Yes, she's a tough grader. Yes, she assigns a lot of reading. But, we should show her compassion, too. She has had a difficult life (divorce) and that might be why she is the way that she is. You cannot judge a person until you have walked in their shoes. Perhaps she means well and wants us to learn and she feels the hard way is the best way.

She is my favorite IR professor by far. Civil wars is definitely not an easy A but you will learn so much. She is also very sweet and helpful in her office hours.

Liked her but unfair grading

I took Civil War with Professor Coggins and it was great. One of the most relevant classes for international relations, with interesting readings and freedom in essays to apply concepts to what mattered to you individually. If you put in effort to learn as a student, you will be successful in this class. Was overall impressed by her teaching.

I honestly loved Prof Coggins, her lectures were really interesting and even though we had to miss a few weeks because of jury duty i learned so much. Its a hard class and you will have to work for the A but her midterm and final are really straightforward. The papers were tough BUT go see your TA!!!!!!!!!!!

She is one of the worst professors I've had. We covered some interesting materials in the class, but I would not retake her course. She did not provide clear grading rubrics for the papers we had to write, and I did not know my grade towards the end of the quarter. Also, she gave poor-quality feedback on our papers.