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Marina Parenti

HIST101 · HISTORY101 · HIST102 · COS126ECON238 · 57 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
2.3/5
Take again
22.64%
Difficulty
4.0

The decision

Avoid unless you want a writing-heavy history grind with .

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerHarsh graderOverwhelming papersConfusing AI rulesCondescending feedbackUnclear expectations
  • Recent reviews overwhelmingly warn students to run, especially in online HIST101.
  • Workload centers on long weekly papers, film write-ups, and .
  • A smaller older minority found her fine if and .

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

28/100

Even diligent students report harsh paper and , and grades stuck in the B/C range.

Online recent reviews are harsher on grade .

Is the course easy?

Challenging

26/100

Heavy weekly writing, dense reading, and hard.

Online is especially writing-heavy; and lectures.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

48/100

and not mandatory across reviews, with online mostly asynchronous work.

; many in-person reviews list mandatory.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

23/100

Only about 23% would take again, and recent .

Online ; older in-person has more split opinions.

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

16/100

Tough-grader tags dominate, with zeroed discussions, citation nitpicks, and .

Format shift

Harshness is loudest in recent online HIST101; some older reviews called her merely hard.

Workload

Overwhelming

14/100

Students describe multi-thousand-word , and film write-ups that consume whole summers.

Format shift

Online paper load is the main overwhelm; and tests.

Teaching experience

Poor

24/100

Many say she does , and confuses students with conflicting instructions.

Format shift

Online is rated worse for teaching absence; a minority of in-person reviews praise engaging lectures.

Assessment method

FocusOnAssignments

32/100

Grades lean on weekly papers, discussions, films, and punitive when present.

Format shift

Online is assignment and discussion heavy; .

Luni fit check

Weigh these signals against your actual schedule.

Get help balancing workload, grading, and timing when no option is an obvious fit.

Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

17 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person feedback is mixed historically, with some fun lectures but , and .

Main concern

and lectures that .

What students said

“Probably the .”
HIST102
“ ! Took her fast track class.”
HIST102

Remote format

Online

33 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

, and little teaching.

Main concern

Weekly research-style papers, AI double standards, and .

What students said

“RUN!!!!! . .”
HIST101
“Forces us to use .”
HIST101

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

When exams appear, students describe hard, obscure, sometimes webcam-proctored tests and .

Webcam recorded testsRemote proctoringHard multiple choiceWeekly quizzesVague criteria

Assessment risk

Strict

32/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

, and poorly aligned with lectures; pop quizzes and test-heavy grades appear in older reviews.

Long examsTest heavyPop quizzesVague final project criteria
“the and had many unrelated questions on it.”
HIST102
“2/3 of your grade relied .”
HIST101

Online

Some older online reviews report webcam-recorded remote proctoring and obscure quizzes; .

Webcam recorded testsRemote proctoringObscure quiz questionsHarsh discussion grading
“ and kinda invasive but go off).”
HIST102
“ . Quiz questions very obscure.”
HIST102

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“RUN!!!!! . . I have never experienced such a horrible professor.”

Voice snapshots generated from 50 reviews with heavy recent online negativity and . Credibility rating: High.

🚫 Recommendation Crash

23/100

“ . I'm warning you”

📝 Paper Overload

14/100

“ !!!!!!!!!!”

⚖️

16/100

“Refused to add the points I EARNED, which was the only thing holding me back from a B”

🤖

20/100

“Forces us to use .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • she does not teach at all
  • Doesn't teach. etc
  • lectures don't follow the book exactly

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • so much work so boring and horrible
  • way harder than it needs to be

Theme 3

💬 About Communication

  • and
  • rude and snarky reminders

Data context

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Analysis sample

50

Recent reviews read by the AI

57

Lifetime ratings

92/100

Evidence confidence

Fifty reviews over many years, with a large recent online cluster, provide rich consistent negative patterns plus a smaller positive minority.

Inside 50 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 510
4 out of 57
3 out of 54
2 out of 57
1 out of 529

Course coverage

HIST10136 reviews
HIST10210 reviews
HISTORY1013 reviews
COS126ECON2381 review

Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

38 reported outcomes

A range

8

A+ 1 · A 6 · A- 1

B range

9

B+ 2 · B 7

C range

6

C+ 1 · C 5

D range

1

D+ 1

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

14

Drop/Withdrawal 1 · Incomplete 3 · Not sure yet 8 · Rather not say 2