PSYC 3420

The professor is really nice, and it's honestly sad because he was telling us about how he felt like lecture is pointless since no one went to his lectures, however, his lectures can be tedious and a bit repetitive in a way. It's just slower paced, so I found it more efficient to watch the lectures at a faster speed. The tests are pretty convoluted and you can often find yourself overthinking the answers. It's pretty difficult to get a good score on these tests but the curves are pretty generous and he counts anything from 90-100 as an A.

This was the first time he was teaching the course with his book published so a lot of reading was expected. We read a chapter of his book each week then had lecture. In the beginning of the semester, there was a lot of class time used for discussion which is interesting at first but then seemed to drag on a bit. I felt like a lot of the points being made were already in the book so I just had to sit through an hour of people talking. The quizzes weren't too bad and I did very well on all of them (he also curves to the highest score on each quiz) but the final was on the first day so it was hard to have time to study everything since it was cumulative. The final was the most difficult since it spans such a large variety of topics and I wish I put more time into it. But otherwise totally doable and would recommend. I took it as an elective for neuroscience. #tCFS25