Stella Rouse

This professor has taught: GVPT100, GVPT170, GVPT388L, GVPT460, GVPT460H, GVPT479C, GVPT479D, GVPT828L, GVPT868L

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Stella Rouse GVPT479D Expecting an A- Anonymous 02/18/2023	I was expecting to get an A so I am a little disappointed. I put a lot of effort into my papers and discussions. I thought the class/lecture was interesting, but def a little useless or intuitive. i didn't think the grading was fair for how easy the content was.
Stella Rouse GVPT479D Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/01/2022	I also had her for 170 and that was awful, I ended with a B but I hated the class the whole time. However, for 479D I got an A-. I think her higher-level classes aren't as bad. But for all those GVPT170 reviews you have to remember that she doesn't grade those papers or your assignments in that class, the TAs do. So if you have an issue with your grade Rouse didn't do that, your TA. But she does create the exam, and that was awful and terribly hard, especially for a lower-level class. 479D was fine but there were a shit ton of readings, I kinda would cram and skim them a bunch just before writing the little papers and I did fine. I am also not too bad at school so idk if that had anything to do with it, but I never really paid attention in lectures and still got an A-. The exams in 479D weren't bad at all.
Stella Rouse GVPT170 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/07/2022	Lecture slides come straight from the textbook so either read the textbook or go to class or both i guess. Discussions r helpful to go to if u wanna understand the supplemental readings. Exams are straightforward and from the textbook. In my semester, she offered very easy extra credit that was applied to multiple sections of the grade.
Stella Rouse GVPT170 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/09/2021	I love professor Rouse! She keeps her lectures entertaining and tells you what you need to know for her papers and quiz’s. She does go through lecture slides a little quick sometimes so it’s hard to keep up. She also doesn’t tell you whats going to be on her exams, but her exams are very easy if you study. Sometimes her lectures are boring, but thats more to do with the course material rather than her and she always tries to make her lectures more entertaining.
Stella Rouse GVPT170 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/08/2021	Do not take this class if it is not a requirement, she just lectures the whole time and the class has almost nothing to do with the basics of American government. She doesn't curve the class and homeworks are not particularly easy. She makes you read two things a week for discussion and both are utterly useless. DO NOT take the class.
Stella Rouse GVPT170 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/08/2021	Everything the person said that submitted a review below on 12/14/2019 is 1000% true and I couldn't state it any better myself
Stella Rouse Expecting a B Anonymous 07/21/2020	She is probably the worst professor you will ever have, please NEVER take her class!!
Stella Rouse GVPT170 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/14/2019	Professor Rouse is obviously very knowledgable on and passionate about her subject. But she definitely has the air of a professor who knows how smart they are, as she made it clear that everyone in the class should only contact her as last resort and she made some condescending comments. She has a strict no-technology policy and requires you to buy a clicker for the class, and there is always technical difficulties with the clickers, probably because we were in a 200 person lecture hall. She required us to read a textbook and a reader chapter every week, which equalled probably over a hundred very dry, long pages weekly - the reading expectations were absolutely ridiculous. You probably won't be able to get away without reading - I pretty much skimmed each 6-7 chapter section before the midterm and final. She refuses to post lecture slides online so that people who don't come to lecture (attendance is counted every day) can't see them, but (and this is important) SHE FILLS UP HER SLIDES WITH TONS OF INFORMATION AND GOES THROUGH THEM SO QUICK YOU WILL NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO WRITE THEM DOWN. YOU WILL NOT GET EVERYTHING DOWN. AND SHE WILL NOT POST THE SLIDES. You might be able to get away with recording lectures on your phone but its a pain in the ass considering the strict no-tech policy. She talks a million miles an hour as well. The class wasn't a huge deal for me as a GVPT major (and this being a requirement), so if you end up her in class and have to be there like me, it will be manageable, considering you have a more natural talent/understanding for gov. But DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER FOR ONE MEASLY GEN ED IF YOU ARE NOT A GVPT MAJOR. It definitely won't be worth it.
Stella Rouse GVPT100 jmoney 11/12/2014	I created an account on this website after using it for a few years and I saw Rouse's name pop up for an upper level government class. I had the opportunity to take my first class in the government program GVPT100 with this professor. It was one of the most miserable and stressful experiences of my freshman year. It made me question my choice of being a government major at UMD. I received a C in her class after working on it for hours each week. She was extremely ineffective in teaching the lessons and the coordination between her and the TA's was horrible. I retook gvpt100 my sophmore year and received an A with a different teacher that actually taught the class. Stella's shortfalls as a professor did not just reverberate with me, but with the entire class. After teacher evaluations, when UMD allowed teachers to view them before the course ended, she scolded the class because they were overwhelming negative as the entire class with fed up with her teaching methods. How unprofessional. Moreover she refused to post the notes for a 100 level lecture and while I went to class every 9am lecture I still couldn't copy her notes and draw all of the graphs within her impossible to follow time frame. After this horrible experience with my first government class I decided to persevere and continue the major within UMD. My experiences have been great and the faculty has been exceptional in teaching the subject matter. As a student I strongly recommend you do NOT take a class with her. You will regret it and so will your GPA.
Stella Rouse GVPT479D Expecting a B Anonymous 12/21/2009	I understand that it was a 400-level class, but her expectations were far too high. She didn't teach anything. She would have us read about these research studies which requires you to have taken at least 2 statistics classes. Her grading is another story. She was very knowledgeable but in order to get any sort of real information from her you had to ask the questions. She speaks 500 words per second and barely gives you enough time to copy down any sort of notes or anything. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS UNLESS YOU TAKE IT PASS FAIL BECAUSE YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED WITH YOUR GRADE.