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Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/17/2024	SUCH A GREAT CLASS & PROFESSOR! She is so sweet, has the best energy, and genuinely cares about you succeeding in the class. The class is very easy if you show up and do the work. There are easy 5 point in class participation assignments and module quizzes testing your knowledge on class content. Aside from this there are two major papers and a final exam. There is also a happiness workbook where you are supposed to complete different entries on happiness technique strategies, which are very easy. She also offered two extra credit opportunities. Overall, this class is an easy A and I would definitely recommend it.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/12/2024	Super sweet! A pretty simple class with some pretty great take-aways on happiness. Certain quiz/final questions were confusing, but overall pretty great!
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/08/2024	Sebenick is a sweet professor who cares a lot about her students' well-being. Something I really like is that she tried to get everyone up and moving each class. The course content can get pretty bland sometimes and you can tell that people aren't paying attention a lot. The course is quite a bit of work with extensive textbook readings, quizzes, a workbook of happiness exercises, and a HUGE research paper due at the end of the semester. Attendance is also required for all but two classes; for each class, you must complete an in-class assignment that proves your attendance. She's a super nice professor but she definitely has a bit of a hard time keeping her large lecture engaged-- you can tell by the amount of times the sound of the NYT Mini Crossword goes off in class. Take this class if you want strategies to improve your happiness, but if you're looking for a gen-ed to breeze through, this isn't it.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/13/2024	She truly cares about her students and is very understanding! The content is super interesting. Weekly quizzes on one or two chapters in the textbook (I just skimmed through the chapter). Each chapter was about 15 to 40ish pages. If you attend the lectures you'll get the same information from the textbook as a helpful review. She embeds a fair amount of extra credit opportunities, so you almost have a guaranteed A if you do all the work! The only thing I didn't like was the happiness project, ONLY because my group didn't do their fair part. Otherwise, chill class.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/21/2023	Very little effort required. Weekly quizzes and exam are super easy. I never had to study. The projects aren't too bad either. She really cares about the subject and her students. I'd recommend her to everyone. Best gen ed.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/13/2023	Very kind and obviously cares about her students. The class itself is pretty easy and the content is interesting even if you're not a psychology major. There is an overarching project throughout the school year where you have to research happiness for a specific population. Make sure to not choose an obscure or overly specific population because you will have a VERY hard time trying to find people to interview/research articles relating to the population. She gives a decent amount of class time to do the project though, so it's not terribly difficult. Overall, very chill class and professor.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/10/2023	Good course, good professor. No complaints. Quizzes and exams were light and because they are open note not at all stressful. There are weekly quizzes but again they are not hard. The course content is interesting. Although this isn't even remotely related to my major, and I was just taking this as a gen ed, I'm very glad I chose this course because I was genuinely interested in the content. The main part of the course is the writing assignments, which comes out to a total of about ~7 pages of essays over the course of the semester (not bad at all).
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 08/23/2023	I took this as a summer course. Dr. Sebenick is super kind and understanding and you can definitely tell she cares a lot about her students. The course content was super interesting and applicable to daily life. The structure consisted of a weekly discussion board, the happiness strategies workbook with activities each week, a reflection paper and the final group project which we worked on throughout the summer session. The final project wasn't bad and was actually quite interesting to work on. Overall I'd recommend anyone to take this course with Dr. Sebenick!
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/13/2023	Easy, interesting course. She is very kind and accommodating to anything you may have going on. All the assignments are fairly straightforward, the last assignment is a group presentation which can feel unorganized depending on your group-mates but during the summer (like-me) it should be simple.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/05/2023	easy and enjoyable class but the group project is questionable and seemed disconnected and unorganized from the normal content of the class/quizzes
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/20/2022	Ended the course with above 100% because of the sheer amount of extra credit she gives. She's extremely nice and understanding and always smiling! The quizzes were all online and we could do them in our own time (the last one was even open-note). The group project was the bulk of the work here, but even as someone who doesn't like to work with groups, I can tell you that it was not bad at all. She gives plenty of class time for us to work on it, so our group managed to get the majority of the planning done during class, and we only had to meet once in our own time. It was basically just a PowerPoint presentation, where the group members split the work on, and it was presented via recording a Zoom call which we were all on, and the video was later played in class. Overall, it's a really chill class. Take this if you want an easy gen. ed. or GPA booster!
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2022	So sweet and genuinely wants to see all of her students succeed. The course material was easy & interesting to learn. You have a couple of quizzes, a happiness workbook to fill out throughout the semester, discussions, and one group project. Not a huge time commitment at all and there's no final.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2022	This professor wants to make the class unstressful and there's barely any homework. Her quizzes are kind of tough, but she offers so much extra credit that I ended up with over 100 before the last quiz. Definitely recommend.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/10/2022	Super accommodating, and the nicest woman you'll ever meet. She comes in every day with a smile and ready to teach. The lectures can get a little boring at times, since it's just slideshows, but she posts them anyways in case you miss something. No final, just a group project. As long as you do all the work, you will get an A.
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/12/2022	Love love love this woman. Cares about her students, genuinely kind, willing to talk about stuff, super open-minded, makes content interesting. I recommend this class to everybody I know
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/19/2022	One of the best and most understanding teachers! She was clearly very interested in the class and has a wonderful teaching style!
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/18/2022	Professor Sebenick was a great professor. Her lectures were very engaging and overall the topic of the class is very interesting. She showed multiple times that she really cares for her students and their well-being. I highly recommend taking this course!
Carole Sebenick PSYC234 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2021	She is literally the nicest human being in the entire world. She cares so much about mental health and her students individually (which is what a teacher should do). This course is also really easy and super interesting! We have reflection papers and 3 quizzes that were online and had a final project rather than a final test. I literally can't recommend this class enough! Please take it!

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/17/2024

SUCH A GREAT CLASS & PROFESSOR! She is so sweet, has the best energy, and genuinely cares about you succeeding in the class. The class is very easy if you show up and do the work. There are easy 5 point in class participation assignments and module quizzes testing your knowledge on class content. Aside from this there are two major papers and a final exam. There is also a happiness workbook where you are supposed to complete different entries on happiness technique strategies, which are very easy. She also offered two extra credit opportunities. Overall, this class is an easy A and I would definitely recommend it.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/12/2024

Super sweet! A pretty simple class with some pretty great take-aways on happiness. Certain quiz/final questions were confusing, but overall pretty great!

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/08/2024

Sebenick is a sweet professor who cares a lot about her students' well-being. Something I really like is that she tried to get everyone up and moving each class. The course content can get pretty bland sometimes and you can tell that people aren't paying attention a lot. The course is quite a bit of work with extensive textbook readings, quizzes, a workbook of happiness exercises, and a HUGE research paper due at the end of the semester. Attendance is also required for all but two classes; for each class, you must complete an in-class assignment that proves your attendance. She's a super nice professor but she definitely has a bit of a hard time keeping her large lecture engaged-- you can tell by the amount of times the sound of the NYT Mini Crossword goes off in class. Take this class if you want strategies to improve your happiness, but if you're looking for a gen-ed to breeze through, this isn't it.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/13/2024

She truly cares about her students and is very understanding! The content is super interesting. Weekly quizzes on one or two chapters in the textbook (I just skimmed through the chapter). Each chapter was about 15 to 40ish pages. If you attend the lectures you'll get the same information from the textbook as a helpful review. She embeds a fair amount of extra credit opportunities, so you almost have a guaranteed A if you do all the work! The only thing I didn't like was the happiness project, ONLY because my group didn't do their fair part. Otherwise, chill class.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/21/2023

Very little effort required. Weekly quizzes and exam are super easy. I never had to study. The projects aren't too bad either. She really cares about the subject and her students. I'd recommend her to everyone. Best gen ed.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/13/2023

Very kind and obviously cares about her students. The class itself is pretty easy and the content is interesting even if you're not a psychology major. There is an overarching project throughout the school year where you have to research happiness for a specific population. Make sure to not choose an obscure or overly specific population because you will have a VERY hard time trying to find people to interview/research articles relating to the population. She gives a decent amount of class time to do the project though, so it's not terribly difficult. Overall, very chill class and professor.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/10/2023

Good course, good professor. No complaints. Quizzes and exams were light and because they are open note not at all stressful. There are weekly quizzes but again they are not hard. The course content is interesting. Although this isn't even remotely related to my major, and I was just taking this as a gen ed, I'm very glad I chose this course because I was genuinely interested in the content. The main part of the course is the writing assignments, which comes out to a total of about ~7 pages of essays over the course of the semester (not bad at all).

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
08/23/2023

I took this as a summer course. Dr. Sebenick is super kind and understanding and you can definitely tell she cares a lot about her students. The course content was super interesting and applicable to daily life. The structure consisted of a weekly discussion board, the happiness strategies workbook with activities each week, a reflection paper and the final group project which we worked on throughout the summer session. The final project wasn't bad and was actually quite interesting to work on. Overall I'd recommend anyone to take this course with Dr. Sebenick!

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/13/2023

Easy, interesting course. She is very kind and accommodating to anything you may have going on. All the assignments are fairly straightforward, the last assignment is a group presentation which can feel unorganized depending on your group-mates but during the summer (like-me) it should be simple.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/05/2023

easy and enjoyable class but the group project is questionable and seemed disconnected and unorganized from the normal content of the class/quizzes

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/20/2022

Ended the course with above 100% because of the sheer amount of extra credit she gives. She's extremely nice and understanding and always smiling! The quizzes were all online and we could do them in our own time (the last one was even open-note). The group project was the bulk of the work here, but even as someone who doesn't like to work with groups, I can tell you that it was not bad at all. She gives plenty of class time for us to work on it, so our group managed to get the majority of the planning done during class, and we only had to meet once in our own time. It was basically just a PowerPoint presentation, where the group members split the work on, and it was presented via recording a Zoom call which we were all on, and the video was later played in class. Overall, it's a really chill class. Take this if you want an easy gen. ed. or GPA booster!

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/19/2022

So sweet and genuinely wants to see all of her students succeed. The course material was easy & interesting to learn. You have a couple of quizzes, a happiness workbook to fill out throughout the semester, discussions, and one group project. Not a huge time commitment at all and there's no final.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/16/2022

This professor wants to make the class unstressful and there's barely any homework. Her quizzes are kind of tough, but she offers so much extra credit that I ended up with over 100 before the last quiz. Definitely recommend.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/10/2022

Super accommodating, and the nicest woman you'll ever meet. She comes in every day with a smile and ready to teach. The lectures can get a little boring at times, since it's just slideshows, but she posts them anyways in case you miss something. No final, just a group project. As long as you do all the work, you will get an A.

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/12/2022

Love love love this woman. Cares about her students, genuinely kind, willing to talk about stuff, super open-minded, makes content interesting. I recommend this class to everybody I know

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/19/2022

One of the best and most understanding teachers! She was clearly very interested in the class and has a wonderful teaching style!

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/18/2022

Professor Sebenick was a great professor. Her lectures were very engaging and overall the topic of the class is very interesting. She showed multiple times that she really cares for her students and their well-being. I highly recommend taking this course!

Carole Sebenick
PSYC234

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/16/2021

She is literally the nicest human being in the entire world. She cares so much about mental health and her students individually (which is what a teacher should do). This course is also really easy and super interesting! We have reflection papers and 3 quizzes that were online and had a final project rather than a final test. I literally can't recommend this class enough! Please take it!