PSYC BC2137

a bunch of shit due each week; powerpoint presentation; final research paper at the end (mostly putting together your results and pieces you handed in previously)

Has no patience for first-years who don't know statistics and have never taken a psych lab before. Favors the upperclassmen and won't pay attention to you otherwise. Sessions were incredibly boring; she'd write out for you on the board exactly how to write your lab down to the wording, so you really wouldn't be learning anything (like WHY)but how to copy. And she (er, that is, the TA) would still take off points for things that were "wrong" -- and she wasn't consistent at all. "APA style" said to do things one way; she'd say another; you do it her way and you still get points taken off. And Subramanian RUINED our final experiment because she told us to approach it all wrong.... my lab group and I found ourselves coming up with and slapping together a completely different experiment at the last minute to make up for her huge blunder!!! I dreaded Monday afternoons that semester -- the only thing that made it tolerable was that there were several other students in that class who felt exactly the same way I did.

Pretty standard for a lab, however, the way she grades will add a lot of unnecessary stress.

Please take stats before taking Barnard psych lab courses

Split into 3 parts, Each part has a lab report and presentation for the report. You do the parts in groups, the presentation and topic but you write your lab report on your own. Not a rigorous class, he isn't knit picky on small things and he is very encouraging.

As a person who was TERRIFIED of taking a lab course, I can say that I am pretty glad I took this class because I didn't have to immerse myself in the discipline to do well. That being said, in order to do well we had to do an extraordinary amount of busy work, which was my main problem. Davis has all of these stupid specifications about powerpoint slides and shit that we're expected to follow which kind of defeats the purpose of being a college student if you ask me. I feel like he'd give seniors in high school a notebook check quiz. Anyway, my first impression of him was that he was really nice, which is true-- he's just also weirdly attention-seeking and annoying. The epithet "well-intentioned" appears a lot in these reviews; I guess I'd second that. Whatever. Take this class for the lab requirement I guess, but be prepared to fall asleep during some of the most boring-ass 3 hour lectures EVER, be sure to ask him questions DURING CLASS BECAUSE HE TAKES 19088Q97W DAYS to answer his emails, and don't work with a group of people who you know will be unreliable, because you have all of this pointless shit due each week that takes a few hours to do.

grading just depends on tha TA who grades it. Their is no consistency or fairness.

Jasia is one of the worst professors I have ever had at Barnard. Not only is she arrogant and condescending, she does not care about her students and shows no interest in making lab interesting in anyway or even a beneficial learning experience. Basically, she makes powerpoints and reads word-for-word off of them and then occasionally asks broad questions to attempt to engage in the class. However, everyone is already so angry and bored that no one responds, which just results in silence making the class dynamics even more awkward and uncomfortable. Lab with her is a complete waste of three hours every week. You should find another instructor, especially as lab courses generally help to raise your psych grade but if you end up with Jasia, you will have to make up for her harsh grading in the lecture component while also being forced to listen to her patronizing tone every week. Was a really bad experience that you should try to avoid!!

This class just traumatized me lol. This is no commentary on Kate personally, but the whole ordeal, from start to finish, had me in at least three stupid nervous breakdowns. I never wrote a single review on here, but I legit haven't been able to share this experience in terms of the alienating pain I felt with anyone other than my mom lol. I do not remember the last time I cried this much over a class, maybe it was just my karma. I variously spent hours working on assignments after lab because I did not have a good grip on SPSS at the time, having taken stats years prior. The final project was a final blow to my self-esteem. My group members and I did not have sufficient time to thoroughly go over our specific parts before Thanksgiving break for different reasons (underestimating the technicalities of SPSS analyses we'd have to conduct in a few days thereafter). Well, they smartly managed it in the end, but I ****ed up big-time, spending hours in the library confidently working on my ~results~ only to very awkwardly discover that I had done my whole part wrong as we were tying things together last minute. IT DID NOT help matters that my group members just proceeded to eye me awkwardly and designate me with a last-min easy part for the presentation, and then later that night delete the powerpoint artwork I tried to contribute to the powerpoint. And next morning, they just shunn…

I enjoyed the class, learned how to write a really good lab report. Prof. Brotherton, although a little awkward, he is really nice and wants you to succeed. He is passionate about both teaching and his work. Topics we looked at are interesting (political, social psychology). We never took our own data, just analyzed prior data, so if you want something more hands on, then this is not really the class for you. We leave class 30-45 minutes early on average