Elizabeth Sanders - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Professor: Elizabeth Sanders

Department: Political Science

College: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: GOVT3161
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I had her for The American Presidency FA2018 and had a great experience. She assigns too much reading, but I did barely any of it and did just fine from listening to the lectures. She does go on tangents a lot, but they're interesting and don't make the lectures hard to follow. The final isn't hard, and she gives you past finals to study from.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: GOV316
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Worst class ever taken. Really regret it. Her class is a disaster, very not organized. She goes on tangent all the time. Not timely. Extremely hard to concentrate so it would be really hard for you to study for her exams.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: GOVT4990
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Professor Sanders is a great professor in helping anyone doing serious research. She loves her students a lot and even serves as their research assistant. Maybe because the class I'm having with her is the honors seminar, and that's why my experience is different from other people's, but I think people should not make comments that are too personal

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: GOVT6121
• 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:

Sanders is a sea of knowledge. Discussion has no direction. Kinda annoying if you like structure but can be interesting. She's not timely at all. A lot of reading but most is intriguing & informative. Grading is fair and based on essays. No exams. Gives a lot of feedback to assist writing. Very nice lady. Considering taking another course w/her.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: GOV450
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Sanders has great stories, and I would love to sit down and have a beer and listen to her talk, but her class is a nightmare if you want any organization. She is a tough grader, which is fine, but she is very unclear about her assignments. Her directions are often contradictory as well. Her class will give you a massive headache.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HIST3021
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She is a lovely person, and clearly cares about the subject matter, but her lectures are scattered, she assigns massive amounts of readings, many of which are as disorganized as her lectures, and she grades pretty hard. Sections are awkward experiences where no one is willing to talk because none of us actually know what is going on in class.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: GVT316
• 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:

This class was timely and fascinating. Sanders does go off on tangents, but since the main one was using the theories we were discussing to analyze the presidential election and economic crisis, I was interested. Be sure to study for the tests, though, the TA was really picky.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: GOVT316
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Sanders seems like the type of aging hippie feminist who's still angry that her husband left her 30 yrs ago. She loves her own voice, so assignments come only from lectures, & she doesn't care whether you read or understand the material, so long as you can regurgitate minute, irrelevant details that prove you actually attended her useless class.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: REDBUDWOODS
• 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:

This class was supposed to be about social movements, but Prof. Sanders can't go 5 minutes without discussing how she was up in the trees. Clearly missing her hippie days. She took a subject that was supposed to be really interesting and made it boring. Avoid her.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: GOVT414
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Utterly unclear, cannot speak without going on a tangent, and did not see a single grade before the class was over. Avoid at all costs.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: GOV316
• 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:

Lectures are interesting if you can stay awake through her soft and dull voice. Papers are graded somewhat harsher than most gov classes,but the midterm and final are pretty easy if you do at least some of the reading and go to some classes. Readings are interesting if subject is your cup of tea.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: GOVT316
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Sanders was a solid professor this semester. As mentioned before, she does go off on tangents in lecture, but they are usually very interesting and relevant to the course in some way. Most interesting government class i've taken at Cornell.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: GOVT316
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Perhaps one of the worst professors in the department, and goes off topic all the time.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: GOVT683
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Sanders is one of the most incompetent teachers I've ever met. Constantly talks about irrelevant things and is averse to intelligent (i.e. non-marxist) debate or social science based on data instead of ideology. Not a serious scholar.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: GOVT302
• 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 interesting, both the lectures and the texts (you can skip reading her book though). The tests yield no surprises if you study from the website. Sanders grades papers pretty harshly though, so either revise them well, or make sure you ace her tests.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: GOVT683
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

should not have been teaching foreign policy bcs she does not have a firm enough grasp of the field. rambled distractedly and wasted our time. utterly unimpressive. nice enough, but who cares when the class itself sucks.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: GOV603
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

very sweet person, obsessed with stories about social science and averse to argumentation or theory or data or anything that is not a long account of how some movement succeeded.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: GOVT302
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Prof. Sanders is an extremely sweet woman. She is very intelligent and her comments are thought provoking. However, i would say that her lectures are often difficult to follow.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: GOVT316
• 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:

Excellent lecturer. Organized and has a very large pool of knowledge to draw from. Helpful and appropriate.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: GOVT316
• 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:

She's an awesome lecturer. She goes off topic sometimes, but most of the time it's enjoyable (esp. a Bush bash). She talks like she knows the presidents personally, and she's extremely helpful.