Professor Dover is very passionate, kind, and does her best to help you succeed. The only book that you need for the class is The Republic by Plato in which she provides or you can buy a book on Amazon for $10. The basic structure of the class was 3 reading responses in which you relate the book to your life, experiences, movies, etc., and one final project which is a paper dialogue of your own script that relates to arguments in the book. Lecture really consisted of Dover going over concepts and arguments in The Republic and basically explaining it more. I think if you are interested in philosophy you'll enjoy this class, but for me I was super bored. Most students start skipping lecture by the end, but just for reference lectures aren't recorded. So overall I would say this is a pretty easy class for a GE since there's no midterm and the final is a paper, but you do have to make sure you know roughly what's going on in order to write the dialogue project and reading responses.