Professor Wong is the best. 10/10 would take another class with him, he brought starbursts for the entire class (like 200+ people) once. Also DO NOT BUY THE TEXTBOOK. Seriously, several people told me this, and I still bought it to be safe, I opened it maybe 5 times to look at some concepts I didn't follow during lecture, but I EASILY could've gone without it.

Our TA was helpful because she made study guides for the midterm and final and had review sessions. I basically just studied the day before both (minus going to the review session), and if you just review the study guide questions and the lecture slides you'll be fine (it is a LOT of brute memorization though).

Professor Wong also gave out a total of 3 extra credit points to your final grade if you did the assignments (had to be at lecture to get the assignments which is tricky because his lectures are almost exactly just the lecture slides that he puts online so you're tempted to sleep in often).

Definitely recommend this class as an easy easy GE, especially if your a North Campus major who needs a science GE.

This was definitely an interesting class; however, I found it difficult at times because this class requires A LOT of memorization. The midterms are fairly straightforward, but be prepared to memorize all of the slides word for word! You definitely do not need to get the textbook since everything you are tested on is on the slides. Although I did learn a lot, I wouldn't consider this class as an easy GE.

Overall, I liked Wong. He is logical and concise. He also seems to care a lot about his students as well.
This class however is quite a bit of work for a GE.

His class is purely based on memorization. There are 2 tests: the midterm and the final (non-cumulative), each worth 42% of your grade. There is much information to memorize for each test, however all questions (multiple choice) are straight forward.

There is almost no homework, other than 10 online multiple choice questions per week. You only need to get 5 correct to get 100% on that assignment.

YOU DO NOT NEED THE TEXTBOOK. The textbook is completely useless as Professor Wong has very detailed powerpoint slides that outline exactly what you should know. He even posts them online after the lecture for you to review.

Lastly, this quarter 36% earned A's and 35% earned B's.

He gives you a syllabus with assigned readings, there's not much to it. You can pull off not reading if you listen well in lecture, but word to the wise some test questions are from the reading (not a lot, but the points count). The tests were 50 multiple point questions which was very fair, and much appreciated. The TA's were really helpful when making the study guide, topics not in the study guide weren't on the test which made the midterm and final even more fair game. He also offers extra credit and makes witty jokes that I really appreciate. I liked the energy that Dr.Wong and his TA's Chelsea and Julia had, their youthfulness made them a bit easier to relate to. Definitely strengthened my interest in psychology, 10/10 would take it again. (:

I would highly recommend taking this class as an easy GE. Dr. Wong is a funny guy and really cares about his students learning and understanding the material. Overall the class was extremely easy. There's a midterm and final (not cumulative) each worth 42.5% of your grade. Both are straightforward and you can easily ace them if you memorize the study guide. The rest of your grade comes from weekly online homework assignments with 10 questions each, but you can get 5 right and still get full credit. There's also 2/3 extra credit opportunities as long as you go to class. The class is only curved to benefit students if it's curved at all. Overall the course was really interesting and Dr Wong is great!

Wong was a really good teacher, engaging lecturer and gave extra credit, only curves the class if it helps the majority. Held review sessions and generally was a cool guy. This class is all neuroscience though, don't take it if you don't like science or you're not trying to fulfill that Life Science GE. I got a B+ in the class cause I crammed and never went to lecture, but if you study right its a pretty easy class with not that much of a workload. I don't think the textbook is necessary

This class is a good GE if you're into memorization. His tests are all multiple choice and based entirely off of his lecture slides. There's a lot of information in each lecture, but he posts all of his slides online so if you skip class you can just find all the material there.
There's no discussion so it's a pretty low commitment class, you just need to be able to memorize information for the tests (and if you took AP Psych then you'll already have learned a lot of it).
Overall, not the best class I've taken at UCLA but interesting and not a bad GE to take.
Recommend if you've taken AP Psych and are good at straight memorization.

In terms of work, this class wasn't really bad at all. Reading from the textbook is not even a requirement to get an A, so long as you heavily review the topics in class before the tests. It's also helpful to get your 6 credits out of the way early in the quarter so you don't have to worry about them later. The median for the midterm was an 80, while the median for the final was an 88, since he gives a study guide for it and the second half has easier material (less brain structure stuff, which was what brought me down in the midterm). Also you have two extra credit opportunities for showing up (missed one) and another for lots of people filling eval's. Overall not a difficult class and it's mostly fun and engaging.

okay class