This class is the biggest waste of time. For a lower division, you have a final project, final essay, AND final exam (on every reading shes given...). For that final exam, you need to memorize the author's full names, background (ie. where they studied, accomplishments, etc. ), and the year that their work was published. Its so ridiculous.

Very passionate about her lectures, but they weren't applicable. Her ability to pick TA's is awful, the worst i've had on campus. They're incompetent w/ superiority complexes, the way they are grading for lower div classes. Good luck getting your grades back until 2 days before final grades are due in gold, and the quarter is long over!

Shes passionate about the material but the course itself is all over the place. Your grade is based on a project that you work on the whole quarter but the intial proposal wasnt graded until week 6 so you only get 2 weeks until presentations. The lectures are mainly her reading from her notes. Its not hard to get a good grade but its painful.

Painful doesn't begin to describe it. Dull slides, tiny text, and the professor reads directly from her notes, tossing in needless jargon. One in-class exam, the rest projects. Each lecture was excruciating.

Martin is a nice enough person, but her course content is out of touch. Her ENVS 3 is simple, just a lot of busy work, but her ENVS 40 class is completely nonsensical. It's supposedly critical thinking, but the final is a subjective mess that's barely related. It's fine if you're just taking a gen ed, but I'd avoid her to save your braincells.

Project based, only a few assignments that are based on the project and a final essay about the project. This class is as difficult as you make the project, so do an easy one, trust. Professor stopped uploading lecture slides halfway through, so take notes about the types of evidence. Everything she says you should take notes about is irrelevant.