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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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Summer 2024 - I understand why Prof. Zeleny wanted us to understand how to use online resources and how to properly interact with different forms of information, but the fact that we only focused on that makes this being a history class feel very misleading. It should be an online research class or archival studies class instead. We learn next to nothing about history, and that is why I signed up for this class. The assignments are easy and simple, and she is a very forgiving grader, but anyone who is hoping to learn anything about the history of medicine with Zeleny (as I was) will be sorely disappointed. The content really has no relation to history besides the name.
Summer 2024 - I understand why Prof. Zeleny wanted us to understand how to use online resources and how to properly interact with different forms of information, but the fact that we only focused on that makes this being a history class feel very misleading. It should be an online research class or archival studies class instead. We learn next to nothing about history, and that is why I signed up for this class. The assignments are easy and simple, and she is a very forgiving grader, but anyone who is hoping to learn anything about the history of medicine with Zeleny (as I was) will be sorely disappointed. The content really has no relation to history besides the name.
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