Reviews of professor Danielle Samuels

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Samuels is awesome, she knows so much about adolescent psych that it makes this class so much more interesting. She is my favorite professor. If you keep up with the textbook readings and go to the lectures you'll succeed very easily. HW is opinion based and she gives plenty of time to complete assignments. 100% recommend.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
i love her because she's nice, but her exams are BRUTAL. 3 exams a semester + 50 pages of notes per exam + exams being 60% of your grade = tough class. she has long and mundane slides, so it's hard to feel like you're learning. it's a shame! i love the topic of adolescent psychology, it was really interesting but she made it really hard

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I don't know why she has so many positive reviews. You will have to WORK for the A. Psych is my EASY class and this class was hard AF for no reason. Her lectures are extremely content-heavy, and you are expected to memorize everything for the in-person, closed-note exam. Class average was a C for the first exam, B if you're lucky.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Biggest issue was the really long smart-book assignments that took hours to complete. Sometimes the quiz timings/dates were moved without enough notice. It's easy to accidentally miss some. Lectures are easy to comprehend, tries to incorporate experiment examples in class. She drops your lowest grades. She is nice but due dates are pretty strict.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
straightfoward class. super nice prof. very tedious homework IMO but fair amount of time given. worst test and homework score are dropped.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took her for Psych 355 and she was really good with presentations and teaching what she tests on.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Homework takes hours so I recommend you split it up. Exams are all multiple choice but are very specific so pay attention. Weekly online quizzes. Lectures are boring but doable. She gives random pop quizzes every few classes so I would be careful skipping. There are extra credit opportunities. And she brought her dog in for the last class lol.