Emily Cohen-Shikora

2 or less hrs/week

super chill easy A never went to class never read textbook only ended with an A- bc I forgot to do some of the work but literally skated by in this class. Plus Cohen-Shikora is like the nicest ever!

12/2/2024

2 or less hrs/week

Pretty easy, don’t really need to do any work except for study for the exams, which are pretty easy.

5/22/2024

2 or less hrs/week

sooooo hard. took it in the spring after hearing it was super easy but i regretted it

5/18/2024

2-4 hrs/week

The exams were SO HARD. Class average was a 70 on the first few exams. Mandatory attendance Iclickers, but learning checks are easy/completion. 2-4 hours/week to account for exam prep

5/18/2024

Prof. C-S is a very caring professor. Her lectures are clear and engaging. She's very accessible both in and out of class, responds quickly to emails, and answers questions clearly and concisely. Workload is quite reasonable.nnMy only complaint is that she didn't do more of the lecturing in the FYP!

2/6/2024

Prof Cohen-Shikora was great in psych stats. A good AN class for non math people. Lectures are easy to follow, recorded, and slides posted. Lots of little assignments and quizzes that are easy 100s if done on time, can be easy to forget. Prof wants students to succeed and is available outside of class. Would recommend.

12/27/2023

Easy A. I stopped going to lectures after a while, and studied the slides that she posted. Great teacher based on the lectures I did attend. Four tests overall, and they are pretty straightforward.

5/21/2023

Excellent professor! Lectures are clear and engaging, and she somehow manages to make stats a bit fun. Pace is very slow at first (spends 2 weeks explaining means), but speeds up by the end. Don't bother with reading textbook - just take notes and do assignments, and she makes it quite easy to get an A! Exams are easy as long as you study.

12/28/2022

I love Dr. CS! She's fun, engaging, and makes the material very understandable. I had her for the paired stats-experimental classes, and I highly recommend it. Made stats 100% easier (I dropped it last semester), and experimental was easy but rewarding. Very complex ideas made to feel super simple because of how well they were explained.

10/12/2022

Cohen-Shikora is one of the kindest and most genuine professors at WashU. I've had her for multiple semesters, and she's engaging, smart, and grades very fairly. She also goes out of her way to help students. Experimental psych isn't easy, but it's also a very reasonable class if you keep up with the workload.

4/7/2022

Cohen-Shikora was the saving grace of FYP. Her lectures were the only ones that made sense and kept me engaged. She seems very nice and her discussion sections were pretty fun. The feedback she gives on papers is kinda unhelpful but besides that she's a fine professor for lectures/ tests. I think she would do really well in a different class.

1/2/2022

She's an amazing lecturer and really tries her best to make sure students fully understand the material. She even reviews topics from the previous lecture in almost every new lecture, and offers extra credit to help boost your grade! One of the best professors I've had so far.

12/25/2021

Dr. C-S is such a kind, caring professor. Stats isn't the most thrilling class, obviously, but she tries her best to make it as engaging as possible. Dr. C-S thoroughly explains each concept and does lots of helpful example problems in class. She's really dedicated to setting students up to succeed and is always ready to help in office hours!

12/24/2021

you get out what you put in. not the most interesting class you will ever take, but you will definitely do well if you put in the work

5/2/2019

She's a nice lady and is very helpful. Follows the textbook pretty closely but gives us recommended problems which is nice. She works out problems by hand in front of the class which is helpful as well. The latter part of the class I felt was a bit rushed. I would recommend taking her class!

2/23/2019

She goes over easy material in excruciating detail and rushes through the difficult content, but does make herself accessible outside of class if you need help. This is about as good as it gets for a required class for a major.

12/6/2018

A very rote-memorization professor. Puts in effort to drum up enthusiasm, but definitely falls flat often. That being said, basic statistics isn't the most abstract and conceptual subject, and I walked away knowing how to conduct hypothesis testing and such. Existence of 5 midterms are really annoying, but it's hard to fail the class.

1/11/2018

Cohen- Shikora does a good job of making a pretty boring subject matter somewhat interesting. Her class is test heavy, 5 test including the final, and also has 3 computer assignment and chapter quizzes. You can not go to the class and survive but going to the lectures and doing the quizzes is the best way to do well.

11/14/2017

Pretty good class, kind of boring, not too much else to say. Beware, the class starts out VERY slow (as in how to calculate a mean) but it ramps up to a normal level by the 3rd exam. Definitely take it with Cohen-Shikora if you can, very nice, gives good examples, recognizes most people don't really like stats that much.

12/18/2016

Experimental is kind of boring, but she does her best to make it interesting, and the experiment we performed as a class was pretty neat. Schedule for the class is weird - no work for weeks at a time and then you're suddenly swamped. She's a good lecturer and explained things very well.

12/18/2016