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Tells interesting stories and brings a sword to class. Very friendly, interesting guy. Likes to talk about his daughter too much, and gets many guest lecturers when he doesn't know the material.

He's an amazing lecturer. Because he's a clinical psychologist, he knows how to talk TO you, not AT you. Tells the funniest stories! He could be a little bit more organized and clear with what we need to know, but Segal is amazing!!

the most awesome prof EVER!

Harry Segal is amazing. Great Lecturer. Captivating. A bit disheveled...but who cares?

The best professor I've ever had.

A compassionate scatterbrain. Hints of pretension, but that’s relative. He may be the most empathetic professor Cornell has, but is alas cursed with a capricious lecturing/grading ethic. Not to worry. He’ll make it easy on you.

SO easy!!!!!! very very informal and scatterbrained!!!

FunFUnFun.EasyEasyEAsy.

Absolutly wonderful. He is funny, intersting, informative, and -- nice! This is the best class I've ever had.

Professor segal made my semester, always looked forward to his 10:10 class. Amazing lecturer, very engaging and caring. Presented interesting stories and illustrated his concepts very well. Amazing professor, we need to get him tenored.

One of the best professor at Cornell ever! He is so smart, caring, funny and inspring!!! Cornell is luck to have him. He tells some amazing stories to illustrate his concept and broaden your perspectives. Amazing TAs, very dedicated.(especially Bernie).

A must take class with a must have professor! Don't miss out on this great opportunity to learn and be entertained while doing it.

Segal is one of the greatest professors Cornell has. He's the sweetest guy around, and he really makes sure you know the material. The man has his own cappuccino machine in his office. Gotta love him.

dr. segal is very warm and cares a lot about his students. i have had a lot of contact with him over my time at cornell, and he has helped me out with many things. sometimes he is frazzled, yes, but his interest in his subject matter and students is genuine!

One of the BEST in Cornell, period.

He's in over his head. He gets his feeling of worth from the students around him. But he's a total sweetie, a teddybear, and a great lecturer. C'mon guys, give him some hotness points!

I know!he is such a cutie. /the most attractive prof i've had in 3 years! and the best teacher too. :)

One of the best lecturers I've ever had. Very interesting material and an amazin teacher. Grading; not too hard...he'll make it easy on you if you study.

Harry is one of the greatest people you will ever meet in your life, and one of the most respected profs at Cornell. Standing in line for office hours is very much worth the wait. He has a quirky sense of humor, and he is brilliant... and effectively covers very interesting material! Plus he's the cutest person ever who simply makes you smile!

Prof Segal is awesome. His lectures are engaging and informative. The tests are incredibly fair. You will do as well as you want to in this course. I wish there were more profs like Segal, who actually loves teaching.

Prof. Segal is great! I looked forward to his lectures every day. Often tells stories and anecdotes to illustrate the point. I enjoyed his lectures so much that I went to office hours just to be able to talk to him. Great, funny guy! One of the best profs I've had, and the class was very interesting.

3 years out of Cornell, and I still think back to the days of senior year psych field practicum with Harry. I highly recommend Harry and his classes. He is a great person, a great teacher, and a great academic. (try to get him for your advisor too!)

Wonderful professor, and one of my favorite at Cornell. Excellent class, and I highly recommend taking a course with him! Very understanding and good at interacting at a personal level

Best professor ever

Prof Segal is a great pedagogue in many ways, but know this: he teaches using examples and emotionally connecting with the students. This is great for about 80% of the course. However, he is NOT great at teaching "systems", which is the other 20%. He reverts to his use of examples, but the mechanisms often go unexplained at the fundamental level.

this man is amazing. he's the cutest thing i've ever seen my life. you can tell he really likes what he's doing and cares about people. he's got an adorable way about him and a great sense of humor. he's emotional and sweet and generally a great guy. he uses a lot of stories and examples. i look forward to his class all week. he just makes me smile

This was a great class, comes highly recommended. Not only is the material interesting, but the tests are extremely fair. Go to office hours if you can. Segal's a lot of fun!

What a lovable guy! The girls go nuts for him because he is such a sweetheart. Gives you practical pointers for life. Lectures are ridiculously interesting because they feature case studies, readings are interesting as well. Tests are very fair. Exam reviews pointless because they are disorganized.

the most wonderful professor i've ever met. i would be lost if it was not for his encouragement throughout my undergrad years

segal's awesome, very funny and understanding, interesting topics with even more interesting case reviews. exams are fair, verging on easy if you go to lecture. really good with psychological aspects of class, not so much with science (slides are copies of textbook material) but TAs covered that. really wants you to do well in his class!

Segal brings a wealth of clinical experience into the classroom; it's not about memorizing diagnostics but really coming to know what it is like to be mentally ill. He genuinely cares about students and remembers names from a 300+ lecture. Can't teach the neurobio worth anything but is incredible for everything else!

absolutely wonderful! could not have survived my undergraduate years without him

great guy and excellent, engaging lecture.

hands down the best class i've taken at cornell in 3 years. prof may not be the best at teaching the science parts of the class, but he chooses good textbooks that explain it & everything else about the class makes up for it. amazing professor who's really nice, really likes teaching, does it well & wants to help his students learn the material.

Entertaining and fun class, going to lecture was the highlight of my day. Yeah he doesn't really know the neuroscience and isn't totally organized...but still a great class. He tells lots of anecdotes about patients which makes the material come to life.

its only the second week of class and is probably my favorite professor in four years. absolutely hilarious, able to inject humor into his lectures to keep things interesting. HIGHLY recommend prof and class

Segal is the BEST. I've had the pleasure of getting to kno him thru many classes, & the more I learn from him the better my life is. He is genuine, wicked smart, and humble. Not even kidding, I'm naming a kid after this man. He will require you to work and really engage yourself, but you owe it to URSELF to take all his classes! Def changed my life

The class can be hard to get into for sophomores since it is so popular, but definitely take it if you can and if you have any interest in clinical psych or are premed. The workload is not bad, and he is such a fun, easy-going lecturer. A tad disorganized but he really cares about his students.

Harry Segal is AMAZING. There's a reason Adult Psychopathology fills up in less than 5 mins during CoursEnroll. He brings the material to life w/ anecdotes about previous patients, etc., and soothes the class with his "therapist voice." He's the same way in office hours, and truly cares about students. A little eccentric, but a great prof.

Professor Segal is so entertaining and makes the material interesting! Although lectures can be a bit scatter brained, he tells really great personal anecdotes from his therapy career and cares for the success of his students! One of my favorite professors at Cornell for sure.

Harry's ability to tie anecdotes to subject matter is uncanny. Unfortunately he consumes too much time reading his own lecture slides and acting out scenes from Hamlet. As such, class was very hit-or-miss. Psychopathology was not the best psych course I've taken, but it was still worthwhile.

Test wasn't the most clear but the gives you 10 free points a test.

Loved this class and Professor Segal. The tests are extremely easy, if you study. If you do not study, people say they are hard. Studying really pays off in this class and if you put in the effort you will get at least an A-.

By far the best professor I've had at Cornell so far. I learned so much from him. The course challenges you to think about yourself and the people around you in a different way. Absolutely loved it, and him.

Segal is nice enough, but his lectures don't really have any substance. Him reading hundreds of words off slides and acting out Hamlet are annoying. But course is simple, only two prelims and final. Readings are fairly light and you can probably do well just by going to class and review sessions. Easy A and all in all worth the occasional headache.

Definitely one of my favorite professors/classes at Cornell. Professor Segal is funny, interesting, and down-to-earth. The tests are fair and as long as you study you will do fine.

by FAR my favorite professor at Cornell. he is laid back, smart, direct, helpful, and really cares about his students. exams are fair and easy to do well on as long as you prepare. bonus: he usually makes his multiple choice questions have 1 choice that is clearly a joke, simultaneously making it easier and entertaining

Professor Segal is one of the very few Clinical professors on staff. He's very caring about his students and his lectures are interesting. Tests are fair and the final was actually incredibly fun. Another rater commented on email, it's much better to go to office hours, he gets a ton of emails and isn't quick to respond but he definitely cares!

One of the best profs at Cornell by far. He's super kind and approachable, has very interesting lectures, tests are very fair and the readings are sometimes long but not detrimentally so. Although I'm a pre-med and not necessary looking at a career in clinical psych I've taken his courses just because of how great of a prof he is.

Wonderful person - funny, lively, intelligent, caring, and extremely helpful if you're interested in clinical psych. However, I didn't love his teaching style - lots of words packed onto slides that he blows through in between anecdotes/rants and Hamlet performances - and his tests varied between joke questions and extremely nitpicky ones.

So nice, truly cares about his students. His lectures are usually funny, and relatiely interesting. There is Hamlet in this class, which I personally don't like, but it is not too bad. Overall he is a great professor!

Best lecturer ever. He really loves teaching Freud and the mind. But I really couldn't follow his lectures about the biological side of things. Reading can get overwhelming. Overall though he is funny, adorable, and not too tough on tests. If you read everything with time then the A is possible.

A very good person who made the lectures entertaining and fun. Not much information covered in lecture but such a nice and genuine guy.

Amazing lecturer. He genuinely cares about his students and makes every lecture fun and the time fly by. Tests aren't bad as long as you actually do the readings! Even if you're not a psych/human development major, you should definitely take this class

Harry Segal is the best professor that I've had during my time at Cornell. He really makes the lecture material come to life and you can tell that he has the respect of everyone in the room. He genuinely cares about his students and I hope that I can take another class with him in the future. I've recommended this class to all my friends!

Harry Segal is an absolute gem. Cares deeply about what he does and makes the material easy to understand. Don't bother doing the dense textbook readings (all available online) because Segal highlights in lecture what you actually need to know. Read the case studies. Listen when he talks Hamlet. Review lecture slides before exams. You'll do great!

He's sweet and makes the lectures really interesting. I really enjoyed this class.

Segal is by far the most inspiring prof I've had at Cornell. His lectures are captivating, hilarious, and mind-blowing. Enjoyed every minute of his class, it felt more like free therapy. Segal is empathetic and accommodating and really wants his students to be healthy, happy, and successful. 100% recommend if you're at all interested in psych.

I really love this professor. You can tell he genuinely cares about every student. I just showed up to class everyday and paid attention. I read the spark notes of the assigned reading and skimmed the slides the day before the exam and aced it. The class is actually interesting and not stressful. He goes on a lot of tangents but still worth taking.

Harry is by far the best professor I've had thus far at Cornell. He's funny, engaging, and his class teaches really interesting/important material. There are a lot of readings, but if you get the general idea you'll be fine and he tells you what you need from the readings in lecture. Highly recommend if you are in any way interested in this class.

Ok he is funny but also weird. His lectures are interesting. When it comes to Freud and psychoanalysis he is the man. But, when it comes to the brain he kind of just reads off PPT slides. He assigns a lot of reading from his textbook, Freud's book, Hamlet, and a book about Schizophrenia. BUT he makes up for it with his charm.

Great guy, exceptional class

I love Professor Segal. He is incredibly charming and hilarious, makes lectures really fun. Highly recommend attending office hours, even just to chat with him about life. Very sweet.

Great professor and an easy class if you put in a little effort before the prelims. I found lectures to be very entertaining and Segal was very engaging. Would take again

Prof. Segal is a humorous and adorable teacher. Probably one of the most approachable professors at Cornell. He always managed to make everyone laugh at least once during lecture and was good at telling us what to study for prelims. Sometimes he would go on a tangent, but I didn't mind, it was engaging. Definitely a fun class, just pay attention!

great lecturer with years of real-world experience as a clinical psychologist. Good lectures, a lot of reading not busy work; worth it. Only small issues with him are he seems to not really understand the content in the neurobiology section of the course (still teaches it fine) and tests on specific Hamlet quotes, so just make sure you've read it.

I switched my college to become a psychology major because of him and the class. everyone should take this class or at least attend his class. i would pay to go see one of his lectures if he ever performed or something. kind of hard to attend his office hours but that reflects what kind of professor he is. just mind blowing lectures. love love him.

Cares deeply about cornell students. Made it clear and easy to do very well in the course, and it honestly did not feel hard at all. I enjoyed coming to his lectures and just listening to him talk/tell stories, but the course could definitely be summed up as "want to be happy? Do what you like to do".

Such a wise, caring, inspirational professor. I learned so much about life from this class and highly recommend to every college student (no matter your major or if you have academic effort to spare in your schedule). The class is very easy to get a good grade in if you show up to lecture.

Very fun class!! Prof Segal brings literal joy to my day. Talks less about clinical psychology and more about life lessons. His stories are endearing and the exams are very easy. Records his lectures and holds reviews before exams.

So kind and caring and sweet. Taken 3250 and 2450 with him and both had basically no work except for exams, which were all multiple choice and very easy.

I LOVE THIS GUY!!!! so sweet so cute. interesting lectures and so caring! he does prelim reviews too

Possibly the most caring Prof at Cornell. Great lecturer as well. Very easy to do well in this course.

extremely caring and easy grading

I just know Dr. Segal is one of the best instructors I will ever have the pleasure of having in my entire life. This man is a gem and will be sorely missed by the Cornell community. I hope he enjoys a well-deserved retirement. His classes were interesting, engaging, and thought-provoking. He could have a 700-person lecture go pin-drop quiet.