Karin Zipf - East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Professor: Karin Zipf

Department: History

College: East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Online textbook quizzes, online timed tests,if u dont like group projects, dont take this class. Map project is 25%. Lectures and attendance policy. She is nice.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Excellent. Nice.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I love history, but this class made me hate history. I dreaded coming to this class, she treats her students like they're in middle school and is hella condescending. Everythings open book but her tests are all super hard and it doesn't help having notes. Her lectures are also irrelevant. The final is a group project that makes absolutely no sense.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Worse teacher I ever had. Like seriously, I really had to drop this class. A lot of people was unaware of these quizzes that we were suppose to be taking because she wasn't announcing whenever we had one , so a lot of people received zeros for them because she didn't let us make them up. Even though her tests are open book they are still not easy.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Talking lectures. Requires you to take notes. Doesn't give out notes or PowerPoint. Text quizzes. Blackboard online exams. Mapping group project. Really nice TA.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: D+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Zipf is a very nice woman, but her classes are terrible. She is a verbal teacher and there are no power-points. Her blackboard exams are really hard. A lot of the people n my class hardly passed. One good thing was, at the end of the grading period she changed around her grading % to make everyone have a higher grade.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Map project was cray. Best part of the class. Online multiple choice tests hard. not like high school.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

There is way too much reading in this class. Lecture every day. It's too hard. I made As in high school History and im asking a C in this class.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Zipf seems like she would be fun to hang out with outside of class, but her lectures are monotonous and long and the few quizzes that count for most of your grade are questions that are unrelated to class info and have very vague answers that will end up biting you big time if you happen to choose wrong. Take another prof if you have the choice

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The only upside is her final is a group project. This professor barely knows what shes doing.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Very feminist and PC, but knows her stuff.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She's extremely smart but her lectures are all over the place, the online homework has nothing to do with the exams, and the exams are truly the worst thing in the entire world. Don't take this class if you aren't prepared to fail.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Her lectures are solely talking which is very hard to follow along with. 10 online Pearson quizzes which are easy. 3 timed blackboard quizzes which are tough and mainly the going to the source book which is very hard to understand. Final is a group project story map. I would not recommend her.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I enjoy her class. She can be a bit quirky, but not too bad. You do have to read the textbook, but the online quizzes are very easy and simple to understand.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Not quality. She is random during her lectures, and the online assignments do not match up at all with what she says in class. She does give out study guides for tests though which is helpful. I recommend not taking any notes at her lectures, just make sure you do the online stuff. The final is a group project that sucks.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: D
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Let's put it this way; the first two days of class she told us about her trip to OBX and showed a powerpoint of the wildlife. Then another couple of days she decided to bring in her violin, play it and sing. She gives you VERY hard tests that are graduate level because she is a graduate level professor. She should not be teaching HIST 1050 at all.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: HIS1050
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Great person, not the best teacher!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

HARD. She only gives you two tests and these impossible online pearson assignments that do not pertain to the class at all. You have to buy THREE textbooks and an online code. She is very interesting and does know what she is talking about, but she is horrible at teaching in order for the students to excel on her exams. No one knew how to pass it.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: 1050
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Extremely intelligent woman. Almost radiates intelligence. I would NOT recommend this class to someone who isn't very interested in history. However, should you have an interest, Dr. Zipf is extremely passionate about what she teaches and what she says is interesting. Lectures are 95% oral. Not a class for those who don't like readingwriting.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: HIST1050
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She is a very intelligent woman. She shouldn't be allowed to teach lower level classes because she is so smart and doesn't understand that not everyone is a history major. Online quizzes are insanely hard! 2 exams, both are way to hard to count for so much, required ID terms and an essay. She is great to listen too but hard to learn anything from