Joannie Tremblay-Boire

This professor has taught: BSOS388B, PLCY300, PLCY380, PLCY388D, PLCY798Y

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Joannie Tremblay-Boire Anonymous 11/29/2023	Overly critical. You can never do well even after fixing her feedback. Very rude and condescending.
Joannie Tremblay-Boire PLCY300 Anonymous 11/27/2023	Does not have sympathy for personal situations. You should expect to not have any grace from her when you have personal issues.
Joannie Tremblay-Boire PLCY300 Anonymous 09/01/2023	She is extremely harsh when making comments and with grading. Se encourages students to be critical of their work but even if they are, she thinks we are not critical enough. Claims she cares about mental health but when the real time comes, she is not accommodating at all. She gets very defensive when we try to make your work better. In fact, she goes deeper into why your work is not up to par. It is extremely sad to be in en environment where your professor makes extremely negative comments about work instead of helping out. Her grading style of making us grade ourselves is not fair at all. She will come after you if you give yourself a grade you think you deserve even though that's the whole point of this grading style. She also said that "if [you guys] give yourself higher grades, you will be given a lower grade." How is that fair? It is hard to be around an environment where you professor puts you down instead of helping you rise.
Joannie Tremblay-Boire PLCY300 Anonymous 05/26/2023	Assignments and expectations for this class are tedious and inconsistent with every other policy course at UMD. She's way too strict and provides critical and vague feedback that you can never perfect. If you ask her about it she'll get defensive and make you feel terrible about your work. The only reason I'm giving her two stars is because the lectures were engaging. If you can, I highly suggest taking PLCY-300 with a different professor.
Joannie Tremblay-Boire PLCY300 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/07/2023	Class is well organized but teaching isn't great. Assignments are tedious are constantly implements self-refection before we've received any feedback on the assignment. Extremely rude when providing feedback and very nitpicky.
Joannie Tremblay-Boire PLCY300 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/09/2022	She is pretty nice as a professor, but her grading can be pretty harsh and a bit overly critical and with attitude. Her feedback is nice, and her instructions are very clear and pretty strict, and her class is very organized, but it is a bit rough with the grading. If the TA grades, youd be fine, but you never know when she would decide to grade and tank your overall. She also grades for participation, which sucks at times, but is overall a pretty good professor in terms of lecturing.
Joannie Tremblay-Boire PLCY388D Anonymous 12/24/2018	Dr. Tremblay-Boire has good intentions, but can get on your nerves very quickly. She gives very vague responses and her feedback is always lackluster. She constantly finds flaws in whatever work you submit and never gives perfect grades, even on an assignment where all you have to do is introduce yourself. Honestly, she makes you work for the grade, but even if you put in the work, don't expect a good grade because she doesn't like to give those. I would avoid taking her courses for the sake of your own sanity.