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Thomas Abt CCJS225 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/12/2024	unreasonable amount of reading for a 200-level class. We had one midterm and a final that we received no study material other than "reviewing the slides". He is a generally good guy who seems knowledgeable about the field but not the best professor. Will not recommend this as a Gen-ed.
Thomas Abt CCJS225 Anonymous 12/12/2024	I registered for this course thinking it was going to be more about how our brains register conflict and what makes us respond the way we do, violent or not. I was seriously mistaken. The content was more about history and statistics than the psychology of the issue. Throughout the entire semester, I dreaded this course and had to fight my eyes from nodding off every time. The PowerPoint presentations were very minimal and boring. They did not add to the class; they just had random points from the books that were not helpful or interesting. There are guest speakers at most of the lectures, and you should take notes cause he asks about them on the exams. There is a midterm (50mcq), a final (60mcq), and a paper (900 words). He gave us 1 hour for the midterm and then gave a lecture. He did not give us a study guide for the exams and just told us to "study the slides," which again were not very useful. As a criminology course, it should expand our knowledge of why people commit crimes, and it does not. I would not recommend this class, especially if it's with him
Thomas Abt CCJS225 Expecting a B- Anonymous 10/24/2024	He taught this class once a week for 2.5 hours. There is a 3-question reading quiz at beginning of each class. This first book he made us read required 200 pages of reading a week and it did not have cliff notes online. The exams were on the books. He went through the slides way too fast for anyone to even comprehend them.

Thomas Abt
CCJS225

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/12/2024

unreasonable amount of reading for a 200-level class. We had one midterm and a final that we received no study material other than "reviewing the slides". He is a generally good guy who seems knowledgeable about the field but not the best professor. Will not recommend this as a Gen-ed.

Thomas Abt
CCJS225

Anonymous
12/12/2024

I registered for this course thinking it was going to be more about how our brains register conflict and what makes us respond the way we do, violent or not. I was seriously mistaken. The content was more about history and statistics than the psychology of the issue. Throughout the entire semester, I dreaded this course and had to fight my eyes from nodding off every time. The PowerPoint presentations were very minimal and boring. They did not add to the class; they just had random points from the books that were not helpful or interesting. There are guest speakers at most of the lectures, and you should take notes cause he asks about them on the exams. There is a midterm (50mcq), a final (60mcq), and a paper (900 words). He gave us 1 hour for the midterm and then gave a lecture. He did not give us a study guide for the exams and just told us to "study the slides," which again were not very useful. As a criminology course, it should expand our knowledge of why people commit crimes, and it does not. I would not recommend this class, especially if it's with him

Thomas Abt
CCJS225

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
10/24/2024

He taught this class once a week for 2.5 hours. There is a 3-question reading quiz at beginning of each class. This first book he made us read required 200 pages of reading a week and it did not have cliff notes online. The exams were on the books. He went through the slides way too fast for anyone to even comprehend them.