AN N EA 14W
Medicine, Magic, and Science in Ancient Times
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: English Composition 3. Overview of history of medicine and sciences, focusing especially on Ancient Near East, China, and Meso-America. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2021 - I'm currently in the middle of editing my final paper for this class so we shall see what my actual final grade is but this has been a very poor integration of writing II and a history GE. I think this is not too horrible workwise but just has sudden periods of an influx of work which can be pretty annoying. I think the content was somewhat interesting and Bonesho's lectures were very digestable and easy to follow as well as the exams weren't too bad but the worst part about the class was the writing II aspect. I think she was just overambitious about trying to incorporate an essay component into this class, I felt like other than a few times in discussion there wasn't really any direction of how to improve our papers or how to be better writers in general. Not to mention, that in general the TAs graded pretty harshly on both drafts of the papers and even if you spent a decent amount time editing your previous paper your grade only goes up by 2-3 points. Honestly, I wouldn't have even been mad at the janky way this class was implemented if the TAs weren't such harsh graders for no reason. I don't know what happened this quarter with this class whether the last set of TAs were replaced completely but at least I can almost guarantee with this current grading scheme there is no way 50% of the class is going to get As like Winter 2020. If she adjust the class to account for the harsh grading of the TAs I will modify my review slightly but doesn't change the fact that this is a history GE class that had a poor attempt of being a writing II.
Winter 2021 - I'm currently in the middle of editing my final paper for this class so we shall see what my actual final grade is but this has been a very poor integration of writing II and a history GE. I think this is not too horrible workwise but just has sudden periods of an influx of work which can be pretty annoying. I think the content was somewhat interesting and Bonesho's lectures were very digestable and easy to follow as well as the exams weren't too bad but the worst part about the class was the writing II aspect. I think she was just overambitious about trying to incorporate an essay component into this class, I felt like other than a few times in discussion there wasn't really any direction of how to improve our papers or how to be better writers in general. Not to mention, that in general the TAs graded pretty harshly on both drafts of the papers and even if you spent a decent amount time editing your previous paper your grade only goes up by 2-3 points. Honestly, I wouldn't have even been mad at the janky way this class was implemented if the TAs weren't such harsh graders for no reason. I don't know what happened this quarter with this class whether the last set of TAs were replaced completely but at least I can almost guarantee with this current grading scheme there is no way 50% of the class is going to get As like Winter 2020. If she adjust the class to account for the harsh grading of the TAs I will modify my review slightly but doesn't change the fact that this is a history GE class that had a poor attempt of being a writing II.
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