
Professor
Brooke Scelza
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - Prof. Scelza is super nice and seems to be passionate about her research and the topics she discusses during lectures! Although lectures weren't recorded, her slides are clear and helpful to study for exams. Lectures are pretty engaging as well! If you study the slides well (sometimes niche details might appear on exams), you should do just fine. She doesn't do multiple choice for exams (rather only for bi weekly quizzes), but structures the 2 exams in formats like fill in the blank, short answer, etc. Workload is very manageable (I took it with 3 other classes) and the 5 weekly reflections were not a chore at all. Overall recommend taking this class with Scelza if looking for good upper div!
Spring 2025 - Prof. Scelza is super nice and seems to be passionate about her research and the topics she discusses during lectures! Although lectures weren't recorded, her slides are clear and helpful to study for exams. Lectures are pretty engaging as well! If you study the slides well (sometimes niche details might appear on exams), you should do just fine. She doesn't do multiple choice for exams (rather only for bi weekly quizzes), but structures the 2 exams in formats like fill in the blank, short answer, etc. Workload is very manageable (I took it with 3 other classes) and the 5 weekly reflections were not a chore at all. Overall recommend taking this class with Scelza if looking for good upper div!
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - Probably my favorite class I have ever taken! I actually felt motivated to go to class and listen to the lectures. And for once, I never fell asleep during class. It is important to go to lecture because they are not recorded and I felt that the Professor's explanations of the case studies were necessary to understand the slides, but the content was so interesting that I did not mind and actually retained a lot just from listening. So much so that I didn't really need to study... There was a midterm and a final exam consisting of T/F, fill in the blank, short answer, and short essay questions. They were very straightforward! There are weekly readings (which I honestly never read because she would go over the cases in class) and 5 short, 50 word reflections. Overall, I definitely recommend taking this class with Professor Scelza! She is very knowledgeable and interested in this subject, which clearly shines through in this class. Super easy, super interesting!
Spring 2025 - Probably my favorite class I have ever taken! I actually felt motivated to go to class and listen to the lectures. And for once, I never fell asleep during class. It is important to go to lecture because they are not recorded and I felt that the Professor's explanations of the case studies were necessary to understand the slides, but the content was so interesting that I did not mind and actually retained a lot just from listening. So much so that I didn't really need to study... There was a midterm and a final exam consisting of T/F, fill in the blank, short answer, and short essay questions. They were very straightforward! There are weekly readings (which I honestly never read because she would go over the cases in class) and 5 short, 50 word reflections. Overall, I definitely recommend taking this class with Professor Scelza! She is very knowledgeable and interested in this subject, which clearly shines through in this class. Super easy, super interesting!