Susan D. Waldman

Dr. Waldman is a waste of time. She needs to find a new career. For some reason SFSU kept her on, I can't figure out why. She can't focus on a point, she jumps around all over the place, and has no structure to the class at all. Waldman's tests are thrown together 5 mins before the exam with misspellings, slanted copies, and repeats of the same questions. There is no real way to prepare for the exams, because she doesn't even know what she is going to test you on until the day of. I was actually excited to take the class for knowledge of behavioral probs. of children, and I basically self taught with the book throughout the entire semester. Puts info on ereserve, but it doesn't really do much to help you. Also, after a whole semester in the same classroom, she still struggles to turn the lights on and off ?!?!? If you can avoid her class, do yourself a favor!

In addition to the class lectures and notes, study material is put on electronic reserve in the library. Assignments and extra credit opportunities are interesting. Very warm and friendly personality. Uses real life examples to explain problems.

tests were only 30 questions which does not give you much room for error. waldman is a bit scattered. the syllabus needs to be retyped as well as her book report guidelines and spell check should be used. we never saw our ta other than a few times (3or4). waldman is not the worst teacher you could get, but she certainly isn't the best. i'd recommend cookston if you have a choice of classes.

I am genuinely mystified by the poor reviews of Dr. Waldman. I was afraid to take her class based on those reviews, but I'm so glad that I did! Her lecture style is fine, very conversational. She covers a lot of really interesting material and will let class discussion go on for as long as she dares, but at some point she has to cut it off.

Dr. Waldman gives lots of extra credit opportunites. There is a multiple choice scantron quiz with some written short answer questions every three/four weeks. There is one paper, a book review, and no real midterm or final exam, just the next test in line.

She is empathetic, kind, generous, and a lovely person. Take her class, you won't be sorry.

I really enjoyed Dr. Waldman's class. I found her ideas, thought process and speaking style to be engaging and intelligent. She is not the kind of teacher who insults your intelligence by over-explaining fundamental concepts. She also teaches with a style that assumes the *most* of her students. She frequently talks about career and graduate school preparation. She thinks highly of her students and genuinely accepts and enjoys discussing new ideas and theories.

I highly recommend this class. Dr. Waldman clearly has a profound practical and academic understanding about what she teaches.

The class offers you a lot of reading material that you really dont use during class time. But if you decide to read it you can learn alot. The class doesn't require too much note taking if any at all, it is all given to you in the reading material she has lumped togethter. There are NO tests. Who doesnt like that. Just show up. The class was full on the first day and was pretty light near the end. Just go to the class and you wont get anything less than an "A". The is one group presentation that is low pressure and is hard to screw up. She is just happy that you have tried. The lectures were sometimes dry, maybe enough to scatter your brain or is maybe a reflection of hers. But they do the job. The films shown in class are...ok. She has this thing with only wanting to show you parts of the movie so most of the time she is fast fowarding through it. Overall I would recommend.

SFSU students seem to be nothing more than sponges, expecting to just sit there in a chair and soak up knowledge without any effort. Dr. Waldman's classes are designed to elicit discussion around controversial dogmas of love. Classroom participation is integral to the success of this class and the study of love. Unfortunately, most of my classmates didn't bother to show up to class and then complained when they didn't understand the final requirements. If the "children" who disliked Dr. Waldman's classes spent as much time on their assignments as they did on complaining, they would have had a more rewarding experience.

Half academic,half personal reflection. I learned a lot. Great reader because it was not just your typical psychobable or pure research stuff. Everything from plato to john cheever to a few pscyh articles. Liked films

enjoyed the class. Teacher is very informative. Lots of information to absorb and she expects you to reach high levels of thinking. A bit unclear at times

PSYC 305 was very frustrating. This course had no coherence whatsoever. She has a course outline that she doesn't follow and everything she said we'd cover at the beginning of the course we didn't cover. Don't expect to learn anything from her. It's a self-exploration class, but her guidance is extremely limited. Waldman is extremely unprofessional - disorganized, unclear. At times her anecdotes and examples are offensive. 70% of your grade is a paper and she doesn't give real grades for homework (check, check-plus, check-minus) so you have little idea of how she grades and where you stand in terms of letter grades. Assignments are often very unclear. There are a few chances for "extra credit". Supposedly an "easy" class but with a paper worth 70% of the grade, who knows what she expects for an A. And Scott the TA is a jacka$$.

ok, i pretty much agree with the majority of reviews i read from her other classes. Waldman is the exact same in psy. 305 except she doesn't give any exams, but made everyone purchase a reader which we had to provide a binder for, assemble the reader ourselves, then end up paying more money because she forgot to print out 20 more pages!!! So it was our responsibility to fork up money for her mistake??? She doesn't intellectually stimulate the class whatsoever!! She is vague in her boring class projects, lacks personality, and needs to groom herself before coming to class. DO NOT TAKE ANY OF HER CLASSES! I was really excited to take this class, but Waldman made my last semester at SFSU very disappointing.

Waldman's class was, by far, the worst class I have ever taken at State. Not only was she consistently late to class, she would spend the first ten minutes of class trying to organize her notes. Her lectures were scattered, though she did try to get the class involved in discussions. Her exams are drawn from the text, which she does not incorporate into her lectures. Spend the time you would normally use going to class and read your text instead. I pulled an A- in her class only because I read. To make matters worse, Fall 01 semester, this class was taught in a 3 hour block. 3 hour lectures are tough enough, but add Waldman's to the mix and it's impossible.

Perhaps in a shorter, twice a week class, she would be a better instructor, but I won't spend my time in a class of hers again.

I have had Dr. Waldman twice now and I've especially enjoyed her Abnormal Psych class. Yes it's true, she can be a bit scattered at times, but she is an excellent teacher and lecturer if you're on top of the reading she gives you. If not, that's your problem because she has a lot of ground to cover in a short period of time, and she does make great use of what little time she has. She utilizes a lot of different and often creative ways to engage her students so that the subject matter is understood and absorbed. I don't understand why people have bashed her. Personally she's one of the best, most challenging professors at SFSU because she does expect her students to really work. There is a lot of reading, but how else are we supposed to learn? HELLO!!!! This is college, people! Time to grow up! Also, she's a very nice woman who is happy to support students in any way she can. She definitely gets a big fat A in my book.

Anyone who likes structure in their classroom, especially from your Prof., should NOT take this class with this teacher. She assigns way too much reading and tests on one specific fact that is totally randomn from the readings. She is not a good lecturer what-so-ever, she CANNOT focus her points. She doesn't write on the board so it is extremely hard to catch her points. During our first exam, she made five verbal anouncements, interrupting the class as we were taking our exam in which we only had 45 minutes. Her exams are overloaded with mispellings, even the copying is crooked. She has no respect for the students and gives us the reading assignment that we'll be tested on only three days before the exam. I hope the chief of staff at SFSU observes these reviews and sends an anonymous person into our class just to see what a terrible experience it is to sit in her class for 45 minutes, much less deal with her for an entire semester! My recommendation to you is to not take her as your Prof., for Abnormal, get into another class with another Prof. and you'll save yourself!!!

If a person is willing to work at exploring the dimensions of personality theory and how a professional might apply these principles to assessment and treatment, then Susan Waldmans class is an appropriate choice. She provides a classroom climate that allows the students to practice applying what they have learned with case study analysis and supplements her lectures with media presentations that realistically illustrate a variety of approaches. Occasionally she seems disorganized as a biproduct of her anxiety to present as much information as possible in the allotted class time. However, considerable emphasis is placed on responsible empirical research and on sound ethical standards. She is sensitive to the broad range in the continuum of what we call normalcy and encourages each student to intuitively evaluate each clinical setting.

Dr. Waldman is very disorganized and she's always looking for something in her stack of papers, and panicks because she can't find it. One time, she even told us she mistakenly took somebody else's (other professor's) test and brought it to class. You can tell she's disorganized when you read her syllubus with many misspelled words, and when she hands out something, they are always printed in a slanted manner. Her tests are not fair...even if you come to every lecture and read the book, she asks you questions that make you wonder where she came up with them. So really there's no way to study for her exams, except for crossing your fingers. I hardly read the book for the first exam and got a solid C, so I considered myself lucky, and then read the book and studied really hard for the next exam and still got a C, so it really doesn't matter whether you read the book or much less come to class. She dresses like a teenage girl (very short skirt, etc.)which at times irritates students. (Her legs are skinny and I know she wants to let the world see them, but she's in her 50's, so it grosses you out.) She also hates to do go out of her way for students. For example, this one girl put her answers on the question paper rather than on her scantron, and she told Dr. Waldman she made a mistake, but Dr. Waldman told the student since she had already instructed to put all anwers on scantron, she wouldn't give her credit. Dr. Waldman thinks all she has to do feed the scantron through the scoring machine, and anything besides that isn't her job. I think that's a sign of arrogance. The only reason I didn't give her an F for this review is because I got a B in her class. If I received a C, I would've definitely given her an F. I don't recommend her for anyone, unless you have a lot of patience with disorganized people.

Dr. Waldman is a very nice woman but she is not very structured and confusing at times. She tries to cover too much material in a very small time frame. The course is very rushed and not a very satisfying learning experience. She is too vague upon lecturing but too specific with testing. I would not recommend taking this professor for this class.