provides clear guideline of what she expects. sometimes rather subjective...

Didn't even need to go to class!

Very straight forward. Tries to make class practical and relevant. She's a hottie too.

She was excellent. Very Clear on what we needed to know for exams. Interesting material too!

Ironically the least experienced instructor I had was one of the ones who provided the most useful information. She was great! Concerned, considerate, helpful...Definitely better than most of the 'experienced' prof's we had...how sad is that?!?

She's an excellent instructor. Provides great useful notes and student conferences spark great interest among students and motivate discussions. And she's sweet! Look forward to her class every week.

Really cares for her students. Even emailed me to ask if I was feeling better when I was sick! Never talks down to us and everything is very straightforward. Awesome prof!!! Highly recommend

It is refreshing to have an instructor who is actually interested in TEACHING! Maria was very helpful, very clear, and she expressed a vast resevoir of knowledge on the topics she covered. The exams were easy enough so long as you came to class and did the readings. Highly recommended

I agree she's an excellent teacher and such a sweet person too! Classes were really interesting and I looked forward to them each week. I actually thought the exams wern't that easy and resembled a psych exam more than a family studies exam with lots of theories and memorization.

Maria was a wonderful prof! She was very kind to her students and I think is young enough to realize how much stress the average student is under. Her handouts saved me hours of note-taking, both in class and at home, and I looked forward to her class every week :)

Maria's nice and seems fun, but as a prof she drove me crazy. This was a senior-level class, but it felt like first year. She spent hours on material she could have gone over briefly and repeated ideas that didn't need reiteration. I liked her a lot as a person but the class was not what I'd hoped. Just my opinion!

I agree. definitely a very sweet and nice person..but i felt like i didn't really learn very much and i could've done just as well without going to the lectures.

she could not be more helpful even if she tried..she is hella helpful O.o reminds me of teachers i had back in middle school, but even more helpful..it's nice to be babied once in a while :P but her notes are a bit unclear sometimes

She understands what going through as students so she provides handouts (for 312) and overhead notes (for 210). She's so helpful and so nice! Highly recommended! But I do agree the class was structured more like a high school classroom, but hey, I'm not complaining. I actually learned a lot in this class relative to others. She has booty!

Amazing prof! Great class structure, and actually worth it to go to class. I actually learned stuff in this class!

Maria is a very sweet person but her teaching isn't that great. She simply takes notes striaght out from the textbook and if you raise a question, she will just refer to the textbook. you don't need to go to class.. it can get pretty boring !

she is excellent, you couldn't ask for a much better prof; it's NOT an easy A, but she's fair and makes it fun and interesting.

She is amazing. I am taking 210 with her too, the two classes mesh together very well. She is so clear and easy to listen to. I am never bored in her classes. Best prof I have had at UBC. Take her for any classes you can. I just wish she taught more than just 210 and 312. Her tests are very fair, just know your stuff and you will be fine.

she's very nice. if you pay attention and take notes during lecture, and read the text well, the exams will not be hard.

one of the best prof, CLEAR lecture, i didn't want to skip her lecture, i loved it. want to take another class with her. she's helpful, generous, kind, all good. lil sense of humor makes it pleasant class. exams are mostly m/c with 3-4 long answer questions. don't miss class cuz she gives hinthint for exams. 3midterms no final not cumulative.

I actually took FMST 210 and 312 with here. It's easy class, just read the text book. For 210, she literally takes her notes outta the text, so read it and you'll be fine. She always stresses certain topics in class, and they will for sure be in the exam. FMST 312, 1 assigment to do, which was worth 40%, and you and can do it in point form, no intr

One of the best profs I've had so far! Her notes are actually very useful and very clear! And she gives you enough time to copy them down. She is very nice, friendly, and humourous. I definitely recommend her! Exams are MC and 3 or 4 short answers which are pretty easy..not hard to get a good grade in this class.

Hard class. Maria is a great person and very approachable. But the tests are brutal. Not a GPA booster. I studied ALOT and still couldn't pass. I would stay away from this class. You can study like crazy but you won't get anywhere.

Ms. Weatherby is not that great of a teacher in class because she often runs out of time during lectures, however, she is extremely helpful when you need help. Her midterms (written section) is extremely easy, and based on her lecture notes, the written section is straight forward. Her multiple choice however is quite brutal, and confusing.

a lot of work for this class but if u do all the questions in her guideline then u'll do well in exams. mc's easy but short answer can b brutal if u dont know the material throughly. actually learned a lot nd enjoyed going to her lecture. not recommended for those looking for easy electives but people who actually wna learn human development

easy course if you just focus on studying what she tells you to (her lecture notes, independent questions based on the textbook)

Those who say that the tests are hard obviously haven't taken many psych courses. I found the MC's straightforward and the written section predictable. As long as you go to class and spend a few days studying before the test, you'll breeze through this course.

An amazing instructor! The best of all EPSE 423 instructors. Teaches things you will actually use in your career and are important to know. Is very dedicated to giving feedback and helping people through the assignments. Gives very detailed feedback on all work and assignments. Very clear and extremely helpful!

Maria is a dedicated, thorough and fascinating professor with a commitment to the real world and ideas that are new and on the cutting edge. Family Studies was a course I took on a whim and it paid off. Previous Psych involvement may help, but her amazing teaching styles and dedication will allow you to get through with flying colours!

She's a really good professor. Notes are clear and concise - she tells you exactly what to study for. Textbook reading isn't too bad because she gives you independent questions so you just have to read enough to be able to answer the questions (she tells you exactly which sections to read). Exams were not difficult, MC and short answer.

Excellent professor. Very concise and to the point. The independent questions are the stuff you get test on. Just need knowledge of Gr. 12 Biology and you will do well.

Great professor and easy course! Just go to class and you will do great =)

Great professor who is clear with her notes and exams (2 midterms, and final). She actually cares if her students understand her. It's like a dev psyc course.

Nice prof; clear and easy to follow. She provides indep. questions which are to be completed alongside the readings (not for marks), that show you what you need to read! Her tests are fair, though MC are sometimes tricky -though based off the indep. questions :). I mostly studied the nights and mornings before the exams and came out with a solid A.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GRADE BOOSTER - TAKE THIS CLASS!!! the only thing you need to make sure is that YOU GO TO CLASS 100%. There are 2 midterms that are split into two parts - one Multiplce choice section and a written. Then written is based 100% on class notes and the MC is from the questions assigned to each chapter. TAKE THIS CLASS! SO EASY.

This is the worst UBC has to offer. This class is simplistic and frustrating. I came into this class interested in the course material and genuinely wanting to learn but ended up listening to the exact same lecture every single day for an entire semester. This class should be renamed "Piaget's theories of learning development"-that's all she teache

She is a very compassionate, sensitive, and lovely person. Her lectures are interesting and heartfelt. I skimmed over some of her critics... For whoever said all she did was regurgitate Piaget, I'd have to say that you prob. skipped most of her classes because that truly was not the case. Hers is one of those you-get-out-what-you-put-in classes

I attended every single lecture but the lecture material was not mainly focused on the exam. I find the multiple very difficult and tricky. I ended up getting a C- for this course even though I spent a lot of time studying for the midterm and final. She also gets sidetracked wasted a lot of time in answer irrelevant questions in class.

Weatherby is a great prof! She's enthusiastic about the material and is extremely helpful. You HAVE to attend her lectures to do well. Really straight forward. Study efficiently and this class will be a GPA booster.

She is a really good lecturer. She speaks in a manor that is interesting and a little humerous. However, this class is pretty hard; text reading must be done vigeriously. The Indp. question are nice because she does not want you to read all the text. Do all the indp questions, review the notes and you should do well.

She is a very good speaker. The indp questions are nice as you do not have to read the entire chapter. Also nice that the whole marks is based on exams.

I am confused about the negative comments below. The class is very straightforward and she gives you all the information you need to know. No surprises and really fair exams! If you do the independent questions and readings you will do well!

I like Maria. She's friendly and clear, and will keep helping you until you get a concept. Her course is well-structured, with templates for every lecture and "independent questions" for the textbook. I don't think her exams are hard, but they are quite thorough. If you pay attention in class (and stay on top of your IQs at home), you'll do fine.

great prof funny and sexy

oops I meant Family studies 210

shes kind helpful beatiful and really enjoyed her class and I love her nephew stories

Although the lectures are quite dry/feel very long, she is crystal clear in what she expects you to learn/what you will be tested on. No assignments, just exams - and the exams are NOT cumulative! GPA booster, interesting course material, fair marker, decent teacher. Enjoy!

She's a very kind and approachable professor. She clearly tells you what you have to study and I found her lectures helpful and interesting. She was also very organized and had lecture templates for each class. Study thoroughly and do the independent questions and it'll be a GPA booster. By far my favourite class this term.

This is not a mark booster. (Average was 68% this term) However, it is a straightforward class and she tells you exactly what you need to know. Too much material out of the textbook, but she does point you to the parts she wants you to focus on. Her lectures are quite dry and she teaches as if you are still in high school.

Honestly, it's hard to not get an A in this class. I was browsing through class marks and most people scored around 70 something. This class is really all memorization. She's not the most intriguing prof but she does lay out whatever that is going to be tested quite clearly. Her exams include filling out charts... High school level material I'd say

I disagree with the above comments. I liked her a lot! She's really clear and the lectures were super interesting.

Super easy, got 98% on the midterm with a decent amount of studying, final 93%. Attendance is mandatory because she gives specific notes not in the textbook. She's very sweet too, overall good class! may be boring at some points and she talks about her niece and nephew a lot.

She was really helpful and nice. As long as you put in some effort to review, come to class, and actually contribute to the group project, you'll do fine. I really enjoyed this class.

Course material is not hard, but you do need to study it because Maria likes details and marks meticulously. She also provides detailed lecture notes, so you should attend class. Lectures are sometimes interesting, sometimes boring. She does talk about her niece and nephew a lot, but it's cus it relates to the subject. Group project worth 30%.

Maria is an excellent prof, the people who give negative feedback likely don't show up to class or have difficulty with basic comprehension skills- fairly easy course but you do have to put in some effort if you want to do well. Very helpful and takes time after class to answer any questions and provides you with all the resources u need to do well

Maria is a wonderful prof! She let's you know EXACTLY what is going to on the exam. I ended up getting 91% in the class and I didn't work that hard. People who gave her negative reviews either did not show up for class (attendance is mandatory because there are no lecture slides), or they just didn't bother studying

Maria is a nice professor, however her class is very boring and very unmotivating. It was nice that there was no textbook, however when marking exams she was a very hard marker. All short answer, but she is clear what will be on the exam. Watch out for the group projects and individual inquiry, worth alot, and I got screwed over in the end.

She's a great prof. No textbook, only articles. Easy to read. She let's you know exactly what you're looking for and makes it easy to find in the papers.

Great prof! Definitely enjoyed her class and her teaching style. She writes out her notes, very simple and to the point. Very approachable and helpful.

Her lecturing methods are really helpful and easy. She writes out her notes on an overhead projector. She does, however, have an attitude, and once she gets the wrong impression of you, there's no way of turning back, and it'll reflect on her grading. Its unfortunate.

I found the lectures to be quite interesting actually! Maria really incorporates her real life experiences into the concepts that she teaches. She is definitely a picky grader in terms of written responses on her exams, but I find her grading scheme to be fair overall. She is very clear about what she will ask on an exam. Take it! :)

Took this as an upper-credit elective, as it sort of relates a bit to my psyc courses. Honestly, participation marks (3%) helped me with my weaknesses (i.e. increase participation skills, knowing my material, etc.) so I don't mind. In-class quizzes once a week from readings (journal articles), 1 midterm and 1 final. Helpful and outgoing prof :)

Really enjoyed the class. Very easy to do well if you put in the work effort. A lot to memorize and read but as long as you attend all lectures + take good IQ notes- youll do well! The harder you work in this class the higher the mark

Maria is very to-the-point and gives you everything you need to succeed. There are a few times when what she expects as high-quality is a bit abstract, but as you get used to her teaching style it gets better. DO THE IQs, and REVIEW. This is memorization-heavy but her lectures are funny and interesting. Great prof, very fair in her marking.

Dr. Weatherby impressed me with her caring nature, she is approachable and really tries to tell you what will be on the test! She tries not to let you study for everything like all the other profs who like being elusive and secretive. She cares for you, talks about amazing stories. I would say she is akin to a mother figure who is warm and caring.

Very meticulous marker. You must put word for word answers from the notes in order to received full marks. Maria emails lecture templates and fills them out in class, so you must attend. The class was pretty chill; I never found myself bogged down with work from FMST 210. I'm bad at psyc and more into math so I found it tough. Good and helpful prof

The class itself is not hard; however, the way Weatherby writes the exams makes it very difficult to achieve a good mark. Her written portions require very specific answers, and if it's not basically word for word, points are deducted. A lot of her answers on the mc portions requires attention to small details; not an easy course.

Nice woman, and definitely has a straight forward teaching method like high school. Only thing I didnt like about her were the fact that some of her exam questions were which one from the list is wrong. Other than that though a fairly easygoing prof and class.

It's rare to have a prof who is as caring and motherly as Maria. She is very clear about what she expects and what we should focus on studying. Great course content and a very applicable to real life course. Highly recommend!

Maria's lectures are very straightforward, and she tells you which parts of the textbook you will be tested on (so you don't have to read the entire thing). She's also very approachable if you have questions about the concepts or about your test marks. If you're really good at memorization and you study hard, you'll do well on the tests.

I had mixed feelings because it is a special lecture style. Sometimes slightly boring as it seems everything said is only targeted towards an exam and not because it is actually interesting/controversial. But Maria tries to make it more interesting with some personal stories. Overall, easy exams when you study/complete IQ's. Would take again.

Easy, straightforward class. I took it in the summer and it was not bad at all.

Nice prof who was clear about expectations! I found that I really enjoyed this subject because of her. Some may have found her boring, but I liked how straightforward she was.

Awesome Prof!! Genuinely a really nice person and she's very clear about exam expectations :)

Honestly, throughout my whole bachelors studies at UBC, her lectures and materials are what I have retained the most although I was studying at another faculty. RESPECT HER AND BE RESPECTED. If you really go by the outline and complete all the tasks, you would actually get a fantastic mark.

Her course is very structured and her expectations are honestly crystal clear: she outlines clearly what she is looking for if you want to do well on the tests. That being said, she is a bit picky with short answer so be sure to explain yourself clearly. Also, for her MC tests; 1 advice: pay ATTENTION TO DETAILS (in the IQs) and study EVERYTHING :)

Very clear expectations for exams, if you did well in PSYC 101/102 you will do well in this class too. Tests are not cumulative, but she is a very picky marker for short answer. You need to go to class as she doesn't post answers online!

Maria is the best man, so relatable and makes class fun and keeps you engaged at all times. This is one of the classes at UBC where you actually get to relate to real life situations. Exams are not bad if you keep up, she makes VERY clear as to what her expectations are, so failing is not an option. She is pretty hot also, so makes class easy ;)

put in the effort ... you'll do absolutely fine! Maria was awesome. I loved her down to earth attitude. I loved how she related stuff to real life. Enjoyed this class.

She tells you what she expects from you (literally tells you what's on the exam) and all she asks is for you to bring templates to class. This is an easy course to get an A as long as you go to class and take notes. She also gives lots of examples to go with her lectures to help you remember concepts. She can get off-topic but I don't mind that.

She is really nice and makes the material easy to understand. Even though she points out a lot of what you should know for the tests, the tests aren't easy. Also not a good grade booster.

FMST 210 is a really fun, interesting course plus it's really easy to get an A. Maria tells you what are on the exams and her questions are super straight forward. All you have to do is just memorize the lecture templates, and do the independent questions on your own time. Course is non-cumulative too which is even better. Loved this course!

I love her lectures so much. She's a great professor and teacher. She is also a very nice person who tries to encourage her students outside of class.

Took Maria last year, she was nice! Midterm, final and 5% participation mark. If you aren't good at test taking, not recommended. If you are great at memorizing, easy GPA booster. The exams were 150 marks ish, so you must know every little thing and all written. However she says which questions are on the exam! (at least when I took it she did)

Great GPA booster if you want a break from writing and want to memorize simple terms and concepts. Lots of common psych concepts (e.g. Freud, operant conditioning etc.). Lectures are SO easy - she gives handouts then fills out the handout for you during lecture - all you have to do is copy and memorize the info. Easy readings.