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Robert Brame CCJS450 Anonymous 05/14/2024	Professor Brame was nice and seemed to care about his students but I would not take him again. We only had 3 exams and one paper for the whole class so your overall grade really mattered on what you got. For exams he also only had 30 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer, both parts worth 50% each. If you messed up on one short answer you lost 10 points. He also had specific ways for everyone to write the paper and it was recommended you meet with him a couple times to figure out how to calculate data for the paper. It was hard to ask him questions because sometimes he would come off as annoyed in office hours and I still did not understand what he was trying to say.
Jessica Morabito CCJS450 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/21/2023	Overall, the class itself ONLINE is pretty straight forward if you watch the lectures, take notes, and do the readings. Although, if you are not a perfect student, I highly recommend taking this class with a different professor. She does not value her students well-being or learning at all. If you make a mistake, you will be penalized, some may be harsh. There are 3 exams, a few quizzes, 4 reflections, and 1 project throughout the whole semester. If you do poorly or miss 1 assignment, it will hurt your grade. The final was 50 questions and we had 1 minute to answer each question, it is open note but difficult to complete on time with confidence. As a 5th senior at UMD, she is by far the worst professor I've had. Again, easy class but if you want a professor who cares about her students, 10/10 recommend taking it in person with a different professor.
Jessica Morabito CCJS450 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2023	This was an online course, but it could be better. I like that she posts her lectures for the week on Panopto and you can take notes while she reads. I do not really like how she structures the class though. You can only take quizzes or write reflections on Fridays even if you have finished her lectures on Monday. And you can only take the quizzes and write reflections between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. It's just strange and I wish I could have just gotten everything for her class done in one day. But it really was not that difficult and I recommend.
Jessica Morabito CCJS450 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/07/2023	Giving two stars for courtesy. I took her online class and everything was pretty easy. The issue I actually have with her is the state project she had us do during midterms. The average grade for the project was a C, and that is because she was expecting us to give her specific and broad facts about certain things that she didn't even outline on the project rubric. If she said what parts she wanted specific information about and what she wanted to know in a broad sense, then there wouldn't be an average of a C for the state project. I also found it stupid even to do APA citations for a PowerPoint presentation but whatever. The biggest issue that doesn't involve myself, it involves another student. She sent them to the Office of Student Conduct because she thought that this student plagiarized, which the student didn't. Now this student has added stress for something that could have been addressed by deducting points. Her tests were easy, but it's only a minute per question. Anyways, take at your own risk.
Jessica Morabito CCJS450 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/07/2023	I had taken Professor Morabito's class last year, however I highly recommend for yall not to take her class. She is not compassionate to students, and referred a classmate of mine to the honor council for unfounded reasons. There are few opportunities to improve your grade, and I feel that she does not really care about her students. The work is not too difficult, but her policies make it harder to enjoy the course. She has zero tolerance policies for issues with technical issues with your computer, so if you have issues with that keep it in mind. Additionally, there are no study guides or information that can better help you prepare for the tests, and if you are taking the class on purpose its not open note or open book. One of the most unpleasant professors that I have taken so far, try to avoid her if you can
Justine Madoo CCJS450 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/07/2023	Dr. Madoo has to be my all-time favorite professor. This is the third class I have taken with her and cannot stress how awesome she is. Her lectures are super entertaining and she does not just strictly read off the slides. Juveniles are her particular interest where she has conducted research. I loved hearing her stories throughout the class. This class was 3 exams and 1 final. The exams were not cumulative and in person, but the final is cumulative and online. I always found the content directly from the slides.
Robert Brame CCJS450 Anonymous 05/03/2023	For this class, I had 4 exams and 4 3-page essays. As long as you stay on top of your assignments, you will have no problem passing this class. I barely touched the textbook aside from studying for tests and citing information for my essays. The main problem with this class I have is that the lectures can get incredibly boring (especially since my section was a once a week 2-and-a-half-hour-long class). I'm writing this review while sitting in his class because I'm just bored. The professor does care about his students and wants us to succeed but the class is just boring.
Jessica Morabito CCJS450 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/14/2021	She reads right from the slides (she does not post them), but take notes exactly like the slides because her questions do come directly from them. Every single grade in this class counts and does not allow for off-days. The quizzes cover a lot of material; she hints at stuff that could be on there, but there is so much content for each quiz where you have to memorize all of it for a 10 point quiz. She severely downplays the intensity, at the beginning of the course, making it seem very easy. The first exam was hard. It included over 30 theories that you had to know on top of other material which ended up being more memory-based rather than testing your actual understanding. If I am being honest, I remember little to none of those theories now. For the way that her grades are set up, I wish she would drop one of the quizzes or include additional extra credit. There was only one 5 points extra credit assignment. I think overall she is a nice person but not an effective teacher. A lot of her strict policies made her come off as unapproachable. Her classes become extremely boring because of her reading directly off the slides but could incorporate a lot of participation easily. I am not disappointed with my grade in the course, but I do think there is significant room for improvement for the structure of this course.
Jessica Morabito CCJS450 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/08/2021	If she offers you extra credit, DO IT without hesitation. She does not believe in extra credit, so if she offers you a way to do it, it will help your grade dramatically. I might be on track for an A- or B+ without the extra credit holding my grade. You obviously need to work hard to keep that extra credit from being a grade buffer for only a short amount of time, but if you keep the work up and study your notes (from lecture and the textbook), the extra credit will help tremendously.
Jessica Morabito CCJS450 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/08/2021	I ended up having a pretty good experience with professor Morabito. She was truly passionate about the course and wanted her students to succeed. She was very nice and always had discussions with us that related to topics surrounding the class. The one thing I did not love was that for the 5 quizzes, she gave us 5 really big things to study (usually 3 full lectures and 2 full chapters) for a 10 question quiz that usually covered 2-3 topics. While this did help for the exams, it was stressful to study for in the moment. She never tried to trick you though; what we learned would be verbatim on the quizzes and exams. The quizzes were more stressful than the exams but if you make a quizlet and study it a few times, as well as reading over your notes 1 or 2 times through, you will be fine.

Robert Brame
CCJS450

Anonymous
05/14/2024

Professor Brame was nice and seemed to care about his students but I would not take him again. We only had 3 exams and one paper for the whole class so your overall grade really mattered on what you got. For exams he also only had 30 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer, both parts worth 50% each. If you messed up on one short answer you lost 10 points. He also had specific ways for everyone to write the paper and it was recommended you meet with him a couple times to figure out how to calculate data for the paper. It was hard to ask him questions because sometimes he would come off as annoyed in office hours and I still did not understand what he was trying to say.

Jessica Morabito
CCJS450

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/21/2023

Overall, the class itself ONLINE is pretty straight forward if you watch the lectures, take notes, and do the readings. Although, if you are not a perfect student, I highly recommend taking this class with a different professor. She does not value her students well-being or learning at all. If you make a mistake, you will be penalized, some may be harsh. There are 3 exams, a few quizzes, 4 reflections, and 1 project throughout the whole semester. If you do poorly or miss 1 assignment, it will hurt your grade. The final was 50 questions and we had 1 minute to answer each question, it is open note but difficult to complete on time with confidence. As a 5th senior at UMD, she is by far the worst professor I've had. Again, easy class but if you want a professor who cares about her students, 10/10 recommend taking it in person with a different professor.

Jessica Morabito
CCJS450

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/14/2023

This was an online course, but it could be better. I like that she posts her lectures for the week on Panopto and you can take notes while she reads. I do not really like how she structures the class though. You can only take quizzes or write reflections on Fridays even if you have finished her lectures on Monday. And you can only take the quizzes and write reflections between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. It's just strange and I wish I could have just gotten everything for her class done in one day. But it really was not that difficult and I recommend.

Jessica Morabito
CCJS450

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/07/2023

Giving two stars for courtesy. I took her online class and everything was pretty easy. The issue I actually have with her is the state project she had us do during midterms. The average grade for the project was a C, and that is because she was expecting us to give her specific and broad facts about certain things that she didn't even outline on the project rubric. If she said what parts she wanted specific information about and what she wanted to know in a broad sense, then there wouldn't be an average of a C for the state project. I also found it stupid even to do APA citations for a PowerPoint presentation but whatever. The biggest issue that doesn't involve myself, it involves another student. She sent them to the Office of Student Conduct because she thought that this student plagiarized, which the student didn't. Now this student has added stress for something that could have been addressed by deducting points. Her tests were easy, but it's only a minute per question. Anyways, take at your own risk.

Jessica Morabito
CCJS450

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/07/2023

I had taken Professor Morabito's class last year, however I highly recommend for yall not to take her class. She is not compassionate to students, and referred a classmate of mine to the honor council for unfounded reasons. There are few opportunities to improve your grade, and I feel that she does not really care about her students. The work is not too difficult, but her policies make it harder to enjoy the course. She has zero tolerance policies for issues with technical issues with your computer, so if you have issues with that keep it in mind. Additionally, there are no study guides or information that can better help you prepare for the tests, and if you are taking the class on purpose its not open note or open book. One of the most unpleasant professors that I have taken so far, try to avoid her if you can

Justine Madoo
CCJS450

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/07/2023

Dr. Madoo has to be my all-time favorite professor. This is the third class I have taken with her and cannot stress how awesome she is. Her lectures are super entertaining and she does not just strictly read off the slides. Juveniles are her particular interest where she has conducted research. I loved hearing her stories throughout the class. This class was 3 exams and 1 final. The exams were not cumulative and in person, but the final is cumulative and online. I always found the content directly from the slides.

Robert Brame
CCJS450

Anonymous
05/03/2023

For this class, I had 4 exams and 4 3-page essays. As long as you stay on top of your assignments, you will have no problem passing this class. I barely touched the textbook aside from studying for tests and citing information for my essays. The main problem with this class I have is that the lectures can get incredibly boring (especially since my section was a once a week 2-and-a-half-hour-long class). I'm writing this review while sitting in his class because I'm just bored. The professor does care about his students and wants us to succeed but the class is just boring.

Jessica Morabito
CCJS450

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/14/2021

She reads right from the slides (she does not post them), but take notes exactly like the slides because her questions do come directly from them. Every single grade in this class counts and does not allow for off-days. The quizzes cover a lot of material; she hints at stuff that could be on there, but there is so much content for each quiz where you have to memorize all of it for a 10 point quiz. She severely downplays the intensity, at the beginning of the course, making it seem very easy. The first exam was hard. It included over 30 theories that you had to know on top of other material which ended up being more memory-based rather than testing your actual understanding. If I am being honest, I remember little to none of those theories now. For the way that her grades are set up, I wish she would drop one of the quizzes or include additional extra credit. There was only one 5 points extra credit assignment. I think overall she is a nice person but not an effective teacher. A lot of her strict policies made her come off as unapproachable. Her classes become extremely boring because of her reading directly off the slides but could incorporate a lot of participation easily. I am not disappointed with my grade in the course, but I do think there is significant room for improvement for the structure of this course.

Jessica Morabito
CCJS450

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/08/2021

If she offers you extra credit, DO IT without hesitation. She does not believe in extra credit, so if she offers you a way to do it, it will help your grade dramatically. I might be on track for an A- or B+ without the extra credit holding my grade. You obviously need to work hard to keep that extra credit from being a grade buffer for only a short amount of time, but if you keep the work up and study your notes (from lecture and the textbook), the extra credit will help tremendously.

Jessica Morabito
CCJS450

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/08/2021

I ended up having a pretty good experience with professor Morabito. She was truly passionate about the course and wanted her students to succeed. She was very nice and always had discussions with us that related to topics surrounding the class. The one thing I did not love was that for the 5 quizzes, she gave us 5 really big things to study (usually 3 full lectures and 2 full chapters) for a 10 question quiz that usually covered 2-3 topics. While this did help for the exams, it was stressful to study for in the moment. She never tried to trick you though; what we learned would be verbatim on the quizzes and exams. The quizzes were more stressful than the exams but if you make a quizlet and study it a few times, as well as reading over your notes 1 or 2 times through, you will be fine.

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