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Christina Shields
HESP202 sonofnile 01/24/2023 |
In terms of the professor: She is usually nice. When students asked questions in class, she would try her best to explain it, but sometimes she wouldn't know the answer and say she would do her own research on it and get back. Luckily, she would usually get back by posting an announcement on ELMS with resources that she felt explained the question well. She does read of the slides most of the time, so it the environment of the classroom can be a bit monotonous at times. I loved it when she brought physical visual aids to class to demonstrate some of the things (e.g., how audiometers are used, the semicircular canals hat). Unfortunately, there weren't many of those physical visual aids. The lectures were also extremely dense with information, oftentimes going through 40+ slides in one lecture; so, it was a bit hard to catch up while writing notes since I prefer doing it by hand. Overall, she was very welcome to questions and concerns during lecture. In terms of the course: It is very easy to fall behind. The readings aren't necessarily heavy, but the lecture slides are dense. It was very easy to feel lost in the readings because they were written at a level for graduate students. You have to put in a lot of efforts outside of class to make sure you don't fall behind. Taking notes before class helped most people, but I had fallen behind before I could get to that. There were 2 exams: 1 midterm and 1 cumulative final. Both exams were also completely dense and only one student was able to get a perfect score while the average was usually between a low C and a B. There are online assignments every week to be completed on ELMS. They were based off of that weeks lectures and readings, and they were due on Friday. They were usually a mix of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, and short responses; sometimes, there would be fill-in-the-blank labelling questions. Finally, there's the project. I felt like the project was too much. It was basically the entire course wrapped up in your own words. You had to provide an overview of the entire auditory system, an overview of the different types of audiological evaluations, go in depth into 3 auditory structures (including their anatomy, physiology, and pathologies), and also providing how audiological evaluations can be interpreted to find those pathologies. We were expected to start early even though it meant we'd have to learn the entire course before even getting halfway through the course. |
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Christina Shields
HESP311 Anonymous 12/12/2022 |
Interesting class but need to put in a lot of effort into it (ex: like take notes beforehand, rereading notes after etc.), but her slides are organized |
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Christina Shields
HESP311 Anonymous 12/26/2021 |
All Dr. Shields did was read from the slides. The slides were confusing, all over the place and difficult to study from. The exams are hard and the only 2 together are worth like 65% of the class, so if you're a bad test taker, you're screwed. Only nice thing she does is add extensions on her projects. |
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Christina Shields
HESP311 Anonymous 12/15/2021 |
I felt like I was in a high school classroom in the worst way possible. She reads from slides and doesn't explain anything well unless you ask for clarification. Her slideshows are well put together and she was willing to give extensions for our project with no questions asked. |