PSYC 3480

Joe is hands down my favorite professor ive had at UVA. He genuinely cares about his students and this is especially obvious if you go to office hours, which I had neverdone before but Joe is so casual that it just feels like you're having a normal conversation. Overall, the class wasn't hard: just study lecture notes, skim the textbook, and read the extra assigned articles for the big picture ideas (because those are on the test) before exams and you'll get an A. Super interesting content, most of which is sourced from his own research lab here at UVA.

LOVE DR. ALLEN.

Such an interesting class and so fun to go to. He does outlines on word that he puts up on the projector and sends out prior to class, so easy to follow along. 3 midterms and an optional 5-page paper, takes the top 2 grades of all of these. Cumulative final you have to take.

Do the readings but skim, he will ask exam questions about them

Take this class, it is so interesting and Dr. Allen is amazing

#tCFF23

Grading: 4 midterms and an option 5 page paper, 1 final. You drop 2 of lowest grades of midterms and optional paper. The other 2 are worth 33% each. Can't drop the final, which is worth 33%. Each midterm is 40 multiple choice and 1 open response which is easy. The final is worth 100 multiple choice.

The exams are pretty straightforward and the multiple choice are taken from the lectures. Don't waste your time with the textbook reading and the outside readings, but take really good notes in lecture.

Prof Allen is awesome. He's really knowledgeable and entertaining and includes a lot of movie clips in class to show examples.
The class material is very interesting to any psychology major and anyone interested in the ideas and influences of being a teeanager. Focuses a lot on effects of parenting, school, peers on teenagers and how this causes their internal and external issues. Also touches on social issues of race, gender identity, etc and effects on adolescence.

One of the best classes I've taken so far at UVA, and one of the few where I was actually excited to go to lecture! The content is so interesting and relevant to our experiences as college students: could find something to apply to my own life in every lecture. Allen always keeps lecture interesting by supplementing content with examples from movies and TV shows. The class is overall not difficult: grading is based on 3 midterms and a final, and you can drop the lowest midterm. To get an A I just showed up to class everyday and completed the readings (while there are a lot of them, they are very interesting.