Laurie Essig

  • 4.0Overall Quality
  • 3.9Helpfulness
  • 4.1Clarity
  • 4.3Easiness

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Date
Class
Rating
Comment
3/16/06

Soc 101, 1
96

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest5

I had three classes with her all at the same time, theory, freakishness and heterosexuality. They were great classes, although theory was boring but she is a great professor. Middleburry will be lucky to have her!

12/18/05

Soc 196

Poor Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness2

Clarity1

Rater Interest3

Totally condescending and insulting.

11/21/05

Soc 101

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness2

Clarity5

Rater Interest5

She conducts an interesting class but not without her faults. She oversimplifies theorists and misapplies them to her modern, liberal ideas. Plenty of work but she grades incredibly easy.

11/19/05

social pro
blems

Good Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest4

very liberal with strong opinions. very cool though. assigned a fair amount of reading but i didnt need to do it. just go to class and take notes. had to choose 4 papers out of 8 to write over the semester

11/10/05

Soc 11

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest3

this class was very informative and was fun

8/14/05

Soc 11

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness3

Clarity4

Rater Interest4

Very interesting class, opens your eyes to alot of things. Very fair exam only if you make it to every class and take notes...she loves to give statistics and "fun" facts.

7/26/05

soc011

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest3

Very open minded and influential teacher. I learned a lot in this class. She's also extremely fair and very approachable.

4/13/05

soc 11

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness4

Clarity3

Rater Interest4

Definitely throws a lot of statistics at you but class is always interesting because she is great at getting people going.

4/13/05

soc11

Poor Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness1

Clarity3

Rater Interest3

very very boring, full of statistics, very bitter, interupts students when they have comments, shes always right and a hard core left wing democrat. i agree with most of the things she says but she just isn't cool at all, actually she sucks

11/18/04

SOC11

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest4

No Comments

11/11/04

Soc of Fre
akish

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity3

Rater Interest5

Great teacher. Makes class interesting. Awesome person. I highly recomend her.

10/27/04

Soc 11

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness4

Clarity5

Rater Interest5

She often makes comments in class like "You all got low SAT scores and that's why you go to UVM". Expect to be insulted on a regular basis. The class itself is boring, she just lists off statistics and facts the entire class period. If you want good, solid teaching, this professor isn't for you.

10/5/04

Soc 27

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness4

Clarity4

Rater Interest3

No Comments

9/11/04

pleasure

Good Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest 

I took Sociology of Pleasure & Sociology of Freakishness with her. She's a great teacher - fun interactions while in class and plenty of pictures and articles to back up her assertions. Be prepared to analyze your own reactions to cultural oddities.