Professor Wassum was a great teacher! Any of the previous negative reviews definetly do not apply to her last quarter. Our grades were soley based on weekly assignments and exams. The weekly assignments were pretty much a guaranteed 100% - it was just a short summary of what we learned that week and you had to create a social media post. Her exams were pretty straightforward, and were online which definetly helped. She also had quite a few exam questions that were identical to the practice exam questions she provided, which really helped to buffer exam grades. She also offered extra credit on all the exams with an optional bonus question - this really helped my grade. Overall I loved this class and Professor Wassum!

Neuro 101C

After 4 years at UCLA, Wassum is absolutely the worst teacher I have ever had. Every lecture she reads off her slides. And there are around 80 slides per lecture! The way she communicates the information is terrible. The school needs to hire a Wassum translator that stands at the front of the class with her.

Wassum is a very nice and helpful professor. She really tries to help you understand the lectures during office hours and even gives you hints on what to study for during the exam. However, be aware that this class is mainly about rats, dogs and pigeons. I honestly didn't like this class since I had no interest in this topic. The lectures are also podcasted which helped a lot!

Breakdown of class:
20%- weekly quizzes (1 quiz dropped)
-consisted of 4 free response/true false questions (book-based)
80%- 3 midterms (all equally weighted)
- 20 multiple choice and approx. 10 free response + 1 bonus question
-ALL LECTURE BASED

Honestly, taking 110 with Wassum isn't as bad as all the reviews here make it out to be. And trust me, it's not because I studied extremely hard or already understood the material. I entered into this class expecting to be miserable, but it was extremely doable. Her lecture material is extremely organized, and although the material can get confusing, podcasting and rewatching lectures helps a lot! Her exams were very lecture based and fair. She's quick to respond on the discussion forum, and her office hours are really helpful as well.

AVOID THIS PROFESSOR! Her lectures only consist of research & graphs. Her exams expect you to know every little detail of those studies which is impossible. She doesn't even help you to understand what will be on the exams which are short answers and multiple choice. The short answers are graded way too harshly. There is no extra credit and your grade is made up of 2 midterms, a final, and weekly quizzes with your TA.

I love her. She's one of the most caring professors, she's really funny, and super receptive to student feedback. Her class is a hard class but the test was okay. Neuro is supposed to be hard, and I thought . She was easier than most of the other neuro professors.

This class requires a lot of paying attention in class and rewatching the lectures online. Its not a hard class you just have to put in the work studying, I thought Professor Wassum was a very helpful professor in terms of clarity, she repeats a lot of things and explains them in different ways until her point comes across. Exams are very lecture based.

I don’t think I would recommend this class to people who don’t have to take it ! The material is dry and Wassum’s lectures consisted of explaining experiments after experiments after experiments. The exams were difficult because required detailed regurgitation of specific experiments that were briefly mentioned in class (half multiple choice, half free response).

VERY HARD EXAMS. Felt they were a bit unfair. Not straightforward and off lectures. Outside knowledge and other sources are needed to even have a chance at passing the exams.

Took this class and felt that it was extremely difficult! The exams are completely unpredictable, she doesn't give you any hints on what could be on the exam, you have no clue what to study for, and her office hours are never helpful. Class is taught very broadly but very specific details that aren't even mentioned in lecture and that I actually could not find in the book were tested on the exam. You go into the class thinking it's easy because lecture is very shallow so you think it's easy until you get to the exams and as soon as you look at it, you scream FML. She talks too fast at times as well and goes off topic on many slides which make it harder for you to connect the material which she is lecturing on to the material on the slide. Very hard class where I put a ton of hours of work and did not get the results that I feel I deserved because this class is very unfairly difficult.