She lectures well, but apart from that, she is a mean-spirited and discriminatory person who will lowball your grade out of personal contempt for you. She will also penalise you for her own sloppiness in communicating (or failing to communicate) requirements for assignments. She's reptilian in her coldness and drips with disdain for her students.

I don't think she is even trying to teach. All homework from week 1 are graded after the final. The lecture is poorly structured and do not complement the readings. The final is a "research proposal for graduate grant". You get absolutely zero feedbacks on any assignment. Also, she never respond to any emails?

Based on the reviews on here, I was expecting to hate this class, but I loved it. Professor Brown is super knowledgeable in this field and her lectures are amazing. The grading is quite hard on the exams, but it's balanced out by the points you receive on the homework assignment, which are easy to get a good grade on, and attendance.

AVOID THIS CLASS IF YOU'RE ABLE TO. Tests are so difficult. Way too much information and way too complicated test questions. She wants you to work the answers backwards, go from DCBA and not A-B-C-D, it requires you to basically decode. Lecture notes do not help much. Super dense lectures, lots of note-taking and will not help much with tests.

Just the absolute worst. So unpleasant, I feel for any graduate or undergraduate that has to interact with her on a daily basis. Avoid her general proximity if at all possible.

Professor Brown is incredibly knowledgeable in her field and that is reflected in the class content. However, her exams are often confusing and only pertain to some of the most complex and difficult concepts. It's an interesting class but also a difficult one. There is a substantial curve though. It took me from a B+ to and A+.