Reviews of professor Michael Fitzgerald

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Fitzgerald teaches a variety of required courses for Psychology majors at Metro State. He makes classes with difficult material like Biopsychology and Research Methods easy to understand and retain. He generally follows the textbook closely and if you can understand and articulate course concepts, you will pass the quizzes and exams.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
For a 1-credit course, it was WAY TOO MUCH WORK!! This class would be helpful for those going into the medical field, but don't take this class if you just need an elective credit. Spent over 10 hours a week preparing for tests and had more work than some of my 3-credit courses. Interesting material though and the professor is really approachable.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
One chapter to read each week along with questions at the end. Research paper ~7 pages, make and send your survey out asap and get started on it early. Prof Fitzgerald makes this class a lot less stressful, and was very accessible over email. Would highly recommend taking this class with him if you're a psych major since this is a required class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Mike reads the slides and let us participate but this didn't help me at all personally. The tests are from the book and a little bit from the slides which are posted. I read the whole book before the test and go through the slides and I barely get B's on tests. The project was graded really harshly so take your time on it. He is a nice guy though.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I've never had a more frustrating professor. He's constantly disorganized and vague and then just blames it on the students' efforts. Ex: At the end of the year, he completely ignored my emails about the extra credit, and then only emailed one of my friends that we were supposed to do a lab component, when he only told us ab the survey components

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Do not get me wrong... Michael has good intentions. There are weekly textbook assignments that are easy, along with one final research paper. He fails to provide you with an outline for your research paper. I felt like I was writing this paper blindly with no guidance. 2 more days of the semester and only 3 of my assignments have been graded.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I missed the majority of the lecture time due to schedule and health problems. Did my reading, read his powerpoints, and studied, got an A. He was helpful with my attendance issue and gave me extra opportunities to get equal credit for missed time. Very insightful during lectures with personal anecdotes; would take again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr Mike stepped in to cover the last part of the semester of BioPsych. Curriculum was already planned and he adapted well to the class - students and content. He added some good info from areas he was experienced in and had passion about. Not easy to join mid stream, but it all ended well. He's young, but knowledgeable. I'd recommend.