Paul Hewitt at University of British Columbia | Rate My Professors (2024)

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• 300A

  Apr 26th, 2024

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  Attendance

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  Textbook

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  Paul is a great guy and he seems like he genuinely cares, however the structure of his classes are non existent, he will spend an 1 hour out of 3 on 1 slide talking about a personal story. Slides often have bare bone info with not much else and he has a heavy bias towards psychodynamic theories. Great guy, terrible terrible prof.

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• PSYC401

  Apr 25th, 2024

  Quality

  2.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

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  Apr 25th, 2024

  For Credit

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  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : A+

  Textbook

  : N/A

  Dr. Hewitt is nice but the class itself is a 3 hour long lecture with only about 30 minutes worth of actual content and the rest just random conversation. The exams are pretty fair but they are pretty much only based off of the readings. The class just feels like it lacks structure and the same things are repeated over and over.

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• PSYC401

  Apr 15th, 2024

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  4.0

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  Apr 15th, 2024

  For Credit

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  Attendance

  : Mandatory

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  : Incomplete

  Textbook

  : N/A

  Extremely biased towards psychoanalysis and barely touches on other orientations. Uses outdated sources (often from the 70s-80s) and doesn't provide any learning objectives or guidance whatsoever. Also gets weirdly confrontational when students ask questions (especially about what to expect on exams). Really regret not withdrawing from this course.

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• PSYCH300

  Apr 3rd, 2024

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  3.0

  PSYCH300

  Apr 3rd, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Material is outdated. Exams & slides are riddled with simple spelling errors. Lectures are unpredictable & unstructured... so exam prep is a crapshoot. Would recommend avoiding his classes.

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  Mar 6th, 2024

  Quality

  2.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PSYC401

  Mar 6th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Confused about his own content. Not following the syllabus, and repeating the same info. Then we are behind.

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• PSYC401

  Feb 9th, 2024

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

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  Feb 9th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Textbook

  : N/A

  VERY biased towards psychoanalysis, constantly disses CBT. Assigns thought-pieces praising Freud with an avg citation from 1970. Slides are so outdated they describe the DSM IV which came out in 1994 and showed data from 2012 to prove psychoanalysis is relevant. You won't learn anything about the contemporary field. Still bad prof without all that

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• 300A

  Feb 25th, 2023

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

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  Feb 25th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : B+

  Textbook

  : Yes

  I would never take his course again. Good presenter and he made the class engaging, but having 33.333% exams * 3 to determine the entire grade is ridiculous:') Literally grind through all chapters he didn't cover in class before each exam. Still received bad grades. Avoid him at any cause.

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• 300A

  Jan 13th, 2023

  Quality

  5.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

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  Jan 13th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A+

  Textbook

  : Yes

  I think the prof was funny and engaging. His over-explained examples were memorable for exams. If you attend his classes and are willing to learn the interesting material from the textbook you should be fine. exams are both lecture and textbook - the last two are more textbook information based. TA gives great study tips! do the group project ;)

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• 300A

  Jan 13th, 2023

  Quality

  5.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

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  Jan 13th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : B+

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Hewitt's a great speaker, but with caveats. His knowledge/experience he gives during lecture is real world & helps put the slides and course content in context. The downside (he is upfront about) is that lecture will not cover all material & textbook reading is necessary to succeed. Grade structure is as good as it gets, only top 3 scores get used.

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  Dec 23rd, 2022

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  300A

  Dec 23rd, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

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  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : B-

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Every rating equal to 2 or below is telling the truth, otherwise any above 2 is capping. My guy skips more lectures than the students. Luckily this years TA was splendid and was helpful, but like come on, my guy skips everyones group project and monitoring the final and leaves the TA alone to proctor the exam.

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• PSYCH300A

  Dec 21st, 2022

  Quality

  2.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PSYCH300A

  Dec 21st, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : Not sure yet

  Textbook

  : Yes

  The class itself is a really interesting course, so if you're interested in the topic, you'll do fine. Grades were determined by 3 tests (test subject is 25% from lectures and 75% from textbook). He tends to ramble on during lectures but they are interesting tangents. Interesting but content heavy course.

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• PSYC401

  Dec 20th, 2022

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  1.0

  PSYC401

  Dec 20th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Textbook

  : N/A

  Easy course but tests were on material not covered or covered after the exams. First lecture he sated "It's not my job to teach. It's my job to research and contribute to scientific knowledge". And he was true to that statement. Slides had dates on them from years ago. Readings are old and not good.

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  Dec 17th, 2022

  Quality

  2.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PSYC401

  Dec 17th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : Not sure yet

  Textbook

  : Yes

  course is comprised of three exams. Every single one of them had content that we never covered or he said he wouldn't test on. Lectures were extremely hard to follow because he wouldn't stick to the set of slides posted on canvas. Not sure how they're allowed to operate this course but its almost like a scam to be honest.

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• PSYC401

  Dec 16th, 2022

  Quality

  4.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PSYC401

  Dec 16th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Textbook

  : N/A

  This isn't a course that will boost most people's GPA (mine included), but in my opinion, it was worth it. I learned so much about what I do and don't want in a graduate program and my career will likely be quite different (and more fulfilling) because of this class. The exams are tough-- read everything provided on Canvas (it's a lot!).

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• 300A

  Dec 12th, 2022

  Quality

  2.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  300A

  Dec 12th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : Not sure yet

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Fun stories but disappointing. Highly disorganized class structure, scant class schedule, and poor slides. Exams were 60-75% outdated textbook material and 25-40% lecture material (with no citations or heavily outdated empirical evidence). Has tendency to interrupt or get defensive with students when they ask questions or express curiosity.

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• PSYCH300A

  Nov 29th, 2022

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PSYCH300A

  Nov 29th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : B

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Do not take a course with this professor! He is a nice person, however, is extremely disorganized and unprofessional. The syllabus was given 2 - 3 weeks after the semester began. Exams were subjective. The lectures were inaccurate and he proposed claims without any empirical evidence. Lastly, he failed to discuss so many psychiatric disorders.

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• PSYC401

  Jan 6th, 2022

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PSYC401

  Jan 6th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Textbook

  : Yes

  He was by far the worst prof I have ever had. Did not care about COVID, did not respond to emails, did not even give us a clear outline of what was expected on tests. The TAs were the same too. while it was a 3 hour long class every week, many lectures were not recorded which made it really difficult. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM!!!!!

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• PSYC401

  Dec 20th, 2021

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PSYC401

  Dec 20th, 2021

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Three tests, worth 33% of our grade each. No indication about what we can expect from them. Literally tested us on content that was on lectures/readings that was scheduled for weeks AFTER the tests. Had the gall to keep the final exam in person despite the Omicron outbreaks and not show up himself. Thanks for endangering us at no cost to yourself.

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• PSYC401

  Dec 20th, 2021

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PSYC401

  Dec 20th, 2021

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Grade

  : F

  Textbook

  : No

  Grades depend on 2 midterms and a final worth 33% each. No study guide or goals for each test. Lots of readings and were really dry. Lecture notes were recycled from 2019. No response during Omicron outbreak until 1 hour before exam stating we can have SD.

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• PSYC401

  Dec 19th, 2021

  Quality

  2.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PSYC401

  Dec 19th, 2021

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Textbook

  : No

  His lectures are ok, shows a lot of videos in class though - however, you have to memorize the slides and do the readings in order to do well in his tests. Worst part was him and his TAs (SG & AK) did not respond to emails the entire semester and did not help at all. No info provided on any of the tests from the beginning, it's been so unclear.

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