Bonnie Goff is one of the best professors I have ever had at UCLA. This class was super manageable! She made the class so engaging and fun for everyone. There were three exams in total and four overall homework assignments. The exams and homework assignments were pretty simple. Overall, I totally recommend taking this class as a psych upper division elective. It has been one of my favorite classes I have ever taken at UCLA.

Take this class!! Not only are there no readings but the professor makes the information super digestible and she is engaging and clearly cares about her students. She drops your lowest midterm and gives extra credit for I-clicker questions. She is super fair and makes any question on the exam that over 50% of students got wrong extra credit instead. One of my favorites at UCLA, looking into taking more classes with her in the future!

TAKE THIS CLASS! Dr. Goff was one of the most helpful and engaging professors I have met here at UCLA. During lectures, she would provide a variety of examples from her personal life in addition to several real-world concepts, in order to give us a better understanding of the material. While attendance for lecture was lenient, I definitely suggest to show up as sometimes when lecture ends early she provides additional review for exams or like at the end, a Q&A session! In addition, during lecture you can get participation points through iClicker (this is also how attendance was taken).

Discussion sections for me was also really helpful (you are allowed one free absence). I had Erjing and while for the most part our discussions were pretty dead, Erjing always went through the previous weeks lecture thoroughly and implemented polls in order to see where our understanding was which I thought was really nice because if the results of the poll weren't in agreement - she further explains it! (Dr. Goff does this as well during lecture)

You have 3 exams - 2 midterms, 1 final. The lowest grade out of the two midterms gets dropped but the final is MANDATORY. I thought the exams were fair and pretty easy as long as you put in the work for it (i.e., really understand the slides and how you can apply it to other scenarios). Referring back to the final, it was not cumulative however, you need to be able to understand the basis of the course as you might find yourself answering questions regarding how earlier concepts relate with the later ones.

There are no additional materials required for the class. Only lecture slides!

Professor Goff was my favorite professor of Fall 2023. She was funny and caring and so smart. I learned so much from this class, but it was never hard or unfair. The workload was very manageable, no take home assignments, only in class work. The tests were really fair. All based off of the slides. She took off questions if the majority got it wrong or if someone told her it felt like a trick question. She was super approachable and very understanding.

Professor Goff is a clear lecturer who takes the time to gauge student understanding constantly throughout the lecture. She asks us to participate by sharing our life experiences and connects it directly back to course material, which was nice. In this class I learned about different parenting styles, parenthood myths, the logistics of childrearing, attachment theory and more.

The breakdown of the class was straightforward. There are 4 written assignments each worth 10 points and 3 exams each worth 20 points. No extra work is asked of you beyond this. If you can engage critically with the material for the papers then you should have no problem succeeding in this class. Only a light review is necessary before exams, all of which are multiple choice and relatively easy. Professor Goff is one the best psych professors I've had at UCLA and I would recommend for every psych major to take at least 1 class with her before graduating!

Bonnie is an amazing professor, and this was overall a great class! It was her first time teaching this class, so a few things changed over the course of the quarter but we had one midterm and one final, both of which were multiple choice 40 questions, and the final was during week 10 instead of finals week. She uses slides with a lot of words, likes to show videos/documentaries, and records AUDIO ONLY to post on BruinLearn for review/if you can't make class. For this class she also used TopHat for participation/extra credit. The grading was a points system rather than a weighted average: 40 points midterm, 40 points final, 40 points total for short writing assignments due after every class, and 2 quizzes each worth 10 points. The writing assignments were 250 reflection assignments due at the end of the day each day that we had class and were easy to do. Our first quiz was based on a short research paper that we read for homework and was open note online. I think that quiz was easy, but we had a lot of technical issues so we didnt' have an official second quiz following that format but rather just provided feedback to Bonnie for the course - not sure if she will keep quizzes in the format of the class next time she teaches it. I found the wording of some of her exam questions tricky, which was interesting since I took 134J with her at the same time and found those exams to be very straightforward. However, she does give free points for questions that less than 50% of the class answers correctly, which is really helpful. Overall, very interesting content about personality and a reasonable workload so I definitely recommend!!

Dr. Goff is my favorite professor at UCLA. She is very warm, kind, and a very engaging professor. I took 2 of her classes at my time at UCLA as a transfer student. She talks a lot about her personal experiences in this class and I enjoyed every moment of it. Her tests are fair and the material is something I will take with me for the rest of my life! Thank you Dr. Goff ^^

I would HIGHLY recommend taking this class to anyone who wants an easy upper div and/or is even remotely interested in learning about what it's like to be a parent. The grading is: 3 exams, each non-cumulative, each worth 20% of your grade AND 4 short written assignments, worth a total of 40% of your grade. Exams are all multiple choice. However the exams are not necessarily common sense and you definitely have to go to lecture, take notes, and study a decent amount in order to do well on them. Professor Goff records the audio of lectures but doesn't bruin cast them. She shows a lot of videos in class, so I'd recommend going to class as much as possible because it can be tricky to hear the videos over just the audio recording. Further, basically every video she shows in class ends up having a couple exam questions devoted to it, so pay attention and take good notes on each video. ESPECIALLY the video documentary she plays during week 10! She is also offering an extra credit assignment this quarter. Professor Goff is a great and engaging lecturer who gives personal anecdotes from her childhood as well as her experience being a parent. Lectures are never boring and I feel like I've gained a lot of valuable information about what one should know/consider before choosing to become a parent. Overall, this is a great, fun, and easy/low workload class to take, and I would highly recommend it!

This class was probably my favorite elective course taken at UCLA. Not only is the subject itself interesting, but professor Goff is the type of person who genuinely is excited and passionate about teaching. She is extremely receptive to the class, and wants everyone to feel comfortable sharing even among touchy subject matter such as childhood trauma. The exams & homework were very fair, so long as you study and/or have a good understanding of concepts. Workload was nothing unmanageable.

BEST CLASS. BEST TEACHER. The course is SO astoundingly interesting and surprisingly so easy. Like I was literally stunned by the amount of crazy (but awesome) info we learned. Also Goff is a QUEEN I love her. She is so kind, so funny, and such an amazing teacher. I ABSOLUTELY recommend taking this class WITH GOFF!