Reviews of professor Stephen Balsis

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was one of my favorite classes! Be prepared to do some work but I personally did not find it hard because I was interested in learning. Professor Balsis is really awesome and I learned a lot!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I really enjoy this class, the lectures r super interesting and I never had issues paying attention. Balsis is a good guy too, knows what he's talking about. Sadly, I felt that the exam questions were curveballs sometimes. I pay attention every class/take notes yet my exam average is around a B. The questions get very specific and pretty difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Balsis is very organized, clear, and knowledgeable that he makes the class very interesting. The lecture has very informative material about clinical therapies and tells us what we should know and behave. His gradings are very fair as long as you do the assignments and participate. He is very kind! You get a lot of info about materials!!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His class consists of 80 + slides every class period. It is so boring,  not only that but midterm and final are 45% each, so if you do badly on that, your grade is going down. Slides do not help on the midterm , based on in-class knowledge

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Not gonna lie his lectures consist of a bunch of slides that are boring but it is best to pay attention in his class in order to do well on the exams. There is no quizzes or homework in this class ever which is good. Overall very easy class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I was afraid to take this course because I had heard that he was a tough professor and that it was difficult, but Professor Balsis is genuinely the best professor I have ever had. I highly recommend taking this course if you're interested in the psych/social work field! Amazing professor with super knowledgable lectures and firsthand experience!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I was very afraid of taking a seminar course as it is one of the last major courses I needed for my degree, but Professor Balsis made the class easy to manage. Mostly homework assignments and one presentation as there were no quizzes or exams. Homework is extremely lengthy though which pained me to do, but just power through and you should be fine!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Wonderful professor. Definitely take it if you are interested in pursuing anything related to clinical psychology. The coursework may seem like a lot at first, but it gets easier as the weeks go on. Homework was fairly easy, and the presentation was easy as well. You'll learn a lot in the class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
For seminar you have reading responses you have to do each week, for 10 weeks. Lectures are really bearable, he's a really good professor to have during covid and this is a really great class to take while online- it's pretty stress free, he never overwhelms you and theres no exams. also usually ends class a little early. no extra credit tho