Easy class if you've taken STAT 2020 or similar course. Smyth isn't the best at explaining things, but he tries to make lectures engaging ("tries" is the key term here). He has clicker questions every lecture which are worth points, although some are extra credit (which give you a nice boost). The exams are fine if you do the optional homework and study key terms from the textbook and lectures. It is a requirement for the psychology major/minor, but honestly not that bad.

Smyth really has the most disorganized and driest lectures ever. In addition he puts a ton of clicker questions (~5) throughout his lecture on very specific things within the reading. Besides that I thought the class was ok, I've never taken a stats class before but didn't find the material to be too difficult. His exams can be tedious but he usually ends up curving exam grades by a lot. He's a little odd and insists on collecting your scratch work at the end of the exam and will actually go through everybody's paper and make sure that they did their own work.

Smyth is a chill person who wants to keep his students engaged and teach others. I liked him as a person and he is sometimes funny but he has the driest lectures . They rarely are helpful in learning the material on the test. I've never seen so many students sleeping during an afternoon class before. If not that, they were on their phones or talking. It was obvious what they were doing, but he rarely confronted anyone about it. The readings are annoying and he usually picks either the smallest parts of the reading to test us on or the most obvious parts. If you don't have any experience with stats or aren't good at it, you will most likely struggle in this class a bit. The readings usually aren't too hard and usually short, but they will build up if you don't keep up with them and your exam score will suffer because of it. Personally, I don't like the exams and think we should get more than 50 minutes to complete them. As for the content, make sure you understand not only how to solve the problems, but what the formulas and the answers to them means. Also pay attention to random vocab, the collab readings (on the final, but not on the other exams), and the goeff cumming videos. Overall, would not take this class unless necessary

He's a great professor! Lectures get a little boring near the end of the semester because they pretty much echo the readings, but it's enjoyable overall. You really have to do the reading because clicker questions are specific, but tests are pretty easy and he makes it easy to get extra credit.

Took this class when it still had a lab and was called PSYC 3005 - but it will essentially be the same thing , if not easier. If you have any background in statistics this class will be a breeze/review and def easier than other intro psych classes. If you haven't, it still won't be bad but I would stay up to date with the topics and do a few practice problems. You definitely have to do the readings because the clickers are pretty specific. It's a class that every university across the country makes their psych majors take and I don't think most people look forward to it, but after taking it, I do think the skills are useful to know esp if you're interested in research etc. Lectures can be dry but overall, way less painful than I thought it would be!! An easy A-, a do-able A.