I thought I was going crazy or something til I read these recent reviews. I took this class this fall due to the good reviews on this site. I'm guessing TAs wrote those to encourage people to take this class or something, because for one -- I have never attended lectures more un-engaging, and two -- this is NOT an easy GE. Yes, it's concerning art, and it is a GE, so it should be easy, but this class is taken way too seriously. The homework is impossible to read. Top marks received in this class are Bs. You can follow directions and still fail. The reviews left on how the ridiculous the final was were accurate. Your life has to absolutely revolve around art history if you want to get a decent grade in this class. Probably gonna have to get my grade expunged from my record. Do not take.

She sucks so much. This class is way too much work for a GE. So much memorization, whatever you do, do NOT take this class. You will regret it

I regret taking this class. You have to memorize in total about 70 different artworks (35 for the midterm and 35 for the final), the artist, the patron, the date, the location, context, and specific details of every single one. This wouldn't be a problem if you were given the lists more in advanced instead of a few days before the final. Lecture was incredibly boring. The professor just spoon feeds you information for an hour and fifteen minutes. She tries way too hard to sound eloquent, often times pausing to find a good word. She often has leaps in logic, as she makes a claim but poorly explains it or doesn't at all. The readings were confusing. It's much better to use online sources for contextualizing the artworks. But you are expected to have one page notes each time you go to discussion.

This is NOT an easy GE so if that’s what you’re looking for keep it moving. The midterm and final are graded harshly and require a lot of memorization. The material of the class is interesting but not worth the 4 in class essays that you have to write for the final.

This class tries way too hard to be taken seriously, and it is shown in the exams. Most art history classes have usual slide comparisons and art critiques but professor Wilson apparently feels like that isn't enough. So she slaps together 35 paintings/sculptures/monuments and makes students not only respond to 2 slide comparisons but also 2 FREE RESPONSE ESSAYS??? Are you serious? Do not take this class with this professor. I can confidently say that anybody who rated this professor above a 2 just lied. Not to mention that the grading on the exams is extremely unforgiving as well.

Not sure what all these other reviewers are on, but I found prof. Wilson inCREDIBLY boring. She can listen to herself analyze 2 artworks for 45 minutes, no joke. The weekly homework isn't so but, but people failed to mention the INSANE expectations for the midterm and final. The midterm is 2 in class essays, each comparing 2 artworks selected for us. Keep in mind she gives us a list of objects we might see on the test, but that list has 30-35 objects!!! So basically to study we need to memorize the artist, date, location, patron, and historical context of over thirty pieces.

Then for the final there are FOUR IN CLASS ESSAYS. We have another 2 comparison essays with a whole new list of 35 objects to know. Then we have 2 more free response questions that we can choose 2 of 6 prompts.

Just warning you now, this is not an easy class solely because of the tests.

If you are a STEM major looking for an art course to satisfy your GEs, DO NOT take this class. This class is not supposed to require prior experience, which was exactly my situation, but it put me behind everyone else in the class by so much. Perhaps its just the logical STEM major in me, but this class made no sense to me and was extremely frustrating all quarter long. I do think Professor Wilson is kind and patient and wants the best for her students, but personally, I found her lectures to be contradictory and her tests to be insane: about 30 minutes to write an essay that should be beautiful & fully cohesive. I actually think I am a pretty good writer, just unfamiliar with writing about the material, and I struggled a lot, so if you are not a good writer, and if you don't like "interpreting" and "exploring" and "analyzing" art, maybe do yourself a favor and look for other classes.

But if you are a North Campus student, this might be a great class for you! The instructors I encountered were all pretty friendly, so you might find this class fantastic. I took this class with North Campus friends and they seemed to really enjoy it.

I wouldn't recommend this class for an easy GE, and if you don't like art history, do not take this class. You need to go to lecture in order to do well on exams. I didn't think lecture was too bad, but I was also slightly interested in the content, and I think if I didn't like it I would not be able to sit through class. You don't really need to do the reading, I never did it and just went to lecture which covered a lot of the exam material, but it also goes over material from lecture. The midterm and final exams were also very difficult and a TON of writing and memorization. I think Prof. Bronwen means well and wants to help out her students, but this class is mainly designed only for art history people.

yeah I'm that stem major who took this class as a GE and took that L. I think this class could be easy if you're knowledgeable with the Bible figures symbolisms and know how to write essays. but if you're not familiar with Christianity and/or essay writing makes you stay up until 4am procrastinating in pain, be ready to drop.

Readings were pretty useless and I wasted a lot of time trying to slog through those only to give up halfway through the quarter. Lectures were pretty boring and Professor Wilson would bring up a lot of interesting points about an art piece and then just never mention/expand upon those points again. Exams felt like AP Lit or Lang tests (a part of my life I would much rather forget) because of all the on-demand essays. I was really excited for this class at the beginning of the quarter because I like art history, but by the end it was just painful.