Reviews of professor Michael Tomasello

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Honestly, this class is not as difficult as other reviews make it out to be. If you go to the lectures, take notes, and have decent memorization/common sense, then the tests should be pretty easy. His lectures can be dry but a lot of the content is interesting. Key to success = go to lecture (textbook did not really matter much)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a living legend in his field but still dedicates much of his busy schedule to teach undergraduates some of the wisdom he's accrued over his decades-long career. If he's repetitive, it's because he wants to convey memorable, critically important points about human cooperative cognition across his classes: you get what you put in.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Tomasello is a legend in the field, and his lectures were pretty interesting. He talked about his own research and added humor. The class is graded by 3 50-question multiple choice exams. They were not that difficult if you attended class and read the textbook, but were a little tricky. He offered easy extra credit that boosted your grade by 6%.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Tomasello is a psych legend and you learn a lot about his work throughout the class. However, we only are graded on 3 multiple choice assignments, and the grade cut-offs are ridiculously high. I enjoyed learning from his experience but, if you want to keep your GPA intact, wait til another professor teaches the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I have never fallen asleep so often in a class. He talks about the same slide for 15 minutes when the whole lecture could have been covered in the same time frame. Multiple choice is purely memorization, and the directions for the take-home did not fairly represent expectations. Lectures often based on his own research, but not a good teacher.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The material was not my favorite, but Dr. Tomasello is extremely qualified by his research. I think the material will give anyone a great foundation of understanding the mind of a child.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I was honestly a bit starstruck taking this class after reading a lot of his research in a prior class. Even though he is a world-renowned researcher, his class is really easy. No tricks. I don't know what the person a couple of reviews below me is talking about; the take home was extremely clear and simple

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Tomasello is a legend in psychology and his course content is really interesting, though repetitive at times. Our entire grade hinged on just 3 exams which weren't necessarily easy. There was also no discussion and getting feedback on anything was next to impossible. Tomasello relied a lot on the TAs and neither of them seemed super interested.