PSYC 2600

The content of this class is very interesting and Professor Mazurek is pretty interesting. The only homework (which is optional) is reading the textbook. Professor Mazurek rarely gets through all of the information from each chapter in the lecture. If you read each chapter, pay attention to the details (especially small details mentioned in class), and take good notes, the tests are relatively simple.

Professor is not the best lecturer and goes off on random tangents accompanied with occasional swears and screaming to make his points. Nonetheless, he was very nice and approachable and is very passionate about the class. Changed the threshold of an A to a 95 so its pretty hard to get an A which sucks. READING IS A MUST. Very interesting class though and made me consider psych as a major. Grading can seem a bit unfair at times but he justifies his reasoning whether you like it or not. This class just doesn't seem like one that should have such a high threshold for an A.

I took this class with Mazurek, while my brother took it with Wilson. Though Wilson seems to be very highly regarded in the field and my brother did like him, I think Mazurek is the "easier" deal. Whereas Wilson has papers and projects intermixed, Mazurek does 4 midterms and a final, with the lowest midterm being dropped. The three counted midterms make up 70% of the course, whereas the final makes up the remaining thirty.

The threshold for an A is a 95, which is annoying, but attainable. If you want it, you HAVE HAVE HAVE to read the textbook, and memorize some seemingly trivial information. Mazurek doesn't always get through the whole chapter in class, but he expects you to read. The good news is the textbook is pretty easy to read, and what you ought to know is apparent-- bolded vocabulary words.

As a lecturer, I really enjoyed Mazurek. He clearly loves the content and is excited to be teaching it. Lectures are 75 minutes and not always thrilling in terms of content, but he does his best to deliver it with energy and enthusiasm. Curses a lot, which can be fun and occasionally surprising.

I really did not like this class and I am learning that UVA psychology classes are just pretty boring. Mazurek tries, but lecture is just incredibly boring. Still, I think it is important to go, especially because his powerpoints are not that elaborate when it comes to information. The information is not too difficult, but I would recommend really reading the textbook as some questions on the test are taken directly from there. There are 4 regular tests and the lowest is dropped, then the final. You also have to do the 6 credits of psychology studies if you have not completed so already. I took this as a Batten prereq, but I am interested in psychology, yet could not get myself to enjoy this class.

Mazurek is a super fun prof and it is obvious that he really cares about the subject. This class was one of my favorite classes this semester. The material is not that difficult at all, but it is a lot of memorization. Reading the text book is super important, but it is pretty easy to get through. I took notes while I was reading which helped me a lot. If you're trying to get into batten, i think this is easier than the other option for pre-req. you can drop one of the tests too

Mazurek doesn't actually teach. He just wastes a lot of time repeating himself and allowing the class to ask irrelevant questions. The only way you learn is from reading the textbook because Mazurek comes no where near covering all the material that will be on the exams. This class is easy if you read the textbook but the actual classes seem like a waste of time.

Mazurek is terrible. For starters, he spends the first 40 minutes of class answering random questions from students, most of them irrelevant to the actual subject matter. He spends the next 35 minutes "teaching" and he does an atrocious job. He talks on and on about some weird, outrageous social scenario with multiple moving parts to illustrate very easy concepts. He arbitrarily spends 10-15 minutes on one relatively easy concept, and then barely glosses over (and sometimes outright ignores if he runs out of time) more difficult concepts. READ THE TEXTBOOK and MEMORIZE EVERYTHING IN THE ASSIGNED CHAPTERS. Mazurek has shamelessly admitted that everything in the assigned readings is fair game for the exams, even if it was not covered in class. I would say that Mazurek probably covers around 20% of the concepts that we have to know and the other 80% are in the assigned readings.

I have no idea why the other reviewers rate him well. Yes he's a cheery guy and it's not hard to get an A, but if you dismiss those two facts this class is terribly taught and managed. While others may like Mazurek for his personality, I find him to be immature, hyperactive, and very unprofessional.

Mazurek's lectures are pretty painful to sit through, he spend a lot of time on really simple concepts and its impossible to sit through. Good thing though is the textbook is extremely easy to read and he posts his lecture slides online. I ended up skipping a lot and just spending the time I would have been in class studying the textbook and lecture notes and I did well on all the tests. He drops your lowest test and theres nothing about attendance in your grade so if you know you're good at memorization, teaching yourself stuff then this class is a good choice!

This class is easy in the sense that there isn't any outside work assigned. All of the grades are based on exam grades only! There are 4 exams and one gets drops + the final. Mazurek isn't a great lecturer, he goes on tangents and I found it hard to focus. To do well on the exams, make sure to read all of the chapters, make flashcards, pay attention to the reading. During the lecture, he goes over the basic ideas of the chapter but everything is fair game in the textbook even if it wasn't mentioned in the lecture so be sure to retain all the info from the textbook. The threshold for an A is a 95. Wouldn't necessarily say it's an easy class unless you have time to memorization details from a textbook and are ready to spend copious amounts of time memorizing facts and vocabulary.

God, this is the worst class I've taken at UVA. It's your typical class where the Prof lectures and you take notes during class, but it just suck that the only grades were the two exams and final. I wasn't ready for how bad my grades were in this class since normally I do so well as most UVA students are used to. I read the textbook which was the only homework and tried to pay attention to lectures, but he was just using textbook content so it didn't seem like I had to pay attention that much. I had the textbook down pretty well, but I did so poorly on all of the tests! The tests were a combo of MC, short answer, and fill in the blank. I'd do reasonably well on most parts but then for short answer, the TAs were so harsh with how they graded them. Sometimes, I'd get perfect scores and sometimes, they actually gave me a 0!!! You might think I'm overreacting, but don't take this class unless you are really interesting in psych, because the lectures were so boring. Social psych sounds so cool, but the way it was taught here was the worst.