Once again, highly recommend! This was the first class I took with Dr. Ho (second was Psych 126, equally recommend), and the first time that she taught this course! I'm sure that since then, she has made modifications to the course, but from my experience, the content in this class is exactly what I hoped would be covered! From anxiety to depression to ADHD to personality disorders to psychotic disorders, my intellectual curiosity only grew afterwards! I do wish that more disorders like eating disorders (related to anxiety and depression but still its own category) could have been studied. Exams were not bad if you studied the comprehensive presentation slides and read the papers assigned (not much honestly!). Take this class for elective credit :)

Wow, what can I say. Dr. Ho is an amazing professor, her lecture presentations clear and concise, never boring with the research and excitement she shares with the class. The class content is interesting, and the fact that we learn about a variety of adolescent psychiatric conditions that draw in the biology and computer science fields really adds a spark to learning! Take this class as your laboratory requirement for psych with Dr. Ho!! No exams, only paper, research presentation, and some R coding that is super simple to follow along with (no prior experience needed!)

Her lectures are useful if you're interested in psychology, She offers weekly quizzes which you can take again after the answer is revealed. Overall If you read the slides and the textbook you'll perform well on the exams.

Overall, solid class and really great professor. I took this class thinking it would be somewhat like a mock clinical practice--using screening and diagnostic tools as well as creating treatment plans, etc. Instead, it was more focused on analyzing and conducting research using R. This was a little tough for me because I had never learned R (my PSYCH 100A course was taught in Jamovi lol), but Professor Ho was very accommodating and spent a lot of time catching us all up to speed. She was super kind and patient, and didn't make us do anything too crazy with the programming. She did not grade harshly but did expect you to pay attention and participate in class discussions, which were engaging. Being in her class, it felt like she had an awareness of how students were feeling and wanted to help them succeed, which was much appreciated. The workload wasn't very heavy, and the final research paper was really satisfying-- we had to work with a partner (we got to choose), but my partner was great and we got a perfect score. There were no exams or quizzes in this class and it wasn't recorded.

This content of this class was super interesting but difficult in my opinion. Prof. Ho is super knowledgable and made her lectures engaging but there was just way too information to pack into one quarter. This class had a point based grading scheme out of 300 points (discussions - 50, quizzes - 50, exam #1 - 100 and exam #2 - 100). Discussions were mandatory but you could miss one. Weekly quizzes were pretty easy and you had unlimited attempts. Exam #1 was basically the midterm and exam #2 was during week 10 but it was not cumulative. If you didn't do well on one of the exams, you had the option to take a cumulative final during finals week. The exams were super difficult, even with one of them being online due to the encampment. You are expected to study EVERYTHING from the lectures and read the textbook in order to perform well. Even though I studied really hard for the exams, I got a B average on them because there were still a handful of questions that I'd be unsure about because they were so specific. Prof. Ho offered up to 5 points extra credit for doing Sona studies and 5 points for doing the course evaluation so that took from a B+ to an A- which was nice. I wouldn't take this class as your first choice for a psych upperdiv but it was still interesting nonetheless and I learned a lot!