Historical instructor

Annie Bauer

Adjusted rating
RMP difficulty
captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 2.59/5 from 17 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

What students say

Original student reviews · all captured dates

GEOSCI 375
Quality 1/5Difficulty 2/5
Annie clearly has no background knowledge about what she's teaching, cannot answer in-depth questions about the content, and doesn't care about helping students or seeing them succeed. Truly astounding that she even got hired to teach at UW.
Rate My Professors ↗
GEOSCI 109
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Dr. Baur has interesting lectures and is willing to help. She is willing to help you understand concepts in office hours which her counterpart is not. Her lectures are engaging but she talks very fast.
Rate My Professors ↗
GEOSCI 109
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Professor Bauer did a careful job making the points clear. I enjoyed the class and her lectures
Rate My Professors ↗
GEOSCI 109
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
Professor Bauer and Zoet co-taught my class, and there was a big difference between the two. Annies lectures were hard to understand and very much more difficult to process and take notes on. I would not recommend to take her class, it is not as is advertised as an "easy science for non science major" Bauer made it so much harder than it should be
Rate My Professors ↗
GEOSCI 109
Quality 4/5Difficulty 3/5
I went into the course thinking I would enjoy a class on national parks, but it ended up being overall stressful because of all the different topics that are covered in such a short time period. It heavily relies on memorization, but the exams were luckily MC. Two professors taught this class and I preferred Prof. Zoet, but that's just my opinion!
Rate My Professors ↗
GEOSCI 109
Quality 4/5Difficulty 3/5
There were two professors for this class, and I preferred Bauer a bit more. Knew what she was talking about and answered every question that was asked in lecture. Interesting lectures. I did take Geosci100, which definitely helped me, class would've been harder if I didn't have the basics down already. Exams more difficult than they should be.
Rate My Professors ↗

Personal experiences, not a representative survey. Profile matching and captured coverage are shown in the source details.

Classes with Annie Bauer

No teaching recorded in Fall 2026.

No courses match this selection. Try the full catalog or another term.

Recorded teaching history

Explore courses taught by this instructor →
Browse recorded courses
TermCourseTitle

Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.

Instructor identity & provenance
{
  "instructor_uid": "instructor_3012f92b815217b80efc1665",
  "source": "legacy",
  "source_instructor_id": null,
  "identity_basis": "name_only",
  "identity_status": "unresolved",
  "name": "Annie Bauer",
  "email": "ANNIE.BAUER@WISC.EDU",
  "first_observed_at": "2025-12-03 12:33:41.418072+00:00",
  "last_observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00",
  "ratings": {
    "review_count": 17,
    "quality": 2.59,
    "difficulty": 3.88,
    "quality_count": 17,
    "difficulty_count": 17,
    "profile_id": "rmp:2626923",
    "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/2626923",
    "match_basis": "exact_name",
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:55:00.616544+00:00",
    "courses": {
      "course_ba8fecc2b4c2cdfd9552b985": {
        "review_count": 2,
        "quality": 2.5,
        "difficulty": 3,
        "quality_count": 2,
        "difficulty_count": 2
      },
      "course_0911d463248b56fd56dfea6d": {
        "review_count": 14,
        "quality": 2.71,
        "difficulty": 3.93,
        "quality_count": 14,
        "difficulty_count": 14
      }
    },
    "bayesian_quality": 3.1682085316468083,
    "prior_mean": 3.6596857835465957,
    "prior_weight": 20
  },
  "current": false,
  "courses": [],
  "revision": "e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349",
  "instructor_url": "/instructors/ANNIE_BAUER--instructor_3012f92b815217b80efc1665"
}