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Horrible at explaining things. I had her for the second half of the mandatory statistics class in the psychology degree, and I really wish she wasn't the only option for teachers. She laughs when people asks questions and makes comments like "this is high school math." Not a huge fan.
super disappointed in the class and the prof. horrible at explaining things. she was constantly confused and this was reflected in her lectures, and she was often hard to understand. tests were easy if you read the slides and textbook, and her slides were detailed, but these were the only positives. avoid avoid avoid.
She is very unorganized and confused and this shows in her lectures and exams. She often switches exam questions after the exam is posted. She does not utilize D2l very well and it is confusing to navigate her page. She is not helpful by email either. I strongly suggest to never take a class with her if you care about your mental health.
Dr. Chan does some real slow, monotone lectures. She also has a thick accent, so be ready for that. All the exams had a written portion as well as multiple choice, but the class was doable. She's one of those profs whose lectures you can skip and still do well in the class.
Very boring lecturer, she gets absorbed in irrelevant results and ends up rambling. The group project was one of the most stressful and worst experiences in my entire undergraduate experience.
these reviews made me scared to take her class but it was amazing! She tries so hard to make lectures fun with pictures + live demonstrations. As long as you study the PowerPoints exactly you will always get 90+. She made our online quizzes have 2 attempts, gave us opportunity for 2% extra credit, and used top hat but only for participation marks
(Spring 2022) Great professor. 4 major tests in this course were worth 90% of the total grade, but they were extremely easy if you gave proper attention during her lectures. I was fortunate to take her class because the workload was comparable to a high school course.
She was wonderful and her exams were super easy. Even though there were only 3 exams worth 30% each, it was pretty easy so many people got a good grade. She also went over some practice quizzes right before the exam and some of her questions were the same so it really helped. She offered us extra credit. And her lectures were really informative.
At the start, I was scared to take this class however I can ensure that the previous reviews about this professor aren't accurate. She was an amazing prof that provided many opportunities to earn free marks. Not only that she also held midterm reviews to help student to be better prepared. Also, the content of this course was straightforward!
Dr. Chan was an overall decent professor. Her tests were easy, and she devoted lecture time before tests to review which helped immensely. I see that people found her rude but she came across as a super joyful person which perhaps made her seem disconnected. She would re-explain things using the same wording and got confused at the slides sometimes
very nice lecture slides filled with information felt unorganized quizzes seem easy but didn't know what was going on quizzes didn't prepare well for exams thankful she gave study guides with concepts that get overlooked questions were not explained well pull your socks up textbook helps a lot would take again knowing what its like prefer not to
Dr Chan is a bit to get used to, but you do learn to appreciate her. she prepares well for the tests by giving top hat and practice questions. clearly states what textbook sections to read. tests were very easy.
Lectures are very scattered & disorganized. She goes on & on about simple concepts & when you ask a question, there is no time because we must keep moving forward. She says the question on tophat is simple & then only 20% get it right she looks confused & doesn't clue in that she's not able to clearly convey the info and explain the concepts.
I took this class as an elective and honestly I regret it. Greta is a nice person but terrible prof. I hardly attended lectures as you can't understand a thing she's saying and gets through only like 5 slides in a class. She went on about fertilizer for like the first 2 lectures which had no relevance to the class. be prepared to teach yourself
I recently took this class with Professor Chan, she is a nice woman however, she is very difficult to understand and often gets stuck rambling on 1 or 2 slides which takes up the majority of the lectures. Most of the learning will have to be done on your own accord as the lectures are not very helpful.
She's a very nice person, and she teaches fairly well. You do need to try and transcribe what she's saying in your mind in order to understand her. Overall, you do need to be prepared to go over some slides yourself, and to read the textbook. Not too bad of a class, just put in the time and you'll be fine.
Lectures were good but sometimes confusing, textbook helped a lot. She gave quizzes which were similar questions to the ones on the test which showed expectations which is quite nice. Overall good professors and good course.
Chan is hard to understand, and her lectures are confusing, but she gives clear info on what textbook sections to study, and her slides are good. I would go to lectures but just teach myself the info and I did well on her tests. The Tophat quizzes are helpful and contain similar questions to the tests. Not the best lecturer, but still a good prof.
To be 100% transparent the reason I did well on this class is that I learned all of this information this summer when I took my MCAT. She tries her best but rambles a bunch and it hard to understand. Tests are pretty fair. Her lecture notes are alright you need to understand and memorize the specific examples. You need to read the textbook.
This class was probably one of the worst for me. Dr. Greta Chan was confusing during lectures and barely taught us. I did well in this class mainly because I studied by myself, i didnt attend her lectures because she would ramble on and on about unnecessary things in class. I personally would not take a class with her especially psych 200.
I would have gotten an A if I actually focused for the first midterm but it was impossible with how she taught. The class is very easy if you just read the defined terms in the textbook and generally know whats going on but I did my best when I studied on my own and stopped going to lectures
As many people pointed out, she rambles about things that don't matter. She does not seem to understand how to explain concepts outside the single example she has, which if you don't understand, you won't. You're better off studying on your own. If you are a person who likes to write down the lecture notes with pen and paper, then good luck.
Good review for test as well as participation quizzes that can be done at any time. Disorganized with slides, I would recommend doing them at your own pace, not in class. She will also say things/have information on slides and quizzes that directly contradicts textbook/other classes. It's a matter of guessing which information will be on the exam.
Dr. Chan is an amazing professor and I really enjoyed her lectures. This is the second psychology class that I have taken with her and I have had a great experience in both. Her lecture slides are all you need to know and she prepares students well with practice quizzes. The final is non-cumulative and 10% of the grade is a bonus for TopHat.
Chill prof
She is disorganized and isn't helpful when you ask for clarification. The class itself wasn't hard but that's because the content is easy. But she CANNOT teach. You have to teach yourself the whole class. Her slides have unnecessary information and she even said that they aren't completely accurate, making it hard because she goes off on tangents.
Definitely recommend to take this course as an option, but only with Chan. There are only exams in the course, but most of the questions are pulled directly from the lecture slides. Barely need to study if you attend lecture; she explains everything there. Textbook is helpful too for exams, there may be questions from there. Easy A.
She consistently confused me to the point where I stopped attending lectures and was teaching myself the content. I was able to pull myself out of the confusion that she caused by not being clear, not answering the exact questions that were asked and constantly contradicting herself
I genuinely couldn't understand her. Everything you can teach yourself by just reading the textbook and taking notes from the slides. But she isn't very nice, I didn't do great on the midterm so I went to her office hours and she proceeded to call me lazy. Which I felt was just an unnecessary comment to make. I wouldn't take a course from her again
I had Greta for both psyc 200 and 201. She definitely takes some getting used to, but sets you up well for exams. Her tophat questions are very similar to the exams so be sure to do those. She gets a bit off track in lecture sometimes, but overall is very sweet. Has a hard time controlling the class at times.
NEVER take a class with this prof. Genuinely love the content of this course but she ruined it for me. Cannot understand her, extremely rude when you ask for any kind of help or support, and gives NO instruction on what's on exams, and if she does, it's the complete opposite of what's actually on the exam! Lowest grade I've ever received at U of C.
Can't control the class. People talking loudly and disturbing the class and she just tries to push through. Jumps all over on the slides, brings up sides from different courses with no reference. Literally said that kids w/ ADHD aren't bothered by it, only parents and that people with bipolar 1 actually enjoy having it. Teach your self!
Dr. Chan is a great prof! I loved the design of her slides (lots of photos, easy-to-understand bullet points). She is obviously passionate about what she teaches! Tests lean on the harder side, so study well; use her study guides/do the practice questions. She is a wonderful lecturer, very upbeat, and I would gladly take this simple course again!
Her lectures are practically useless, you can get all the info just from the slides she posts and the textbook. Unfortunately it's hard to understand her, I don't think it's because of an accent, I've had teachers with similar accents, it's just the way she speaks. I've never heard anyone this difficult to make out lol. Skip the lectures tbh.
while many complain about Greta's accent, to give her credit, her PowerPoint and assigned readings are very well done and easy to follow. Her quizzes are on tophat and resemble the exam very closely. Where her lectures lack, she makes up for in the content she provides making it an easy class.
She might be hard to understand at times but Dr. Chan has really great notes and always tries to make lectures interesting. On top of that, her tests were so fair, exactly like the practice tests. She also gives a lot of free marks through tophat which is nice. Pretty much all memorizing in this course but nothing too complex
Part of me would recommend not going to lectures. I empathise with her but her accent is so thick that most of my brain power goes into deciphering what she is saying rather than consuming material. Shes nice, and the tests aren't too difficult, but you could teach yourself mostly.
I found Dr.Chan to be disorganized with many things. She can be hard to reach for help as she often replies in one sentence messages. She also had harmful slides when it came to autism in psyc 201. In psyc 200, one of her quizzes uses the R-word. As a neurodivergent student, I expected more from a psyc prof in teaching about learning disabilities
I grew up with Asian immigrant parents and Dr. Chan was still incredibly difficult to understand. I don't doubt that she is knowledgeable but she struggles quite a bit during lectures when it comes to getting her point across. Overall, her tests are very fair but if there is another professor offering the course you need, I suggest going with them.
Her accent might not be the best but loved the slides and way of explaining if you listen carefully. The practice tests were super helpful and the tests were fair. Very patient in explaining things and I learned a lot from the class. It was a spring course but it was my favourite class and I happened to take her psyc 200 again and loved it too.
HORRIBLE LECTURER. Lectures were confusing she would even get questions wrong. Instead of wasting the time to attend lectures I'd recommend self study. She would release top hat questions after the quizzes without our knowledge so that it would appear as if we had unanswered questions which is ridiculous. Some qs were on things we never discussed
I don't know why her reviews are so low. Junior level courses like PSYC 200 are mainly just memorization. She can be difficult to understand, but you don't even need to go to her lectures. Just study her slides and the textbook and it's an easy A. She also has review sessions and practice TopHat questions for free marks to help study.
I had this prof for psych 200 during the spring term and really enjoyed her lectures. It was really easy to follow with her and I found the material very interesting. She guided us through everything we needed to know and even offered super helpful practice questions to prepare us for the exams. She cares about her students' success.
I found it really easy to follow along with her lectures since she had everything in a format that made sense -- my own notes were super organized because of this, too. I especially enjoyed how she involved students in the lecture by asking/answering questions. She is a great prof that knows her stuff and is excited to teach it.
Greta is a sweet professor. Tophat quizzes are participation. She's a good prof who often gets hate because of her teaching style, which is fair but the hate is excessive and imo, unnecessary. She can struggle to be engaging but the class is easy and you shouldn't be failing with the excuse of her teaching style.
The course material is manageable, but her teaching style doesn't cater well to dynamic learners like myself. Additionally, her strong accent makes it difficult to follow along, which can be frustrating during lectures.
She's very good at explaining each concept and uses videos to aid our learning. She gives tophat questions(which are marked for completion only, so basically free marks) and practice questions for each chapter which are similar if not the same as the questions on the test. Even if you miss a class, her slides are detailed enough to teach yourself.
The course itself is relatively easy, but if you are able to teach yourself from home by reading the lecture slides and textbook chapters - you will do just fine. She seems well-educated, however most lectures are spent on a tangent about something unintelligible and she skips through slides quickly. Teaching yourself is just as effective
Dr. Chan is a very sweet person who is clearly very good in her own field. As a proffessor, however, I do honestly think she lacks a lot. Her slides are all over the place, her teaching style is sporadic, & the content is very dumbed down. I guess it's frustrating paying $900 for a course & having to teach yourself. Waste if a course & our money.
She's so sweet she just repeats a lot
Dr. Chan's slides are phenomenal and she clearly cares a lot about what she does. Her accent is a bit difficult to get used to, but after the second lecture of so it's fine. Yes, you will need to buy the textbook and do the readings, but she provides practice quizzes before the texts and the tests are extremely fair.
She's really nice, and obviously knows her stuff, but I wouldn't say that she is a great lecturer. She takes forever to get through slides, and I would find myself just staring confused at her for a good chunk of the class. I just gave up and started teaching the slides to myself at home and that went fine. Course is easy but she's just meh.
Are the lectures useful? No. However, the slides have pretty much everything you need to know for the exams. The practice tests are very similar to the real exams, with lots of foreshadowing about what to read in the textbook that may not have been included in the slides. Overall, not a good lecturer but not a terrible class experience.
I found her lectures and lecture slides quite helpful, but I do recommend at least skimming through the textbook, especially the recommended readings since sometimes concepts are pulled from the text rather than the slides. The textbook helped clarify information I struggled with, overall had a good experience!
Great professor with clear, easy-to-understand slides and practice quizzes before each test which gave a rough outline of questions on the test. Provided practical examples (readings, videos) for concepts making them easier to grasp. However, there are concepts covered exclusively in the textbook which require a lot of supplementary reading.
Not the best teahcer, if there is someone else pick them
This is my second course with Dr Chan. She's an okay lecturer. I mostly skipped class, and came maybe once a week and when she did review before exams. I would recommend doing this if you are willing to put in a little work on your own, or do no work but attend all lectures. The content of this course, Perception, is actually really interesting.
She was a super energetic and humorous professor, but her lectures were a MESS. She would jump slides, go to different slideshows made for different courses she taught, and she would often rush through lecture. Her accent could be hard to understand sometimes. Her tests were straightforward and easy, and she was a passionate and fun professor.
I enjoyed this class a lot! While there were only a few tests, Dr. Chan does not place additional content/little details which were not in the slides or the reading on the tests. She is also easy to contact by email. Her lectures are sometimes helpful, but attendance is NOT necessary. As long as you like the content, the class is pretty enjoyable!
She has one of the heaviest accents in the school.. i couldnt understand prob more than half of my lectures.. so beware,
Be warned, prof has a very heavy accent. She does seem to know very well what she is talking about though. Everything on the exam is basically copy-pasted from the lecture slides, so attendance in class is NOT necessary other than review/quizzes. Just very average I'd say.
Slides were full of the necessary information, and she outlined what sections you need to read in the textbook. Her lectures aren't the most engaging, but she knows the content. Four exams (first one is worth less, two midterms, and a final), and four quizzes in class (one before each exam) on TopHat. If you study the slides, you will do well.
quite difficult to understand in class and i found her teaching style unhelpful. i stopped going to class after the first exam as all the materials needed to study are online. while her lectures aren't super helpful, the tests are straight off the powerpoint notes/textbook and the practice questions are extremely similar to exam questions.
Greta Chan lectures in a straightforward and predictable way. You could probably do well reading the lecture slides and textbook, but I enjoyed going to her lectures and found it a helpful way to pace and guide the material.
She was an overall good prof but tests are mainly just what she put on the slides, so don't really need to show up to class if don't feel like it. Going to class will help a little bit though. She is a bit hard to understand at first but gets easier after a bit.
she's nice but its extremely hard to understand what she's saying. I recommend not going to lectures and teaching urself using lectures and textbook. if there's another prof take them instead.
She wasn't that bad. She answered our questions, and she was easy to talk to in her office hours. The tests and quizzes were so annoying though. Some things that were taught in class I couldn't understand, no matter how many ways she explained it to me. She was better than my other Psych 200 prof by far!!
Greta is a great prof. She is kind and straightforward. This particular class is easy, just come to class, or don't... just make sure you read and understand the slides and little bit of the textbook and you will get a A+, its really that simple. She is so underrated, people who complain about her are CRAZY... good luck chat, godspeed!
Greta chan is a really kind prof, I don't understand scathing reviews of her class she seems really nice and caring her PowerPoints are really good and the prep for exams she gives is really good. She's easy to talk to after class and very pleasant and accommodating towards students I 100% recommend taking her class.
Greta seems like a very nice person but she is nearly impossible to understand. I use class time to go ahead in the notes but other than that I completely tune her out as I get nothing out of what she's saying. Show up to the Top Hat quizzes because they'll help prepare for the tests, but other than that class is pretty much a waste of time.
One of the best profs in my opinion at the UCalgary. The practice problems and office hours are helpful. Dr.Chan cares about her students going above and beyond to helping them succeed. Lecture slides is key compared to textbook material.
Initially, I found Greta really hard to understand, because that woman can spit bars in lecture (I had her in 200, 201) But her slides are great, studying from her slides was super beneficial, everything you need to know for tests is there, same with her practice tests that she also goes over in the in class review period. Overall, funny and warm!
Chan knows her stuff and can deliver through her slides. A big problem for a lot of students is that she can be hard to understand during lectures but I actually got used to it quickly and can understand fine. I took 200 and 201 with her and they're structured similarly with 3 fairly easy exams for the whole grade. Textbook was only supplementary
Great professor. Period. People complaining about her, clearly have not had a "bad" professor before. So kind, so caring, office hours at any time, helpful, and even lets you make up for missed exams. What a beauty. The slides are all you need, "I can't understand her", that's a you problem, this class is easy whether you understand her or not.
Greta is fine but just reads straight off the slides so attendance is not necessary imo. Tests are weighted pretty heavily but usually pretty straight forward, sometimes the wording she uses for questions can be confusing and may need clarification
Psyc 201 with Greta Chan is very straightforward and an easy test. She lets you know what you need to study for the tests and her lectures are very straight forward. If you pay attention and read the textbook, you should be fine
Such a sweet person and I really liked her but OMG I did not understand a single thing she said. And I feel bad because again she is so sweet but cannot teach. The wording on her tests are even confusing.
If you understand her and pick out the information from her lectures then you'll do fine. The tests covered the textbook a lot and some stuff she didn't go over in class so read the whole chapter
Dr. Chan is extremely accommodating, and passionate about psyc. It's super easy to do well in this class if you put in the effort, as the material isn't very difficult to understand (especially if you've taken bio 30). In my opinion, reading the textbook isn't necessary - anything from there that's on the tests she will tell you in lecture!
So nice, but hard to understand. Luckily the concepts are easy to understand just going through notes/textbook. She let me write so many of my exams weeks after the actual day because i couldn't come that day, and she never gave me a specific time, just said to pop by her office when i can. The tests are pretty easy, a bit of effort is all.
Attendance isn't mandatory as she just reads her slides and is kind of hard to understand making it more confusing. The tests cover stuff from the textbook that she doesn't go over in class so read the assigned readings and maybe more. Her tests are hard and you really have to understand the concepts not just memorize things
Her tests are nonsense we have argued abt my grade which she changed bc her question wasn't grammatically correct.
Just know the slides and you'll be fine. Easy to do well w/o going to class, everything you need is in her notes or practice questions. Non-cumulative exams so very easy to do well
This course is very similar in style to her PSYC 200 class. Her lectures are difficult to understand and offer nothing that can't be found in her slides/textbook from what I could tell. I only went twice. Just study what she posts on D2L and you'll do well! She seems open to questions from what people on the class discord said though.
She's an incoherent lecturer. I stopped going after the first midterm. All her material is taught right from her slides and the textbook so just study that and you'll be fine. It is a lot of content, so don't procrastinate. Unfortunately, she's the only Intro PSYC Prof in the 2024-2025 year so 1rst year Psych majors can't really escape her.
I really did not enjoy this class. The whole class was based solely on tests and they were difficult. Her lectures are hard to enjoy as she only reads off the slides.
Her lectures are awful to attend; she merely reads from the slides. As a first-year student who must take my 200 and 201, I received a poor grade because her tests are very challenging and mostly come from the textbook, but she did not use the textbook during the lecture. and now I am taking it again in the spring and summer. wish me luck.......
I don't understand why the reviews for this class are so scathing. The test where relatively easy, just memorize what was on the lecture slides. Do the practice exams/test before the test and a person would easily get around a B+ - A on her exams. She is also a very delightful and pleasant person who I very much enjoyed!
The structure of the course is decent but only being graded on exams makes it really hard to improve if you have test anxiety. No assignments just exams (and Tophat +psych reflection =total 5% of course grade). She's hard to understand during lectures and sometimes doesn't cover much. Just study with textbook and read slides and email if you have q
This was the best, most organized, and most fair class I have ever taken. To me personally, her explanations in lecture are beneficial. She has structured the course really well in order to get students to succeed. I would recommend attending lectures, then deeply studying the notes, and reading the textbook at the end to be successful.
I really enjoyed PSYC 200 with her! I got used to her accent quickly and attending her lectures were helpful, she covers all the topics we need to know and finds ways to engage with us, especially since lectures are long during spring. She prepares us well for upcoming exams, the textbook readings especially were helpful when it came to studying.
LISTEN TO ME, if you need to take psychology courses, Dr. Chan teaches all of the intro ones. To get a good grade, READ EVERYTHING IN THE SLIDES AND TEST YOURSELF USING HER TOPHAT QUESTIONS & PRACTICE TESTS. Go to the lectures when the quizzes are scheduled, she'll tell you exactly what to know and be aware of.
She lectures like she cares.I went to her class every week and enjoyed the material. Basic course and just one slideshow per unit. She is be a bit tough to understand at first but easier after practice. GO TO THE PRACTICE TOPHAT QUIZES THE DAY BEFORE MIDTERM!! The practice tophat questions and practice quiz have all the answers to the midterms
the best part about this prof is that her tests are extremely easy if you just read through the slides and the textbook. she's also super sweet and has no issues giving alternates in case of emergencies. i like her.
Dr Chan is my goat! She is super kind, but struggles from anxiety, so it takes a lot of effort for her to prepare for lectures, so please be kind and pay attention! Tests are super fair, but pretty comprehensive, sometimes questions can include key information in experimental results.
Dr. Greta is hands down the sweetest prof i have ever met. Like the recent review had mentioned, Dr. Greta had anxiety with public speaking, so pls be kind and understanding. Her lectures may frustrate you if you are not open-minded to compromise with her speech and other things. If ur confused, attend office!!! i repeat, attend office hrs!!!
Very hard to understand, attending lectures are not useful whatsoever. Read the textbook.
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