This class really helped Me to see the use of studying Biological & Cultural Anthropology in an effort to understand Human Nature and really taught Me that human observation really isn't Different than that of any other species. He spent some time on very introductoty concepts and taught us to work together to come to conclusions. Dr. Wong is an excelent Proffessor and deserving of your respect. I would kind of like to get him on~board as a personal Physician. Unless you're lazy, you should be able to pass pretty simply.

Disclaimer, I don't like science and I really don't like biology so take everything I say with a grain of salt if you like those things! This class was tough for me because I wasn't interested in the material. There is minimal homework, only the weekly quizzes, which took me 10-20 mins per week. I studied for the midterm and the final about 8 hours each the couple days leading up to the tests and got an 80 on both. The class is pretty much strictly memorization. If you are good at memorization and like to learn about cells and neurons and stuff like that I think this would be a really easy class for you. The midterm and final are multiple choice and not that hard, the subject just wasn't my forte. You really don't even need to attend lecture, he posts all the notes on CCLE and questions are taken directly off info on the slides. You also don't really need the textbook, I only used it to help me study but he doesn't use any questions that aren't in his slides.

A good GE if you're good at memorizing and need a class that has practically no homework. The midterm and final make up 85% of your grade and require that you memorize all of the lecture slides. The other 15% is quizzes, which are weekly sets of 10 multiple choice questions that you complete online and get unlimited attempts on. Just give yourself 2-3 days before the tests for memorization and you should be fine. In terms of lectures, they can be boring, but I found some of them to be really interesting and engaging. Prof. Wong cares that you understand the material as well, which is a nice plus.

The class was a fun one to take but turned out to be a little harder than I thought when the tests came around. I missed a lot of lecture and didn't take great notes but if I had tried harder I know I could've done way better. The professor is extremely knowledgeable and passionate but his lectures get a little tedious because he reads off the slides for a lot of them.

The class is pretty straight forward. Just memorize the slides and you'll be good. However, make sure to go to class because many of the questions on the exams are structured in a way that forces you to actually apply the knowledge you've learned rather than regurgitate it back on the exam.

Got an 89.5% because I missed an extra credit. Moral of the story: GO TO CLASS.

FOR ALL THAT IS HOLY, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

Psych 15 is advertised as a GE course tailored for non-majors, however, the abrasive teaching style and pressure to memorize every single word on the lecture slides proves more intensive and similar to a course for Pyschobio majors. The lecture is often DRY and appears HASTILY prepared. Considering the lecture slides contain DENSE material that comes from the textbook's company (and not created by the professor), there is a dissonance between lecture slides and exams.

I welcome challenging courses, but Psych 15 is unreasonably difficult that it provokes students to lose interest in the subject of Psychobiology altogether. Moreover, the grade distribution includes a majority of high-stakes assignments:
-42.5% midterm
-42.5% final
-15% homework
(You literally have to memorize all the slides.)

With nearly half of the 279 students enrolled scoring a C or lower on the midterm, this damages any chances of earning a passing grade without a curve (that isn't necessarily guaranteed). Furthermore, the unreasonable difficulty of this GE course is detrimental to non-major students pursuing certain graduate programs, such as law, medicine, etc. that heavily weigh university GPA. Ultimately, this course and the professor are not doing the students or university any favor. Psych 15 and Professor Wong do not show any interest in furthering students' academic careers.

Do yourself a favor and do NOT take this class with Wong.

If you listen to the lectures and take notes on the slides it's very easy to do well in this class.
Earlier reviews mention clickers but this professor did not require clickers for my lecture. He used in class extra credit as a way to keep students honest about attending lectures. He was responsive to questions and an engaging lecturer. Material is also super interesting and he tries to make it relevant. Would definitely recommend.

I took Wong for Psych 10 my freshman year and again as a senior for 188B. He gives somewhat challenging exams, given that they're only 30 questions, so you can't miss more than 2 without dropping a letter grade. However, he's quite literally the reason I ended up doing Psych/Cog Sci. He's so engaging, and it's really important to learn about these topics (LGBT+ communities in healthcare, sexual orientation, sex hormones, gender, and sex) if you're pre-med or in general to understand others better. He does talk fast, but if you raise your hand and ask him to slow down or explain something, he will. He's very approachable!

This class was a lot of information and memorizing. Wong himself is a good lecturer and talks really fast, so you have to be engaged during lecture to keep up. He is a young asian man that is pretty funny though (one time he ran out of class really suddenly, and when he came back he explained that he just had to pee really badly lololol). The exams were difficult and you have to memorize a lot of the material in detail.

Honestly it’s not a hard class at all if you listen to his lectures and memorize his PowerPoint slides. If you do that you can easily get an A. I didn’t because for the first half of the course I was completely spaced out and barely studied so I totally effed up on the midterm, but the second half of the class I listened and memorized his slides and got an A on the final. As long as you can memorize a lot, you’re fine.