Knowledgeable, passionate, and cares about her students! Graded only on 3 exams, 2 projects, and Discussion participation. Covers fairly simple material on the posted lecture slides, but worth attending lectures only to take notes on specific studies about concepts, which are asked on exams. I only used the readings for evidence for the projects.

Great professor! Easy to do well in the class if you pay attention to lectures and go to discussion.

Exams are tough but all of the materials came from the lectures. Lectures are not mandatory, but unnecessarily missing them is going to be a pain in the ass. Key tip: Pick Rudy's discussion class, and your grade will be saved. Meet him outside of classes, and ask him for feedback on your papers.

The concepts discussed in class are very easy to understand. However, the tests ask you to recall and explain specific examples and research studies discussed in lecture, so make sure you attend lecture, write down almost everything Vaid says; not just what's on the slides, and study a lot for exams. I got an A without doing any of the readings.

Clear, concise lectures. LOTS of research examples given, can seem overwhelming, but its doable. Seems to genuinely want students to do well. Project criteria clearly spelled out. She stops lectures to ask for questions. Discussions werent as useful as I had hoped.

I hear a lot of complaining about this class and I don't get it. Attend lecture, take notes on what's NOT on the slides, then use print outs of the PP slides to fill in that information later. If you try to copy down everything she puts on the slides and nothing else, you'll miss a lot. This is college, people. Do the rdgs to ace multiple choice.

Ridiculously hard. Attending lectures and discussions is pointless in terms of exam preparation. If grades arent curved at the end of the semester theres going to be a lot of negative feedback on here.

The grading criteria is painfully unclear, the lectures are frankly a waste of time (my grade went up when I stopped attending them), and the discussion section activities do not help with learning the concepts at all (she orchestrates them). She also insults students' intelligence by overexplaining simple stuff yet doesn't define important terms.

The professor makes this class really interesting even when the topics could be kinda eh. She really cares about participation and attendance, but she is also reasonable and it seems like she genuinely wants her students to succeed. Def take her class, so much relevant info to learn from her and the material. Also very well prepared.

Prof. Vaid is an extremely knowledgeable and well prepared professor. You will have to read quite a bit (she posts PDFs and links) and she makes this class 50% lecture 50% discussion. You have to read to know what to say and to write synthesis' on them. She has always been super accessible outside of class, and tries to makes lectures engaging.

Horrible. Professor is unapproachable, rude and lacks basic teaching skills. You could copy down every slide word for word and read the textbook front to back and still fail. She tests students on random, offhanded comments she makes throughout the semester, rather than the actual material we've been learning. Doesn't provide any sort of exam prep.

I cannot stress how unbelievably difficult this class is. The material itself isn't necessarily difficult, but the exams ask very specific questions from things Vaid barely mentions in lecture. Lectures are bland & Vaid isn't the best professor. She vaguely describes each concept then asks challenging questions on exams. Do not take.