Dr. Timmermans is a kind and funny professor. He is easy-going as he allowed me to turn in my reaction paper late because I was enrolled late. He has a Dutch accent which might be hard to understand sometimes but he's generally very understandable and clear. Discussion participation was 20-25% of the final grade which you can easily get 100% just by sharing a question with the section. I thought I was going to get a A-/B+ but I think he ended up curving a little bit which boosted a lot of people's grades. Very interesting class about death and trauma through a sociological perspective. 8/10 would recommend

Great class about all sorts of death that you wouldnt want yourself to be in. Learnt a lot about how different types of death is treated by society as well as the histories behind some of them. Given that Timmermans is a sociology professor, the demands, style and content of this class is quite different from the usual psychology class. Much more focused on ideas, readings and theories and less so on experimental data. if you have some morbid interest in deaths and dying, it is definitely a fun and informative class to take