PSYC 1010

Dodson is an absolutely wonderful professor that explains the material very clearly. His tests are difficult though! Study the powerpoints and book thoroughly. No homework except to read the book. There are 4 tests and he drops the lowest grade, plus a final.

Really enjoyed this class, lectures seemed to go by very quickly because Dodson is a very engaging and enthusiastic professor! Strong emphasis on lectures on the exam, you definitely need to go to class.

Lectures can be boring at times especially when he just reads off the powerpoint slides. The experimental videos are always entertaining. Exams are fairly simple but reading the textbook might also help with concepts not discussed in lecture.

Interesting lectures for the most part, but the tests are very tricky. You really need to memorize his powerpoint slides and read the textbook (which is painfully long sometimes) if you want to get an A.

I did not like the lecture, but I did like the information. The lecture consisted of him talking about his powerpoint and showing alot of videos. I often fell asleep because the class is so cut and fry and straight forward. His tests were mostly derived from the powerpoint and the tests were kind of tricky. This class confirmed what people say about into classes being some of the hardest.

Professor Dodson is a really engaging lecturer, posts his powerpoints to collab, the tests are all scantron (but shouldn't be underestimated), and your lowest test grade is dropped from your average. I loved this class, it was a great first experience with the psych department.

Awful, awful class. While the subject matter can be interesting at times, unfortunately your grade doesn't depend on the big-picture items; more often than not, how well you do well on the tests is based off of how many irrelevant details you can remember, present in either two words in the PowerPoint or one sentence from the book. Rote memorization never makes for a good, interesting, or worthwhile class.

Dodson has the possibility of being a good professor, but I can't judge that based upon a class where he simply reads off PowerPoints (no reason to attend class whatsoever - they're posted on Collab even before he lectures on them).

I agree with the guy below me; Dodson does just read off of the slides. I fell asleep in this class multiple times and still got an A, as you didn't really need to attend lectures. Reading the book isn't really necessary either as it goes into more detail than you need for the tests. I would still probably go to lecture because a few of his slides require some explanation. You get one drop test, and I'm not really sure how much he curves for the class. That being said, I was considering being a psyc major but this class kinda killed it for me. You learn some interesting things but overall I had a mediocre experience.

Your basic 1010 college class. Dodson was a fun guy and a decent lecturer. The exams were all multiple choice and you could drop the lowest grade. Don't take this class unless you have to, because it's a lot of material and only very general.

Great professor, good intro class and got me into taking higher level psych classes. just going over the slides was really enough to do well