Tried to do a "flipped classroom" where we watch lecture videos before coming to class and she'd answer our questions in class. But the way she ran the classroom felt like she was just rehashing the lecture and it wasted my time. Assigned us papers to read that were way too hard and exams had so many typos or mistakes, it was a mess. Never again.

Lectures are very boring and quiz material has nothing to due with lectures. Also will never respond to your email and she does not have a personality.

I had Carin for Genetics 375: Special Topics (1 credit). Her quizzes were confusing and the main source of grading. I went up to her at the end of the semester and showed her a confusing question and she awarded me points back. She sent a follow-up email saying that she would help me get an A as long as I put in the work in. I appreciated that.

Honestly, I do not get why Dr. Loewen gets so much flack on this site. I think she is a really kind, approachable professor and I think she is very accessible for any questions. Her slides are a bit confusing at times but, honestly, she is by no means the worst professor I have had. I honestly really enjoyed her class and her as a person

Professor Loewen has got to be the worst professor I have every had in the genetics department. Her slides in neurogenetics are a complete mess and so convoluted that you can't discern any information for exams. If you do find answers in the slides, they're most likely wrong.

Carin is one of the most obnoxious professors I've ever had. She has no respect for students' time. Assigns hours of videos to watch per week, and they're all taken from other sources. Forces students to meet weekly for a glorified discussion section (its a 3 credit class ffs). Exams every 2 weeks. Feels like high school again.

I thought neurogenetics was really engaging from the experimental design side of the research. Professor Loewen had the most cutting-edge information on Alzheimer's, Autism spectrum, and also brought in guest lecturers on TBI and memory/circadian rhythm. Overall, the course was really interesting.

Lectures were extremely boring and dry. Very excessive homework. That being said, the class was a very easy A, just very boring.

Very nice person and easy to access, but lectures were filled with content that I feel she didn't even understand. Students would ask her reasonable questions on relevant content and she would not know the answer to it. She scripted out her slides and shared them with us, so class was not mandatory. Exams were conducted online and were fair.

For Genetics 133, all the material is from her (rather messy) powerpoints and her lectures. If you don't listen to the lectures and know her powerpoints, you won't get correct answers on quizzes. She is very nice and great to ask questions to after lecture.

Class was pretty standard and straightforward, very basic and nothing too special. Class was very easy if you just showed up, notes allowed on tests and quizzes. Weekly assignments were a bit excessive.

Really not that bad. The class is more genetics based than anything related to the news, but as long as you can follow the powerpoint (which is online) you'll be totally fine. No need to go to class, although some things on the exam were discussed more in class than the powerpoint. Useless before class activities and bi-weekly quizzes. Easy enough

Prof. Loewen made the class more difficult than it should be. Even with effort, the class was overly challenging and takes up a lot more time. Would not recommend to anyone.

Lectures were dry. Clearly passionate but interrupts way to much

Not respectful of student's time, rude professor and likes to interrupt students in their train of thought.

Does not respect student's time. Was late to post final grades for the semester and requires way too much material for a 2 credit class. Seems confused when students don't do well on her exams. "Just know what's on the learning objectives" - as she posts 30 paragraph learning objectives for a 50 minute lecture. Not worth the headache.

Not the class I signed up for. She didn't discuss the news at all. Basically intro genetics. Lectures were dry and boring, just read the slides online. Fairly easy A/AB. I'd just study the night before/morning of and do well on quizzes. Her tests were unnecessarily hard though-she would ask about details that weren't relevant or talked about.

Extremely unreasonable expectations for a 2 credit course. Does not manage her time well in lecture and expects a workload of a much higher credit class. Tests and quizzes are unnecessarily difficult with unclear expectations (a 17 page review for an exam on seven 50 minute lectures). I would avoid her class if you can. Cool material, bad course.

Makes a 2 credit class more work than my 5 credit classes. She is such a hard grader and makes one of the hardest classes that I have ever taken. Her tests are so unbelievably nitpicky that you could've studied super hard and then still gotten a 50% on the exam.