Katherine Izsak
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Katherine Izsak
INST388Q Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2025 |
This professor is an insanely harsh grader. I’m talking full letter-grade drops over tiny mistakes or minor details. That might be reasonable in a normal course, but this was an asynchronous ONE CREDIT class. It genuinely felt messed up given how low stakes the course is supposed to be. Office hours were a complete joke. They were only offered once per week, and the professor did not show up to her own office hours. I waited in the Zoom for 20 minutes, assumed she wasn’t coming, and left. She then emailed me after I left saying she “might have missed me” and told me to come back. When I rejoined the Zoom, she still wasn’t there. I ended up waiting an additional 30 minutes just to ask one question. For an async class with minimal support already, this was beyond frustrating. On top of that, she repeatedly misspelled my name, even though it was spelled correctly on every assignment and discussion post. While the course technically doesn’t have strict due dates until the end of the semester, the workload is way too heavy for one credit. You’re expected to create multiple original games with almost no rubric, structure, or instructional support. The projects can be fun, but the expectations are way too much considering it is a one credit class. |
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Katherine Izsak
ENGL393H Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2014 |
This is an awful professor. After going through the entire course, I didn't learn anything about technical writing. She never actually taught us anything aside from really basic stuff like grammar and formatting. To top it off, she has really high standards. There are weekly writing assignments which form parts of a huge culminating final project. You have to create a training module in the form of a power point of at least 50 slides,and send it out to 6 to 8 people to test the usability. Then you have to give a 15 minute presentation on the results of the usability testing. |
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Katherine Izsak
Expecting a ? Anonymous 03/01/2013 |
This is an awful class. There is way too much work for a three credit class. There is a ridiculous number of horrible group assignments (1-2 per week) -- thats not including the two "big" group presentations There is a ton of reading. And almost all of the assignments are busywork where the students learn absolutely nothing. To top it off, almost the entire course is about natural disasters...not terrorist events. This is one of the most annoying course I have taken at UMD for its horrible structure, its inability to be focused on terrorism (what the course should be about), the group projects, the never ending busy work, and the fact that after all this annoyance I still have learned nothing. |