Final Comments

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the class. The topic itself, "Psychology of Social Media," was what grabbed my attention in the first place. It seemed and was an interesting topic. I loved that your teaching style involved many examples of videos and blogs and wished more professors would implement that into their lectures. A lot of teachers will just lecture on and on and have just words up on their PowerPoint which loses a lot of peoples’ attention. So the videos and examples were a nice way to keep the lecture interesting and refreshing. I also enjoyed that you included a lot of class discussion in your course where you interacted with us, challenged us, and had us interact and discuss with each other as well instead of just lecturing the entire time. This was a nice change of pace and allowed us to hear other peoples’ opinions and perspectives and also let us voice our own opinions.

One thing I didn’t enjoy were the books that you selected for us to read. I can honestly say that I didn’t enjoy any of them. I don’t know if it was just because they were hard to follow or what, but it was a struggle trying to read through and understand them. One thing that I would recommend to help better the course is to add more psychology. I understand that we connected a lot of psychology with social media but I felt that we barely scratched the surface. Maybe look more into how social media can cause addiction or increase narcissism on the cellular level (I’m a biology, pre-med major so maybe I am being a little bit bias). Our weekly assignments such as posting an article on Facebook, tweeting, and writing a blog seemed like just busy work but I understand the necessity of it.

I really did enjoy the class and took a lot away from it. It has definitely made me look at social media in a different way and in some ways, has made me appreciate it a little more. Thank you for teaching this class and I hope you have a wonderful summer.