PSYC 2700

This class is really interesting and I learned a lot. Test can be a tad bit difficult. One can know the answer, but because of the wording, you will switch your answer. Attendance is somewhat mandatory, just because we have i-clickers every class (which are really beneficial to your grade). Also, she posts the slides online, but like most professors, she changes them after. So the online version is missing slides that were shown in class. There are 3 midterms, but you only have to take 2. If you take all 3, the lowest grade is dropped. It's a pretty solid class. If you go, passing is the least of your worries.

I would recommend this class because its fun and interesting. It was definitely my favorite class subject this semester. However, do not come in thinking this will be an easy A. Each midterm consists of at least 200 pages of material and the professor asks extremely detailed questions that are often misleading and tricky. I studied extensively for each midterm and barely managed a B in the class. I went in knowing my material for exams but many ages contradicted each other when comparing lecture notes and what the textbook said and many questions had terrible wording and made you second guess your answers. Also, I found the professor not to be very approachable or helpful. You need to go to lecture and read the textbook (in depth) in order to do well. Unless you have photographic memory, good luck getting an A.

Professor utterly sucks. She searches for any sort of technology throughout the class, contradicts the textual material, has horrible powerpoints, is standoffish and frankly rude during office hours, and makes unnecessarily confusing exams. The emphasis is on reading, yet often the readings contradict the test materials. The material is interesting, but all together if you want to take this class, don't with Lillard.

This class was a nightmare. Other reviews have already said it: bad teaching, too much reading, and just a generally frustrating class overall.

Professor Lillard is a dynamic professor, that's for sure. She keeps the class engaged by moving around, having questions asked, and changing her posiiton of speaking to the top of the lecture hall at times. She has IClickers, totaling 20% of your grade, to keep track of attendance. There are three midterms, the lowest of which is dropped, and a cumulative final. The tests are difficult, but if you thoroughly outline the textbook and attend every class, you'll manage a low A/high B. You can tell she's increasingly passionate about her field.

Professor: Lillard was a great lecturer, and she was a great researcher. She was genuinely trying to make us learn. She is definitely very strict on her rules. Her syllabus points are no joke and she hates having technology in class. You'd think in a big lecture hall that she won't be able to spot your phone that you took out in class, but she will and she will take it. But I also appreciate the meditative moments that we have that starts the class.

She does push montessori education a lot. It's almost uncomfortable.

Fun factor: It was a very interesting course. This was my first psychology class, and I thought it was interesting. But, I hated outlining and reading the chapters, which dimmed down the fun factor a lot. Lillard lectures on top of the textbook, so she doesn't go over what's important in the textbook. Therefore, during tests, we have to know the material from her lectures and from the contents in the vast textbook. The textbook was dense but packed with information. She would write her questions based on sentences word for word from the textbook, but again, the textbook material was so dense.

Textbooks: Use the 3rd edition, old edition. Super useful and much cheaper. Same information. You'd just need to fidget with the assigned page numbers for reading.

Tests: I may have touched on this a little before, but the tests are really difficult. I got a B+ in the class but I've never gotten an A on her tests. Again, they cover the lecture material on top of the textbook material and they don't overlap much. Psych department policy to drop one test grade also applies.

IMO, really hard psych class. I'm not sure if that's because it was my first psych class which deemed the experience a little more unlikable or the professor who was really hard. But I won't be taking another psych class for a while after this one.

Don't take this class with Lillard, another professor would be better and easier. She asks obscure facts and statistics from the 5+ chapters covered each test and the lectures do not sync with the reading so there is a lot of material. The final is cumulative and also asks random statistics that are seemingly unimportant when reading 300+ pages. The 20% clicker grade is easy but make sure you don't forget your clicker. I ended with an A- but it was not worth the work and my friends took it this semester with another teacher and did better with less work.

Psyc 2700 with Lillard was my worst class experience by far. She left for two entire weeks to go to Europe and returned only to give us our second exam, which everyone did terrible on. The professor who teaches this class in the spring is so much easier and I am dissilusioned by the fact that I got such a bad grade by doing more work than those who got A's in the spring class by doing less work. Lillard should be fired, she's a good researcher but an incompetent professor to say the least.

You definitely need to do the readings from the textbook carefully because they're on the test and Lillard does clicker questions at the beginning of every class from the readings. The textbook seems repetitive and is boring, but I really enjoyed the lectures. There are a lot of cute babies and interesting experiments. She also does easy clicker questions during lecture to boost your grade.

Very interesting subject, Manageable workload, only homework is reading, punctuality is vital for iclickers, exams are difficult but not impossible