Carole-Anne Tyler - University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA

Professor: Carole-Anne Tyler

Department: English

College: University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENG124B
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She has a reputation for being hard, but she's not GPA breaking at all. Here's the thing: just go to her office hours, read through her essay guides, and read all the assigned material and answer the questions. Also, don't be mad if she doesn't grade right away. If you do the work, you should know what you'll be getting!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENGL12B
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

grades arbitrarily and has an illogical system for determining final grades. I asked her a few days before the quarter ended what my grade so far was and she had absolutely no idea. she also goes off on tangents and barely teaches, and when students ask her how they can improve papers she offers little and vague feedback while being visibly annoyed

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENGL12B
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Warning. Don't take her class. Constantly talked down to her students. Expected doctorate level work in a lower division English class. Tough grader and had a complicated grading system for no reason. Hardly followed the syllabus. Spent 2-3 class periods on author's bio/maybe a hot second on the actually story content. don't recommend

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENGL12B
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She talks down to the entire class at least once a week, fails to grade 500 word essays in < 6 weeks, has instructions that are 4x longer than the maximum length of your essays, reads paragraphs off of powerpoints she doesn't make, claims shes too busy to grade, and has a random 300 word assignment count more than the final. Got the syllabus week 4

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: 12B
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Nice person, terrible professor. No consideration for students whatsoever. She overlaps on class time and we get out late every time! Oh, but when it comes to her time, she wants all consideration. You leave early, she takes you off the attendance for the day. If you miss lecture twice, your grade goes down. She does not understand life happens.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENG12B
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She is by far the worst professor I have take at UCR. She grades her papers based on her opinion and does not take yours into consideration. Pretty much her way or the highway. The class itself is not difficult, but she is a hard grader. She lags on and on, making the class dreadful. I like english, but boy did she make me detest it.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: 176C
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She's managed to turn a Literature class into one about Art History. 3 weeks into the quarter and we have yet to speak about or look at a single text. Everything is overly detailed, confusing, and boring. This is an upper division class of English majors, and she's turned it into an Art class for grad students. Truly disappointing.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENGL124B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

One of the biggest things that irked me about professor Tyler was that everything from her guidelines for papers to how to use iLearn was over-detailed and that made it really overwhelming for me. It made it difficult for me to focus on the assignments since I'm spending so much time reading through directions for a paper.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENG124B
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Tyler is easily one of the most challenging and yet stimulating professors in the English department at UCR. Take her course if you actually enjoy learning and are open to criticism. Her courses taught me how to write and think critically. She takes a long time to grade, but the copious feedback you receive is well worth the wait.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENG176C
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I regret taking her class. She is the toughest professor I have ever had. She is very smart and knows a lot about many subjects, but her lectures are hard to follow as she's very disorganized. She takes forever to grade assignments and she's super tough on grading especially on papers. I didn't feel like I actually learned from her class.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: 124B
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She is a tough professor. She has a tendency to go off on tangents and she is such a nice lady people feel awkward telling her. However, she is very knowledgeable in a lot of subjects - you will definitely learn a lot but it is up to you to fight against the negatives! You will be working mostly independently. She does, however, give good feedback.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENGL176
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She is brilliant but tough. You must read/watch everything, attend lecture and hope you drew the correct conclusions. I didn't get any graded work back until week 9 (of 10) and we took quizzes on readings assigned as many as 4 weeks prior to the quiz. My advice: take good notes and try to keep up with the mountains of reading.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 102W
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS OR ANY CLASS WITH THIS PROFESSOR. She is the worst professor I have had at UCR. She assigns work that she cannot even grade on time, and if she does her grading is strange. So, don't expect to know how your grades are going until the class is over. Her instructions for assignments are way too long and unclear.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENGL124B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Tyler is definitely not easy, and I would not recommend her if you are not good at English. She is a very tough and picky grader; she does not grade things quickly. She is ,however, very helpful in office hours. She will look at all drafts beforehand. You get what you put into it.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENGL124B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I can't believe she is a teacher. I have never experienced a teacher so unorganized and rude. Her critiques on your papers will not make any sense, and will not follow what has been said in lecture at all. I was excited to take this class so badly, and now I hope I fail so I can take it again with a teacher who is ACTUALLY competent.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENG176T
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

worst professor I've had my entire educational career. DO NOT TAKE ANY OF HER CLASSES. YOU WILL REGRET IT.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENGL176T
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Tyler seems a bit unorganized as we didn't get our grades back until about the 9th week of the quarter, and we were always behind on lectures; this was mostly because of her propensity to humor the students when they asked off topic questions. Overall, go to all the lectures and make sure to ask her questions if you don't understand, she will help!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ENGL176T
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This is THE worst professor I have ever had. Super unorganized, very late on assignments and on grading(it's week 9 and we still haven't had our first papers graded). Spends the entire class time on one subject and fall weeks behind because she goes into tangent. I feel like I wasted my money. I don't know how she's still teaching.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ENG124B
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

EXTREMELY UNORGANIZED. Required readings that you never use for class. Assignments are never graded in a timely manner. Essay prompts and syllabus are long winded and confusing. (Syllabus was 14 pgs). The entire class was very unclear. She's a very nice person though. If you're confused, I suggest office hours on a regular basis.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENG101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This woman made my quarter a living hell! Nothing was EVER exceptional for her, and her lectures were more confusing than the readings! Didn't post a syllabus until the 4th week, and did not follow it - she fell behind and made it difficult to keep up with her. AVOID HER,