PSYC 2600

Professor Wood is really great. The work is super manageable, and a lot of the topics are very interesting and straightforward. The studies that she brings up are really cool and applicable to real life. There are mandatory readings every week, but I forgot more than a couple and managed to scrape an A, anyway. You can only turn in the questions on the textbook an hour after the official due date, otherwise you get a zero. You have to do six hours of participation in research, but as long as you stay on top of it, it's totally manageable to do all of them online. The exams aren't too bad, and they do curve it a little, which is nice. I believe all the lectures get posted, but there's an extra credit based on an in-class assignment that she randomly chooses, so you might want to attend lectures. It's a pretty easy class overall, but very interesting.

Personally, I found this class very challenging because it is mostly based on your exam grades. She gives insane extra credit which is a huge boost and she is a really helpful/good lecturer. If you need this as a requirement, I highly recommend you take it just be sure to study for the exams ahead of time.

Prof Wood is positive, gives great lectures, and is very kind towards students. Lectures do get very boring and the class is almost entirely memorization, but tests are fair and it's not hard to do well if you put a lot of time in. Homework is only interactive textbook chapters. Overall, just a solid lecture class that I def learned a lot from.

#tCFF23. This class was incredibly interesting and manageable except for the fact that I found the exams quite difficult. I never had taken a Psych class before so that probably made it more difficult on my end by Professor Wood is an excellent and very understanding professor. We had weekly textbook homework assignments and if you simply show up to class you can get up to 3% in extra credit.

Wood gives the most boring lectures I have ever had in college. She doesn’t seem intelligible on the topic and gives the most absurd exams I have ever taken. She tells you not to memorize the studies but then asks the most random minute details about an outside topic that we barely went over in class. Not only that , she doesn’t let you review your exams unless you went into office hours as they reuse exams. I have never taken a psyc class before this and won’t ever take one again. Stay away from this class unless you absolutely need it or are a psyc major.

I really wanted to like this class, but just didn't. The material seems very intuitive in lecture, which makes it boring, but Prof Wood's exams can be challenging. I underestimated how difficult the exams would be because it's a psych class, but you do actually have to study more than just term definitions and what the lecture covers. There are questions about content in the textbook that weren't touched on in class, and small details from the lecture certainly can make their way to the exam. There aren't that many questions, so missing just a few will hurt you.

Lectures are long and hard to sit through, but you get extra credit for doing PollEV questions. Not that she wanted us to do poorly, but compared to other professors, I didn't really get the sense that she wanted us to do well because of the exam difficulty, which was, in my opinion, a bit unnecessary. There are only two midterms and the required final, all of which are cumulative, so not much room for error. The weekly textbook readings, pollev extra credit, and credit for 6 research hours help out a little bit, but exam performance matters the most. I wouldn't take this class if you're looking for a psych class just to take for fun, but if you need it for a discipline or some other requirement, don't expect it to be easy or overly interesting.

Wood makes this class unnecessarily hard. The course structure is as follows: six research hours (5%), a weekly interactive textbook chapter with questions (all the chapters together are worth 30%, and she drops the lowest 3), exam 1 is 15%, exam 2 is 20%, and the final is 30%. Wood gives some of the most boring lectures, and while the material itself is interesting, she covers topics not found in the textbook AND questions you on them in the exams, even to the smallest details for entire questions. All of the exams are in-person and cumulative, meaning that you really need to memorize the entire class going up to each exam. Wood gives a list of vocabulary terms (from both the textbook and her lectures) that you are expected to know for the exams, yet she still brings in other information that is not explicitly listed, meaning that for the final, you genuinely need to memorize the entire textbook and every single lecture. I found that through my studying for the final, I needed to memorize nearly 300 vocabulary terms, and that still was not enough because she would incorporate the tiniest detail from a random lecture that she only ever brought up once. There is no curve to the exams, and the only way you can actually see what you got wrong is if you go to her office hours.

If you are like me and want to take a psychology class for fun, do not take it with Wood, because you will end up needing to put in so much work for a three-credit class.

Super fair grader and teacher. Lectures were helpful and easy to digest, she built off of textbook topics and added new topics as well. Attendance was optional, but you could receive up to 2 points throughout the semester by attending. Tests were all multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and matching–tested on both in class and textbook topics. Weekly homework assignments on the online textbook, you could skip up to 3. Overall super easy-A with a great professor!

I loved this class!! The professor is so sweet, and she clearly cares a lot about the topic and her students. She always tries to make lectures engaging (by adding relevant examples and including interactive survey questions), and the content itself isn't too difficult and is highly applicable in real life. The workload is not bad at all- there is usually a weekly reading which is surprisingly interesting (you do have to fill out comprehension questions throughout), and there were only two exams plus the final, all of which were cumulative, but it was mainly memorization, and if you payed attention in class, you'd do fine. Overall, I highly recommend, especially if you're interested in the topic!