PSYC UN2620

I learned a lot about the different disorders. I was surprised to learn certain facts, like that anorexia is egosyntonic and bulimia is egodystonic. The class opened me up to a wide range of disorders that I thought were incredibly fascinating and thought-provoking.

Three exams including the final. Really intense in terms of information, since she assigns a lot of reading from the book. A LOT. Plus a few PDFs on CourseWorks which are annoying, and you definitely have to know them for the exam.

3 exams, one is dropped. 1 final. 1 short paper. HWs due every class but only 8 will be collected and 5 of the 8 graded. Reading the textbook was a pain. I recommend getting a review book of some sort to help ease the pain.

In-depth content about certain abnormal behaviors as well as insides from therapy sessions

Professor Monk is a great lecturer, although honestly half her lectures aren't even her lecturing. She has a LOT of guest speakers. Which isn't bad, per se, but some of them are much better than others. Unfortunately, it's hard to discern which of them are going to be good/informative/useful beforehand, so you'll just have to take them as they come. And yes, a lot of their material shows up on the exams, which, let me just say, bring some of the most intense information cramming that you've ever had in your life. Yes, these exams are hard core. Study study study, you honestly cannot study enough. Overall though, if you do your part, this class is good and rewarding. I feel like the TAs (who do all the grading and review sessions, Monk is clearly too busy for that) are fair about the exams, and will acknowledge when you know you're stuff. The questions get a little nitpicky, but at the end of the day they're not too awful. I feel like I actually learned something in this class, which is more than I can say for a lot of psychology classes I've taken here. Like I and others here have said though, Prof. Monk does NOT have time for you. She seems like a sweet woman, and she knows her stuff, but she also does research and has her own therapy practice. This makes her lectures really practical and interesting, but it's also clear that teaching is not really her first priorities. She p…

Kathy is really sweet. She is very lenient with her grading. She gives extra credit on every test (best 2 of 3 exams), and a final. They all are short answers and multiple choices, with the exception of the final (all MCs). As a new teacher, she conveys her ideas very well, getting straight to the point. Her lectures slides are post on courseworks, making it very easy to study for exams. What i didn't like was the textbook, which was way overly verbose. Maybe she'll change it next time.

I learned a lot about psychological disorders.

You'll hate the textbook, and there's lots of reading assigned from it. The articles she chooses to put on courseworks and assign for homework, though, were mostly really good. Three exams that are horrible.

I learned about different disorders and diagnostic criteria. - .

Her lectures are fun and I looked forward to them, however there's just much too much material packed into this course, and her TA's are ridiculous-- you can honestly take an exam and deserve a 90 and they'll without fail ALWAYS find a way to find extremely minor problems with SOMETHING you wrote and give you a 75 or so instead. Professor Monk also seems to love what she's teaching, but does not seem very happy when students go to her office hours to ask questions, unless they are pre-clinical.