Katherine Lieder

This professor has taught: HNUH100, HNUH288U, HNUH300
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Katherine Lieder
HNUH288U

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/11/2023
Extremely rewarding class and Professor Lieder is extremely knowledgeable on the content of the course. The course is definitely not for everyone, as we discuss socially stigmatized topics. However, I found the course to be very interesting and relative to the social aspect of UMD. This class allowed me to alter the way I look at and approach certain topics and provided me with skills that will be useful for other classes. Professor Lieder is a very understanding Professor who looks out for her students and constantly asks for student feedback on the course.
Katherine Lieder
HNUH300

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
08/30/2023
This prof took the class seriously but didn't make it any harder. Gave good feedback
Katherine Lieder
HNUH300

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/04/2023
Highly recommend you choose another professor. She makes you do triple the work compared to other HNUH300 professors. She is passive aggressive and very serious about what is supposed to be a gateway course. The class goes by painfully slow and it's only 50 minutes. Choose another professor if you can.
Katherine Lieder
HNUH100

Anonymous
02/19/2023
In the 45 minutes or so that she was co-teaching my section, she talked about how the world map (the Mercator projection, though I'm not sure she knew that there are other projections) was essentially racist and colonialist because Europe appears larger than it really is relative to Africa. The Mercator projection is obtained by placing a cylinder around a globe with a light in it, and taking the shadow that it projects onto the cylinder. It preserves angles well, and that's why it's the most common projection. Very racist. There are at least two other reasons the map could be considered colonialist--the map is Europe-centric, of course--but she immediately went to the one thing that made no sense. Why was she talking about this in a HNUH100 section, you may ask? I haven't a clue. "Don't you love it when your white cis hetero friends stick up for you?" Umm, sure, generally speaking I like it when anybody sticks up for me. Weird question. I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt and give her 3 stars instead of 1, considering that I didn't actually have her section. My friend did, and he did not like it.
Katherine Lieder
HNUH100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/06/2022
If you have to take her for Gateway seminar, you might as well drop UH. She takes the garbage curriculum very seriously and I have never met anyone as passive aggressive. She doesn't respond to canvas comments. I had her in the evening and she constantly complained about the timing of the class, saying she wanted to go home. I said something similar in an assignment, and received a zero and had to meet with her. In the meeting she went off about how I need to have more respect for the course. For reference, there was an assignment where we watched a documentary on Renaissance era nude paintings, posted photos of ourselves on a discussion board, and had to analyze 2 of our classmates photos. It was a very strange assignment and from what I know, other Gateway instructors didn't assign it to their sections.