Absolutely, under no circumstance, should you take any class with coggins. Makes an interesting class unbearable and impossible tests. Don't do it, take it at CC instead.
Never had a lazier professor in my entire life. Has terrible lecture slides, sometimes a whole lecture is spoken with a slide with just a title. Figure it out coggins this is a terrible style of teaching no wonder 120 people failed the first midterm in this intro class.
coggins, girl. just admit that you messed up and make us a study guide. clearly your methods aren't working
Read reviews prior to taking this class and didnt listen to the warnings. So I am telling you now, DO NOT TAKE PS7 W HER. Wildly unclear on how to succeed bc of her refusal of clarifying anything, tangent filled lectures, and the most vague unhelpful slides. For those that need 2b taught entry level IR, you will not get the education you need here
278 Students, 178 failed. 0 A+, 4 A's, 6 A-'s. Places the blame for that on students. If 65% of your class fails, you have failed at the most fundamental part of your job, which is to teach. Then to turn around to place the blame blame on your students is honestly shameful. If you need to take this, I would recommend taking it at a CC online.
f you have 300 students in your class and 120 of them average an F on the midterm while only 4 manage an A, then the issue isn't the students, it's the professor. This class is a disaster. If you ask for clarification, expect a condescending response or none at all. She'd rather fail students than teach them. Avoid this class at all costs!
120 students failed her midterm and in her monkey brain it's because none of them were prepared instead of entertaining the possibility that it has to do with her inability to teach
coggins is actually an awful professor. She is not interested in helping students learn the material. Her slides often have few to no words with random pictures on them completely unrelated to the topic. She does not tell students what to prepare for on the midterms, then blames them when the class does poorly. She should not be allowed to teach.
Awful. It's beyond reasoning that a professor could treat their students this way, putting all the blame on the highest grade by a wide margin being an F on the students, when the common denominator all quarter has been the professor herself. Coggins is an absolute disgrace.
Prof Coggins literally makes the test so tricky and specific yet gives slides with 2 lines per slide in lecture and goes off tangents making it so hard to know what to actually study for. 120 got an F and instead of tryin to reevaluate her teaching style she used the same ol excuse "you guys aren't working hard enough"
She literally reads her lectures based off a script she wrote. Like even down to the jokes. A majority of kids in the class, i think over a hundred, got Fs on her midterm but she still blamed us for not paying attention. She did the same thing with her quiz, and had to make it extra credit because of how bad people did. Lectures super unengaging.
Felt like I had to teach most the content to myself. Wording on tests is confusing. Does a bunch of pop quizzes that aren't even really helpful to your understanding of the content. Only 4 students out of the 300 in the class got an A on the midterm, showing a clear widespread problem, yet she simply blamed students for not studying enough.
120 students (out of the 300 in the class) got an F on the midterm and she blamed us for not paying attention in lecture and not working hard enough instead of taking some accountability for the fact that maybe... just maybe.. she should reevalute her teaching/test if that many people are failing...
Many pop quizzes, a lot of reading, rambles through lectures, goes through slides far too quickly, blames poor grades on students, average midterm grade of 60%.
She does not care about her students and just throws you off the deep end of the pool. She could do so much more to help her students succeed and simply doesn't, she wouldn't even provide a study guide or any direction on the midterm and then is surprised when the midterm average is 62%.
Objectively a bad professor. Would often go off on tangents, slides unclear. Sometimes on her slides she would have a black background with dark green writing. Also said masculinity was an "inherently toxic trait." Do not take.
Readings were fine - good, actually, and didn't have problem w/lecture slides. But, rude, arrogant, & condescending. Laughed at me for asking a question. Not an expert, sorry - taking a basic class b/c I DON'T know something. Sorry, Princess.
Prof. Coggins is a good professor but the class is very vague so attending lectures matters. She has no slides and sometimes the material is not very clear because of this. A lot of people are saying there's a lot of weekly readings, I actually found the readings pretty light. Overall I enjoyed the class and did not find it too hard
This class was way harder then it should have been. There was no structure and no communication between her and the TAs so it was super confusing all the time. The readings are very hard to understanding and we never went over them. She is very nice and passionate about what she does but the way she teaches makes it hard to grasp the material.
No structure to the class, too many readings, and no help whatsoever with what to study for the midterms.Slides are blank so everything is said and talks too fast, blink and you'll miss it. Only positive thing was TA's tried to help as much as they were allowed.AVOID taking this class with her if you can!
Don't even THINK of taking PS7 with Coggins. One of the worst professors I've had at UCSB. Her lectures are all over the place and she only puts one or two sentences per slide (doesn't post presenter notes). Graded only on participation, 2 midterms (tricky, specific questions), & a final paper. Weekly readings are so long and don't make any sense.
Do not suggest taking this class, the professor does not have lecture slides or study guides. Long poly sci readings every week without clear explanations.
Professor Coggins is great. She is really caring and likes what she teaches. She is super understanding during Covid and has great async lectures that you can tell she is interested in teaching us. There is participation on Nectir, no zooms. Two midterms and a paper that you have the whole quarter to write. Would definitely take again!!
Genuinely one of the worst classes I've taken. We had a texting group chat for our "discussions" which made it super difficult to follow along and her lectures were boring and hard to follow. International relations is such an interesting topic but this class made me hate it.
