual errors). On the occasions I emailed her, she was not polite or thoughtful in her answers. Avoid her.

alright, if you're taking a course with this prof I would strongly suggest you DO NOT take it. If you do the online exam and you don't finish because time ran out OR you didnt finish, she will not care, understand or regrade anything. The prof is basically useless when you email her and is NOT accommodating for anything. again, DO NOT TAKE THIS

Dr. Burke was the most unaccommodating and unavailable prof I've ever had. She does not reply to emails AT ALL. I had to find emails for other people in the psych department to see if I could get in touch with anyone else regarding the issues I was experiencing. The course material is interesting, the delivery is not.

Do not take her! I had her for summer school and it was online and we had to teach ourselves everything. Marked hard too. I am not a D student so this course really brought down my gpa.

This is actually the worst course I've taken at Ryerson. She doesn't reply to emails and there is no discussion or direction on any of the work. She's basically not there for the entire course. The exam has essay questions and the exams are unnecessarily difficult for a self-taught class.

Her lectures are pre-written transcripts, she uploaded every module for the entire semester at the start & was completely inaccessible the whole time. The class has been done for 3 weeks and we only have our 1st exam grade. Idk if i even passed the course. If you can avoid, if you can't, focus on the textbook for exams. MC with 2 short answer.

Probably the worst class I ever took at Ryerson. This professor DOES NOT answer emails, even though in her introduction module it says to "email her with any questions". I do not recommend taking this class at all, complete waste of money. She waited until the drop day to release exam marks (cant get a full refund at this point).

not organized

Absolutely horrible professor. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND IT. Please listen to me. It takes forever to get your marks back for any assignment or exam. She's not responsive, unavailable all the time!! This is not how a college professor should be. CPSY300 was a great course and it was really interesting but the delivery of the course was unacceptable!

CPSY202*. We had 3 things we were marked on and she did not release our assignment marks for two whole months. The final was done before we had it back. I did not know if I was passing or failing the class. I consider myself a good student, but this was just unacceptable. She did not answer any concerns from the class about our assignment marks.

I can attest to everything the person below me said. I'm an A student and just barely managed to get an A-. Midterm and final were both 31% and the questions were ridiculous. I did all the textbook readings (she just tells you to read entire chapters), but BARELY any of it was applicable to the tests. Asynchronous = an excuse for low effort to her.

emailed her with a question about the assignment a few days before it was due and she literally emailed me back AFTER the due date. she makes you read whole chapters of the textbook (20+ pages), her exams are so hard like half of the information i'd never even seen before - not in the lectures or textbook. she takes forever to release marks too

The slides she made were not clear. If you miss a class you won't even be able to access the PowerPoint because she doesn't post it, she only posts a lecture outline which covers all the information. It is very textbook-based, so you have to read the textbook. Even topics that weren't discussed but were in the textbook come on the exam.

I took this course over the summer and it was the worst experience. The prof never answered my emails and I received most of my marks after the course was finished. Midterm and Exams were so so hard and her modules teach you nothing. You really need to teach yourself from the textbook if you want to do good.

The most awful professor you would ever come through. Does not care about how she teach because the professor has no idea what she is talking. I know few people who either got a grade D, D-, D. If you manage to get anything over D you should be happy. Does not have any people / communication skills. I would not take psychology with this lady.

Unfortunately, Professor Burke didn't respond to any emails (regarding AAS requests, technical failures during the exam, or requests to see graded work). She was very hands-off in delivering this course, with most marks withheld until after the drop date. Modules were not a helpful tool while studying, so prioritize the textbook.

Do not take this professor's course. She's unorganized, doesn't answer emails, and refuses to post materials like slides or videos shown in class. Exams rely on remembering every detail from lectures without resources. Assignments are poorly managed deadlines; feedback is delayed. Save yourself the stress and avoid this class entirely.

Do not take this professor's course. She's unorganized, doesn't answer emails, refuses to post materials like slides or videos shown in class. Exams rely on remembering every detail from discussions without supportive resources. Assignments are poorly managed; deadlines & feedback are delayed. Save yourself the stress; avoid this class entirely.

Avoid this professor's course. She's disorganized, ignores emails, and doesn't share slides or videos from class. Exams focus on remembering details from discussions without support. Assignments are a mess deadlines and feedback are always late. The stress isn't worth it. Choose another course if you can.

Most lecture time is devoted to cringe self-deprecation and stories that centre herself as the lovably quirky main character. Very hard to sit through. Test questions are vague and sometimes contradict textbook material. I only did well because I like the subject and read the textbook. Dropped to A- because I got 0/5 on "online activites".

Extremely unorganized, majority of the time spent during lecture was just her chatting about her accomplishments and work. Multiple choice questions were strictly textbook and her assignment instructions were very unclear. A shame because the course is extremely interesting.

dropped the class after the midterm, which was nonsense. She's funny and holds a lecture well but if I wanted entertainment, I'd go to the theatre. Midterm is ridiculous and confusing. highly DON'T recommend her.

The worst professor ever.

The professor is not reachable AT ALL. Never answers emails. Only 1 out of 4 marks were returned before the final (35%). Had 2 papers, 2nd built off first, but first grade was not returned ever, let alone before pt 2 was due. Unreachable when asked about the status of grades. Course content relatively easy for an upper elective.

Tara Burke is literally the worst professor I have ever had at TMU. There is one good review for CPSY300 and I am almost sure she posted it herself. She doesn't grade midterms and assignments until weeks later and doesn't provide a rubric either. She released midterm grades after the date to drop the course so if you didn't do well you'd be cooked.