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Llewellyn is pretty boring, and it's really easy to drift off during her lectures. However, the class is really straightforward: if you go to class and do the assigned reading (which is fairly boring as well), then you won't get anything lower than a B+. Powerpoints are posted online and there are iclickers that count toward participation (she gives more than 100 but once you reach 100 you don't have to do anymore). It's probably not the best psych class, but it's an easy class.
I took this class because I thought it was going to be more about analyzing the "why/how" behind personality in people, but it ended up being more about the history of psychologists who studied personality and made theories about it. Also, you learn quite a bit about the research methods used by the personality psychologists. This class was extremely easy for me because I had taken psych in high school and I like psych very much. There were many people who had never taken a psych class before, though, and they sometimes had trouble grasping the concepts of the theories... but the professor explains everyone very clearly and makes it easy for anyone to understand. Don't listen to people who tell you it's super hard. It's not. My friends thought it was hard. It's because they never read the textbook. This class is very manageable. It's only a problem when you don't read the textbook before class. Then you will have no idea what the clickers are about, and you won't get enough participation points to get an A. Beware that the reading takes much longer than expected. The textbook is very... dull.
Prof L is a therapist on the side... she has a clinic... so in lecture, she speaks like one. It's very soothing and very relaxing.
She is a very kind person and very approachable.
The social-cognitive unit was the most interesting part. Go to lecture. And don't forget to bring your iclicker remote!
Psych students... take this class if you want a relatively easy class, because most of the concepts and theories you'll already know. You'll still have to read the book - there are lots of details that she covers in the exams.
I took this course in Spring 2009, and from what I've heard not much has changed since then. The material is very dry, and there's nothing to be gained from lecture that you can't find in the book or the powerpoints. If you took AP Psych in high school, you will know all of the material already. I thought the class was pretty easy, though, so if you need to fill a requirement this class is okay. Otherwise, avoid.
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