PSYC 2200

I thought the material was interesting, but I'm probably in the minority. Professor Hill is entertaining in a dry, sarcastic way. He tells you straight up that he doesn't test on random details from the reading, which is nice, but the tests can still be confusingly worded. Watch out for matching questions and read all answers carefully. The book goes into much more detail than the class actually does, so that can be confusing at times--skim the book and don't try to memorize it all. He drops the lowest exam grade and seems to be pretty lenient about grading--he raised all our final grades by 10 points because everyone failed. Not a bad class overall.

Hill is a great lecturer. His humor is a little dry, but I found it entertaining. He places a lot of emphasis on what will be on the test by being repetitive. This class depends on a series of 4-5 tests. None are cumulative. There's a lot of pressure to do well, especially on the first one. If you do, then you're solid. Tests are multiple choice.

I really liked his lectures. Just need to attend the lectures and take good notes for the exams.

Professor Hill honestly wants people to do well in his class. This semester he offered 5.5 points of extra credit to add to one test grade out of 100. He also rounds up .5 so if you have an 89.5 it will round up to a 90 giving you an A-. He also offers the option that if you do well on the first 4 tests, you do not have to take the final, which is nice if you have a super crammed finals schedule. He also adjusts the A distribution so that a 92 and above is considered an A. Make sure to take good notes, and go to test reviews the week of the exam- he tends to explain concepts a lot better then during class. Make sure to understand any processes that he goes over a lot in class. If you put in the effort, you can definitely get an A, but his test averages were pretty low (around a C/low B) so make sure you put in the time to study.

Its gotten to the point where it seems he wants to trick us and for us not to do well in his class. With at least 10 hours of studying for each test, better be satisfied with a B- or a C. The material has potential to be interesting but lectures are confusing. Even if you teach yourself all of the material and truly understand it, his trick questions on short, very few points tests destroy your grade. He puts questions such as "all or none of the above" or "one true, two false." This class destroyed my GPA, I would not recommend it.

This class was fun. I enjoyed the material but the exams were definitely not easy. I went to every single class, review session and studied days in advance and I didn't do that well. I feel like he wants us to do well but he also wants to trick us. There were way too many 'none of the above' answer choices on the exams and they just confused the heck out of almost everyone. He said there would be no curve because our average is around a C and he's content with that. I thought this class would be fine as long as I put in the effort. I put in the effort and didn't do well.....would not recommend you take this course unless you have to. Definitely a time sucker. I also had this course and a different course on the same day and the exams were back to back every single time. I thought I would be bale to do it but I couldn't, so definitely don't sign up for this class if you have exams on the same day. Only take this class if you HAVE to. I can't stress that enough.

I really wanted to love this class, I really did. I'm more than interested in neural psych, but this class was more of a basic brain anatomy and function course than anything else. The material was deceptively easy--in class, he did not go very in-depth, but the book went far more in-depth and it got confusing as to how well we needed to know the material (and it would change from test to test).

Hill isn't a horrible lecturer, he isn't a great lecturer; his slides won't help without the lecture though so try to be there, since there's enough he only goes over in-class. Most of the time he didn't use up the full 50 minutes, sometimes letting us out after only 30 or so.

The tests are too tricky; maybe 75-80% of the questions are relatively straightforward, but the other 10 or so are worded oddly and quite difficult (even though the material isn't!)

Out of class work isn't too bad, although the extra credit doesn't help for the tests (it's supposed to be a 'practice' test from the book chapters, but rarely do the practice and actual tests cover the same material) and occurs at a random schedule, so it is VERY easy to miss an extra credit... or two... or five.

Long story short--if you are really interested in the class, and put the work in, it's possible to get an A, but an A- seems more likely--there's just that many stupidly worded questions that can throw your grade (ex: getting 4 questions wrong on every test will give you an A-). If you can, don't take the final--it's MUCH more difficult than the other tests, even if he says it's on the same material (it isn't, really), and the questions are worded horribly, much more so than usual.

Not a horrible course, interesting enough material, but not the easy A it may seem on the surface.

(for reference, I took all 4 tests and the final, did like 75% of the extra credit, and ended up with an A-)

I would not recommend this class unless it's absolutely necessary for your major. The concepts are interesting and I feel that I've gained a lot of knowledge about the sensory systems, and how biology and psychology are connected, but my grade in the class does not reflect that. Hill oversimplifies the concepts in lecture, but on the tests he asks for small details, and the questions seem like they're designed to trick you, even if he says otherwise. At the beginning of the class he said that there would likely be a curve, and that there was an opportunity to gain 5 extra credit points total to your grade, but there was no curve, and the five extra points wound up going to one test, so it didn't make as much of a difference. Class average was about a C, I believe, different than reviews from other years.

Hill is a funny guy, with his dry sense of humor and sometimes painful jokes, and I enjoyed going to lecture at times, especially because he would often let class out a good 10 minutes early on average. However, as a student who attended every lecture, most optional discussions, and read the book (as well as the materials on mypsychlab and practice tests), I still struggled in this class. It brought down my GPA significantly, and though I did learn the basics, I'm sure if I had the choice, I would not take this class again.

Tests were often tricky, but he goes over everything during the lectures. Subject matter was broad and told in passing. Overall, I liked the class and Hill

The lectures for this class are interesting and simple, and Hill makes the material seem easy. However, the tests do not reflect the lectures OR the textbook, as the questions are worded strangely and are difficult to understand. Missing just a few can destroy your grade, and even if you have the lectures basically memorized, there will inevitably be a couple questions that seem to come out of nowhere.