Reviews of professor Heather Mangelsdorf

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. M tried her best to make a super boring topic more interesting. There was definitely a lot of reading to be done outside of class in addition to a research project. While the expectations were not always super clear, I think that she was lenient in that she provided an extra credit exam, and let us use a "cheat sheet" on the final.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Although Dr. M was passionate about research methods & truly wanted to help other students have greater research literacy, this class was a joke. If you have a strong bio background and have taken statistics, everything taught in the class is stuff you already learned in statistics or in biology labs. She is very disorganized and unclear.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I see that Dr. M had a rough couple of previous terms, however, she clearly learned from her past mistakes! She brought a positive attitude to class EVERY day, which was refreshing! She was always available outside of class and gives extra credit on her tests. It was a pleasure to have her teach psych 255! Ps. She likes to bake for her class :)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
We have only had 4 classes and we are already 3 days behind the course material, yet we still have had a test on the materials we have not even learned yet. She expects you to volunteer for other research projects that her upper level students are doing in order to get a good grade. Makes you interview random people for a project as well.