Elisabeth Maring

This professor has taught: CPGH100, CPGH230, CPGH240, CPGH250, CPGH270, FMSC110, FMSC110S, FMSC265, FMSC265S, FMSC280, FMSC332, FMSC789, GERM103, MIEH240, MIEH309, SPHL260, SPHL399

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Elisabeth Maring FMSC110 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/08/2025	I took this class in Winter 2024. It was great! Dr.Maring was available for office hours and the assignments and lectures were all asynchronous and organized.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/20/2025	AMAZING CLASS and GREAT PROFESSOR!! Dr. Maring can sometimes be a bit boring in lecture, but I found all topics covered in this class to be super engaging. Exams were fair, she provided study guides for each of them. I did not find that the required textbook was neccessary, but 'Half The SKy' was an amazing book that I'm so glad to have read.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/23/2024	Dr. Maring is a friendly and nice professor. I never really paid attention in class but still ended up doing well because she posts study guides and is lenient on grading the written portion. Lectures were pretty boring and she does try to have interactive activities. The book she chose for the course, Half the Sky, was interesting to read, she does like to ask about different stories from the book. She lists reading for the textbook but I never read them because she'd provide the study guide anyway. There's an assignment every week but they are graded based on how much thought you put into them and not on accuracy. There are two big assignments that she gives you plenty of time to work on.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/20/2024	This class is required for anyone in GPH, and it was honestly the easiest class I had all semester. I would definitely say that Dr. Maring is a pretty good professor, though not the most engaging as she has a tendency to read off the slides. She is very kind and wants to get to know about you and your culture. The exams are light, especially since she made study guides for them that almost render the textbook useless, but I'd recommend that you at least skim the assigned chapters for Half the Sky, as they help tremendously with the open-ended sections of exams. The projects in the class are equally simple--just a research paper that might take a day or two and a 15-minute interview with someone in your class from a different culture. There are also some "low stakes assignments" that are just like watching a video and answering a discussion post, but they're sometimes hidden in Canvas modules, so make sure to keep an eye out for those.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A Anonymous 12/15/2024	I had Dr. Maring for both a GPH scholars-required FMSC course as well as the menstrual health supporting course (A in both)! She's genuinely one of the sweetest professors you'll ever meet at UMD. Super receptive to concerns about grades, very communicative, and wholeheartedly wants her students to be as passionate about the material she teaches as she is. To a previous comment negatively reviewing FMSC110: it was not bad at all. 8am was a completely reasonable time to hold the class since it took into consideration of the time difference of the students attending BHU in India, where it's already evening for them. The final project was agreeably difficult in terms of functioning as a group with the time difference, but the workload was definitely manageable. Like I mentioned before, Dr. Maring and our then TA Cara were very understanding when it came to our workload. Just please, please communicate! Dr. Maring always went out of her way to provide us with snacks and chai tea (or regular tea) during each lesson, and even poured out the chai for us in small cups as we took our quizzes. She's sooo wholesome; only ever kind words for her.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/06/2024	I am in the global public health scholars program so this course was required. But if you have the chance, please take this course if you love to learn about families and children on a global spectrum, specifically within health topics. DR. MARING IS SO NICE, and she is so understanding of any and all mishaps. If you have the chance to have her as a professor please take her! She also is a great professor to get to know and is always willing to support you in anyway. Love her and love the class!
Elisabeth Maring FMSC265S Expecting an A+ Anonymous 10/24/2024	AMAZING CLASS! AMAZING PROF! She gave out tea and snack during the quizzes and she was very understanding and sweet. I would highly recommend this class.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC265S Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/11/2024	I hate to leave this review but honestly I feel like I have to. First, let me say this class is very interesting and teaches about important concepts. However, this class was miserable for me for 2 reasons. First, the class is at 8am and if you don't plan on being there for every class you are screwed. A lot of your grade depends on your attendance. Second, this class is a global classroom course so you are taking this course with students from another campus in another country. This semester we took this class with students from India which was really nice. Here's the catch, the reason this class is at 8am is because it's the only 'appropriate' time Banaras Hindu University (BHU) students and UMD students can meet. When it's 8am here it's 6pm in India. This is where the class really lost me. Our final project group was to be made up of 4 people, 2 students from UMD and 2 students from BHU. The final project is worth an insane amount of your grade but due to the time difference, it is extremely hard to find a time to work with your group members that don't live in the U.S. . Towards the end of the semester my classes got extremely busy and I just could not consistently wake up at 7am to make it to this 8am. This made it impossible to work on the project and my grade quickly went from an A to a low C. I completely understand that students are expected to make it to every class. However, this class seemed very idealistic to me and the students do not have much room for error. This really disappoints me because a class dedicated to menstrual health is the coolest thing. I have yet to take a class at UMD that I felt I would fail for missing 5> less classes until this semester. If you're a commuter, a busy upperclassmen, or just a student who wants to do well in a class but their grade just depends on attendance, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. Oh, and just for reference, I had all A's in my other classes this semester and I took 19 credits but got a C in this one!
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A djacobs 01/18/2024	In retrospect, I really appreciate the depth of this class. I learned a lot through the research project we were assigned (don't procrastinate!) and the cultural interview project was a fun activity. Dr. Maring holds weekly office hours and is very willing to answer questions.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A Anonymous 01/04/2024	A very nice and forgiving professor but can be quite boring at times. She basically reads off the slides the whole lecture, but the class was very easy so it did not matter much. No final exam either.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/19/2023	Dr. Maring is an amazing professor! She is super nice and super easy so class was not hard at all. You don't really need to pay attention in lecture because she gives a study guide and all of the content is on there. Easy A TAKE HER
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/19/2023	What an interesting class. The class overall talked about both families and public health, but more public health. I could connect my learning to previous learning and it was so reinforcing. There were quizzes that were open note, lectures that were recorded, and a few assignments/discussions. We had a larger project where we interviewed a classmate and talked about our backgrounds. Great if you get a great partner!! Dr. Maring provides great and supportive feedback. The class will be challenging if you do not watch the videos, especially because the quizzes are based on them. The textbook/book wasn’t necessary in my opinion. Would take again & would take another class with Dr. Maring!
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110 Anonymous 06/02/2022	I'm taking the asynchronous version of this class during the summer. It bugs me that all she does in the lecture videos are read from her pre-written notes and go through some slides. The course doesn't seem well prepared. There are a lot of assignments that are due every day and the instructions given are not clear enough. Unless you have no other choice, I recommend not to take this class with Dr. Maring, and not to take this class in general in the summer. I don't know how Dr. Maring expects students to read two entire books AND watch all her lecture videos, all while doing at least two assignments per day and interacting with other students for almost 15 days.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC110S Expecting an A krych 12/19/2012	Prof Maring is amazing! She's so nice and makes class really interesting. She always includes examples about her family and makes the material very relatable. Tests are relatively easy. Definitely take her for fmsc110s if you are in GPH scholars.
Elisabeth Maring FMSC332 Anonymous 04/11/2011	Dr. Maring is a very kind, approachable woman. Her class is very easy-4 midterms, 6 online quizzes, and a few in class activities. She also shares a lot of stories from her own experience parenting, which is very cute. However, I will add that she does dumb down course material quite a bit, and her lectures move very slowly. Not the best class/professor if you're looking to stay engaged or challenged.