She's awesome! Super interesting lectures, and she makes the material easy to understand. You can tell she wants her students to succeed, and designs the class to make this happen! Definitely take her!

Tamsin is the best!! This is definitely a solid GE to take and a pretty easy class. Finished with an A but you definitely have to pay attention in lecture. Just graded on quizzes (which you can take as many times as you want) and the weekly tests. They werent too bad but can be lecture heavy so take good notes and focus on tests.

She is such a responsible and caring professor! Learning comes really naturally with her fun lectures and engaging course material. She also drops two lowest quiz grades out of eight so if you listen to lectures and take thoughtful notes you would definitely get a good grade. Take advantage of her office hours as they could be really helpful

Professor German is a great teacher. Her lectures are super relaxed and interesting. She gives little breaks in between lecture topics, so actually paying attention is easier. There are two quizzes a week, but they're not timed and you can take them as many times as you want. One test a week, open note, very easy. Easy GE.

Professor German is such a gem! Her lectures are engaging and fun, but also extremely interesting and they make me excited to go to class. She is so so great you should take her class!

All of Professor German's lectures are extremely interesting and you can tell she loves what she teaches. Her presentations are engaging while also teaching you everything you need to know for the class, and I genuinely look forward to her classes and would take another. Tests and quizzes are open note but still require you to understand material.

My favorite professor by far, made me switch my major to psychology after just 2 weeks of her intro to psych class. She is so kind and makes lectures very fun by showing cat videos before each one and giving us 5 minutes breaks in between the units of the lecture. No midterm or final, just weekly exams that are very passable. 100/10 would recommend

By far one of the top best professors in the PBS department. She is so caring, welcoming, and really enthusiastic to interact with. I took both of her PSY 145 and PSY160 courses and based on my experience she teaches beautifully. Her exams are transparent and no way tricky. No lie Im going to miss taking her classes. Trust me take her classes!

Took this class in the fall and she was amazing! DEF will take another of her classes. She offers extra credit opportunities. Quizzes were timed but reasonable and open note, the material was straight off of lectures and readings so you have to do the work to do well. She hosts review sessions before quizzes and she is very kind and genuine.

Professor German makes her async lectures fun and interesting with lots of videos. She shows a cat video of all her kittens at the beginning of each one. She is super caring and considerate because of covid and really cares about her student's well being. There are frequent but easy-ish assignments, text book online. Great prof, learned cool stuff.

She was so flexible throughout the quarter and was just overall a very caring person.

8 prerecorded lectures each week each about 15 mins long each. Theres one 20q mc exam every week. Theres readings but I did fine without needing to buy the $50 book. No final. You can choose to participate in a study throughout the quarter or write a 2 pg paper but its only 2% so I did neither. Shes very accommodating too. Section takes attendance

BEST professor ever. Would 100% take another class taught by her. Very understanding. Hosts office hours to review before weekly exams that are very helpful. Pretty straightforward class. Highly recommend this class as a GE or just for credit. Textbook is online. Section attendance mandatory. Watch the lectures and do the readings to get an A.

Prof. German is an amazing teacher! This class has weekly tests based on two reading chapters, which ended up being a lot of work. Her tests are also slightly confusing wording wise but wasnt terrible. She modified some aspects halfway through the quarter after feedback, which was really nice.

One of my favorite professors at UCSB. Tamsin is a fantastic teacher and person. In PSY 1 if you read the textbook material and watch the lecture then take the online CYU quizzes you will you well on the weekly exams. THERE IS NO FINAL! She is very understanding even though this is a huge group of students and a stressful class to run. Love her.

Personal favorite prof out of the classes I've taken online. Super caring & understanding, make up exams are open with no questions asked. Tests based off reading and lectures. Lectures are interesting, book is most of the same stuff so can skim and do well. No final, lowest quiz is dropped.

Online learning has been a disaster but this was the only class I looked forward to attending. German puts a lot of effort into her lectures and I found them all to be incredibly engaging and easy to understand. I feel like I learned a lot. She gives great opportunities to prepare for the test and has been very accommodating during this time.

Professor German is amazing. She is incredibly passionate about Psychology and that only makes learning in her class easier. She pre-recorded her lectures which was very helpful and she made herself available. With weekly tests and no midterm or final, this was a very well structured class. I highly, highly recommend!! She is incredible.

anyone who says this class is hard didnt put in enough work. Im the type of person who likes an easy class w an easy A and have been fortunate enough to do the bare minimum and still get an A in HS but for this class, I had to do a fair amount of work. but its college so its expected. shes great! take this class. very interesting!

This class was my least favorite and for good reason. The professor is not helpful outside of lecture because when I email her about my issues she doesn't respond to them at all. It's honestly so rude and uncaring of her, I had genuine questions or concerns and she doesn't even respond at all. This class was not good and I would not take it again.

I took this class as a GE, and I am so glad I did. Prof German is great! Shes understanding if you miss tests or can't make it to your section. Readings & lectures are fair, if you do both and have decent reading comprehension skills you'll get at least a B. Tests are straight from the readings/lectures. + The content you learn is SO interesting!

Honestly, I have mixed feelings. A good thing about this class is that if you put time and work in, easy A. However, that is only if you have a LOT of time. Very reading heavy class, bit of disorganized lectures, and hard exams. The professor comes across as rude in her emails and I've only emailed her 3 times in the quarter. Not bad but not good.

Exams Are Tough

I loved this class. Everyone who says the tests are super hard doesn't know how to take application based tests. Yes it is reading heavy, but I just take brief notes and watch the lectures and I have gotten an A on every test. I find the material super interesting! Please don't be discouraged and take this class if you are interested at all in psy