AI Rate Professor

Accounting

Julie Hansen

ACCT116B · ACC116 · ACCT116 · ACCT116A · BUS120 · 24 lifetime ratings

AI rating
38/100
RMP rating
3.1/5
Take again
10%
Difficulty
3.4

The decision

Avoid unless and the textbook; communication and lecture quality are major pain points.

Best fit · Self Taught ProPoor communicationSelf-taught requiredTough graderDisorganized lecturesMixed older praise
  • , and heavy Connect workload
  • Many students say you learn from the book/McGraw Connect, not her lectures
  • Older reviews are more positive on humor and care, but

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

35/100

As are possible with heavy self-study, but and .

Both formats stress earned grades; and .

Is the course easy?

Challenging

32/100

Accounting content plus weak lectures and students.

Online and ; online workload intensity is worse.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

45/100

and warn skip class and you will not pass; others say optional.

Mixed reports across both formats with .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Would-take-again is about 10 percent and recent comments urge avoiding poor communication and self-teaching.

One positive online video-instruction review; most recent online and in-person reviews are negative.

Course guide

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Grading

Strict

32/100

and comments that everything is earned with .

Format shift

; recent ones call her tough.

Workload

Heavy

28/100

Lots of , and test-heavy structure.

Format shift

Online reviews especially stress multi-hour assignments and no life.

Teaching experience

Poor

35/100

Students often say lectures are unhelpful, disorganized, or leave them learning alone.

Format shift

In-person older praise for humor; recent online and in-person cite bad communication.

Assessment method

Balanced

55/100

Mix of , and projects with some test-heavy notes.

Format shift

Similar mix online and in person; online uses Connect/excel-style inputs.

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

20 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

older students liked her humor and care, recent ones say you mostly teach yourself and she is hard to contact.

Main concern

Lectures often miss the mark and .

What students said

“Be prepared to spend money to learn on your own.”
ACC116
“Not the yourself mostly”
ACC116
“ contact information”
ACCT116A

Remote format

Online

4 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

Online sections feel sink-or-swim with , and long McGraw Connect hours.

Main concern

Hard to reach and .

What students said

“Julie is hard to reach and very hard to get a timely response out of.”
ACCT116A
“If you do the online version be prepared and have no life.”
ACCT116A
“if you need help good luck hearing back from her for a day or two.”
ACCT116B

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Exams are a major grade factor; policies vary by era and .

Test heavyQuizzes and examsNotes sometimes allowedNo comprehensive final (older)

Assessment risk

Standard

48/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

Tests do not recycle quizzes; some older sections allowed a notes sheet and .

Test heavySheet of notes (older)No comprehensive final (older)
“Some classes recycle test questions from quizzes that directly translate to an exam. This class does not.”
ACCT116A
“ and a sheet of ”
ACCT116B

Online

Online finals and after verbal yes.

Online finalLocked retakeQuizzes unrelated to HW
“I asked if was due, she said yes, then when I went to log in, it was locked”
ACCT116A
“ and it's always your fault.”
ACCT116B

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Be prepared to spend money to learn on your own. why she has a low score here”

Voice snapshots generated from 24 reviews (4 online, 20 in-person), highlighting communication, self-study, and mixed era tone. Credibility rating: High.

📉 Teaching Quality

35/100

“She also is not good at articulating the subject to you, so get ready to pay for McGraw connect and to be thrown to the wolves.”

👎 Recommendation Rate

18/100

“ contact information and uses a system that leaves no way to contact her after the course is over.”

📚 Self-Teaching Load

28/100

“If you do the online version be prepared and have no life.”

⚖️

32/100

“Everything is earned. She's a decent and fair professor.”

Theme 1

📞 About Communication

  • Julie is hard to reach and very hard to get a timely response out of.
  • if you need help good luck hearing back from her for a day or two.
  • she never gives out her contact information

Theme 2

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • you just learn by yourself mostly
  • her lectures cover none of the material, and are mostly just personal stories
  • She overexplains the material and yet it's like she never taught anything.

Theme 3

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • Very difficult class, which is to be expected for accounting
  • I cant say that its an easy a class because it is not.

Data context

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Analysis sample

24

Recent reviews read by the AI

24

Lifetime ratings

78/100

Evidence confidence

24 reviews spanning 2010-2025 with detailed comments; recent tone is more negative than older praise, so weight recent experience carefully.

Inside 24 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 57
4 out of 54
3 out of 54
2 out of 53
1 out of 56

Course coverage

ACCT116B10 reviews
ACCT116A9 reviews
ACC1163 reviews
ACCT1161 review
BUS1201 review

Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

8 reported outcomes

A range

3

A 3

B range

2

B 1 · B- 1

C range

2

C+ 1 · C 1

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

1

Rather not say 1