Rosemary Taylor - Tufts University, Medford, MA

Professor: Rosemary Taylor

Department: Sociology

College: Tufts University, Medford, MA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: SOC186
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Prof. Taylor gets a bad rap for being a really wonderful teacher who designs her classes (this seminar especially) to push her students. Not an easy A, but you will learn a ton! She's super caring, and will sit with you out of class until you fully understand the concepts. She's absolutely brilliant, don't pass up the chance to learn from her.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: HUA101
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She's very friendly and easy to talk to but very terrible at grading and constantly late to class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: SOC0108
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The reading for this class is very excessive. Lectures were unorganized and all over the place, and also very dry. She grades very harshly and it takes her months to hand back grading reports. She is very difficult to communicate with outside of class. She if often late to class and lectures begin 10 minutes or so after the start of class time.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CH108
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Do not take epidemics. Professor Taylor assigns an excessive amount of reading and gives little direction on the project. Exams are take home, but pretty difficult- if you haven't covered every little aspect of the huge amount of assigned material you won't get a good grade.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CH108
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She assigns an unreasonable amount of irrelevant reading, which is then repeated in lecture. It makes going to class a waste of time, but she grades heavily on participation. She was at least 5-15 mins late + 5-10 mins of setup every class. The tests required citation of specific texts with no notes. Extremely work-heavy at the end of the semester.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CH186
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Super disorganized (once she posted several hundred pages of reading 23 hours before the response paper was due), the work load jumped from manageable to unrealistic amounts. I'm a CH major and it was nothing like other CH classes I've taken- very theory based, more like IR work. Worst class professor I've had at Tufts and I'm a senior

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: AIDS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She's not an easy grader. She expects a lot of her students. But, if you demonstrate interest, keep up, and go to her for help, she's a really great professor.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: SOC0108
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She's friendly but super unorganized and is always late to class. I found the video for the class to be my main source of information and really enjoyed them. She assigns a lot of reading most of which I didn't feel was necessary.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: SOC108
• 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:

Worst prof I have ever had. The only positive thing about this course is that you fulfill your World Civ requirement, but there are better ways to do that. She is unhelpful, disorganized and the readings in no way pretain to the subject. It is extremely boring too. Don't take Epidemics!!!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: SOC108
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This class was such a disappointment. Prof. Taylor has moments when she is entertaining and interesting, but they are few and far between. Her lectures are painfully disorganized and we were never where the syllabus suggested we should be. There was a lot of reading (a LOT) and though it was great material, students can't be expected to read all

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: SOC01
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

worst professor ever

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CH108
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Her lectures were all over the place and after class I was never quite sure what she wanted us to get out of them. There were a lot of readings but they were usually good and the movies were really good too. Not the best teacher because she's so vague but she wants everyone to do well, she just doesn't help the students achieve that goal.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: SOC186
• 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 honestly say there was nothing good about Professor Taylor or her course, which is a shame because she teachings classes that would otherwise be fascinating. She was disorganized and boring, and assigned unrealistic amounts of work that were often irrelevant to the class. Worst professor I've had at Tufts, from what I hear most others agree.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: SOC102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This class being a field research stats one was difficult enough. Add her misdirection and disorganization and you feel overwhelmed to say the least. She was helpful in office hrs but who has the time to go each time? That is what class is for! She kept insisting on my taking an incomplete when I said I was confused but it was her who was incomplete!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: SOC103
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

really smart professor!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: EPIDEMICS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

very disorganized with her lectures and thoughts in general. Goes off on tangents, and never has a clear direction when expressing her ideas.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: SOC108
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She is disorganized, but very helpful and reasonable, and knows that she tends to be scatterbrained.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: SOC108
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Some lectures are well structured but most of the time she doesn't have a clear direction. Very willing to talk outside of class, really into her research, but not an enthralling speaker.