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Fanita Tyrell PSYC489F Expecting an A Anonymous 07/26/2023	I found Dr. Tyrell to be a very knowledgable, passionate, and approachable professor. PSYC489F was explicitly a discussion based class which was stated in both the syllabus and on day one. While not for everyone, I found this to be a really helpful way of learning because it allowed for me to exchange ideas with other students. We were expected to summarize one article and present it for the class (approximately 5 minutes), with most of the time being used for small group discussion. Summarizing the article helped me understand the concepts, as I spent more time reviewing my notes to get a better understanding of what was being discussed. Our final presentation (around 10-15 minutes) was on a scholar in the field. I found the scholar summary presentation to be less helpful, but fairly interesting as it allowed for students to experience other areas of the field that were not covered in class. Based on prior PSYC classes I wouldn't say that the presentations/public speaking was more than what would be expected in any other class. I do think that she called on certain people more often than others, though I'm uncertain if that was because people didn't participate or because she had favorites (if I could give a .5 star deduction it would be for this and the scholar summary presentation). Overall, I came out more invested in culture, psychopathology, and development due to Dr. Tyrell's class, and would take it again.
Fanita Tyrell PSYC489F Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/24/2023	The way her class is structured does not foster the best learning experience. Evident she is here solely in the interest of doing research rather than anything else.
Fanita Tyrell PSYC489F Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/15/2023	I have mixed feelings about Dr. Tyrell. On one hand, I would agree that this is a topic she is very passionate and knowledgeable on. That being said, she very obviously has her favorites, which is highly dependent upon how often they participate in class. I would probably also not recommend for people that get nervous public speaking because the final presentation has very little leeway for feeling flustered. The group discussions often get repetitive and tend to cover topics that are complicated, which are often put on the students to explain during their presentation, rather than on her. I really wanted to like this class, because the topics are interesting and worth learning about, but I felt that the layout didn't foster the best learning experience for me.
Fanita Tyrell PSYC489F Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/29/2023	Tyrell seems really passionate about what she does, but heavily relies on students to do half of the teaching themselves (i.e, every Thursday we had to lead discussions for a full 75 minutes, which became pretty boring since the discussion topics were all very similar). Additionally, there were very few papers we read about AAPIDA populations. the focus on AAPIDA cultural processes appeared less important, based on the lack of articles that we had to read.