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Anne Kaiser PLCY203 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/04/2024	The professor is honestly extremely nice and I love her as a person. I give 2 stars because her class is guided for the left side. If you have any thoughts other than purely liberal, the class is just a headache. You need to talk in class for points, but she guides the class so anyone thinking differently is so wildly uncomfortable. Great professor but it should be renamed to "Only take this if your liberal" Its ironic its about ethics but I should not be debated about my thoughts and she should not let other students interupt me and laugh at my beliefs.
Anne Kaiser PLCY203 Anonymous 10/07/2024	I highly recommend not taking this course with this professor. It is an ethics/morals-based course, and lectures encourage difficult conversations among students. That is entirely normal and, in the field of public policy, even welcomed. However, it is crucial for teachers to create an environment where students respect each other's voices and opinions (as long as they are respectful); I firmly believe Kaiser enables an environment that is not productive and quite harmful. It gets pretty out of hand, and she doesn't do much to mitigate it and rather will hurl her own opinion at the student. I never participate in discussions due to the environment she has set. I am a pretty participative student, but this class genuinely makes me uncomfortable. Not to mention her harsh grading (which others have already commented on).
Anne Kaiser PLCY203 Expecting a B- Anonymous 09/26/2024	I do not recommend taking 203 with this professor. Lectures are basically pointless regarding your assignments. Describing her as a harsh grader is an understatement. The grade she gives you is not reflective of the effort or quality of your work, but rather if she likes it or not. Her rubric is vague, but she expects you to follow it very specifically. Expects the whole class understood an assignment if there are a few standout submissions. The worst part of this class are the limited number of assignments. By the end of the first 4 weeks, your grade is likely determined, and if it is not good, it is near impossible to bring up without perfect marks. There is almost no time or leeway given to adjust to her style of grading and what she expects out of you.
Anne Kaiser PLCY203 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/03/2024	Class was very enjoyable (discussion oriented) and there was a very small workload, but it was the most challenging class that I took this semester because she is a harsh grader. However, there is never a time when she takes off points unjustly; she will see mistakes that you do not. If you follow the rubrics and go to office hours, I cannot see how you could get lower than an A-.
Anne Kaiser PLCY203 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/13/2023	The professor's lectures and assignments are reasonable. However, she grades in the least reasonable way possible. You lose .25 points for miniscule mistakes but if you counted .25 points for every miniscule thing you did each assignment would be worth like a million points. It's completely distracting from the content of the class which is actually pretty interesting.
Anne Kaiser PLCY203 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/28/2022	Professor Kaiser is a nice professor and makes a real effort to engage students in her class. A sizable portion of the grade is participation, so as long as you show up and participate during discussion time, it’s easy points. However, she is a very tough grader and it can be hard to nail down exactly what she’s looking for in her writing assignments. If you’re willing to meet with her she can help show you what she’s looking for, but if you don’t, your grades might really suffer. I didn’t mind her but could go either way
Anne Kaiser PLCY203 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/19/2022	A extremely harsh grader. Gives no rubric for the papers and will often nit pick to find points to take off on your papers. However, she’s a nice enough lady to help you out as well. A toss up Professor. Could love or hate her depends on the person
Leonard Howie PLCY203 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/16/2022	He is a really sweet professor, but has no clue how to really teach. There are no guidelines or resources for this course, and its very unorganized. The exams are really hard and based off of very dense and difficult readings that he doesnt provide direct outlines or help on notes for it. If he recorded lectures, it may help, but it is impossible to actively get all the information.
Leonard Howie PLCY203 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/07/2022	extremely boring, not engaging at all. not too many assignments but he is not organized so its all over the place
Mathew Feehan PLCY203 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/30/2022	Professor Feehan was an amazing professor for this class. He was probably one of the most "unbiased" professors I've had at UMD in how he led the class. All opinions were able to be spoken and discussed. In fact, he asked people to play devil's advocate if there were no disagreements. Class was always interesting. I definitely recommend Prof Feehan and this class!

Anne Kaiser
PLCY203

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/04/2024

The professor is honestly extremely nice and I love her as a person. I give 2 stars because her class is guided for the left side. If you have any thoughts other than purely liberal, the class is just a headache. You need to talk in class for points, but she guides the class so anyone thinking differently is so wildly uncomfortable. Great professor but it should be renamed to "Only take this if your liberal" Its ironic its about ethics but I should not be debated about my thoughts and she should not let other students interupt me and laugh at my beliefs.

Anne Kaiser
PLCY203

Anonymous
10/07/2024

I highly recommend not taking this course with this professor. It is an ethics/morals-based course, and lectures encourage difficult conversations among students. That is entirely normal and, in the field of public policy, even welcomed. However, it is crucial for teachers to create an environment where students respect each other's voices and opinions (as long as they are respectful); I firmly believe Kaiser enables an environment that is not productive and quite harmful. It gets pretty out of hand, and she doesn't do much to mitigate it and rather will hurl her own opinion at the student. I never participate in discussions due to the environment she has set. I am a pretty participative student, but this class genuinely makes me uncomfortable. Not to mention her harsh grading (which others have already commented on).

Anne Kaiser
PLCY203

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
09/26/2024

I do not recommend taking 203 with this professor. Lectures are basically pointless regarding your assignments. Describing her as a harsh grader is an understatement. The grade she gives you is not reflective of the effort or quality of your work, but rather if she likes it or not. Her rubric is vague, but she expects you to follow it very specifically. Expects the whole class understood an assignment if there are a few standout submissions. The worst part of this class are the limited number of assignments. By the end of the first 4 weeks, your grade is likely determined, and if it is not good, it is near impossible to bring up without perfect marks. There is almost no time or leeway given to adjust to her style of grading and what she expects out of you.

Anne Kaiser
PLCY203

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/03/2024

Class was very enjoyable (discussion oriented) and there was a very small workload, but it was the most challenging class that I took this semester because she is a harsh grader. However, there is never a time when she takes off points unjustly; she will see mistakes that you do not. If you follow the rubrics and go to office hours, I cannot see how you could get lower than an A-.

Anne Kaiser
PLCY203

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/13/2023

The professor's lectures and assignments are reasonable. However, she grades in the least reasonable way possible. You lose .25 points for miniscule mistakes but if you counted .25 points for every miniscule thing you did each assignment would be worth like a million points. It's completely distracting from the content of the class which is actually pretty interesting.

Anne Kaiser
PLCY203

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/28/2022

Professor Kaiser is a nice professor and makes a real effort to engage students in her class. A sizable portion of the grade is participation, so as long as you show up and participate during discussion time, it’s easy points. However, she is a very tough grader and it can be hard to nail down exactly what she’s looking for in her writing assignments. If you’re willing to meet with her she can help show you what she’s looking for, but if you don’t, your grades might really suffer. I didn’t mind her but could go either way

Anne Kaiser
PLCY203

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/19/2022

A extremely harsh grader. Gives no rubric for the papers and will often nit pick to find points to take off on your papers. However, she’s a nice enough lady to help you out as well. A toss up Professor. Could love or hate her depends on the person

Leonard Howie
PLCY203

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/16/2022

He is a really sweet professor, but has no clue how to really teach. There are no guidelines or resources for this course, and its very unorganized. The exams are really hard and based off of very dense and difficult readings that he doesnt provide direct outlines or help on notes for it. If he recorded lectures, it may help, but it is impossible to actively get all the information.

Leonard Howie
PLCY203

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/07/2022

extremely boring, not engaging at all. not too many assignments but he is not organized so its all over the place

Mathew Feehan
PLCY203

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/30/2022

Professor Feehan was an amazing professor for this class. He was probably one of the most "unbiased" professors I've had at UMD in how he led the class. All opinions were able to be spoken and discussed. In fact, he asked people to play devil's advocate if there were no disagreements. Class was always interesting. I definitely recommend Prof Feehan and this class!

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