Kim Cronise

This course was very interesting and the exams were very fair. Sometimes the course could feel somewhat slow and boring. However, I feel like I learned a tremendous amount of material in this class that will be very helpful in future classes. Also, Professor Cronise is very accommodating with any needs or concerns you may have. She also uses powerpoint to follow along with in class which is very helpful! There is also a final project at the end which is very engaging and I had a lot of fun with.

This course was very interesting and the exams were very fair. Sometimes the course could feel somewhat slow and boring. However, I feel like I learned a tremendous amount of material in this class that will be very helpful in future classes. Also, Professor Cronise is very accommodating with any needs or concerns you may have. She a …Read more

Professor Cronise was one of the more unaccommodating professors I have had at my time here. Despite my initial interest in the content material, I found the lectures to be a direct repeat of the readings with a much slower pacing. So while I thought the content of the class was much easier, the exams, that are divided into a multiple choice and written portion, were held to a much higher level of difficulty and complexity covered in lecture.

Professor Cronise was one of the more unaccommodating professors I have had at my time here. Despite my initial interest in the content material, I found the lectures to be a direct repeat of the readings with a much slower pacing. So while I thought the content of the class was much easier, the exams, that are divided into a multipl …Read more

Professor Cronise is a character for sure. I took this Emotions class as one of the core classes for the Psychology major, and at first, I was interested and excited for the class. However, as the semester progressed, I realized that this class was more of a burden than it was a learning experience, for a multitude of reasons. I believe that Professor Cronise purposefully makes the exams difficult to an almost unattainable standard. The exams are usually 35 multiple choice and then an essay portion afterwards (around 1,500 words), all done with a short time limit. What I found unfair is that her multiple choice is mainly based on textbook readings more than class material in itself. For the essay portion, her standards were not always clear. She tried to make them clear with posting "perfect responses", but she ultimately gets to decide how she wants to grade, which isn't consistent with the standards she posted. Even if you go to her office hours and ask for advice on how to do better, you probably still won't see a drastic improvement in your grade. I implemented her feedback and would just get a worse score. I would then ask what I had done wrong, and she would say I just missed some small things, but those small things were a deduction of like 20% to her. I honestly wonder if she grades harshly so that people just go and talk to her about the content, which feels unfair because as students we have other classes to worry about as well. The classes also felt repetitive and redundant after a certain point (which still didn't make things easier surprisingly). Additionally, the homework were a lot of videos that were usually 25-30 mins long with questions that took forever to answer sometimes. I also think this class was heavily based on neuroscience, and I wish I had just taken cognitive psychology for a more psychology-based class. Take this class with caution, but I did learn some things. Just don't know if it's worth it overall.

Professor Cronise is a character for sure. I took this Emotions class as one of the core classes for the Psychology major, and at first, I was interested and excited for the class. However, as the semester progressed, I realized that this class was more of a burden than it was a learning experience, for a multitude of reasons. I beli …Read more