Allison Doherty

This professor has taught: COMM107

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Allison Doherty COMM107 Expecting an A Anonymous_2018 01/23/2024	I had Professor Doherty as a sub for the past few weeks of the fall semester. Since the last professor was new and not great, I was hoping Doherty would make the last few weeks worthy of a communications class. I'm not sure why she gets a bad rep here, considering she was a decent professor. Yes, she sometimes did talk about other stuff (like her ex-husband, lol), but I think she does that to connect with the class a little more and alleviate the tension of a new professor a bit. Everyone likes a professor with even a small sense of humor. However, as a professor, she spoke clearly, and at least for me, I could tell she was a decent communications professor. She even discussed one-on-one at selected times during class with different groups on their outlines and presentation slides. With only a few weeks left, she graded our last two presentations with leniency and gave constructive feedback. She did say she graded her own students harder, but overall, I think she has higher expectations. Overall, the last weeks went smoothly.
Allison Doherty Expecting an A Anonymous 01/21/2024	I loved this professor, I expected to get a B in this class and ended with an A+. I fully can not public speak, but she was very supportive and would help you if you asked. She doesn't have the best organization, so be sure to ask her for her expectations. Otherwise, I loved her class- very entertaining. Very little work besides practicing your speech and online open note quizzes.
Allison Doherty Expecting an A Anonymous 12/30/2023	subjective grader and extremely unaccommodating to students. Take someone else.
Allison Doherty COMM107 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/15/2023	Not sure why she gets a bad rep on here and RateMyProfessor, because she is a very nice and caring professor who wants people to succeed. She grades speeches and outlines lightly according to the rubric, so just follow the points and you'll do fine. She does a lot of activities to make the class fun and get people over their fears of public speaking. While these activities are annoying and embarrassing at first, they will 100% make you a better speaker. She is somewhat strict about late work, but if you have a good excuse you can often receive less of a penalty. Quizzes are online and super easy (the questions are straight out of the textbook). The only real work for this class is preparing for speeches, but she gives you outline templates for all of them that makes them a lot less work. Overall, a great professor.
Allison Doherty Anonymous 12/11/2023	Doherty was new to UMD this semester, and she has some things to sort out with her teaching style. First, she likes to go off on tangents during classes, from talking smack about her ex-husband to making Trump jokes. She does make it pretty clear about what she wants in the speeches, but it feels like she is extremely subjective in her grading. When I compare my grades and feedback to my peers, she seems to give or take points at random. By no means is she a bad teacher (she is nice as well), but you may find yourself often annoyed or uncomfortable during class.
Allison Doherty Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/05/2023	for someone who is literally a communications teacher, she cannot give clear instructions to save her life. it is never clear what needs to be due before class, especially since she will make you finish something before class when the due date on canvas will be later that night. she also constantly created assignments that i had to do the same day they were assigned which i found disrespectful towards my time and extremely hard to plan for. her lectures and activities during class time are useless, but required. she grades the speeches very subjectively and i think she makes some stuff up if she can’t remember. for example, one time she claimed my speech was a minute over the time frame (which she tried to take 8 points off for) but when i showed her the video recording i was only 20 seconds over the time frame. she also will claim you didn’t say enough oral citations when in reality i think she just zones out and misses it. i am still getting a good grade so that isn’t the problem, she is just extremely incompetent and annoying
Allison Doherty COMM107 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/13/2023	She talks about her ex-husband too much and is unnecessarily strict about attendance, and is super inflexible even when you are genuinely sick. She's a fairly strict grader, and due to the nature of the course (COMM 107 in this case) it is also super subjective, and her grading of our speeches fluctuated a lot even with very similar feedback. I'm not sure how good the other professors are for this course as everyone I know has this one, but if there are any other options I'd highly suggest you go for them.