Do not take a class with Stefano. His lectures are sooooo boring. The slides are jam packed full of information and he just reads off of them the whole time. The course is based around 2 midterms (20% each) and a cumulative final worth 60%, with all application based questions, which he hardly gives you enough time to complete. Just don't do it.

Should not be a prof. Lack of communication, lack of empathy for students and just reads off slides. Avoid this dude at all costs.

the way he made the test is horrible. 107 mc in 3 hours and every question is HARD, I had another exam that had 27 questions in total, and it is the same level of difficulty, if you wanna make the exam harder, just reduce number of questions and increase difficulty don't put a overwhelming amount of question.

i dont even know what to say. the final exam was a horrific experience. too many questions, too specific and obscure

Alright so I'm reposting a review because I initially posted one that was nicer because I heard he was upset with his reviews. Avoid at all costs. Lacks empathy and understanding. Although the course was openbook, exams were unfair. Regrading was also unfair and I know because other profs were fair this sem. He just thinks hes right 24/7.

I have spent 4.5 years as a UTSC student and this was my only terrible experience with a professor in my history as a student. He does not care about student feedback. He told a few students to seek therapy when they expressed anxiety about the 60% final exam (that allowed 1 min per question). Plus, the lectures are 3 hours of slide text.

This class may have been the worst class Ive ever taken at UTSC. The content was fine and interesting, but somehow the professor was able to making is extremely boring. On top of that the exams were unfair and exceedingly difficult. In a global pandemic youd think Stefano would have been more understanding. He wasnt. Avoid at all costs.

Run! DO NOT TAKE CLASSES WITH HIM. This professor was good at the beginning and he flipped on us later with his hard 60% final. If you worked hard all year, and then you do badly on a 60% final, you are screwed. just do not do it and save ur GPA

I don't know why I wanted to take this course, lectures longgg and boring. Whole bunch of nothing to be honest.

I took his course during the fall and the classes were very boring. Even though he is a really nice human but he is not a good lecturer and lack the ability to capture his students attention. I took the course because I was very interested in the topic but honestly the book was more interesting than his lectures.

Avoid him at all costs! Horrible lecturer and gives the most nonsense finals. Please take another C level if you see his name. He has literally no empathy or compassion especially during the pandemic. Lectures are so dry that the textbook is more interesting. Just know if your taking his course and do well on the midterms, be prepared for his final

All I have to say to this Prof is, stop punishing your students with a 60% tough final exam because you got notified that people were about to cheat. You could have just used those softwares where you can lock the exam screen but no he decided to make his whole class suffer due to a few cheaters. You shouldve just made it harder for them to cheat.

I was getting an A+ in this course and the final really brought my GPA down. He is adamant and thinks he is always right. I would have also tolerated him being an adamant prof if he was actually good at teaching. He is very boring.

The final was extremely unfair at 60%. Not that enjoyable in the classroom, really would recommend, I hope future iterations of the course has a different professor.

This prof doesnt understand students' needs. He gave students a 60% final. He needs to understand that students also take other courses. I think he should consider adding an assignment component to the course to enhance the learning experience.

I wish I saw these ratings earlier because I am taking this course right now. The lectures are 3 hours long with no interesting content included in it. I was so interested in this course but after looking at the syllabus and the grading scheme I lost all interest in this class. He is not interesting and often just reads off the slides.

Taking the class rn and I wish I didnt. There are better C level psych courses to take. Dont fall for the trap that this is a bird course cause the prof changed and now its just a horrible course. Boring lectures that ruin your day

He is honestly one of the most boring professors I have had to take a class with. He rambles in his 3 hour lectures and adds no interesting content. The guest lectures are pretty good tho because those are the only lectures when he isn't the one teaching. I wish we had the prof who used to teach this course before him. He was a poor choice.

The lectures are re-runs from last fall. The topic is really interesting, but the prof manages to made it as dull as ditchwater. Constant tangents about personality psychology and advanced statistics. Asks extremely niche "SAT style" analogy questions that have you think around 4 corners. Extreme time constraints on tests.

Prof lacks the ability to deliver the content in a meaning full way, extremely boring and is rude during office hours as he expects you to know everything. The time constraints and the marking distribution itself should deter any students from taking his course. Avoid any course with him because he lacks the ability to engage students

This is definitely one of the worst classes I've taken at UTSC. If you can, try to get into FSC220 at UTM instead. Same textbook, great prof. DiDomenico is one of those guys who claims to grade fairly, but then tests obscure details from the textbook in bizarre ways and with crazy time constraints. He's also boring as sin. Avoid it if you can.

Prof disregards any difficulties you have with the course and provides no feedback or advice on how to improve. Lectures are just a copy from a textbook in which there is no effort to make things interesting. The exam content is tested on random facts that are scattered throughout the textbook. Avoid this prof because he doesn't care at all

He will test you on the verbatim definitions of minutiae that appear in a single sentence in the textbook and are irrelevant for the understanding of the topic. You really have no choice but to Ctrl-F your textbook. This form of "pedagogy" is sloppy, lazy, and shows that he doesn't really care about the field OR his students. Don't take it.

Youll be tested on the most trivial details of the textbook that arent even related to the major concepts of the lectures. Refuses to make adjustments or accommodations to students who are having difficulty with the course. Tells you to go seek a therapist instead of actually helping

He is actually a horrible prof. All these years at UofT, and I can say that he is the worst professor I had so far. He is not understanding and accomodating towards his students. He is SO BORING and his exams are tough for no reason. He is working really hard to fail us rather than to help us actually LEARN!!

Doesnt care when you ask for help. I asked for help during office hours and told me to just reread the textbook instead of actually helping. The exams are difficult but what makes it worse is his lack of engagement with the students as he doesnt help or provide any kind or clarification. I hope the prof changes for the course because its a waste

In my three years at UofT I have never experienced such an incapable professor. He is not only bad at teaching but also does not seem to care about his students. He has never been able to engage students in his lectures because he reads off of the slides and whenever you ask for help he will have a condescending way of explaining things to you.

I just completed his final exam a few days ago and the way he designed it was unnecessarily tough. He did this so that he could make the class average go down, then he said he would curve the grades up. Even with the curve, my grades would be worse than what I was originally supposed to get. Learn to teach and set up a fair exam.

Disrespectful and doesn't care when you ask for help. The type of prof to intentionally make an exam hard to lower the average and then "curve" the marks. Avoid him and save your GPA

Horrible professor. Save your GPA and take any other course but this.

Taking his class right now and he is not interested in the topic he teaches about. This is why all his classes are boring and he reads off of the slides and makes zero attempt to make the class interesting for the students.

He is not a skilled professor. Seems uninterested in the topic he is teaching and at times a little rude during office hours, cannot give any helpful advice.

I was interested in this class at first and did very well at the beginning. First two midterms were reasonable and fair, he purposely tries to screw you over on the final exam by making it 100+ questions and extremely long and tricky questions (like 2 T/F questions in one) which takes up too much time for 100+ questions and only 3 hrs AVOID HIM!

If you want to go through hell then take this course. His midterms are so easy that you think you would end up with A+ in the course. However, he tears you into pieces with his final exams. None of practice questions nor the midterms reflect the difficulty of the final exam.

Awful instructor. Finals tested on information that he didn't even teach and composed of over 100 questions in the span of 3hrs. Have to set up appointments for his office hours which is fine, but he doesn't respond to emails. Do not take his class, is definitely a regret.

Midterm was in person and not enough time to complete (only 1 hour). Makes questions more complicated than needed to be.

Unless this is a mandatory course (like me) do not take this course. 2 midterms, 1 exam = 100 of your grade. too much content for one class. He expects you to read the textbook, and attend/watch lectures but also goes off the book for additional information. Luckily, he curves the grades by a decent amount but that says a lot about the difficulty.

Only graded by 3 exams, with final being cumulative. It is impossible for anyone to memorize the amount of information taught throughout the semester, especially when majority is not even covered in lecture.

if you want a good experiences don't take this class he was such a hard marker and overall was confused when students didn't understand the hard material he was teaching. Your grade is all made up on 2 midterms and a final with no bonuses or anything. The class is 3 hours long and it still doesnt cover everything in the textbook. Final was brutal

There are only three exams in this class (tt1, tt2, final) that count towards the course grading, but professor puts out very difficult and detail-oriented questions, including the final which says that pre-tt2 knowledge is 1/4th, resulting in final question being 50% of the final. If you don't memorize very carefully, the score will be very low.

Absurd expectations on tests. More than two dozen MC and and essay in only one hour, then marks the essay extremely hard. Never felt so disrespected by a grading scheme in my life, and insulted in an email. Avoid at all costs.

If you want to live, avoid this course.