Felicity Sena Dogbatse

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Felicity Sena Dogbatse COMM382 Expecting a W Anonymous 02/28/2025	If I had even a fraction of an idea how awful Professor Dogbatse was, I would have never made the mistake of registering for COMM382 in the first place. First, the class is incredibly unorganized: modules can only be accessed through a single link on ELMS: it's like she poorly copied the ELMS interface into a separate webpage and created her own version of it, full of videos too large to load and unaccessible links. Attendance is MANDATORY and assessed with daily quizzes, all of which contain vague wording and are near impossible to complete. All quizzes require you to know a letter or number of the day, which she softly says once and then never again repeats. Her first exam had a median of 60%, and she seemed utterly unapologetic and simply told us to 'do better next time.' During class, she stands behind students and stares at their computer screens, whispering things in their ears when they dare to switch tabs for a second. She picks favorites, and then actively calls out and bullies students who do not meet that criteria. Once, I left class to go to the restroom and professor Dogbatse referred to it in front of the entire class as "indescribably rude and disrespectful," actively mentioning the tabs I had open on my laptop while I was gone. Additionally, as a student who wears hearing aids and has ADS accommodations, it is unfair to see a professor whisper both in your ear and in front of the class and then be criticized for not understanding. Her accent is also incredibly hard to understand: for a communication class, it feels reasonable to expect to be able to understand the professor's communication. For a gen ed class, the workload is also insane. It is incredibly demeaning to spend hours studying and preparing for a gen ed only to fail every assignment due to vague wording. Assignments are graded leniently, but are only a small portion of your grade. Everything else in the class is impossible to score highly on. TLDR, do not take ANY class taken by this professor. She is new to teaching at UMD, and clearly has not learned how to structure or teach a class.