LPPL 3210

Chou is an amazing lecturer and clearly dedicates lots of time to planning this course and her lectures. The course is sort of "applied psychology for leadership", you discuss what makes a good leader, influence tactics, and team building. The weekly seminar is usually about half her lecturing and half an activity. Some of the activities were fun, some of them were a bit of a drag, but none of them were painful like I was worried. I'd recommend trying to enjoy and immerse yourself in the situations as much as possible, they work much better when people are actually committed to them and not just trying to be done as soon as possible. There's three 3-page applications papers, one group project which turned out to be easier than expected, one interview-based paper, a midterm, and a final. All turned out to be more manageable than I expected. You are allowed a front and back note sheet on the midterm and final which makes them very doable. My only complaint with the course is it sometimes felt like the 2.5 hour class could've been summarized in 30 minutes. #tCFfall2022

The professor is very nice and organized-- I would say however that if you get social anxiety in ANY form, this class may be one that you dread a little more. There is a mountain of groupwork that you complete during class, many of which takes the form of solving specific case studies or doing mock negotiations with other random students. I didn't always find the group work to be totally relevant, and as someone who likes to work alone, I sort of dreaded the work—but it's also a leadership course, so it's kind of expected. Additionally, I didn't find the grading to be 100% fair all the time; I did worse on the application papers as we turned each one in, even though I was specifically changing what they critiqued. I'm not sure if it was the TA or Prof. Chou grading. This semester didn't seem like the "easy A" everyone says it is for me personally, but it certainly wasn't my hardest class.

everything about this class was super organized and well planned out. she's such an engaging lecturer that the 2.5 hours managed to go by pretty quickly. #tCFfall20