Christine Palmer - University of California Berkeley

Professor: Christine Palmer

Department: American Studies

College: University of California Berkeley

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: AMERST10
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Professor Palmer stands out as the best professor I ever had in any of my colleges. She helped me to become a better human being and educator for my adult students who live with disability. Caring, humorous, and she will totally expect your best at all times!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: AMST10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very knowledgeable and passionate about what she teaches, but can also be quite passive aggressive, snappy, and stuck up. If you can handle that, I think she's worthwhile, but her attitude was off putting to me and made it hard for me to work with her.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: AMST10H110191
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Palmer's lectures are epic,awe-inspiring, and never a waist of time. What's more, the professor peels back the past to get to the real core of things that many of us take for granted in society. Best of all, here is a professor at CAL that has more concern for her students (personal and academic) success, than meeting UC bureaucratic BS.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: AS102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Palmer is intimidating at first, but if you give her a chance and respect, she will give it back. I ended up taking her for several courses. Attend all lectures, read as much as you can, go to her office hours, and ask questions. She is an intelligent woman that you may not always understand, but you will learn a great deal if you try!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: AS101
• 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:

Palmer is not only a clever academic - Berkeley has plenty of those - but a good teacher; she manages to engage her students in discussion even in lecture settings, and coaches her students in producing clearer thoughts and better papers than they have before. Unless you are exceptionally lazy, it is difficult to do poorly under her instruction.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: AMST10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Palmer's classes are not for those who want to cruise by. However, if you apply yourself and have an open mind, her classes are amazing. Plus she's wicked smart! As for comments that she's rude or unhelpful, I wonder whether those individuals actually met with her, as I found her to be very approachable and a strong advocate for students.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: AMST10
• 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:

Kinda difficult to work with. Her pilots are difficult

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: AMERST10
• 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: Mandatory

Comment:

Just Stay away!!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: AMERST10
• 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: Mandatory

Comment:

What is our educational system coming to?

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: AMERST10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This lady thinks that she is the all knowing God. She acts like she is entitles to the respect of al her students. I never even spoke to the lady and I could even see that. Her material is way more complicated than it should be. Her instructions are really wordy and confusing.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: AMERST10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She can be very ignorant. Not very nice in person either. Her concepts are so much more simple when another student explains them than when she does.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: AMST10
• 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:

Very rude in person and unclear in lecture.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: AMST10
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This professor seems really cool in lecture but she is really very rude when speaking to her in person. She talks down to you and gets frustrated with you if you make a mistake that she has come across many times before with others. She makes her class material more complicated than it should be and therefore the class is HARD.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: AS101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Mrs. Palmer is brilliant! This class changed the way I look at the world(seriously). The class is not easy and demanding, but the amount of knowledge gained is incredible.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: AMST101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Prof. Palmer has a mind sharp as a knife, but also has a delighful sense of humor!! She is as tough on herself as she is on her students and readily admits to any mistakes of her own...best teacher I had at Cal!!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: AS101
• 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:

Professor Palmer is an alright professor as long as you keep up with the readings and follow along with the lectures. Do not just sit in class on your laptop because she tends to judge those whom she thinks are not paying attention in my opinion when grading papers. Overall her AS 101 class on the Harlem Ren. was nothing special.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: AMST102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

One of the few classes that was intellectually engaging and exciting. Dr. Palmer has an amazing voice as well. If you want to take a class that will get you thinking and wanting to stay up all night talking about ideas, take one of her classes.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: AMST101
• 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:

Professor Palmer shows she really cares about her subject and really wants her students to learn. She does a great job helping the student make the grade. She's fab!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: AMER195
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Amazing, supportive professor. Wish I would have found her before my last semester...

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: AS101
• 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:

During lecture I googled some of the things she told us and she often got important facts, like names and dates, wrong. I am amazed she is still employed. If you are interested in American culture, you are way better off in a history course with a competent instructor. To top it off, she is egotistical and was rude to me in office hours.