Reviews of professor Justin Moscarello

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Best instructor I've ever had by a mile. Captivating lectures littered with cool facts and anecdotes, exam questions taken directly from his slideshows (lowest exam grade gets dropped), and extra credit. Also very accommodating and was always open to meeting with me over Zoom or after class since I could never make his office hours. Take him!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was my second course with Dr. Moscarello and he is a great prof! While your grade is solely exams, there is no textbook and his exam material is straight from lectures. Attendance is not required, but I always went and found it beneficial. Highly recommend this course.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
As long as you can memorize everything on the PowerPoint slides, then you dont even have to go to class because he just reiterates the same thing. It is a lot of info and is basically neuroscience not even psychology. Only graded from 4 exams and 1 final which if you take all 4 exams, youre lowest gets dropped. Other than that hes a good prof!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was 100% memorization. Prepare to study & study HARD. I could not stand lecture. This man says "uh and um" between every single word. Usually stuff like that doesn't bother me but I went to class one time and kept a tally- in 45 minutes he has said it 288 times. I had to leave mid class and never went again. Save yourself.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class and Dr. Moscarello was incredible!! There are only 4 exams and a final which make up your entire grade. But he drops the lowest exam and the exams are copied EXACTLY from the lecture slides, so they're very easy. You can skip class bc he just reads off the slides (he gives some really interesting bonus facts though if you go in person).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I pretty much stopped going to class after the first exam and still got A's on every exam. The slides have all of the answers, and the exam reviews, though lengthy, cover the exams well. I'm a neuro major, so my background made this course a breeze, but I know some psych majors who lacked hard science backgrounds tended to struggle.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Our class had the option to be async but he has synchronous lectures. There were 4 tests and a final, but he dropped the lowest one and gave 6 points for taking all the tests. I liked his class and you could tell he cared about our learning. Textbook optional but helped fill in gaps when I needed refreshing. His tests were straightforward.