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Dean Buonomano
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Winter 2023 - If you have a chance to take this class, take it! Attendance is highly highly encouraged because the lectures are not recorded and while he does post the slides, they are mostly just of experimental data and graphs (little words/explanations), so taking notes is super important. We had three grades in this class: midterm, group presentation, and final. The exams were FRQ and true/false MTC and if you paid attention in lecture and reviewed your notes, you would do well (we had an A average for our midterm). The group presentation is chill too. There was no HW or textbook so all the information on exams came from lecture but he mainly tested big concepts and smaller details for MTC. I reviewed my notes and made a study guide as well as studied online quizlets and that was very low-effort. There is some review from Psych 115 that would be helpful to brush up on. Overall, it was a great class and I looked forward to it and didn't stress about it compared to some other challenging courses. Professor is awesome and funny and there are cool concepts taught that I found very applicable to every day life.
Winter 2023 - If you have a chance to take this class, take it! Attendance is highly highly encouraged because the lectures are not recorded and while he does post the slides, they are mostly just of experimental data and graphs (little words/explanations), so taking notes is super important. We had three grades in this class: midterm, group presentation, and final. The exams were FRQ and true/false MTC and if you paid attention in lecture and reviewed your notes, you would do well (we had an A average for our midterm). The group presentation is chill too. There was no HW or textbook so all the information on exams came from lecture but he mainly tested big concepts and smaller details for MTC. I reviewed my notes and made a study guide as well as studied online quizlets and that was very low-effort. There is some review from Psych 115 that would be helpful to brush up on. Overall, it was a great class and I looked forward to it and didn't stress about it compared to some other challenging courses. Professor is awesome and funny and there are cool concepts taught that I found very applicable to every day life.
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Dr. Buonomano is quite a nice guy, but Psych 119S wasn't that interesting. Also I never knew how to study for this class, and I didn't like how students were supposed to do presentations, on which tests might be based(??). There was a course reader, and my impression, upon reading it, was that the readings would be easier to tackle if one first took Neuro M101A. Nonetheless, I know people who hadn't, and got A's in the class. So it's possible he's an easy grader. I think classes that spend weeks 4-10 with student presentations lack organization. It's like there's no set material to learn, and they pick amongst themselves what to study. Many students are busy with other classes, too, so they just want to get the presentation over with; hence, you end up not learning as well as you might want to... Anyway, I exchanged Psych 119S for Butcher's Neuroscience of Aging by the end of week 2.
Dr. Buonomano is quite a nice guy, but Psych 119S wasn't that interesting. Also I never knew how to study for this class, and I didn't like how students were supposed to do presentations, on which tests might be based(??). There was a course reader, and my impression, upon reading it, was that the readings would be easier to tackle if one first took Neuro M101A. Nonetheless, I know people who hadn't, and got A's in the class. So it's possible he's an easy grader. I think classes that spend weeks 4-10 with student presentations lack organization. It's like there's no set material to learn, and they pick amongst themselves what to study. Many students are busy with other classes, too, so they just want to get the presentation over with; hence, you end up not learning as well as you might want to... Anyway, I exchanged Psych 119S for Butcher's Neuroscience of Aging by the end of week 2.
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