Emily Cohen-Shikora

Very engaging and sweet professor. The lectures almost always held my interest and prepared me very well for the exams. Nothing bad to say about her!

5/5/2026

She is the sweetest! Even brought her daughter and a dog into class to demonstrate course concepts. Her lectures are great but the slides are often confusing when using them to study. Exams are pretty specific but all multiple choice. She's really nice and a great for intro to psych!

4/19/2026

Not a fan of her teaching style just not engaging what so ever

3/31/2026

Never really gave good feedback, also get ready for the tests as one bad quiz will set your grade back to be almost unrecoverable. Be weary going into this teachers class.

1/26/2026

Run. .

1/15/2026

She is a great professor, but her classes are pretty test heavy. Your grades on the exams basically dictate your overall grade. However, she is an awesome professor and she knows what she is talking about. Her lectures are very understandable and she explains things in multiple ways so that every gets it. She also gives great in person feedback.

12/16/2025

Dr. C-S is fantastic! She is really nice, always available for questions, and grades like she wants students to succeed. Be warned, her slides don't make much sense if you've missed class, so make sure to be there. Otherwise, a great NSM credit for non-math people.

12/15/2025

Dr. CS was a very passive aggressive teacher. she did not really provide much help with studying for exams and office hours are extremely vague. She is very passive aggressive. When you have questions about content from class she is extremely passive aggressive.

12/12/2025

She's amazing! I loved her for Psych Stats and she's very supportive and encouraging and understanding. She will help you with anything and even just re-explain things if you don't get it right away. Amazing and hilarious individual!

12/11/2025

I was nervous going into this class because I hadn't done any math in a bit, but Dr. CS was an amazing professor and made it one of my favorite classes. Topics were presented clearly and she spent extra time on things that were more confusing. Lectures were engaging with lots of examples. Exams are straight-forward and not surprising.

12/10/2025

Took Psych Stats w/her and was really impressed. The Canvas was extremely organized, expectations clear, and pretty solid lectures. Never really too much HW at all, and although I never talked with her 1-on-1, she seems super approachable and friendly. Not too difficult of a class.

10/9/2025

wasn't clear about grading format and has a different grading point system. tests are pretty straightforward

7/7/2025

Her lectures were clear and provided relevant examples which helped me understand the content better

5/12/2025

I loved professor CS! The content for this course was relatively difficult but very light compared to something like Calc II. If I were to take this class again I would make sure to have stayed on task and focused a little more. The earlier section in the day tend to do better than the later section; its a hr,20min class so make sure to stay awake!

5/11/2025

pretty easy course, Dr. CS makes it easy to succeed -- exams are pretty much just the slides. Psych Stats is NOT common sense tho, so u will need to study on ur own to do well. Class is built similarly to a high school course, content-wise. Very doable, just a bit boring.

5/11/2025

Great lectures with lots of examples. Took time to make sure people understood the topics and gave lots of examples. Love her.

4/18/2025

Dr. Cohen-Shikora is amazing at lecturing and tries to add humor to lectures as well. Although few exam materials, she did provide a practice exam and was available for questions if you had any after class. Overall an amazing professor, definitely would take her again.

3/8/2025

Dr. CS was a nice teacher. However, she did not really provide us with much study tools for our exam. She was really vague on what to study for, so it was really hard for me to pinpoint exam material. Not an awful prof, but definitely could be better.

2/19/2025

Dr. C-S is my absolute favorite professor at WashU! She is incredibly kind, cares about students, and is a great lecturer. Experimental psych with her was great. She gave good feedback and had high expectations, but the class never felt wildly overwhelming. She is a wonderful person and professor.

1/10/2025

I would rate 6 stars if I could! Dr. CS really has a gift for breaking down complicated topics into understandable terms. I'm not a math person but did well. She has a positive attitude and there are lots of ways to boost your grade.

12/19/2024

Professor CS was amazing! I thoroughly enjoyed this class and wished I would have stayed on top of attendance. Though the content can be confusing at times, she does a very good job at explaining things and reviewing them along the way before exams. Not a lot of work outside of class if you attend it! Love professor CS!!

12/13/2024

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

The tests are really hard for this class. She is an interesting lecturer. It was fine just not worth the effort the tests require (over 25 hours of studying the weekend before a test). It was tough but she is an interesting teacher.

5/14/2024

She seems like a good person, but she is very unforgiving on deadlines.

2/13/2024

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. My only complaint is that she didn't do more of the lecturing in the FYP!

2/6/2024

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

The lectures were okay but she had little information on the slides and skipped through them sometimes, regardless I felt as though I had taken thorough notes but the quiz questions were ridiculously difficult compared to the other lecturers. Take this class in the fall if you plan on taking it.

5/3/2023

Great professor that is engaging and delivers clear, concise lectures. The class was relatively difficult, but she made it manageable for everybody. Highly recommend her.

4/20/2023

Dr. Cohen-Shikora is a great professor, her lectures are engaging and she makes it clear as to how you can succeed in the course.

4/17/2023

She loves talking about her own kids and connecting them to themes in the class. Do not hesitate to ask questions, she is pretty engaging. What worked for me to really listen is to sit in front because it is easy to turn this class into background noise.

4/10/2023

I would never take this class again. Everyone in 100B said it was really easy first sem. The quiz averages were high 90s and it was interesting. Professor CS's lectures were pretty good. BUT it seemed to be her goal to keep grades low. The quiz averages were low 80s, and are 90% of your grade. I got a 5 on AP psych, and still had to P/F this.

4/6/2023

Dr. Cohen-Shikora was doing too much at 10am. Her poll everywheres never related to lecture, and then she would end up having to skip over slides for time. The slides were never good, and didn't reflect what was in the textbook. She said quizzes wouldn't be cumulative and then asked mainly questions from early lectures on later quizzes.

3/29/2023

My inspiration, my muse, my campus celebrity, my why washu. Dr CS is the dopest, illest, kindest, loveliest, dankest professor I have ever had at this university. She deserves the world. Very interesting lectures, very engaging, very compassionate. Love her

3/10/2023

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

Was a clear lecturer and made psych interesting and engaging. The structure/format of her lecture slides made navigating my notes for quizzes easy. Outside of class, she's super sweet and cares about her students.

5/20/2022

Dr. CS is very sweet and truly cares about her students. Her lectures are clear, engaging, and easy to follow. Her quizzes were also easy and written well. She is accessible in office hours and answers Piazza consistently. Highly recommend!

5/12/2022

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

ECS is in general a poor lecturer. Skips through the slides way too quickly to take good notes. Then she does not post the slides and makes you sift through the videos. Questions on quizzes are very specifically worded and have lots of technicalities or inconsistencies. Complains about her kids all the time as well.

2/11/2022

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