His British accent is an obstacle for students but has entertaining lectures

Lectures are 3 hour long, yet he makes them amusing with demonstrations.

Let him use your body for science, it will get a rise out of everyone there

Fabulous, funny &entertaining. W/o the breaks, we could have been out sooner.

informative, memorable lectures, excellent T.A.s (Dans note helper is awesome)

goofy guy, knows what he is talking about. the exams depend on ta's

Accent is very clear and easy to understand!! He tries really hard to ease the pain of a 3 hour lecture and succeeds

Fun and makes the material interesting

accent occasionally hard to understand...but a great sense of humour! makes classes fun.

Professor is entertaining and informative, I strongly reccomend him.

Knows his stuff, very funny and intersting to listen to. Also great TA's. Dan is awesome, he is really smart and you can tell he likes what he does.

I love this guy,, He is funny as can be and just as smart. I never want to miss class because i don't want to miss out on what he'll do next.

funny as hell

prof anstis is awesome and fun. he makes a boring and hard class pretty interesting and more understanding. dan and lindsey are great TAs too, they totally care for the students and totally know there stuff.

this guy is great...i've had him for two classes now and he always manages to keep my attention for his 3 hour classes...he even throws a party for his students after the quarter.

Prof. Anstis is great! I loved his classes! He is sooo funny! He has the ability to make a boring topic fun and interesting!

a groovy chap!

Awesome professor! Kept me awake through the boring stuff. Lots of good demonstrations

Awesome professor, great demonstrations, relates to the student very well. Definitely recommended.

Cool class!

the nicest prof. i've ever had. ta's make the class easier.

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very interesting prof, very interesting class

he's funny

SOOO entertaining! and it's clear he loves and cares about his students. but don't DARE miss a single class. he teaches at the rate of lightning - HE COVERS A LOT OF STUFF. excellent prof - engaging with hilarious brit humor!!!

I had him for a 3 hour psych class and it was entertaining the WHOLE time...he is fun to learn from.

The most amazing prof. If he wasn't British I'd bone him for his brain!

So cute! He invited his classes at a brunch at his beautiful beach house and is so eager to interact with his students. Treated students to coffee at Espresso Roma and the class is really interesting. Do the reading, exams were curved.

he is one of the best professor i have had here... he is not boring at all... he really care bout his students, but his lectures are unorganized, most of the time u just needa read the book...

His accent makes lectures very enjoyable. He's fun, easy, and makes fun of TAs daily. Tests can be a bit challenging since they are based heavily on readings that he doesn't always cover. Usually the curve makes it pretty easy to do well

great teacher, he would make a perfect british scientist cartoon character. Tests are pretty tough, you need to do the reading (approx 50 pgs per week) to have a fighting chance.

Great Professor. Hilarious+nice+generous. multiple choice exams extremely easy. although readings were a bit long. but materials were pretty basic and straightforward. would certainly help if you took bild 2 b4 this class. should have took this for a letter grade..D'OH!

He has a great sense of humor and even though it was a 3 hour class, he usually ended it at least 20-30 min. early. Do the reading (kinda a lot) and the slides are online. Mult. choice exams, pretty basic if you did the readings and went to class and paid attention. good prof.

His class is very fun and you will learn alot from his lectures but his exams are kind of hard. He has a heavy british accent, i hateded first but i got used to it. His exams are multiple choice. He is very nice, and he helps you alot try hard you will pass

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silly english psych prof

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Hilarious

Professor was overall good. Slides aren't that great to take notes off of, the TA's seem fine to me, never had a problem with them. Appears to re-use previous exams with new questions thrown in here and there. Textbook sucks, too wordy too long too boring, never really read it, you can get far with just going to class and skimming the book

easy A. just read and pay attention in class.

Class was pretty straight forward. If you study then you'll receive a good grade. Pay close attention in class, especially what the Prof. says and what the TA's lecture about. Very meticulous answers to the tests. Know the stuff front and back. First 2 exams(25%) final(50%) only the final is cumulative.Ext. cred/readn very usefull to pass.

This class was hard only because there wasn't much structure between lectures and the book, and the book was boring. Anstis was amusing except for those all the technical difficulties.

He made the three-hour lecture enjoyable. Accent is easy to get used to. Don't need to buy the textbook as exams are almost entirely lecture-based.

Funny Brit. I wish there was better clinical psych material.

He made the three hour class bearable with his humor and accent, love him. but i seriously studied twice as hard for this introductory class than I have for my upper div classes. 17 chapters covered on the final??? you've got to be kidding me. and the text is DEFINITELY required. i barely glossed over it on the first midterm and i got screwed.

Very funny.

The class was interesting, TA Kadimah was mean at everyone and she is very bad at responding to questions. It seems to me that the undergraduate TA Mike was doing all the work for this course.

Anstis is a fantastic professor; he has a great sense of humor which made the 3 hour lectures much less painful. The exams, though, are more difficult than you'd expect for an intro psych class; without the curve, the average in the class was a 60%. Expect to work hard if you want an A. Reading the textbook and attending the lectures is a must.

Fantastic British Professor, A Truly Cambridge University Graduate. I loved his accent and his tests are very fair. The ending class curve is pretty generous. I didn't really study hard and got an A+!

very funny guy. his British accent is great to listen to. The readings are long and boring but are needed in order to well.

the class is pretty interesting. the lectures were fun but the exams are pretty hard. the teacher doesnt make the exams, his TAs do, and the class averages on both exams was a D. i was hoping to get an ez A and i ended up with a B+ even though i worked pretty hard. be careful if u want an A, because its not as ez as everyone else says it is.

Anstis himself is fantastic. While its said he is "a true Cambridge University Graduate," etc. on here, he's a really down to earth guy. The course is broad and more in depth than you'd expect. The TAs do make the exams, which can be frustrating because they expect at times truly fantastic levels of detail, citing whole paragraphs, somewhat sadist

Excellent teacher for an intro psych class. His British accent makes listening easy and enjoyable. His tests however are written completely by the TAs. He has very little to do with the actual grading.

After the curve, the class becomes so easy. I got an A+!

The test is a bit difficult, but it's very representative of the material. TA Mike was really helpful and cute=)

He has a good sense of humor. The tests are killer though. Be prepared not to get an A if you take this course with him.

He's a very entertaining professor and holds ur attention well, but I really felt the TA's were extremely disorganized with the class, constantly changing things around from material covered to location of section.

Awesome professor. Very funny guy and cool accent. The stereotypical psyc teacher. Mandatory section, but the TAs were nice and they usually only lasted ~30mins. Tests were long and questions were somewhat confusing, but curve is generous. Only problem is that tests contain both lecture (not stuff in book) and book material so you have to read

Funny prof, some good jokes, some not. From the UK, good accent when you can understand it!

professor stuart anstis is hilarious and the material is interesting. He is extremely accessible outside of class.

Awesome teacher. Very entertaining the whole hour through. Uses props, movies, games, etc. to illustrate points. My favorite class so far and I graduate next quarter.

interesting class. I recommend u go to class because the tests are from the lectures and the book, which is not that fun to read. The class is not that hard but is time consuming because of all the chapter u need to read. The prof is nice and sometimes funny.

Extremely entertaining lecturer. Makes an otherwise extremely boring topic interesting to listen to, and the three-hour classes worth going to. Rachael and Azim were great TAs, made a comprehensive and useful study guide and the tests were very fair. Definitely try to have a class with him!

It is the easiest class I have taken at UCSD. Lectures are on podcast and slides are easy. Professor is very funny and has a great British accent. Class was really fun and easy. I didn't even read the textbook and got an A.

He's very interesting, but the TAs are the ones who write the detailed, multiple choice exams. This professor makes the topics extremely interesting but to get a good grade you have to read the long boring textbook and memorize insignificant details.

TA's make the tests. He has a British accent.

He's a great lecturer. He's really funny.Sometimes I just get caught up in his British accent.The class was a bit difficult for me.Just keep up with the reading and lectures.

Really interesting and engaging lectures. Of course, this would only help if you attend lecture. The exams are written by TAs. When I took it, exams are mostly lecture based with some minor stuff from the book.

Hands down the funniest professor at UCSD. His class is like listening to stand up comedy while learning at the same time! He even invited the entire class to his house for a brunch party. How awesome is that? If you're even remotely interested in psychology you definitely should take this class.

Very amusing and definitely made the 3 hour lecture worth staying for. Tests were written by TAs (2 midterms and 1 final)

A good professor, but doesn't really seem to do much other than make jokes during lecture to keep the class awake. The TAs pretty much do all the work. Midterms were pretty easy but require reading the book and some memorizing. Not a bad class since I learned a lot mostly by reading the book.