A lot of people have to take this class, so I would say if you HAVE to take it, Clark isn't a bad option! I thought the class was pretty boring with a lot of busy work that felt unnecessary. I recommend taking it as early as possible because there are no prerequisites and as a 3rd year it felt like being back in high school in terms of the material and the difficulty.

I enjoyed taking Psych 10 with Courtney. All of her lectures were pre-recorded and we only attended class on Thursdays for lab (which wasn't always required to go to). There was a decent amount of work to complete each week, but it was mostly simple assignments that were mostly just for participation. Quizzes were sometimes difficult but were open notes. Same with the final exam. There are video assignments (four to be exact) where you have to explain certain concepts in psychology. The hardest part was getting the video to be less than a minute. There are also article analysis readings that were pretty easy and interesting. You also have the SONA research requirements. I would just recommend getting those done ASAP so you don't have to worry about them later. Overall, I think Professor Clark was really nice and a great lecturer.

This class was hard for me, but I enjoyed it. I had a pretty biased view on psychology going into the course, but I find it interesting now. I thought we would mainly learn about clinical psychology, which I wasn’t too excited about, but we also learned a lot about brain anatomy, how people learn, how people develop, how memory works, and more.

Courtney Clark is so nice and the teaching team is super friendly and helpful. This class is mainly asynchronous, although it is listed as online recorded. Class structure is a longer “lesson” on Tuesday and a shorter “lesson” on Thursday with an hour live lab on Thursday. Lessons are a series of videos with a tiny bit of questions that are graded on completion. Lessons can be quite long, but I watch them on double speed.

Labs are pretty easy. Some are mandatory, some can be completed on your own. Some labs are completed with a group that you work with again later. I really liked my group, so I didn’t mind. Labs are graded on accuracy, but if you have any questions just as a TA during the live lab sessions. You do some experiments and send out some surveys, but nothing extremely hard.

The tests are the hardest things about this class. There are five quizzes but she drops the lowest quiz. The quizzes are somewhat hard. They’re questions about very detailed things that I just don’t remember. Some of the questions are on Quizlet, but not all of them. The final was also pretty hard because again there were many detailed things that were skimmed over very fast in lectures or were not even mentioned at all.

Quizzes: 25%
Lessons: 10%
Article Analyses: 2%
Labs: 15%
Video Assignments: 6%
Mini-assignments: 1%
Lab reports: 16%
Final: 25%

Courtney Clark is an amazing professor, honestly one of the best ones I've had at UCLA thus far. I am not a psych major yet I enjoy this class very much. There is a lot of work that is entailed but if you do it you're guaranteed to get a great grade.

Honestly the class is pretty easy in terms of material. She had open book tests so you also didn't really have to memorize the plethora of information from lectures. Also thank god I took this during spring 2020 bc if I wouldn't have been able to speed up the extremely slow talking speed of clark this class would've been a lot more awful. Only real downside about this class is that it was kinda a lot of work that you had to do for it

TAKE PSYCH 10 WITH CLARK!

I had already taken this class as an AP in high school and had AP credit but because of dental school preferences I had to take it in college. For this reason I found the material pretty easy because it was the exact same as in my AP class. Professor Clark was a clear and organized lecturer and I liked her. The class was pretty reasonable and you have to stay on top of assignments and study because there's a lot of memorization but overall everything was pretty fair. Be smart about the SONA requirement and get it done early in the quarter when studies are available and you have time.

This class is interesting and an easy A. A lot of people I know got 100% on the midterm and high A's on the final. You're with your lab group for the whole quarter, so try to choose good people. Clark was super helpful and tried to make lectures engaging, so I'd definitely recommend!

First of all - don't waste your time reading the textbook, Clark covers everything you need to know for exams. Honestly my main complaint about the class is that 2 hours is way too long for this lecture, but Professor Clark did a really good job keeping the class engaging. As a person, she's incredibly sweet, before class always mingling and trying to get to know students, you can easily see she really cares about what she's doing. It is true she can sometimes speak to you like you're 5, but I'd rather have that than her talk to us like we're PHD students in an intro to psych course. You have to attend class because of clicker points but you get 3 free skips which is nice. Labs are SO straightforward as long as you pay attention and ask questions you should get an 100 on every single one. Biggest pain in the ass about this class is the 6 hours of research you have to participate in but whatever. Personally, I'm not overly interested in psych but I still had a good time. Glad I had a friend for my lab group, made it much more fun. TAs are helpful at review sessions and such, but no discussion which is also nice.

I took Psych 10 for no reason other than it's interesting to me and I wanted to learn more. This class was great to fulfill that purpose! Prof Clark is sweet and engaging, and often incorporates videos into her slides to illustrate the concepts. I looked forward to going every week.
Labs are also part of this class, and happen during the lecture. You could take it with friends but it honestly doesn't matter. I probably spent like 1-2 hours max outside of lecture working on this class. Slides are posted and are really all you need to know for the midterm/final. (Final became optional because of corona, so I didn't take it anyway).
Overall if you're interested in the topic I would recommend it!