PSYC 2005

A very sweet professor. This class wasn't given many TAs (only one in fact), so expect it to take a while to get your exam scores back. He always teaches with a smile and has a great attitude overall, but that's only if he has his Diet Mtn Dew for the day.

There's no hw and the textbook is unnecessary, u can just go to the lectures to get the fill in the blank notes but u don't have to actually pay attention, definitely easy to cram the night before exams and still get an A/A-, but psa even though it says it's a "psych" class it's more of a stats class so keep that in mind

Was not a fan of this class or professor at all. He was a nice enough person, but his teaching method was extremely boring and not helpful for exams. At certain points, I would look around the class and everyone was either asleep, online shopping, or playing 2048. The grading is almost entirely exam-based, but he doesn't provide any practice problems. I would suggest taking a different professor.

Grading information--
Professor Clark added homework to the course this semester, and it counts for 15% of the final grade. My class had six homework assignments, and the lowest score is dropped. This class also has three exams (each is 20% of the final grade) and one final (worth 25% of the final grade). No exam grades will be dropped, he was very clear about this. The exams were all administrated through Collab, and no partial credit is given.

Teaching information--
Professor Clark was generally a lazy professor. He rarely replied to emails, and he was usually late or absent to his own office hours. The class had two TAs, neither of which were particularly knowledgable. One of the TAs confidently told me the wrong answer for a homework question once, and her explanations overall were always confusing. The TAs actually did respond to emails and attend their own office hours, which was helpful since Professor Clark was largely absent.
The class content itself was not especially challenging, though we did not learn everything necessary for a true education in data analysis. For example, Professor Clark refused to teach us one-tail tests because he thought they were biased measures of data. (which is ironic, because refusing to teach them is also biased...) Even if this method has certain flaws, understanding one-tail tests is essential to engaging with stats, and Professor Clark disadvantages his students by pushing an agenda like this in his classroom.
Professor Clark does not release exam questions, which makes it very hard to study for the final because you can't understand what you got wrong. He says that you can come to office hours to review missed questions, although the one time I did this, he told me I was wasting his time.
In short, it's very possible to get an A in the class, though you'll have to experience some bullying if you try to interact with Professor Clark.

If you can, take this course with any other professor.
Professor Clark doesn't release any of his exam questions, so you never know what you got wrong. We had to beg him to release the homework questions so we can see if we get them wrong or not. All in all, the course is very straightforward. It meets a math requirement and it goes over the basics of statistics. I'm studying (studying being a loose term because I have no idea what questions I'm getting wrong or right) for the final right now and I know I am not going to retain anything from this course. He posts parts of his lecture slides online, but the stuff we have to fill in is all the equations you can't format when you type, but he moves too quickly for you to handwrite so you just got to hope your descriptions of the equations are legible. He'll go on tangents talking about the Office or genetics and does not like to be wrong. He will not listen when we explain why releasing the exam feedback would be helpful.