PSYC 5265

#tCFspring2021 Alev is a very caring and knowledgeable professor to study anatomy with (the course is co-taught by Cedric Williams who teaches the functional aspect of neuroscience). the homework is just to keep a neuro-glossary of all the brain regions taught in class and occasionally there are some small pre-class assignments that don't take up a lot of time. The course covers most of the brain regions--sensory & motor system, the basal ganglia, the limbic system, the cerebral cortex, and other multi-region systems such as the language, emotion systems. Quizzes are few and easy. And her midterm involves reading two papers and answering questions related to them, and other analytical questions about the brain regions we studied. Way more challenging and fun than Cedric Williams' information-retrieval type of exam imp. #tCFspring2021 [this course is co-taught with Prof. Alev Erisir] Professor Williams is a very engaging and knowledgeable professor! He asks thought provoking questions that allows you to think about the big picture of the functional regions as well as the how each region work with each other. He also cites good studies with examples that help you learn the concepts. I heard bad things about him reading the reviews from his other classes, but in terms of lecturing, I think he is very good. His exams are mostly doable via slide-information retrieval though. So not very hard and quite easy to do well on. You also need to give two presentations--one on a neuroanatomical technique, and another on a case study for a neurological disease--you will be given useful guidelines on how to present them and points to hit to present informatively, so not hard at all, as long as you take your time and try to understand the papers. Would highly recommend! (I pasted my review for CW here as tCF doesn't allow duplicate reviews for co-taught courses, bummer)