The school is planning to get rid of her. She is a total B!

This was probably the worst class I ever had. The professor is too strict on many assignments. I did an assignment and got a "0" for not getting approval which I didn't know I had to get approved for doing the assignment given. I worked on an extra credit assignment which was super tough that it took me 4 hours until I just gave up. Too Strict!!!

ONLINE CLASSES: She obviously isn't very organized and doesn't know how to use Epic very well. Modules are out of order and her directions are not clear AT ALL and when I try to ask her a question about it, she either doesn't respond, or gives me a generic response rather than just helping me. It's VERY frustrating to say the least.

This instructor was incredibly difficult to deal with. The very first day class started she sent an email implying annoyance at people because no one had completed the orientation work. She also constantly sent emails stating she can see what you do in canvas and that cheating will be reported to the dean....

Literally the worst teacher I have ever had!! Dont bother asking her anything shes going to refer you to one of the 1000 hand outs she puts in multiple folders. She very nit pickey and states she doesnt care what goes on in your personal life everyone has the same 24 hours in a day and I quote. The APA formatting required is unrealistic

She is a terrible! She doesn't provide students with enough information to help them with an assignment then just refers them back to her initial instructions when they don't understand. She takes off a lot of points on assignments for small mistakes, but again, does not explain why she took the points away in the first place. Do not take her class

DO NOT TAKE! Very strict and tough grader. Doesn't help at all. Asked for help for an assignment because I was unsure of what she wanted. Referred back to the instructions that confused me in the beginning. Hoping for a lecture that would help understand the textbook, more tangents on herself than info. We get it. You're accomplished.

Best way I can describe Prof. Arnold is as a being with zero empathy or concern for others. Her 'instructions' are no more than telling you to publish the assignment and waiting for a roulette table to decide your grade. You can learn a lot from the material and that's about it, I can't think of one thing SHE taught me. Don't need this class? Skip.

Terrible. She is more concerned with the APA format.

WOULD STRONGLY NOT RECOMMEND. Professor is very very rigid - gives unclear directions and if you're sick/late/anything is uncaring regardless if you tell them ahead of time. I don't get how a psychology professor lacks caring so much

Every week you have to read the chapter, watch the lecture, take a quiz, watch a movie, do a discussion, and respond to 2 students. Sometimes there will be 2 chapters in a week so double everything I just said. I've taken 5 unit classes with less work. Do not take her, you will regret it. I had to drop. I hate the way this class is formatted.

Professor gives so much work I find myself rushing into every lecture that I am not learning anything. Deadlines every few days so I quickly read over the text to answer questions. :( Dissapointed

Don't take if you don't need it. Really reading-heavy and takes too much time, even for psych, nursing, and bio majors. Also strict about APA, but ironically, I find the questions on Quizlet.

im not even learning im just answering discussion board questions, watching interesting but useless documentaries, and mostly rushing to meet her rigid deadlines ... take this class only if u have a lot of free time and patience

Cares more about APA than the actual material were supposed to learn. Gives the same generic, useless responses to your questions. Unclear directions. Dont take her class.

The class is boring and she expects too much. Her deadlines are rigid, and she mostly only cares about proper APA, otherwise, she'll report you to the dean for "plagiarising" or will take away most credit from an assignment. There are weekly discussion boards and she may sometimes give you two per week as a surprise. Please do not take this class.

Like the other ratings, this teacher is very strict on APA formatting. But, rarely discusses and teaches students how to format according to her preference. Do not take this class unless you have no other classes to focus on because this class is very demanding.

Not an easy A. If you need this class for transfer, be on track. Refer to orientation module for format on everything like DBQ responses, midterms, and quizzes. Also, check test banks as all quiz questions are somewhere on the internet. Lastly, don't tire yourself out. This class is interesting, but it sucks, so prioritize your mental health.

I absolutely would not recommend taking any of Prof. Arnold's classes. Very lazy professor. Does not assist students when they need help. She strictly fits the word "Instructor", she only gives instructions. Doesn't actually teach the material. It's as if she wants students to fail. Awful!

Please listen to all the other reviews. If you only want to read a dense book with no other help from her or provided lectures then go ahead. She is essentially just a grader. She does not teach AT ALL. No lectures, no written typed notes about the chapters, no videos, no powerpoints, LITERALLY NOTHING. Extremely frustrating. I have learned nothing

Bored out of my mind! Spent the first 45 mins (not exaggerating) repeating admin stuff. No actual lecturing/explaining! That's been the trend so far. Doesn't respect student's time, otherwise she'd actually teach sth useful rather than filling the time w/ bull! For sb so strict on plagiarism, it is ironic that her class has no original content

Unless you wanna spend 6+ hours on one homework assignment where you have to unnecessarily read (sometimes multiple chapters a week) I wouldnt take this teacher. You dont learn anything as theyre not a teacher, theyre a grader. Dont take this class if youre taking more than 3 units (seriously)

My main complaint of this class is the lack of lecture. They say you really understand the material when you can explain the it to someone else. I am starting to believe that Arnold does not really understand the material because she is very resistant to explaining anything. Even when you ask her a direct question, she would go off on a tangent.

Don't take a class with her unless you want to spend hrs on your own studying for the class. She doesn't explain the material in class at all. Shows lots of movies. As a psych professor, she ought to know that movies alone aren't the best vehicles for teaching. Students need lectures, interaction, reinforcement! HWs are unnecessarily complicated.

She never systematically explains any of the terms from each chapter. Often claims to have covered a material when she really never discussed it in class. When you ask her sth, often she will say "we already covered it" or give a clipped definition instead of a thorough explanation. I suspect she doesn't understand it well enough to explain it.

I never had to work so hard for a class yet retained so little! Although it was a lecture, I felt like I had to teach the material to myself because she never explains anything. There are many community colleges in the Bay Area with better professors, who actually care about teaching. I recommend taking zero classes with her. Life is too short!

All I'm going to say is that there is a reason why she doesn't allow you to record her "lectures." The college would be furious if they found out how she really fills her "lecture" time with anything but lecture. Wish I dropped this class. I thought it was a slow start, that she would eventually cover the material. Never did! Big mistake!

The materials of this class are not inherently difficult, but the way Arnold teaches it, makes it difficult. HWs are not always relevant to class. You will end up doing a lot of work on your own, yet you will not remember a whole lot after this class is over. Arnold never really bothers to explains the material at all. I resent her laziness!

Teaching is the wrong profession for Arnold. Her personality, rigidity, insistence on petty rules, desire for absolute control over the lives of her students would make a great prison warden, or that's what it feels like when taking her class. Assignments take a lot of time as she insists on APA for every single assignment.This class is exhausting!

I'm an auditory learner, so I chose to take a zoom lecture with her. I thought it would be better than taking classes asynchronously. I'm really disappointed cause she never really covers the material in class- spends 30-40 mins each class, showing how to access the hw assignments in canvas. Then we see a long, usually old, probably outdated movie.

Every time I'm in her presence, my blood pressure rises out of sheer frustration! She is a pathetic excuse of a teacher -doesn't teach at all. Exams are easy as she literally gives you a list of exam Q's. I think it's to cover herself- she doesn't explain anything, so if she didn't give the exam questions, everybody would fail & make her look bad.

This class was not hard. What was hard was having to do everything without absolutely no lecture or explanation of anything. If you don't use APA Formatting be ready to fail. If you need help, you might as well save your breath because she is not going to help you. Her final assignment was an APA journal article review! Zero explanation!

This teacher is totally sadistic! Every week we have one chapter due on Launchpad, but the two weeks we have major deadline, like a paper draft or paper final, she gave us two chapters- double the homework! I mean who does that? Most of my psychology professors are very nice and helpful. They want you do do well. Not Arnold!

Arnold is totally unhinged! Sometimes it feels like her singular reason for existence is to get sadistic pleasure by torturing her students. She also gives no clear guidelines apart from APA when it comes to papers, which lets her grade arbitrarily, assigning more points to sycophantic students. If you value your free will, steer clear of her class

Dr Arnold only cares about APA style, she does not go over any materials no lectures at all only videos that she puts up every week and quickly runs through the chapters there are assignments due every week as well as papers 2 assignments add to 50 % of the students grade I would not recommend anyone to take her class there is no value at all.

She isn't clear with assignment instructions, her grading rubric is incredibly inconsistent, and she is not helpful at all when students ask for help. She marked me down for using a citation that she gave us to use for a paper

Ima help you out.. Dont take this class. This profesor will grade you two weeks late and give you a bad grade

DONT TAKE HER CLASSES!!! This professor will grade your work 2 weeks after you have submitted your work and give you a bad grade with a comment saying what you need to fix but by the time you get that comment you already made that mistake again so you are graded a bad grade several more times. Expects students to read a ton and write a ton.

This class could be super easy but the professor is cruel and will give you horrible grades for hard work that meets all of the expectations. She also suggested getting help from tutors (which I most definitely dont need) instead of offering help herself. The material is very interesting but I am VERY UNHAPPY/DISAPPOINTED with this professor.

Her class consists of pre-recordings and online programs. She takes an abysmal amount of time to grade. Then when she does, she gives out vague reasons why you got that grade. Also, she doesn't tell you about the final, or the things you'll need for it, so you have to basically find what it is yourself. Just avoid this teacher as best as possible.

Avoid her. The professor went on a trip during finals and didn't respond to my email for 12 days, saying it was too late to help. Communication is terrible. The structure is unclear, with homework due in the 6th week before assignments due in the 5th week, making it easy to miss deadlines. Very strict on APA, failing you even if you understand.

I was in a late start class, but the workload was heavy. There were lots of DBQs, assigned videos, assigned readings, and quizzes, and every other week there was an 8-page essay. Sometimes, two in a week. In addition, she returned essays late, by the time she reviewed essay 3, essay 5 was done! Not that her feedback was that useful anyway...

Out of office always (as I write this, she is announcing she will not reply for the next month), never replies to messages even if she is in office, grading is inconsistent, the assignments are lazy and recycled. 5 papers with the same exact rubric, just on different stages of life. Class was not engaging at all, would recommend taking elsewhere GL

I had to withdraw from this class because it was too difficult... all the lower ratings are true and I should've took them into consideration before registering.

Warning: Do not take Professor Arnold's class. While I learned a few things, her overwhelming focus on APA and constant unavailability due to vacationing during finals were major issues. She seemed uninterested in her students' success. After retaking the class with another professor, I got an A, proving the issue was her teaching.

Do not take this class. She is completely uninterested and often absent, usually due to vacationing. She does not provide adequate support and is unhelpful. Despite putting in my best effort, receiving an F really affected my graduation timeline. Her focus is on APA, and after retaking the course with another prof, I got an A.

This lady is a extremely tough grader you will never get full credit in her class EVER! It's live she lives for pointing out every little flaw! DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! IF i didn't need this class to graduate next semester i would definitely drop this class.

She is very tough, she does respond to emails but if you don't understand she wont help you she'll just direct you to a video or article to read and that's extremely annoying especially if you suffer from any learning disabilities or mental health. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS LOOK FOR ANOTHER PROFESSOR!

This professor is an extremely tough grader and does not make herself available for students to ask for help, despite it being a completely online asynchronous course. She also grades late. Most of the assignments required as much writing as an English class would. I won't complain about the APA format requirements, but they were quite prominent.

THIS LADY WAS ONE OF THE WORSE PROFESSORS IVE EVER HAD, I COMPLETED EVERY SINGLE ASSIGNMENT NOT ONE MISSING OR LATE ASSIGNMENT. I PASSED HER CLASS WITH A 86%. SHE IS A EXTREMELY AND ANNOYING GRADER DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE

if every one is saying the same thing please take heed, she's the worse. doesn't grade until weeks later then leaves a bad comment telling you to correct your work even though she doesn't accept anything late. Save yourself the headache. don't take