I really enjoyed Professor Lee's class, especially with his child guests! I think he really knows his stuff and he can make it interesting, especially with relevant media clips to form connections - I wish we had more of those! My only issue was the density of the course, the textbook chapters were so extensive and long it would take 2-3 hours to complete whereas his assigned articles were the right length. Ironically, taking this course made me realize I have had undiagnosed ADHD since like... the age of four, but those long chapters were hard to focus on for my classmates without as well. His slides where often blocks of text that were hard to get down, while listening to the other points he was speaking, and for filmed lectures there was so much content so fast. I wish he could slow down his bullet points when filming lectures ahead of time, during live lectures he often got behind bc of people asking to go back or needing more clarification because they didn't get everything down. I liked that we got the textbook for free and also that there weren't a bunch of other assignments or busywork. Sections were great and the classwork was definitely both helpful and easy. I also think the exams were a bit difficult even when you felt you mastered the material. However, I think finding a good researcher who is also a good teacher in this department is rare, and he really cares about his students! Kelsey expanded on the material in an interesting way and was super understanding when I forgot an assignment. I'd definitely take his class again!

Prof. Lee is awesome. The workload is nonexistent because he doesn't assign any work besides the reading. The class is made of 3 equally weighted non cumulative 40 question multiple choice exams with a few extra credit points on each and 10 participation points, 2 from each of the 5 sections (they are not weekly). Review sessions are held by TAs the day before the exam and are only useful if you submit questions to it. Prof. Lee is very straightforward and will often say "you need to know this for the test" or "this will be in multiple questions" so you have a clear idea of what you need to study. To get an A in this class you must read the relevant textbook chapters and be able to apply knowledge, not just control f in the PDF because that will not help you. Abnormal psych itself is a cool topic and this one is specifically CHILD-CENTERED and covers conduct, oppositional defiant, borderline personality, obsessive compulsive, autism spectrum, major depressive, bipolar, anxiety, and antisocial personality disorders in addition to substance abuse, anorexia, bulimia, treatment and course of disease. Recommend for a psych major with interest if you are sure you'll do the readings.

I took this class with an open mind and went in just wanting to do my best. And in the end I feel pretty mixed about the professor. On one hand, it's obvious that he cares for the subject and does want you to learn , but on the other hand his teaching leaves a lot to be desired.

He lectures with a ton of run on sentences - which is fine - except when it completely messes with your understanding. I took psych 135 Smurda at the same time and both teachers have a similar amount of content and weekly structure. Smurda was clear, concise, and gave lots of relevant details. Whereas, Lee went on and on during confusing lectures.

For example, *pulling up my notes* he says and I quote, " the gender that has the lower base rate, meaning it's less prevalent and that gender, often times they have worse outcomes than the other gender who has the same disorder. " This sounds fine at first, except when I heard it, I had to think about it three times to actually understand. I don't know if I'm just slow but I feel like too much of what he means could have been said so much more concisely: the disorder is more severe for the gender that has it less.

At first, I didn't mind it but as the concepts get more involved I spent so much time deciphering what he meant instead of studying. Instead of explaining something, he will give two or three synonyms for a word and ends with "or whatever." ie. from his lecture: "[the relationship] has improved, but it's consistent with the idea that children who are maltreated, abused, victimized, whatever you want to call it." Maybe this is helpful for some people, but his confusing way of talking and surface level "explanations" made this class super frustrating even though the content is so interesting and relevant.

I heavily relied on my amazing TA, although towards the end, there was a section of information that even both the TAs struggled to review because the lecture on it was so unclear. They just brushed it off because it wasn't on the test. And at that point, I also ignored it too.

Speaking of tests, several questions are weird. He does stats on his results, which I really appreciate. However, there were many times multiple answer choices could be true, as in I can point to where to find the answers in the lecture or power points. It's a case of what is most true or more marginally accurate. And these specifics are NOT made clear during lecture. I'll use Smurda again as a counter example - Dr. Smurda always made sure to highlight or reiterate those kinds of weird specifics. It becomes very clear which details are important.

So, Dr. Lee being a great dad (it seems) and a great researcher doesn't necessarily mean being a great teacher. An interesting class with a professor who is definitely knowledgeable but without the clarity I needed.

Also, he has a weird drop policy where you can drop an exam score as long as you get at least 65% on all three exams. I always thought drop policies are for when you mess up badly once but this drop policy says to me it's fine to mess up except you can't mess up THAT bad.

Thank you for reading this rant. Ironically, it isn't very concise, but this class took so much of my brain power even though I was taking two other upper divisions. For context, I got As in those and a B in this class despite the time invested.

All in all, a doable class... but be warned. Good luck!

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. His exams are extremely tricky and extremely detailed. Most of his questions come from lecture but there's about 4 or 5 on each exam that come from the book as well, and they are so hard to miss. Avoid.

IMPORTANT --- the grading scheme changed from previous classes! There are now only 2 exams, not 3, and neither are dropped! The class grading consists of: 2 exams, discussion attendance, 2 points of extra credit from SONA studies

Such interesting content! Also, the BruinWalk profile picture is not him; it's some guy from the School of Dentistry. Anyways, a really nice class! My TA was amazingggg, shoutout Kristen. shes an amazing teacher, I cant speak for the other TAs (they lowkey intimidated me ngl) but they all seem okay. The professor is very funny, he explains things very well, though I do feel he will sometimes rant about one topic too long and neglect some other important content, but its not a big deal. You are expected to read the textbook (I didnt and got an A, but honestly I would still skim it) its honestly just way too dense and its not worth spending your time on reading it when you could just study the lecture material! I suggest attending lectures, audio is often corrupted in class and there were 1/2 that just never got fixed. But attendance is not mandatory for lecture, and you can also miss a discussion section no penalty (but i wouldnt, discussion material is on the test, so might as well go!) His exams are difficult, but fair. I never felt like I was being tricked, though I will say his extra credit questions were poorly phrased and also very irrelevant. With questions about candy he recieved in office hours and what sports his kids played, and if you got those two right you would have recieved 2 points of credit, which is literally equivalent to the two hours of SONA studies you can do for extra points. So I guess attend office hours if you ever feel kinda lost in class. Id say the first 5 weeks of the quarter are MUCH more difficult than the last 5 weeks, but thats just me. His final exam took place before finals week, which made studying a little stressful, but its not a big deal. overall, i enjoyed the class, it was difficult but fair

He is honestly such an amazing lecturer, but some of the exams had tricky questions. The lectures are recorded, and the grading scheme is 45% midterm, 45% final, and 10% discussion. You CANNOT fuck up on the exams, otherwise you are done for. Everything was good but the tuesday before the final exam (final exam was literally thursday of week 10 so 2 days before the final exam) he had one of the TA's give a long lecture regarding psychosis and holy shit it was SOSOSOSOSOOOO much content that absolutely was on the final exam and that cooked ts outta me.

Mad easy. Content was interesting and effectively conveyed during Lee's lectures. Watch and take notes on lecture, skim the textbook readings, and attend at least 5 of the discussions! Didn't do much studying, just made sure to really understand what is said during lecture! Would take again for psych upper divs.

Prof Lee is a great professor! Honestly, I looked forward to going to his classes because he lectures in a very engaging way and although the content is already interesting, he makes it even more interesting. Your grade is completely based on 2 midterms and a final, and then discussion attendance (but only 5). The exams were relatively challenging but fair. Just make sure to actually study the textbook too in addition to the lecture material. He also gives lots of EC questions on the exams, and the option for SONA study. If you put in a good amount of effort for this class, you will most likely get an A.

This class was interesting, useful, and did not take too much effort. There is no homework, so your grade is based solely on exams and discussion section attendance. Grading scheme is: midterm 1 (about 40 points), midterm 2 (about 40 points; builds on some material from midterm 1), final (about 40 points; mostly on material from the last 1/3 of the course but a few elements from exams 1 and 2), and discussion section attenance (10 points; 2 points per section.) He drops your lowest exam score as long as you get above a 65% on each exam (so you still have to take all 3 exams.) If you get below a 65% on 1 or more exam, then all 3 exams are factored into your grade and none of them are dropped. There are only 5 discussion sections and you get 1 free skip without penalty, so you can still get the full 10 points. There is an attendance google form that you have to fill out at the end of discussion that asks questions about concepts discussd in section so you can’t really leave section early. You can also get 2 extra credit points from doing 2 hours of SONA studies. Exams were about 40 multiple choice/true or false questions total with about 3-4 extra credit questions at the end. I would recommend taking VERY thorough lecture notes, because his EC questions often tested on small details in lecture that are easy to miss. I thought the exams were a very fair level of difficulty, but one con is that they test on concepts from the reading that were not discussed in lecture. Assigned reading is roughly 2 30-60ish page chapters per week. If you don’t want to do all of the reading, I would just recommend memorizing/skimming the vocabulary list at the end of each chapter, because that is what questions on the exam tended to test on. I didn’t have time to do all of the reading for the exams so usually I would just miss or guess on those questions and still got an A in the class. In class, Prof Lee told us that exams would be about 75% content discussed in lecture, 15% content discussed in lecture and reinforced by the textbook, and 10% discussed solely in the textbook and not in lecture. Lectures are also recorded on Bruin Cast. Professor Lee is a good instructor who explains concepts thoroughly and gives many examples to help us understand things better. He doesn’t speed through slides like some professors that I’ve had. He also explicitly says things in lecture like “this concept will be on the test,” which is super helpful. Finally, he provides practice exam questions and solutions, which I really appreciated. I really liked this class because it taught me a lot of warning signs/symptoms of mental illnesses that I now know to look for in my future kids someday. Overall, if you are looking for an easy A, low effort class, I would not necessarily recommend this class. I’ve taken way easier psych upper divs than this class; however, it is definitely doable and not unreasonably difficult.

This has possibly been my favorite course I've ever taken in college. The content is so interesting, and Prof. Lee is an amazing lecturer. He is super engaging and explains things in an easily digestible way. Classes are recorded and he doesn't take attendance but I would recommend going to lecture because you can ask questions. His grading system is very nice too in my opinion. There are two midterms and a final but as long as you get above 65% on all three exams the lowest one will be dropped. So if you do well on the first two midterms you don't have to worry about the final. The exams are relatively straightforward and he always includes at least 4 extra credit questions and will drop a question if most of the class gets it wrong. Overall, it is such a great course, I highly recommend it.