HIST 179A
Variable Topics in History of Medicine
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Fall 2024 - I often felt very frustrated in this class. Zeleny is clearly very smart and knowledgeable, but her lectures lack cohesion and are very difficult to follow. She would frequently start one idea and abandon it mid-sentence. The written class materials she provides are often riddled with grammatical errors. The work in this class was mostly busywork relating to image and document sourcing. This course does not require you to learn many real historical events or movements. Your final is a group project setting up a website page on Scalar with a visual essay with a collection of curated images and theme. That part was fun, but the course spent too long teaching how to use the cropping tool in Canvas instead of actual historical analysis. TL;DR -- it's an easy A but you might rip your hair out over how banal it is.
Fall 2024 - I often felt very frustrated in this class. Zeleny is clearly very smart and knowledgeable, but her lectures lack cohesion and are very difficult to follow. She would frequently start one idea and abandon it mid-sentence. The written class materials she provides are often riddled with grammatical errors. The work in this class was mostly busywork relating to image and document sourcing. This course does not require you to learn many real historical events or movements. Your final is a group project setting up a website page on Scalar with a visual essay with a collection of curated images and theme. That part was fun, but the course spent too long teaching how to use the cropping tool in Canvas instead of actual historical analysis. TL;DR -- it's an easy A but you might rip your hair out over how banal it is.
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