PSYC 2005

This class was an absolute easy A and Professor Morris is so kind and accommodating. Grades are mostly made up of computational homework assignments and several exams, all of which are open note and generously timed. There is no cumulative final exam, only 5 short midterms which are very straightforward and mostly multiple choice. He was very flexible with grading and understanding with schedule conflicts or multiple missed classes due to illness. Although his lectures were a little hard to follow at times, if you take notes and skim the chapters you should be well off. Definitely take this class with Professor Morris!

This was an interesting class. Morris is not a great lecturer and frequently had outdated slides and would lose his train of thought/get confused during lecture. I recommend reading the textbook and taking extremely detailed notes (and practice the examples given from the book) and just listening during the lectures you don't need to take notes. This threshold for an A is a 95 which is high but his exams are open note and simple and the homeworks you will be prepared for if you practice with the book. Although there was no final and the exams were open note if you are a psychology major I would recommend taking this with another professor if you want a solid foundation of research methods. However, if you just want to have a more surface-level understanding/GPA boost I recommend Morris because not all other professors have open note exams. I still feel as though I learned from this class but I thought I had to do most of it myself because the textbook does a much better job of explaining it than he does. Morris as a professor is extremely understanding and thoughtful (frequently cancelling lecture/ending it early) but extremely hard to contact.

If you take this class, TAKE IT WITH PROFESSOR MORRIS. I know people who took it with other professors and said it was horrible. I loved this class with Professor Morris. It was incredibly low stress, low difficulty, and not much work outside of class. He does take attendance for a grade so you do need to show up to class. Grade was made up of 5 exams that were open note and pretty easy (no computational work on any of them except for one problem on the last one), 4 homework assignments that were not anything different from the examples done in class, and attendance. Professor Morris is very lenient and good about working with students for grade adjustments, help with work, etc. Pay attention to the professor you take this class with, because like I said I have heard rough things about this course when taken with other professors but with Morris I 100% recommend.

This class is really just a prereq for the psych major/minor. Professor Morris was evidently a good guy, but his lecturing was dry and didn't expand on the readings well. The readings were actually more interesting than I expected them to be (since it's hypothesis testing etc.), but still not mind-blowing. They took a decent amount of effort to wrap your head around the information—but once you did, the class was easy. There were a few homework assignments that tested our calculative abilities, but they each took about 30 minutes. You had to have done the readings to do them and the tests, but the tests were easy too. Just do the readings and it's an easy A, at least in my experience.