PSYC 1010

Dodson is a pretty good intro professor, but it is an intro course. The entire basis of your grade is exams, which can suck if you aren't good with a multiple choice format, but hey, you did get into UVA. He drops the lowest non-final exam, but the curve is a "high school" type -he adds up everyone's final score, makes the highest a 100 and bases everyone else's on that, which again can suck if there's someone with psych experience or is just really good who aces every exam.

Definitely do the reading for this class. I didn't, and it hurt me in the end when I got a C+. The tests are really tricky and I think the reading helps. Also, Dodson's lectures are really engaging

I LOOOOOOOVE him! I think he is a great teacher. Lecturing to 200+ students for an 1.25 hours at a time could be challenging, but I find this class extremely interesting.

Dodson is one of the better lecturers at UVA. He always keeps it interesting with his classwide examples and volunteer-based demos. Tests are tough but not too tough.

class is a basic 101. study the lectures and do the reading and you will get an A. You also get to drop one quiz which is nice

This class is definitely interesting and Chad is always well-prepared and entertaining. Here comes the caveat:

If you have amazing test-taking abilities, then you will have no problem in this class, as it is entirely test-based. However, if you tend to second guess yourself or get tripped up by the wording of tests, you should take a more focused class. I find the tests to be extremely difficult and the wording of questions to be intentionally confusing. Some test questions are undeniably easy, but others are extremely trivial (such as asking about a topic for which ONE SENTENCE appeared in the book and not at all on the slides). He emphasizes for every test that you "memorize the slides and read only where the book and the slides overlap", but this advice never helped me once.

Sorry to discourage anyone, but if you do not consider yourself to be a good test taker then I honestly do not recommend this class.

I absolutely loved the class. Yes, many thought the tests were difficult, and I do agree, but they are definitely not as impossible as some people make them out to be. The key is to really read the book and review lectures. Waiting until the last minute is a death sentence.

Fun lectures, tests were more difficult than i thought they'd be

Powerpoints were always put up before the class started and he made it very enjoyable. Read the chapters and go over the powerpoints.

This turned out to be a very broad but interesting class