Hannah Hoch

Great course. Interesting and pretty easy. Professor Hoch is really kind and an easy grader.

I don't quite get why her ratings or reviews are so bad on culpa, maybe it's because of the pandemic, she is wayyyyyyyy better online. I mean seriously, the workload is golden!!!! All you ever had is one memoir review paper, some weekly reflection, and one final paper. So far all grading are just merciful. I got 100% on everything, and all the assignments are EASY! EASY! SEL activities are just feedback to some meditation relaxing methods; memoir is easy to read and that paper is somewhat informal and does not need to be more than 3 pages; final is analyzing ur fav fictional character. However, I do agree with some points that people addressed: she does not know how to teach. Very true. She does not. I learn more by reading textbooks by the end of the semester than attending to her lectures. Well, in fact, I attend to her lectures only for participation and her clarification to the assignments. If you want to learn actual knowledge, it's def not the one for you. If you want high GPA, yes please enroll.

Hoch is one of the most useless professors I've ever met. She cannot teach for the life of her. All she does is read off her powerpoints which she posts online anyway so why bother going to class? I think the material she teaches is super interesting as a psychology major, but she makes it as dry and boring as humanly possible. During lecture, she gives bizarre examples to try and explain the material, but all they do is confuse the class even more. She also can't write an exam worth a damn. If you expect to do well simply by self studying, then you're shit out of luck. When one of my friends asked her whether or not we should focus on textbook or lecture more, she said, "Oh if you just memorize my study guide and you'll do fine!" BULL SHIT. I did exactly that AND read the textbook cover to cover AND looked through all of her powerpoints and did dreadful on the exams. Not that I expected to do well because her exam questions read like they were written by a monkey with a computer. I'm not sure if it's even humanly possible to get a good grade in this class because she doesn't curve a single one of her terribly written exams. Don't take this class, at least not with her. If someone else teaches it, anyone else, then go for it. In the hands of a different professor, it would probably be much more interesting and actually worth your time. It's really a shame that Hoch is so incom…

Professor Hoch is one of the worst professors I've had at Barnard. She is a really friendly person, but she literally reads off of her powerpoints and doesn't add anything more than is already written. This would all be fine if her exams were super easy and vague, but they aren't. They are surprisingly tricky. She barely seems to know anything when asked questions that require more knowledge than is available on her slides. Going to lecture is nearly useless, except that she takes attendance about half of the time, even though it's a large lecture. I'm shocked each and every time we have class by how useless of an instructor she is. Additionally, she shows an annoying number of videos (probably five per class). Don't take this course unless you need to to fulfill a requirement.

Hoch seems nice and pleasant. And she is. But this class seems more like a student-run club, filled with babysitting anecdotes, maybes and "I don't know, but"s. Each class is led by two students who do some extra preparation and try to answer everyone's questions with what they "feel like" the answer might be. Hoch only taught the first class. I don't feel like I've learned anything concrete in this class, and that which I have learned has come from a very elementary text book with sentences like "cognition is something that happens in the brain" and "bilingual speakers all share being exposed to two languages." Truly fascinating, right? Hoch's participation in class is minimal, and her contribution I swear to you is 49% "huh, I'm not sure" and 49% "I don't know..." 1% of the time she'll offer a very vague clarification and 1% of the time she'll share a marginally intriguing tidbit of information. Otherwise she sits there with her eyes squinted and mouth slightly dropped, as if she herself is in a static state of confusion. The quality of this class ultimately depends on the previous experience of your classmates. If you do end up taking this class, make sure you have a good foundation in language development already, or else you will wind up utterly mystified and dissatisfied.

Professor Hoch is very sweet and she means well, but this woman cannot teach. I was most excited for Abnormal Psychology this semester, but it ended up being my most dreaded class. I didn't realize it was possible to make Abnormal Psychology boring. She literally just read off of her slides or recited the DSM-IV-TR to us. She also could not answer a single question, which was frustrating considering I am interested in going into clinical psychology and am very curious about a lot of the disorders we were learning about. Her clearest answer all semester was "Well, um, I don't know." We also got WAY behind and skipped a lot of material because she would take an endless amount of questions and comments. Professor Hoch does give study guides before each exam, and those are helpful, but that does not make my incredible frustration with this class disappear. If you want to take abnormal psychology, don't take it with Hoch.

Of all the courses I have taken at Barnard/Columbia, this is the seminar that has encouraged me to grow the most as a person (not just a student) 1 Columbia University: Arts & Sciences Spring 2022 Course: PSYCUN3623_001_2022_1-TOPICSINCLINICALPSYCHOLOGY : PSYCUN3623_001_2022_1 - TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Instructor: Irit Felsen

Hoch's class was a perfectly decent seminar. She's really nice and added a lot of wisdom to the discussions from her clinical and research experience. I took the class as a requirement and was pleasantly surprised.

Prof Hoch is exceedingly kind, patient, funny and understanding, and a pleasure to spend time with. However, I don't feel like we learned much about treatment styles/procedures, and we got to hearing about therapy orientations pretty late in the course. I guess it's hard to teach undergrads that much about clinical practice without the hands-on portion, but multiple classmates expressed the same sentiment. The final paper, a diagnosis and treatment proposal for a TV/movie character, was easy to complete via a few hours of research on the Div12 website, while very little of what we covered in class was helpful. Still recommend for an easy and enjoyable A!

Learning and Behavior Professor Hoch is one of the worst professors I have ever had. If I didn't need it for a requirement I would've dropped it. Her lectures are incredibly dry, she reads off her slides, and when asked a question, she always finds some way to avoid it. I learned more by reading 2 0/)// in the textbook then I have in her lectures. She is an incredibly sweet woman but this woman cannot teach. When I met with her to talk about my difficulty with testing, she told me that I should probably not be taking classes that require me to take exams, and should stick with papers. I have never been more disappointed in a professor in my entire time here. This class is not worth your time.