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Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/10/2024	Dr. Branigan is very respectful and the class was pretty interesting. However, she is always late to class even if it's on zoom and gives a LOT of busywork. The biweekly readings and discussion questions took too much time for a 100-level gen-ed. She repeats slides and content quite a bit and speeds through her slides with actual notes on it. She's very disorganized, and had two assignments due during Thanksgiving break. The "quizzes" were also pretty difficult.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/08/2024	She is great. I have a short attention span so it was hard to stay focused since the class is long but she made it easy and was great at lecturing.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/05/2024	Great teacher, cares about students and explains the topics we learn very well. Her canvas page is organized and her concept list sheet is very helpful.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/04/2024	Love her!! Such a nice teacher and is so passionate about Sociology, so the class was interesting. She made the class interactive, even though the class had a large amount of students. The discussion questions are very easy, and there is not a lot of homework besides that. I would highly recommend this class and this teacher if it is available!
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/21/2024	The sweetest and most energetic professor EVER!!! The class is very interesting, and you can tell she is interested too. We talk about things like family, sexuality, race, gender, covid, criminal justice, and a bunch of other topics ANYONE will find interesting. All assignments were super easy quizzes about every other week, one page paper about every other week, 4 short discussion questions a week (2 prepared before each class), and a zoom recorded group discussion due about every 2 weeks, which might sound dreadful, but it is not AT ALL. The assignments eventually become habit because they are so routine and easy to get done. There are only quizzes, no final. HIGHLY recommend this class and Branigan as a professor for any class!
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Anonymous 11/13/2024	The best socy professor!! Grades are pretty understandable once she introduces her syllabus.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/23/2024	the best professor! very interested and passionate about the topic, and manages to make lectures feel interesting. no midterm and final, the grade was just composed of attendance, quizzes, 1 page papers, and group discussions. she listened to student feedback very well
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/09/2023	Professor Branigan really knows her stuff, she is definitely qualified to teach sociology and teach it well. However, sometimes it felt like class was dragging on when it didn't need to be. The content is interesting for sure, however I took the 1 hour and 15 minute version of this course and I felt like I was going to die. I have attention span issues so maybe that's just me, but I was dozing off after the 50 minute mark with 25 minutes still left in the class. Don't get me wrong though, Branigan is one of the easiest professors I have EVER had. You get points just for showing up, and if you miss class you can do an easy alternate participation assignment to make it up. She also had no midterm or final and instead gave us easy little 10 point ELMS quizzes every few weeks. The only assignments you really get are a blog-style 1 page reading response biweekly, but this was seriously so easy. Usually when I see that we have to write essays for a class I panic and drop it, but these are definitely not something to worry about because they are graded very lightly (and worth 100 points which is music to my ears), and the readings she assigns are just short little articles that take no time to read and are not hard to comprehend. Oh, and also, there's a discussion for this class and you get assigned a group at the beginning of the semester, and every couple weeks you meet with them on zoom/in person to discuss stuff in the class. There isn't a worksheet for discussion, however when it is your turn to be a discussion leader you just take your group members discussion posts and copy paste them on a doc then talk about the questions in the discussion, real easy. So yeah, I was a bit bored but lets be real, this class was super easy and Branigan is one of the most qualified, passionate, AND fair professors I have ever had. Easy A for sure.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/25/2023	Amazing lecturer and very kind. Throughout the semester she tried hard to listen to and follow up on student feedback, altering aspects of the course (like attendance and grading policies) to accommodate for what we needed. It's clear she has a passion for sociology and it shines through in her lectures, which were interesting, engaging, relevant to anyone (we live in a society). Useful class and one of my favorite professors.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Anonymous 12/17/2021	Amazing professor. Made Sociology interesting and constantly engaged her students. She made the classroom setting feel accepting and relaxed. The workload of this class is also not bad at all, very managable.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/06/2021	She is a very knowledgeable professor and the content for the most part was pretty interesting, but a lot of it was common sense. She really wants all her students to succeed and takes feedback from us pretty well. The course is not hard, you just have to do two discussions posted each week and reading responses every two weeks. There are no major tests, only quizzes. The class was on zoom.
Amelia Branigan Anonymous 06/28/2021	Amazingly organized professor.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/03/2020	The best. Easily my favorite professor I’ve ever had. I’m so sad my semester with her is coming to an end :(
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/25/2020	This has been my favorite class I've ever taken. The professor is super chill and relates to us students very well. I loved her classes in person but they were also very engaging online. The last zoom session nobody wanted to say good bye.
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 10/14/2020	Love her! My favorite professor I've ever had. So kind and so passionate
Amelia Branigan SOCY100 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/28/2020	super chill, and grades very leniently, excellent teacher

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/10/2024

Dr. Branigan is very respectful and the class was pretty interesting. However, she is always late to class even if it's on zoom and gives a LOT of busywork. The biweekly readings and discussion questions took too much time for a 100-level gen-ed. She repeats slides and content quite a bit and speeds through her slides with actual notes on it. She's very disorganized, and had two assignments due during Thanksgiving break. The "quizzes" were also pretty difficult.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/08/2024

She is great. I have a short attention span so it was hard to stay focused since the class is long but she made it easy and was great at lecturing.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/05/2024

Great teacher, cares about students and explains the topics we learn very well. Her canvas page is organized and her concept list sheet is very helpful.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/04/2024

Love her!! Such a nice teacher and is so passionate about Sociology, so the class was interesting. She made the class interactive, even though the class had a large amount of students. The discussion questions are very easy, and there is not a lot of homework besides that. I would highly recommend this class and this teacher if it is available!

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/21/2024

The sweetest and most energetic professor EVER!!! The class is very interesting, and you can tell she is interested too. We talk about things like family, sexuality, race, gender, covid, criminal justice, and a bunch of other topics ANYONE will find interesting. All assignments were super easy quizzes about every other week, one page paper about every other week, 4 short discussion questions a week (2 prepared before each class), and a zoom recorded group discussion due about every 2 weeks, which might sound dreadful, but it is not AT ALL. The assignments eventually become habit because they are so routine and easy to get done. There are only quizzes, no final. HIGHLY recommend this class and Branigan as a professor for any class!

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Anonymous
11/13/2024

The best socy professor!! Grades are pretty understandable once she introduces her syllabus.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/23/2024

the best professor! very interested and passionate about the topic, and manages to make lectures feel interesting. no midterm and final, the grade was just composed of attendance, quizzes, 1 page papers, and group discussions. she listened to student feedback very well

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/09/2023

Professor Branigan really knows her stuff, she is definitely qualified to teach sociology and teach it well. However, sometimes it felt like class was dragging on when it didn't need to be. The content is interesting for sure, however I took the 1 hour and 15 minute version of this course and I felt like I was going to die. I have attention span issues so maybe that's just me, but I was dozing off after the 50 minute mark with 25 minutes still left in the class. Don't get me wrong though, Branigan is one of the easiest professors I have EVER had. You get points just for showing up, and if you miss class you can do an easy alternate participation assignment to make it up. She also had no midterm or final and instead gave us easy little 10 point ELMS quizzes every few weeks. The only assignments you really get are a blog-style 1 page reading response biweekly, but this was seriously so easy. Usually when I see that we have to write essays for a class I panic and drop it, but these are definitely not something to worry about because they are graded very lightly (and worth 100 points which is music to my ears), and the readings she assigns are just short little articles that take no time to read and are not hard to comprehend. Oh, and also, there's a discussion for this class and you get assigned a group at the beginning of the semester, and every couple weeks you meet with them on zoom/in person to discuss stuff in the class. There isn't a worksheet for discussion, however when it is your turn to be a discussion leader you just take your group members discussion posts and copy paste them on a doc then talk about the questions in the discussion, real easy. So yeah, I was a bit bored but lets be real, this class was super easy and Branigan is one of the most qualified, passionate, AND fair professors I have ever had. Easy A for sure.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/25/2023

Amazing lecturer and very kind. Throughout the semester she tried hard to listen to and follow up on student feedback, altering aspects of the course (like attendance and grading policies) to accommodate for what we needed. It's clear she has a passion for sociology and it shines through in her lectures, which were interesting, engaging, relevant to anyone (we live in a society). Useful class and one of my favorite professors.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Anonymous
12/17/2021

Amazing professor. Made Sociology interesting and constantly engaged her students. She made the classroom setting feel accepting and relaxed. The workload of this class is also not bad at all, very managable.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/06/2021

She is a very knowledgeable professor and the content for the most part was pretty interesting, but a lot of it was common sense. She really wants all her students to succeed and takes feedback from us pretty well. The course is not hard, you just have to do two discussions posted each week and reading responses every two weeks. There are no major tests, only quizzes. The class was on zoom.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/03/2020

The best. Easily my favorite professor I’ve ever had. I’m so sad my semester with her is coming to an end :(

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/25/2020

This has been my favorite class I've ever taken. The professor is super chill and relates to us students very well. I loved her classes in person but they were also very engaging online. The last zoom session nobody wanted to say good bye.

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
10/14/2020

Love her! My favorite professor I've ever had. So kind and so passionate

Amelia Branigan
SOCY100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/28/2020

super chill, and grades very leniently, excellent teacher