Professor
Brooke Scelza
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Spring 2025 - Prof. Scelza is super nice and seems to be passionate about her research and the topics she discusses during lectures! Although lectures weren't recorded, her slides are clear and helpful to study for exams. Lectures are pretty engaging as well! If you study the slides well (sometimes niche details might appear on exams), you should do just fine. She doesn't do multiple choice for exams (rather only for bi weekly quizzes), but structures the 2 exams in formats like fill in the blank, short answer, etc. Workload is very manageable (I took it with 3 other classes) and the 5 weekly reflections were not a chore at all. Overall recommend taking this class with Scelza if looking for good upper div!
Spring 2025 - Prof. Scelza is super nice and seems to be passionate about her research and the topics she discusses during lectures! Although lectures weren't recorded, her slides are clear and helpful to study for exams. Lectures are pretty engaging as well! If you study the slides well (sometimes niche details might appear on exams), you should do just fine. She doesn't do multiple choice for exams (rather only for bi weekly quizzes), but structures the 2 exams in formats like fill in the blank, short answer, etc. Workload is very manageable (I took it with 3 other classes) and the 5 weekly reflections were not a chore at all. Overall recommend taking this class with Scelza if looking for good upper div!
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Winter 2023 - Dr. Scleza was an incredible professor who did very well even without a TA (though she absolutely deserved a couple). Her lectures were packed with information and she was very clear and accessible in the way that she presented. She left out superfluous topics, jargon, and information in order to clarify and emphasize the course topics, but she was not unwilling to delve further when prompted. She is very clearly knowledgable and passionate about her research, her work, and this class. This was one of my favorite classes I have ever taken. She gave us 4 quizzes and dropped the lowest grade. The quizzes were very 10 multiple choice questions and were very easy if you just pay attention in lecture. Her slides are quite hefty and definitely need her translation, especially for the case studies, so try to make it to class. If you can't it would be helpful to attend office hours just to gain clarity on some slides. She is super helpful and approachable. There was a final paper, but it was easy and fun!
Winter 2023 - Dr. Scleza was an incredible professor who did very well even without a TA (though she absolutely deserved a couple). Her lectures were packed with information and she was very clear and accessible in the way that she presented. She left out superfluous topics, jargon, and information in order to clarify and emphasize the course topics, but she was not unwilling to delve further when prompted. She is very clearly knowledgable and passionate about her research, her work, and this class. This was one of my favorite classes I have ever taken. She gave us 4 quizzes and dropped the lowest grade. The quizzes were very 10 multiple choice questions and were very easy if you just pay attention in lecture. Her slides are quite hefty and definitely need her translation, especially for the case studies, so try to make it to class. If you can't it would be helpful to attend office hours just to gain clarity on some slides. She is super helpful and approachable. There was a final paper, but it was easy and fun!
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