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Jens Herberholz
PSYC406 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/16/2013 |
I really liked Dr. Herberholz. First of all, his accent is awesome (and I think he's hot, but that's me). Second, you can practically see passionate fire in his eyes and he has a hard time keeping still when we get on an interesting topic. And third, he's just a really good teacher. Instead of standing there and reading slides while we silently take notes, he asks a lot of questions. Now, I'll be the first to admit, that can be a pain in the ass and not a lot of professors can pull it off, but with Dr. Herberholz it wasn't uncomfortable. He'll always ask for new ideas, future points to think about, criticism of current research, etc. It makes you feel more involved in the learning, trust me. As for the class itself, the material was usually okay. Nothing too hard or complicated as long as you take the time to read through it. Unfortunately, he doesn't post his slides online (bring a computer, my notes from each class were always at least 4 TYPED pages in Word, hand cramps!), but he stresses that he won't test you on anything that you can't find in the textbook (and a lot of his graphs and graphics are from there too). His midterms were 15 true/false, do 10, and 15 short answer, do 10; final was 20 of each, do 15. I really liked that, because I could pick the questions I felt I really understood and could give the best answer for. There's also a paper, a "grant proposal" proposing new research using one of the animal models we studied (bat, owl, toad, crayfish, aplysia, drosophila, rat) and a combination of behavioral and neuroscience techniques. I was super nervous about that because he's a bit of a strict grader on his exams, but we all ended up getting a 92.5% as long as the paper had all the parts and was handed in on time. |
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Jens Herberholz
Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/28/2009 |
Dr. Herberholz teaches straight from powerpoints. His tests are always the same format - 15 true/false (you choose 10 to actually do) and 15 short answer (again, you only have to do 10). Studying the book is helpful, but you can definitely get an A if you know the powerpoint information well enough. Attendance not required, but he does not use blackboard so unless you have a friend in the class, you can't get the notes. Very interesting class if you're interested in animal behavior. |