Shawna Saponjic - San Diego State University

Professor: Shawna Saponjic
Department: Psychology
College: San Diego State University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
No extra credit and no room for error. Your overall score depends mainly on exams and the lab. Shawna made 13 free response for the (timed) Final which was absurd. Study examples or you'll lose points. I was fortunate enough to get Xavier as my TA or I'd give a lower rating. Barely passed for my major req and I'm Honors. Take at your own risk.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
APA writing and online is easy it's the class design that's hard. Lectures were dry, examples confusing. I relied on YouTube tutorials to pass. Also Shawna is a tough grader on activities and exams. Don't expect to pass on just quizlet. TAs will make or break, so get approval on your work before turning in. Overall my least favorite class at SDSU.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Barely got an A, prepare to be stressed. There are 2 syllabus, lab & course with different due dates, very confusing. Dr Sap's presence is minimal & vid lectures included her birds chirping in the background, very annoying. Class feels self-taught & her timed Final had over a dozen free response, almost all required examples. Def take someone else.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PSY351
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
This course was super interesting!! All asynchronous with lectures. Structured into modules with assignments for each, dbs, and personality assessments but they are easy and pretty fun. Very easy to follow along in lectures and easy to pass if you simply just watch lectures and do the work. Tests were pretty easy if you watched lectures.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
The structure of her class was so nice. While online it was completely asynchronous. The lecture material itself was not that difficult but if you are unfamiliar with APA writing I can see how the lab could be confusing if you do not have the right TA. Overall the lectures were super easy to understand, weekly hw but it is easy and based of lecture
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I really wanted to love this class, unfortunately, the professor was absent and we basically had to learn from the TA's. I wish the professor would have been more present we would have learned more than we did. TA's just read off of PowerPoint. They haven't developed the teaching strategies so everyone was constantly confused. terrible experience
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: PSY101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Really good professor, gave clear lectures and made it easy to adapt to online zoom lectures as a 1st year. Homework wasnt difficult as well as the discussion posts.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: PSY351
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Super easy GE. 5 exams with about 4 homework assignments, 4 quizzes, and a discussion board in between each. All online and very easy. Exams were open note and straight out of lectures, and most of the questions were online. Interesting class, and an easy A (online at least).
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: PSY101
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I love Professor Saponjic! I took her PSY101 class along with PSY296 and I loved both classes! I had Qianna as a TA and she was just as great! Both instructors give great examples throughout the course, and you can tell that they both genuinely care for their students. PSY 296 definitely helped my grade! Take both of their classes!
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: PSY100
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Such a gem of a professor! Would send us check-in videos of her and her pets each week and I thought that was truly adorable and sweet. Lectures are prerecorded to watch on your own time & super easy to follow! I took this class with PSY296 & it was amazing! Learned a lot from her. Makes study guides for each test so no surprises. Take her!!
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH301
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Class is easy, but everything is graded by the TA. Teaches you like you don't know how to read/write an APA paper. She breaks them down into parts (Intro, methods.. etc) with zoom lectures showing you how do it. If a TA tells you one thing, a different TA will dock you points for it. Emphasis using past tense, every violation cost you -.25 points.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: PSY101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I took PSYCH101/296 and its my first year. This professor made it so easy to adapt to fully online for the semester. I felt at ease in her class, everything was so well organized and clear. Mostly use mindtap for everything and assignments are minimal and spread out. Love this prof!
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Saponjic has an amazing class format that breaks down each part of the APA paper to where you can learn how to write one like the back of your hand. She does not go out of her way to make the class more difficult than it needs to be, and I appreciate her teaching style. I switched from PSY410 to her 301 class and finally felt like I could succeed!
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: PSY230
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Very easy online class. Exams were a large part of the grade but were simple and multiple choice. The only free response was a weekly discussion post.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: PSY230
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I took this class in summer and let me just say that this was such an EASY course. We went through "Cengage" which is where we did the assignments. There were 2-3 modules assigned per week and a discussion board. Each module had terms review, answering research questions (multiple choice) and a module quiz. There are also weekly exams 50 questions.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Amazing professor! Take her for 301! She made the material completely attainable in the middle of a pandemic and transitioned the class so well! The TA makes a difference on the lab portion but the lectures were always easy to grasp with saponjic!
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Lectures are so boring. Reading off pp word for word. Her sentences ends in "right" and it can be so annoying. But her exams are ok. Her TA W.G. is an unfair grader. He marks you off for teeny tiny irrelevant punctuations as if he has nothing else to do in life. Your grades will be in limbo with this TA. Take another prof. and TA
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Really nice lady. She does a good job of relating key ideas from textbook to lecture, always willing to answer questions from students. Enjoyed going to class and felt like she was a professor that cares.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: PSY101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Professor Saponjics class was pretty alright. I liked her lectures. She provides the slides online and she uses them for the lessons. Make sure to review your notes for pop quizzes because those count. Do every extra credit paper because those count too. Those honestly make or break your grade. Overall it wasnt a class I struggled with hw-wise.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: PSY301
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
This class is boring and the material can get hard, but she made the class more fun. You really gotta work for an A. She reads word for words on the slides but just listen and copy down her examples because they're helpful. Have to write 2 APA papers in lab but you work on each section of the lab each week, but pretty easy. One group project.
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