Developmental Psychology · Psychology
3 tests- all multiple choice textbook readings and article readings
Long lab reports, but the worst is just sitting through the class knowing you could be taking a nap instead.
WAY. TOO. HARD. In my opinion this is pushing it for a psych class. 2 midterms, and a final, 3 quizzes. the final was super hard and the midterms were too. the questions aren't easy. if you are GENUINELY interested take this class. U will do well. I do not recommend for non-psych majors trying to fulfill a requirement.
The workload was crazy for a 1.5 credit lab course. Extremely detailed assignments.
2 lab reports over the semester--one that you write over the course of a few classes and one that you do on your own. Time consuming (the intros are insanely long!) but definitely not hard.
I hated this class and thought Senghas was a terrible teacher. There's a lot of memorization, and it's all dry. I recommend taking it with someone else. I did quite poorly in the class and I worked incredibly hard.
DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASSES WITH THIS WOMAN!! She is extremely self-centered, rude, and all-around annoying. I'm a psych major and understood the material pretty well, but she still made me want to cry. She sits at her desk and lectures from notes, rarely writes anything on the board and ignores questions.
Nim is an AMAZING lecturer. Truly insane. If you want a class that makes u excited to go lecture this is it.
This is a review for the LAB. Professor Etengoff seemed nice on the first day of class, but as the class proceeded she became extremely irritating. She treated us like we were middle school students, shushing us and telling us to "read silently" whenever anyone uttered a word. The lab required us to observe the Toddler Center, and so really limited what we could do with the final research report. Prof. Etengoff repeatedly told us we were doing super important, "real" research, but watching kids and taking down our arbitrary observations is hardly anything remotely significant in terms of adding to the body of research that's already out there. For someone who's NEVER done any kind of scientific research, the lab certainly walks you in painful detail of how to do it.... Prof. Etengoff obsesses over the most minute things (e.g. whether you get rid of the gridlines on your graphs or title your charts just perfectly; the syllabus even outlines exactly how many mins you should spend talking about X topic and where/who to look at when you're presenting your project). I made an A at the end of the course, but only because I put in way more work than I should have.
I have to say that I really disagree with the other reviews--I though that even though the lab was something of a joke, Prof. Subramanian was really helpful and handed everything to us on a silver platter! She was willing to answer any questions we had, and even though I probably learned everything about APA from my TA, who was amazing, she didn't seem like such a stickler for details that could mess up your grade. Trust me, take this lab--it is by far the easiest one in the whole department!