Helen Lee Turner - Furman University, Greenville, SC

Professor: Helen Lee Turner

Department: Theology

College: Furman University, Greenville, SC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: REL101
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

NEVER take her. Dry lectures, takes years to get your essays back with little to no feedback when you do. Had her at 8:30 and was impossible to wake up for her class. Tests are easy as long as you memorize the study guide. Boosts your grade if you talk in class, but doesn't appreciate people going against her views.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: REL11
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Turner is a kind woman and definitely passionate about the topics that she teaches; her class is an easy A as long as you pay attention in class and kind of understand the reading. However, her lectures are dry and boring, so it is pretty hard to stay focused. She is incredibly disorganized, and will take over a month to get grades back.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: REL221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Turner is a very nice professor! Her lectures can sometimes be a bit dry, but for the most part the class is pretty easy. She sometimes puts homework up the night before its due, but as long as you skim it, you'll be fine. Her exams are easy if you memorize and study the study guides. Easy A for sure.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: REL220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

While the class was interesting, she's very scattered. She puts up the homework the night before and it could be something as long as 3 one-hour long videos. She sometimes gives you a study guide, but the test usually are way more specific and are hard to follow. For lectures, she just reads the slides so it can get pretty dry.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: REL221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Turner was pretty unorganized and sometimes doesn't answer emails but overall was a quality professor. She lets you know before you have a quiz over the reading and gives you study guide before mid-term and the final. Everything was straightforward and relatively easy.

Rating # 6

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Took Genesis of Faith Seminar with her, and if you get placed in it, GET OUT. The class is horribly boring and she is very sarcastic and condescending with you if you don't share her views of radical feminism. The essay prompts are incredibly vague and no matter how much work I put into them, I receive the same grade on everything I turned in.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: FYS0000
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I took Genesis of Faith with her. The class was definitely interesting, but she spent three weeks on Hagar - super feminist and it shows! She's still a genuinely good teacher, but a slow grader.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: REL101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Since when is Introduction to Religion all about how the Bible is wrong? Whole course was spent on refuting what is in the Bible. I didn't enjoy hearing all these liberal theories about how it contains contradictions and how Jesus was not God. Not what i signed up for. And she does not like Bob Jones. She said some harsh things about that school.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: REL230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Religion in America is an amazing class. Although the lectures aren't very exciting, the material Dr. Turner presents is very interesting. She is also very willing to assist you in any way possible. I highly recommend Dr. Turner.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: REL230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

boring

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: REL220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Introduction to Judaism was GREAT. It really got me thinking about my own faith and the relationship between Jews and the Modern Western (Christian) World. She is a slow grader, and there are few assignments, but she makes that clear at the beginning of the course. Do the reading and show up to class and you will learn lots and score a high grade!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: REL141
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

SO disorganized, very slow grader, few assignments, and some reading. Because she grades papers so slowly she gives a lot of extensions on assignments and she's a pretty easy grader. Quizzes can be obnoxiously detailed, but if you do OK on the papers you will be fine. I don't recommend this class, but it's a pretty easy A if you can stay awake.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: REL114
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH TURNER!!!! first of all i guess it was at 8:30 but still... Dr Turner is really nice, but she never puts up assignments when they are needed and her essay topics are so vague the essays are very difficult to write. Class was interesting most of the time so that was good but I dreaded going to class most days

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: REL230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Only take this class if you are interested in writing essays with vague prompts, but not matter what you write, you never write what she wants, if you enjoy taking quizzes that most of the time you have no idea what she is asking because the question doesn't make sense. Worst professor I have had at Furman.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: REL141
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

take this class if you enjoy having your daily assignments given to you at 5pm the night before. this is a regular occurrence of hers. also, take this class if you love extremely vague essay topics, such as "write a 3-7pg. paper on anything pertaining to history and religion." and then have her tell you "this is not what i was looking for" spacy oa

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: REL141
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I was looking forward to this class but ended up disappointed. Disorganized, lectures not cohesive, requires a LOT of class participation. Vague assignments and subjective grading. SPEAK up in class. With an overall 3.9 GPA, obviously I am willing to work hard for a good grade, but I wasn't going to "suck up" and my grade reflected that.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: REL141
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The absolute worst teacher at Furman. She gives annoying daily assignments, quizzes, and extremely vague essays. She makes me never want to give a dime to Furman. STAY AWAY!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: REL121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She was very condescending to anyone who did not share her views. I was not a fan of her views, and felt dumb whenever I would voice my opinions.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: REL141
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I love Dr. Turner. Her class really got me to want to be a religion major at Furman. Granted, she is somewhat disorganized, but I see her passion for the subject. Text needs editing, I think certain sections could have been given more weight, but I really enjoyed the class.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: REL141
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The material is very interesting. Turner is nice but she is very hard follow at times. ALOT of reading