Sally Hastings - Purdue University - West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN

Professor: Sally Hastings

Department: History

College: Purdue University - West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: HIST359
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This professor was amazing. There is a quiz over the reading everyday, but she only takes the top ten quizzes for grades. Her lectures are interesting, and the readings aren't usually unreasonable. On journals and papers she gives very good feedback and sometimes a chance to make the papers better.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: HIST344
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She is a wonderful, kind, extremely intelligent person. Her policy is that honesty is always the best policy, and she always has time for her students.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Pretty easy. Essay tests, but she gives you the possible questions, so you know what's coming. Power points pretty much replace any reading you'd need to do...

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• 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:

Older, but if you have half an interest in the class, she will hold your attention. Exams are reasonable, mostly from lecture. If you go to her office hours or ask her for help, you find she has a great sense of humor. I would take another class with her no question.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: HIST344
• 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 really enjoyed her lectures. Despite her age, she made some average to good powerpoints, and she always could hold my interest, even through a power hour. Unlike a lot of professors, she always seemed aware that we all have 12 other hours of class every week, and assigned reasonable amounts of work.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Hastings is by far one of the best professors I've ever had. She was extremely friendly, and she always made time to help students outside of class. I took a few of her courses while at Purdue, and while the lectures could be a bit dry, she was very easy to follow. If you do poorly in one of her classes, it's not her fault.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She was okay. Make sure you bring your laptop to class and download the PowerPoints she puts up on Blackboard so you can follow along and type notes on PowerPoint below the sign. Also, you do not need to buy the book for this class. As long as you save all the PowerPoints and study from them, you will pretty much ace the tests.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: HIS241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

her lectures are quite boring and sometimes eventhough she tried to make things sound fun, but her statements sometimes just rn't that interesting at all...

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: HIST241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Nice and knowledgeable. Does have daily attendance exercises, though, so attendance is more or less mandatory.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: HIST344
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Amazing lecturer, very helpful and enthusiastic. Always willing to take an interest in students' concerns and help out. I didn't find her policies strict at all, maybe because I never really wanted to skip her class. Very enjoyable and informative. I like that she puts her lectures online so that if you don't catch something, you can look it up

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I liked Professor Hastings a lot, but she was strict about her class and its requirements (including attendance & people leaving in the middle of the class). The major problem I had was that it was very hard to take notes since she went too quickly on many of the slides in her presentations. She is also quite long winded while lecturing.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• 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:

Very helpful professor and TA's. The course starts out easy and gets more difficult toward the end of the semester. Fun class today take!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: HIST241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Fairly easy to get an A if you study the notes and pay attention in class. I recommend the help session a lot since it's almost a go-over of the exam.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: EASTASIA
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Clear notes and lecture. Has an obvious bias in her teachings though.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: HIST240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

about the worst lecturer ever

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: HIST343
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

A fabulous professor. I always felt a strong desire to attend her classes because she gave excellent lectures and made things interesting. Her papers and tests were very fair and evenly spaced.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: HIST344
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very cheerful in class. Always willing to help a student outside of class. Fair amount of work. I liked her a lot.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: HIST241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Good professor. Gives clear lectures and study guides to help before the exam. Gives reasonable amount of papers.