Nadia Horning

Gives very unclear directions for exams and is unhelpful. Does not have a clear rubric or a cohesive assessment on how she grades students—almost comes off as if she does it in on a whim. Grades extremely harsh in comparison to how simple-minded her teaching was. Taught the class as if she was talking about revolutionary ideas, but it was talking points that I already knew and conceptualized since elementary school. Lectures were uninteresting and filled with lack luster videos and commentary. Group projects and presentations were not well-structured and below college-level.

Gives very unclear directions for exams and is unhelpful. Does not have a clear rubric or a cohesive assessment on how she grades students—almost comes off as if she does it in on a whim. Grades extremely harsh in comparison to how simple-minded her teaching was. Taught the class as if she was talking about revolutionary ideas, but i …Read more

I will admit that my expectations coming into this course were short-come. Instead of dealing with global challenges, we were more tasked to do readings on SDGs and their shortcomings. I essentially left the class having a similar understanding of global challenges that are occurring within the world right now.

Echoing other reviews, this class flat out sucks lol. While Prof. Horning is clearly very passionate about teaching "the next generation of changemakers" what she believes to be indispensable knowledge about the world and its issues, the delivery of the course could not get further from the mark. The concept behind it or the material itself are not bad per se, but to me personally I feel like it taught me nothing new and I would frankly be very surprised if any student of the caliber to be accepted to Middlebury was not already familiar with the vary basic concepts and ideas about global issues that were presented in this class. Despite this, I can't even say that this course is worth it as an easy IGS elective, since Prof. Horning made everything ten times more complicated and frustrating than it had to be by never giving clear guidelines or expectations on assignments and making us regurgitate the same information in a 3-part group project that everyone was completely sick of by the end of the class. Only take this class if the notion that poverty or climate change are global issues is somehow novel to you!

Echoing other reviews, this class flat out sucks lol. While Prof. Horning is clearly very passionate about teaching "the next generation of changemakers" what she believes to be indispensable knowledge about the world and its issues, the delivery of the course could not get further from the mark. The concept behind it or the material …Read more