Definitely take your psych lab requirement with Dr. T. She is very supportive and truly cares about you. The classwork and group activities are graded on completion except for the peer review, presentation, and research design. Our T.A. Kristen is amazing and super knowledgeable to help you with your statistical analysis and research design. I was nervous about the lab requirement since 100B was challenging and I am not too interested in psych research, but this class went smoothly as she gives a refresher on research methods. I was lucky to have a good research group and work with great people so be prepared to work with others for sure.

easily one of the most interesting psych classes I've taken. there's 3 exams total and the top 2 are taken. I would say the exams are a little tricky just because they're all application based questions and you don't have a practice or study guide going into it, but I rewatched all the lectures before the exams and was able to only take the first two exams. this meant the course practically ended in week 7 for me since I turned in the additional assignment early. there's two writing assignments that are the same prompt and one-page requirement each; you basically find an article online about a topic related to health psychology and summarize and critique it. prof tomiyama also offers a percent of extra credit for doing sona studies!

Take this class! Dr. T is an excellent lecturer, her class is well organized, and she cares about the success of her students. There is not textbook, she assigns interesting articles that are FREE, best 2 out of 3 exams and 2 short writing assignments. Extra credit for Sono participation. This was a genuinely enjoyable class. If you aren't sure how interested you are in working in health psych, take this class anyway for the interesting content and with a professor who cares about learning. The class isn't designed to be stressful it's designed for you to get invested in the topics and want to learn more.

A little background on me: I'm a psych major with less than a 3.0, so you know not the sharpest tool in the shed. Maybe I just don't care enough. Regardless, this class was not only actually interesting but pretty simple/straight forward too. I got an A with ease and didn't even take the final, which is saying something for me. Take this with her!!