Reviews of professor Laura Cirelli

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
very easy course, she explains concepts so well and shes genuinly such a sweet soul

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
got my first C in this class because her exams are insane.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
her lectures can get tedious, but just using the examples of studies she uses and connecting them back to the key topics she discusses really helps you understand the topics. By far one of the best professors in the psychology department

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
No opportunity for extra credit for me, but gave it to other students. Had to CR/NCR the class. She seems very nice and bubbly in lecture, but she is not very understanding or easy to talk to 1-on-1. She is adamant that students receive 68% avg in her class, and that must be her grading policy; I am a 85%+ student and was getting 60's. Good luck.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Easy class if you can memorize. There is a lot of content, but it is easy and interesting . She delivers the info in a clear way.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While lectures were easy to digest and midterms were very straightforward, beware of the final assignment. Not only is it worth almost twice as much as a midterm, but following the rubric to a tee still resulted in a majority of the class receiving poor marks. This class was a serious case of "they had us in the first half". Be careful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She expected you thoroughly summarize a research article she assigned and make a blog post about it all within only 400-500 words. Which is near impossible. She then decided to grade the entire assignment out of only 14. So if you literally make a small mistake (apa error) and lose 1 mark you lose 7% of the assignment grade. Where is the logic?

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Cirelli was a great lecturer in the sense that she really is clear and goes into depth when explaining concepts. I definitely learnt alot from her class. Her exams are lecture and textbook based, definitely do-able but you need to study, memorize well and apply concepts to do well. The blog assignment is marked hard by TAs. Overall great course