Sarah Humud

This professor has taught: AASP298L, AMST298Q, CMLT275, ENGL101, ENGL222, ENGL234, ENGL235, HHUM106, HHUM206, HHUM328, HHUM329, WMST275

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Sarah Humud HHUM106 Anonymous 05/15/2025	I don't know who wrote that last review but it was not accurate. Wouldn't take this class again....
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/14/2025	Not only is Dr. Humud one of the most intelligent, passionate professors I've had at UMD, but she is also one of the kindest, helpful, and understanding human beings I have ever met. I don't think that the issue in HHUM106 comes from the professor. Rather, it stems from the students passing around inconsiderate assumptions about her before the new class of freshmen even takes her class. Students go into HHUM106 already thinking she's a bad person/professor, and instead of giving her a fair chance, they look for reasons to prove their preconceived assumptions and allegations right. This is not a fair way to approach a class or even life at that matter, and I believe if each student went in with that unbiased point of view, they would have found themselves wonderfully surprised. Sure, if you go in and decide you don't like her class or teaching style after a while, that's totally fine and it's YOUR opinion. It's disrespectful and untruthful to go in and damage one's reputation as a professor if they never even stood a chance in your mind. That being said, Dr. Humud is visibly passionate about what she teaches and wants each student to be inspired every day they come to class. I always found her lectures interesting and the class work not overly challenging-- and some may say it's an easy A, I agree with that! Dr. Humud chooses passion and eagerness to learn over putting a letter-grade label on someone. She is also extremely accommodating and understanding, no matter what situation you may be in, and usually, no questions asked. She wants to help you succeed academically and personally, but you have to be willing to let her. Furthermore, learning about environmental justice was crucial to our setup for the mural and for our general awareness of the current state of our society. This is a HUMANITIES class, you should not be surprised when that comes into play--you're going to learn about what is currently going on around you and what you can do to act as an academically advantaged honors college student. One of America's main pressing issues is environmental injustice and learning how to support our minorities as a whole. In terms of the mural, we needed to learn about environmental justice and minority representation in order to have a clear understanding of how to act artistically in terms of the environment. If I recall, there were some mural designs directly dealing with environmental awareness. Even the ones that did not mention environmental injustice used the environment in one way or another to advocate for an issue. On top of that, look at the success and publicity this mural brought us! We were published, generously funded, and recognized for our hard work as a class while also spreading a message about mental health. I don't care if I'm the only one that says this, but lots of this would not have been possible without the help of Dr. Humud. Her efforts have been ignored egregiously. From finding judges to finalize our design, to getting supplies every time we ran out, to standing out in the hot weather with each section, to using her car to hold all of the material, and being understanding and helpful on top of that. That's not to say that many people also contributed tremendously, but at least give her credit where it's due. Honors Humanities can only be made meaningful by one person-- YOU. The professors are here to inspire you and introduce you to new topics and projects that transform your academic and personal attributes for the better. In my opinion, DO NOT go into this class with ill assumptions of the professor, it will only skew your ability to learn and your perception of the program as a whole. Give it a chance, and do not depend on the nasty reviews of others. Your opinion is your very own at the end of the day, but don't form it before you have taken the course. You might even be pleasantly surprised-- I know I was.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2025	All of the other reviews say it all.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2025	SHE. LEFT. STUDENTS. OFF. CAMPUS. During the mural project she brought at least 4 (I was busy so I didn't see them leave or return) students to go get more supplies at a store off campus. Two of those students had to go to convenience store that had three locations around, fairly easy to find, to get some more supplies and Dr. Humud took the prerogative to go back to campus without them. They then had to walk nearly half an hour back to the parking garage only to find that almost everyone (including Dr. Humud) had left since class was now over. Everyone in this class felt incredibly unheard by her and if it weren't for our three wonderful TA's I am positive that the HoHum drop rate would be higher for this group. She seems to WANT to be a fun, good professor but unfortunately intention doesn't equal result. From where I stand I can tell that she has a lot of ideas for HoHum106 and what we can do. What she doesn't seem to have is realistic standards for what we as students need/expect and what how certain things will turn out. A lot of students spent a majority of the mural project dreading the actual painting because we had so little time and we didn't think we would be able to create something that looked nice. I came into this class knowing about the previous years ratings and I really wanted the reviews to be proven wrong. I really wanted to like her and her class. Unfortunately I was let down. The actual contents of the plenary's were focused near solely on environmental justice. This would be very interesting and on brand for a class focused on environmental justice. But HoHum106, to quote the official Testudo Schedule description, is meant to look at "social justice, immigration, income inequality, and the role of social media". The description doesn't even mention environmental justice. We were supposed to incorporate a few sources from our plenary into our Capstones and with the excessive focus on the one topic it felt like we were being forced into a topic for a huge project we were supposed to be looking to our interests for. When it came to Capstone, something that supposedly the entire class is meant to build up to, I know a lot of students who pushed themselves to the ends of the earth and further to finish the project in time and make something touching and creative. In return Humud gave us 30 minutes for one side of the room to gallery walk the other side of the room and vice versa. Since everyone mostly sat with their friends this meant we weren't really able to see our friends projects in class and had to hope they had time to talk afterwards. Apparently this is more than previous classes got which is doubly disheartening and.... nice, I guess? It's nice that we have had the best Capstone experience but it's disheartening that THIS was the best Capstone experience. We're not asking for a spot in the Met, we just want acknowledgement for all of the work we put in and the details that we added. I have friends who had creative writing projects that got overlooked during the gallery walk because people had so little time to see stuff so they kept going to the easy to see visual art. Intentional or not, a lot of students felt really overlooked. Now, the Mural. I don't think I can bear to write too much about the mural. With a majority of the class having spoken to Sophomores who had previously made a mural, we all came in with pretty low hopes. She never even showed us the actual mural created last year. We brainstormed various topics for the mural and ultimately were handed one that none of us had proposed: Sun. Designing the actual mural took way longer than it should have and I was ultimately really happy with the chosen design and finished mural. Organization and planning, which should have been Humud's job, seemed to get pushed onto the person whose design won. Lots of people were stressed out and even though we finished just barely in time it seemed like there were always people standing around. Humud never gave us ANY measurements for this mural, not even during the designing process. She told us the wall was waist height and never gave us a length despite having every opportunity to measure the wall that she and DOTS chose for the mural. We only found out the length of the mural when we showed up to paint because even though someone measured a part of the garage they measured the wrong part because Humud was showing us pictures of the wrong part of the garage. Everything just speaks to a lack of care for the students and that doesn't make me want her to be my teacher ever again. I think that anyone coming into this class should understand that you will be depending on yourself, your classmates, and your TA's for this class. You should not depend on Humud because no matter her intentions her efforts seem solely performative. In all honesty I'm not worried about her reading this and identifying me because in this class that is meant to be part of a living learning community I'm not even sure she knows my name.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/13/2025	This is a really easy A, but you'll learn almost nothing. There's so many issues with this class, the biggest being that it's a complete waste of time and there is no alternative to HHUM students trying to get their citation. Most or all of what I learned in the first third of this class was not because of Dr. Humud's teaching but because of assignments meant to supplement the lectures. For the first 5ish weeks I learned some things about environmental injustice (through readings, videos, etc.), and after that don't ask me what happened. She dedicated ONE class to look at everyone's Capstone projects. These were big projects that took multiple hours and for her to dedicate more than half a semester to a mural project (which hardly any students cared about) and not take even more than one class for the Capstone was a slap in the face to the students who actually put meaningful work and expected it to receive recognition. The mural project was multiple weeks of designing and pitching our ideas to the class and her. You could tell most people just didn't care for this assignment aside from getting a grade, which is valid because no one wanted to do this project in the first place. Despite the class having largely been centered on climate injustice for at least the learning portion (so give or take 5 weeks), this was completely if not entirely abandoned in favor of a small art project to go on the wall of a parking garage on the top floor where maybe 5 people will look at it if they ever have to park close enough to it. There were definitely better places to put this mural. Dr. Humud gave everyone the wrong dimensions for the mural for several weeks! It was only during the painting process that it was revealed to us that there was more width on each side than she had originally told us, so we had to prime and then extend the original design! Just another example of Dr. Humud's lack of organization skills. She's lucky the design we voted for was easy enough to extend. I'm also not really sure how she was allowed to do this, but according to some of the students working on the mural and getting supplies she drove them to get supplies somewhere off campus (probably a bit over a 20 minute walk), told them she'd pick them up, and then proceeded to NOT pick them up from that location, essentially leaving them to find their way back to the mural site. And, of course, by then the class was over and everyone was gone. So... wtf? I'm really not sure how she's allowed to do that. Another thing, is that her grading is really harsh and also frankly confusing. Like one time she gave me a grade maybe a bit lower than 100%, and then in the comments told me that she would give me a 100% if I went and made a case for it. If she thought it could deserve a 100%, why not just give me the grade??? Make it make sense. Takeaways: Do your best if you know she's your grader, try to take any section that doesn't have her grading your stuff, and feel free to do as little as possible for the mural project (including not even show up for painting since no one takes attendance) especially if you're someone with another major and finals coming up. Let's be real, we all have bigger fish to fry. Be prepared to rot away during lectures...
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/10/2025	Okay, so this class is definitely pretty easy to get an A in, but that does not mean its a easy class to tolerate. Dr. Humud basically wasted our time the entire first half of the semester by just rambling about random things that I thought would go somewhere but ended up going nowhere. The she sprung a capstone project on us with little time to prepare, and kind of confusing requirements. Then we get to create a class mural, where we wasted more time by groups of 2-5 people coming up with ideas for mural designs and presenting them multiple times, ending up with 10+ presentations that no one cared about. Fortunately she assigned me to be on the party planning committee for our end of the semester class party, but unfortunately she gave us no guidance on that and we are still scrambling to find food and entertainment for a party that is happening in less than a week. She might be the most disorganized and uncommunicative professor ever, I really need her to get a google calendar or something. So for those incoming freshman who are forced to take this class, please heed this warning and don't let her trick you into doing stuff that ultimately doesn't amount to anything.
Sarah Humud HHUM206 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/05/2025	I need Humud to look me in my eyes and explain to me how a documentary on black protective hairstyles is considered "crafting" or how there simply weren't enough queer projects for a panel at symposium despite there being 4 projects explicitly about trans existence and transphobia. We submitted all of these things about our project thematically and yet they all seemed to be ignored in group creation for Symposium in favor of formalistic groupings, which is particularly asinine when students have total project freedom and may be the only one doing that form. Calling out Humud specifically here as I was told that she was in charge of the Symposium grouping. Time during plenary was totally mismanaged. 20 minutes total for workshop was pointless as it was impossible to actually open the project and written advice then give advice or start a dialogue and then pivot projects when everyone only gets 5 minutes dedicated to receiving advice. Realistically it should be 20 minutes PER PERSON. Additionally, as I was the only one in my form and my group was not my target audience, I really did not receive any workable advice and was then punished for that in the final workshop grade (which was also graded by someone who had never graded my project before). Every other assignment in plenary required a lot from us in not a lot of time and almost always felt like busy-work despite the stress we felt during plenary to get it done. She's not the only professor in charge of 206 but she certainly does not make it good.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/30/2025	DON'T WALK: RUN. I'm warning you now: this lady is out of her dang mind. Initially, she was just a yapper, classic high-school English teacher core, and would tell us boring quotes every class time and essentially make us an audience for her personal yap session (which is just reading off horribly formatted slides). She would make us write excessive reflections, which were basically forgotten in the second part of the course, which made no sense. I understood what all the previous sophomores were warning my class about when she drove and abandoned me and my classmate off-campus for NO GOOD REASON!?! I still can't wrap my head around this to this day and will forever hold a grudge against her. Also, why were we painting on a rooftop at 90 degrees? She has no sense of priority, and her entire course and teaching format is extremely discombobulated. I miss Dr. O.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2024	Dr. Humud is nice and all, and you never have to worry about deadlines or something, she's very accommodating. The class itself is pointless and I wish she would do something else with it, but it's honestly just a filler class because HHUM doesn't know what to do with us. She spent the first half of the semester on environmental justice with a tedious number of readings and discussions, and then suddenly she wanted us to do a mural. We spent about a month just brainstorming ideas and revising them, which was so, so pointless, before actually going to paint it in like two class sessions. And then in the last two weeks we had to do Capstone projects, which were also pointless. This is a low-effort, low-reward class. You will not have to worry about it.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/07/2024	Easy A but so ridiculously boring and disorganized. Sorry Dr. Humud. Weekly discussion boards are an easy 8-9/10 and there will be Kahoots on the readings but if you review them briefly they are not hard. Dr. Humud rarely lectured and instead brought in guests. About 3 weeks of the class were dedicated to painting a mural off campus - the bus was late getting back so keep that in mind if you have back to backs or walking conflicts. Capstone is 20% of your grade and you are given a week to work on it so be prepared and start as soon as she mentions it but you should get an A if you turn in all assignments.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/17/2024	What even is this class? She seems like a nice person but this class is fucking atrocious. From the way she talks, she clearly knows what good pedagogy is yet never seems to apply it to our actual class. The first third of the class was spent doing readings about environmental justice where she would "lecture" which was basically her just reading quotes and showing us videos. The second third was us making a mural and it is so clear that this is just something that she wanted to do because she thought it would be cool. When we first started the project, she genuinely thought that it would only take 3 hours to complete an entire mural and that 60 people could work on it at once. This is not a fine arts class so there was no developing of skill or technique, just us being thrown to the wolves. When we expressed concern about this turning out well because we care about our work, her response was literally "if it turns out bad, we can just paint back over it." She did increase the amount of time we had to create the mural, but didn't want to take accountability for anything, making it so students took the fall for all of her actions. If the question was "who's idea was it to do [x]?" the answer was always Humud. It is bad when the your classmates don't even look at the professor for answers and immediately ask you as if you have any actual authority here. Even once we started painting she didn't seem to grasp how long it actually takes to paint anything and wanted to add a brand new detail literally in the last 40 minutes of working on the mural. I ended up being the one to veto it (this wasn't even my design). She did work a lot on painting the mural, which is why I believe that we did this project just because she wanted to paint a mural. This mural isn't even our final project. We still have to complete a capstone after this and its going to be another "student lead project" where she just sits there and it is our fault if anything goes wrong as if she isn't the professor and couldn't actually just do her job and be in charge. I love honors humanities, but this class feels like a waste of time. I wish they had someone who could practice what they preached when it came to teaching 106.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ naonic 09/18/2023	It was better than HHUM105 and we hardly ever even met for lecture. Dr. Humud was chill and there was only one big assignment.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/02/2023	The old reviews aren't really relevant anymore. The professor is a really nice person. She makes a lot of connections to conceptual philosophical stuff in a one to one convo which I find pretty interesting to experience. Most of the class is just guest speakers. I skipped since I wasn't such a big fan, which you probably shouldn't do, but alot of people seem to like them.
Sarah Humud HHUM206 Anonymous 05/25/2023	She doesn't respond to emails and makes you come to class even when there is nothing to do. The class is 100% based on how well you do on your Keystone Project and she is completely unfair when it comes to grading them. Don't pick her as your section leader, literally pick anyone else.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/17/2023	Easy class and Dr. Humud is very nice. She will do a lot for students and is very approachable.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/08/2023	Disregard the most recent review. This class is meant to show the value of the humanities in life, and what better way to do that than to have guest speakers who actually apply the humanities to their lives? Also, Dr. Humud is more than willing to help anyone who comes to her with a problem. She also super understanding about any issues that might come up and is super accommodating. The environment is wonderful as she and the ta's are great. I have never seen a professor receive this much hate for a class that is barely any work and an easy A +.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/08/2023	She was very nice and did a lot for her students. Work isn't that hard just don't procrastinate
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/06/2023	Not a bad course. It's very easy as long as you keep up with the assignments. However, the course lacked a lot of structure. Like other reviews mentioned, the guest speakers did most of the work, and there were hardly any 'lectures'. It was more of an activity course than anything. It's not a course to worry about, but don't expect to get much out of it.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/29/2023	DO NOT take this class (drop the program I beg of you) This course was absolutely disappointing. There is no reason why a course that is supposed to be about the arts and humanities in practice should be centered entirely around environmental justice. There is no reason that the professor should only lecture 2-3 times over the course of the entire semester and completely rely on guest speakers to do the heavy lifting. There is no reason for the professor to be so removed from the class and its students. Assignments and discussion boards had little to no meaning or depth, readings were barely relevant to the lecture content, and attending discussion sections felt like a waste of my time. Discussions were so performative and surface level, and others were simply "workshop time" when students were given time to work on projects that were clearly just to take up space. The fact that a professor who was called racist by MULTIPLE students last year is continuing to teach at this school, and even worse, in a living-learning program, is the most unacceptable fact of all. This professor is clearly attempting to make up for it, but has not made any clear references to, apologies for, or real effort at rectifying the situation. Overall, this class, and this professor (Dr. Humud) is unacceptably insufficient for what the program promised. Major review is needed.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 06/13/2022	Listen to the one star reviews. Not because you'll have a choice whether to take her or not if you're in the program. But mostly because at least you'll be prepared. Dr. Humud really just enforced to me the amazement I feel at how low the bar is for teaching about serious and important topics. I wish I had not taken her class.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/23/2022	I honestly think some of these reviews are overly dramatic. Sure, there were a lot of things Dr. Humud could have done better in teaching this class, but I certainly wouldn't go as far as to say she was one of the worst professors I've taken a class with. She's objectively a nice person and cares about what she teaches about, and is also accommodating with extensions. The class is also an easy A. All you have to do are some participation assignments, projects, and weekly responses. We didn't have a final which was nice. The class this semester definitely left a lot to be desired but don't let the one-star reviews scare you off. In my opinion it wasn't THAT bad.
Sarah Humud HHUM328 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2022	nice human who wants the best for you. only note is that, she ranges from not assigning anything to 10 different tasks all at once. ie expectations can be a bit all over the place (same for HHUM106)
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/09/2022	She is quite possibly one of the worst professors I have ever had the displeasure of taking a class with in my entire academic career. Dr. Humud repeatedly placated students' expressions of being unsatisfied with this course, and was unhealthily passive aggressive with her feedback on assignments. There was an incident in our class' lecture in which multiple students of color expressed that they had taken offense to some of the content and methods of presenting this content to the class about halfway through the semester, to which she made multiple in class statements about. However, instead of apologizing for it, she expressed "how fortunate" she was "to be able to teach a class with such intellectual individuals" or some bs like that. Only when a student in class raised her hand and directly asked Humud to say sorry did she finally apologize. At the beginning of next class she proceeded to have everyone do an activity in which she placed whiteboards around the room with different social aspects on them and asked everyone to stand by the one that they identified with the most. To no one's surprise, all of the students of color stand by the "race" board and everyone else stood by something else, and congratulations, she has now segregated our lecture. On top of this, among other incidents and concerns expressed by students, she cannot be bothered to respond to emails with any timely manner, and gave assignments that felt more like grey spaces in my learning as opposed to anything substantial. It sucks for anyone in the Honors Humanities program because she is the only teacher for the class. If I were to give any advice, it would be to find out which TAs are leading which sections and try to get into the ones that Humud isn't teaching, since the grading is much quicker and much more fair.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/09/2022	This class was an absolute train wreck. Dr. Humud's ability to make her students lose all respect for her and her class is astonishing. It actually felt like she had to be antagonizing us on purpose, because I cannot imagine a world wherein the level to which she made everyone hate her was merely the result of negligence. She was consistently out of touch with the students, and her promises regarding changes to the direction of the course were unmet. Grading is also inconsistent between her and the TAs, so if you have her as your section instructor expect to have your projects graded much more harshly than your peers'.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/09/2022	Do NOT take any class with Dr. Humud. Throughout the semester she said multiple racially insensitive comments in a class that teaches about race. She drops random assignments on students with no warning, and the assignments are usually worth a significant amount of points that will drastically lower your grade for not completing. Her grading is completely different from her TAs, so some students will have very good project grades while students with her as their section leader are struggling to pass.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Anonymous 05/09/2022	She's a really nice person in theory, but this class is absolutely terrible and the way she goes about teaching it is the worst. If you want to be in honors humanities, it's not worth it PURELY because of this class.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Anonymous 05/09/2022	A lot of busy work
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Anonymous 05/09/2022	She takes a weird approach to teaching this class. This class is easy and basically a guaranteed A, but she is very insensitive when talking about serious and controversial topics. She is kinda boring and she is so big on participation which is fine but also sometimes annoying. The projects that she gives us are sometimes unnecessarily long and tedious. She also assigns them at the worst times (for example she gave us this project on the last day on classes which I felt was super unfair). If you're taking this course, you're definitely going to have her but just be prepared for all this.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/01/2021	Very kind and sweet. She always is very understanding and gives extensions when needed. She is also very easy to listen to in class plus she is very big on participation which is pretty cool. Definitely take.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/16/2021	Dr. Humud is incredibly nice and understanding, and was always very willing to help. She listened to our concerns and adjusted things based on our feedback. There was never too much work, even with the three main projects you have to do. The weekly discussions weren't great; we'd meet with small groups and discuss a bunch of random questions (which she usually didn't post until late the night before) and turn in the recording of the meeting. We stopped doing those partway through the semester, though.
Sarah Humud HHUM206 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/16/2021	Dr. Humud is very nice and is always willing to chat about class projects or a student's plan for their future. She is great at bouncing ideas around and suggesting helpful things for students who are indecisive. The class load is never too much.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/12/2021	Dr. Humud is great, I've had her for a couple of my classes now. She's always open for office hrs to discuss class material or honestly anything else, and you can tell she has a passion for teaching the humanities. She's also really understanding, so make sure to communicate any concerns or questions you may have and it'll be easy to work out with her.
Sarah Humud HHUM106 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/04/2020	So so nice! I think she is such a nice and good professor. She genuinely wants you to learn about the humanities and makes it interesting while doing so. You can always tell how passionate she is about what she teaches. She also leaves almost all of your projects open-ended and even lets you write your own section of the rubric to include your own expectations so that you can be creative with the assignment. I absolutely loved her and would take any of her classes again.