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Chien-Ling Zeleny
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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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Winter 2021 - Professor Zeleny is great! She is super nice and her class is enjoyable. It does require some reading and group work, but it was nothing super time-consuming and I say it was fair for a 4.0 unit course. You basically have a group project and she assigns a topic and she gives you time to work on it throughout the quarter. She is also really helpful if you're struggling with your group research! I really liked this class and I would recommend it!
Winter 2021 - Professor Zeleny is great! She is super nice and her class is enjoyable. It does require some reading and group work, but it was nothing super time-consuming and I say it was fair for a 4.0 unit course. You basically have a group project and she assigns a topic and she gives you time to work on it throughout the quarter. She is also really helpful if you're struggling with your group research! I really liked this class and I would recommend it!
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Winter 2026 - This is such an easy class! She's an amazing professor and is so helpful. I recommend this class to any major looking to take an "easy" upper-division course. There were no exams or essays in the class. The final was a group project, which was easy. We only had two low-stakes quizzes, each with five questions. To study, you just needed to do the episode notes, which are homework assignments.
Winter 2026 - This is such an easy class! She's an amazing professor and is so helpful. I recommend this class to any major looking to take an "easy" upper-division course. There were no exams or essays in the class. The final was a group project, which was easy. We only had two low-stakes quizzes, each with five questions. To study, you just needed to do the episode notes, which are homework assignments.
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