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Edward Bernat
PSYC437 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/02/2024 |
Although Dr. Bernat is a nice man, his course is organized poorly and strangely-in a way that I'm not sure any student is actually learning anything. He has us complete two discussion posts with our writing group per week, but it is unclear what the difference between them is or what their purposes are. His class is twice a week and only for 50 minutes, and for the entire time he speeds through lecture slides non stop and rarely pauses for questions or clarifications. If you miss it and he moves on, there is absolutely no chance you will be able to catch up within that class period. Every single class I hear students talking amongst themselves about how they did not understand a single thing he just taught after spewing out an absurd amount of information from the slides, and how confusing the writing assignments are. The TAs sometimes seem clueless if I'm being honest, and they often forgot to leave feedback so you never knew what to improve on for the next week's assignment. They never had answers to questions during class and it even seemed as if they were unsure what Dr. Bernat was asking of us. His grades are mainly based on clicker participation so it's mandatory to come to class if you want the credit. I would NOT recommend this class unless you are extremely interested in addictive behaviors, but even then the theories and models are extremely difficult to understand and apply without a lot of background knowledge. |
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Edward Bernat
PSYC437 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/27/2023 |
I'm giving Dr. Bernat 3 stars because this course is practically impossible to fail so long as you show up every day and answer clicker questions (legit he replaces your grade in the class with the percentage of clickers you answered - they don't even need to be correct, just answered). However, I learned absolutely nothing in this course, which was really disappointing, as this was a class I was really excited for. If you're looking for a free A, absolutely take this course with Dr. Bernat, but if you're actually looking to learn about addiction psychology, you're going to be thoroughly disappointed. |
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Edward Bernat
PSYC437 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2023 |
I didn't like this professor. He seems nice as a person, but his class structure is very disorganized and he's bad at explaining complex concepts (and will use more complex concepts/words to explain those concepts, which he has to elaborate on to make us understand the original definition, and it goes on like that). Also, we were assigned to groups, and then each week each member of the group had the task of writing that week's writing assignment. Which counted for EVERYONE'S grade, even though only one person wrote it. Super weird. |
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Edward Bernat
PSYC437 Anonymous 12/22/2021 |
He was quite disorganized throughout the semester. He changed the grading rubric part of the way through as well. His slides were helpful when he posted them but he went way too fast in lecture for anyone to write anything down. After week 2 everyone gave up going to lecture and taking notes and just watched the panaptos from home. We also had weekly writing assignments in groups due every Sunday. There was no consistency in the grading so it was hard to know how well we would do each week. He also released grades really late. On the last day of finals he released grades from sepetember and october till the end of the semester and gave us low grades. He knew the concepts well, but I did not learn much from this course. |
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Edward Bernat
PSYC300 Expecting an A- Anonymous 09/05/2018 |
What a cutie, can’t get enough of him. His pony tail is very adorable. He uses multiple slide shows instead of using one, which is strange. But it works. |