Carol Dempsey - University of Portland

Professor: Carol Dempsey
Department: Theology
College: University of Portland
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. D is AWESOME. She is really tough on both grammar and content with papers, but it is so worth it because it makes you a better writer. She's also amazingly forward-thinking, encouraging you to challenge everything. She's also just so spunky, adorable, and lively. Highly, highly recommend.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Dempsey is a very nice women and cares very much for her students, however she is not organized at all. This class was one of the most time consuming core classes I have ever taken. There is so much assigned reading every single class and what is taught in class has nothing to do with the readings or the assigned papers.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Dempsey is an INCREDIBLY tough professor for a required course. I understand if this was an upper division course for theology majors, however, as someone majoring in something other than theology with work-heavy courses aside from theology, I did NOT do well in this class. Also, don't expect to know your grade at all the whole semester.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
By the end of the semester I learned to love and respect Dr D. Grading & amount of work can be discouraging. Makes you work for it but she just wants you to succeed & have a valuable learning experience, which you will. Don't take if you're lazy and can't handle criticism. 1 major, several minor & 2 midterm essays. Several quizzes. No final.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Dempsey is an incredible lecturer. She is patient, passionate, and good at relaying information clearly. However, her reading assignments are upwards of 50 pages per night (most of the time closer to 70 or 80) and there's a lot of writing. If you take your papers to the Writing Center and ask questions, you'll be just fine. Just prepare to read
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She is very sweet, kind and funny. But she is a hard grader and expects a lot from her students. I love her as a person but for a professor for a mandatory core class is too hard. There is this really long paper that is probably one of the hardest things I've ever done academically in my life. All quizzes are only T/F. The reading is extensive
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: THE319
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dempsey is AWESOME with Upper Division classes. Every day she asks us "Is this class working for you? What should we change?" She really listens to what we want to get out of the class. She is a bit of a tougher grader on papers, but the papers are reflections so it's pretty easy. She's spunky and lots of fun. Would definitely recommend her!
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She's hands down the worst professor I've ever had. She talks down to students, assigns 50+ pages of reading for almost every class, and expects everyone to be passionate about the subject. She acts disappointedfrustrated if you aren't. Instructions are very confusing. She claims she'll meet with you, but is always "too busy" to actually do it.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: THEOLOGY205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dempsey is an amazing professor. She is absolutely brilliant and makes the class easy to understand. She is so kind to students and always willing to help. But you have to do the reading and study in her class. She expects you to do your best, and she works just as hard. Take her class. She is fantastic.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Her section of BibTrad is good if you're into writing. She broke down the assignments pretty easily. However, she lectured the whole class based off of the coursepack and there was very little discussion. She also assigned two extra books which were boring and repetitive and not worth the time reading them. Quizzes tough but only 10% of the grade.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Fantastic professor. She was so helpfully. Dempsey is brilliant. We covered a lot of material and I learned so much. Take her classes. She is one of the best at UP. I loved the time she gave to me outside of class. Great talks in her office. She is so good!
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Took Bib-Trad, and wasn't impressed. She's very knowledgeable about the subjects, but spent so much time in Gen/Ex. (half the semester) that we didn't touch on anything else, even though all the other classes did! She was always late to class, but expected students to be on time. If you actually want to learn about the whole Bible, Don't take her!
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She had extremely high expectations that were often not articulated clearly. She regularly checked over our essays in front of the entire class, handing them back and snapping at students that made minor grammatical or format errors. While she is extremely knowledgable on the subject, I found that she expected us to know much more than we did.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I was nervous to take the class because of all the horror stories I have heard about her. She grades pretty hard and you will have to spend quite a bit of time and energy on her assignments. But, she is extremely knowledgeable and very entertaining to listen to. I enjoyed the class, even though it was tough. Not an easy class, but a good one.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: THEP482
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She is so awsome with upper division. I would definently say to take her. Especially if you can get her to talk about the prophets she gets really excited she loves them. It was my favorite day of class
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She is a great professor! She is always helpful and her main concern is to help the students. Her office hours are very busy but she is very willing to find a time for you. Many people said she's scary, but she really isn't!
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dynamic prof! She is brilliant and so helpful. I LOVED this class.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Excellent prof. I can't say enough about her. She deepened my faith and I learned so much. She makes you work but it is worth it. She is so open to all students and ideas. Amazing person. Take her classes!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dempsey is an amazing women, yet what she asks of her students is quite a lot. She has such amazing insight and life lessons that I never would have gotten from another Bib. Trad. professor, yet she makes you work for your grades! If you take Dempsey, make sure to do funny voices when you read Biblical text, she LOVES IT, especially Borat voices.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: THE205
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. D knows what she's talkin about. But she is rude and talks down to students. Always 10 min late and complains about her busy life. Never available to help, cuz she's "so busy" and doesn't like any opinon unless it agrees with hers. Too much reading (100 pages on the first day)and no exageration,there's about 60 pages of writing all semester.
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