I highly encourage you to take PSYCH 150 with Dr. T! She is truly an amazing professor!
She gives lectures using Slides/PPT. Her lectures are also recorded on Bruincast. :) This class does not require a textbook. You will primarily read news articles and will be quizzed on them in class by ICLICKER or REEF. There are 3 Exams, however, if you do very well on the first two exams and are happy with your grade then you are not required to take the last Exam. Exams are pretty long (can vary from 50-70 questions), but the questions are very fair! Professor T also drops questions that the majority of the class answers poorly. If you participate in 3 psych studies then you will also earn 1 % of Extra Credit!

I would absolutely take 150 with Tomiyama again! She really loves health psych, you can tell by the way she discuses topics in class.

Class set up: 3 exams but she only counts 2 (70% of grade). Participation (30% of grade) in the form of i>clickers, but you only need 75% to get full credit.

Did really well on the first two exams, got full clicker points, easy A+.

I could write an entire essay on Dr. T! She has been the most engaging, clear, and understanding professor! She is the best professor I have had at UCLA! She breaks down the material (including the more challenging biology components) in a very creative and understanding method. She has no issue with answering questions in lecture to curious students. She makes herself very available to students, including during exams. The material she presented us throughout the course was very interesting and she even had guest lecturers who are involved and/or teach in the Health Psychology field present material. Her exams were a little lengthy but very fair! Her iClicker questions really helped the class to be stimulated in answering reading questions and general questions from lecture that had us critically think. Her Think-Pair-Share questions also give a chance for students to communicate with one another to critically think about a concept. Dr. T takes lecturing to an entire new level. I wish all my Psychology professors could be as effective in their methods of teaching course material.

Some extra notes: You can use iClicker or Reef App on your phone for participation. No required textbook, just CCLE simple and interesting short readings. She uses Powerpoint slides, which are available before lecture to download. She also Bruincasts her lectures (with video), which is very helpful when studying for exams to pick up on some notes you might have missed out on.

Thank you Dr T!

I loved taking 150 with Professor Tomiyama. It's obvious that she cares about student learning, and even more obvious that she's fascinated by health psychology. The class involves lots of study examples, but she goes over them clearly & as long as you go to class you should definitely be able to get an A. There are required readings & iClicker questions, but most of them are news articles so they're quick reads. Overall, really enjoyed this class, and I gained an appreciation for the field of health psych.

I enjoyed coming to this class every single day. Professor Tomiyama made lecture so engaging and the material itself was super interesting and applicable to everyone and everything. Also no books at all which is a plus, just weekly readings that are often short. Three tests and you drop your lowest one so if you do really well on the first two you don't even need to do the last. 10/10 would recommend!!

While this class was incredibly easy, I can't recommend taking it. The professor is quite plainly a regressive ideologue, and it's apparent that this clouds her empirical thinking.

One of the BEST labs ever taught by Dr. T. The class was set up in a way where the TA and professor wanted you to succeed and most of the assignments were graded on completion rather than correctness. Dr. T was also very generous with allowing groups to do work during class time which significantly reduced the number of times that we had to meet outside of class.
For the final paper, as long as you answered everything on the rubric, you're pretty much set.

Really enjoyed this lab and Dr. T & Kristen were the most helpful when we needed help.

TAKE THIS LAB GUYS!!!

I enjoyed Prof Tomiyama's class even though I am not very interested in health psych. There's a lot to learn and I found a lot of the content to be useful in life. I would say that the exams are not as easy as they seem in these reviews. They weren't ridiculous but they're all application questions and half are specific details from the readings. Luckily they're open note and she drops the the questions that most people get wrong so it's definitely doable. I would definitely recommend the class if you're interested.

This class is extremely interesting, and Dr. Tomiyama is such an outstanding professor. She’s super sweet and really engaging; you can tell she really loves what she teaches. I would definitely take this class again with her.

1. Professor Tomiyama is very intelligent, poised, and passionate. I respect her very much. Her lectures are engaging and relevant to everyday life; I recommend everyone take this class, even if they are not a Psychology major. Regarding note-taking, her lectures are not entirely clear and seem to jump around a lot, but it is not unbearable as she allows many questions and clarifies any confusion. She is very engaged with her students and attempted to learn all of our names (which is super awesome). She cares about our learning experience; she has the class vote on their preferred testing formats and then compiles the tests to mirror the class distribution (e.g., 5% of the test is true/false, 25% is multiple choice, etc.). The homework assignments are very interesting and have a lot of value to them. They are also very reasonable (there are only 2). However, I wish each one was worth a little more than 2.5% because I feel they are more reflective of knowledge than the exams (to some extent), which take up 93% of the grade (yeah). Overall, the professor cares about her students, teaches well, takes into account our thoughts, and is a great representation of what a professor should be like. I loved her and I would totally take her again.