Melissa Deller - University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Professor: Melissa Deller

Department: TBD

College: University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: SOC276
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Deller is wonderful! Besides being a very nice and caring person she is absolutely hilarious. She puts 100% into her lectures. The tests are based heavily on the class notes. Participate in class and the time will fly by! The text, which she is one of the authors, is rather thick, but it is manageable.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: GEN130
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Deller is very disorganized. This class has literally been the death of me this semester. She cancelled class both times one week then expecting us to know information about the class just from reading the book. She sucks at answering emails, and blames a lot of her canvas problems on her computer, which is supposedly always fried or broken. bad.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: GENED130
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Like most of the reviews state, she is a nice enough lady. However, she is very disorganized on canvas. The average test score for our first exam was a D+ if that tells you something! On final day she kept postponing the time it would open because she was still making it! This course was the biggest headache of my semester and its a GENED! BEWARE!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: SOC276
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

A very nice lady once you get to know her. Passionate about what she teaches. Despite these things she is a terrible professor, especially taking her online. She is very unorganized and her lack of ability to navigate canvas caused me to drop a letter grade. She does everything last minute and fails to take responsibility for poor communication.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: SOC379
• Grade Received: D-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Professor Deller is the most disorganized professor I have ever taken. As a senior, I have always gotten A's & B's in my classes & have been on the Dean's list. I received a D- with Professor Deller, proving that she is terrible. She doesn't review her study guides, leaving interpretation for wrong answers, doesn't put grades in & never emails back

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: SOC373
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Do not take. She rarely answers emails, shes lazy, and should not be a professor

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: GEN130
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Melissa Deller is a nice person but not a good professor. Her lectures make no sense at times and doesn't really teach you about the subject. She has a lot of personal experiences she tries to use as examples but they aren't helpful. Her quizzes are based on the lectures and she makes them kind of difficult. I would not recommend taking her class.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: SOC276
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She gives a lot of extra credit opportunities but her quizzes are hard. Even if you read the notes and book, the quizzes are still difficult to get a good grade on. She also struggles with the online aspect of class.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: GENED130
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

she is a good teacher! she tried to make a gened class as good as she can.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CRIM101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

great professor, passionate about the subject, if you put in the effort she will bend over backwards to help

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: SOC276
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Deller is very chill teacher. She is a little bit disorganized, but doesn't ask students for much. 3 quizzes for most of the grade, a couple assignments to turn in, and some credit for showing up. Most of the material are definitions and important cases to remember. She likes to joke and get our feedback on criminology laws and events. Interesting

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: SOC276
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

If you attend classes, read textbook, and study hard for exams, you can get A. She is really nice and caring person, so if you think youre gonna get bad grades, then you should go to her office and talk to her. She will help you.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: GENED130
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Deller was alright in terms of personality, but her grading and test structure causes headaches. Your grade is based mostly on tests, outside of a few small assignments, but the tests are the problem. She doesn't give study guides, and a lot of the test questions refer to obscure parts of one lecture, like the name of a girl in an irrelevant story.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: GENED130
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

If you're in the honors class, definitely take Deller. It's a super easy class and still provides you with the information. Your main grade is from a big partner presentation. Was a good semester, I'd definitely recommend this class IF you take the honors version. Deller is super chill and funny. She gets to know her students personally and is nice

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: INTRAUNV104
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

We didn't really do anything in this class, it was an easy 1 credit class. Deller is super chill and funny and is a great choice to lead the Honors Learning Community. Definitely a cool person.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: GEN130
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Even if you attend class, the things on the test were never mentioned or in the book. Seriously, she even quoted before I took this last test that she didn't even know some questions on there. ITs frustrating for someone who attends class and takes the best notes in class everyday (she told me that personally). So yeah, prepare to fail. My first C.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CRIM193
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Melissa D. is one of the worst professors I've ever had. She is SUPER disorganized, unclear with the material she was hired to teach, unfriendly, difficult to work with, and she has an attitude. When first having her as a professor, she seemed nice, but over time she became worse and worse. She wasn't passionate about the material and it was hard.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: SOC276
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Deller is very knowledgeable about the field of Criminology. She works very hard to make her lectures interesting. Her lectures alert you to what to focus on for the tests. Participate in class and she will delighted. I read the text, took good notes, actually studies for the tests and did fantastic in the class. This was my 2nd class with her.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: GEN130
• Grade Received: D-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Deller is extremely unorganized. Exams are impossible even if you study a ton. I am a good student and I got a C in her class. She gets very off topic during lectures and does not cover the material for the exams.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: SOC379
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

so disorganized, i think she just randomly gives you grades for homework because the assignments are the same week by week and I got a huge range of grades for the same work. didn't do well on the exams even tho i went to every class and studied a lot. do not take this professor bc you'll get a bad grade