This class was frustrating at first but ended up okay. Your grade will 100% will depend on your TA. Class consisted of in person lectures monday, async lectures wednesday, and your respective discussion section.

Grade was based on 25% section participation, 25% creative project, 25% "Quiz 1", and 25% "Quiz 2 Essay". Section participation was decided upon by your TA- mine did weekly groups in discussion where you would spend a few minutes collecting notes and turned them in- very easy if you show up. Creative project was part creative project and part short essay- easy if you have a kind TA. Quiz #2 ended up being a short essay which was graded by your TA, but quiz 1 was INSANE. It consisted of 5 MCQ and 15 (FIFTEEN) short answer questions where you had to site one of the readings of lectures in each one and provide significant analysis for your answer. This means fifteen 200ish word answers with evidence you had to find on the spot which was extremely time consuming and taxing (took students about 5-6 hours on average) and you essentially had to do it in one sitting.

Ended up being a chill class even though that quiz was insane, cool subject but the prof. is definitely a bit extreme with pushing her own material and ideas through the class but it was cool to learn about as a whole.

Where do I start with this professor.... the class was all over the place. It was so confusing that no one knew what was going on half the time. This lk caused me more stress than some of my upper divs. The is the most unorganized and poorly managed class because of the professor. On Wednesdays we're supposed to be asynchronous but she didn't know what that meant so she held class on zoom for week 1 until she figured it out. She never got to posting lectures on time and it was always like a week later.

IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE MATERIAL, DON'T TAKE IT WITH THE PROFESSOR. If you don't care and just want an easy A then this is the class for you.

Quiz 1 (week 5) = 25%
Quiz 2 (week 10) = 25%
1 essay/creative piece (due week 7) = 25%
Discussion section participation = 25%

The roll out of quiz 1 was so bad that all the TAs felt bad and graded really really nicely. It was 5 MCQ and 15 FRQ with quotes and evidence required. It took everyone well over 4 hours to complete it. Since the roll out and formatting of quiz 1 was bad for everyone she changed the format of quiz 2 to be a argumentative essay in the format of a letter (3 pages). We had a prompt that we had to respond to and had a few days to turn it in.

This professor is so bad at answering emails and replying at a timely manner. There are people who emailed her during week 5 and never heard a response. She is a nice person but she doesn't know how to run a classroom at all.

All of the grading is done by the TAs so they really are your saving grace. I got a good TA who was understanding of the situation and what's going on so he wasn't too hard and was lenient with assignments. We just had discussion posts we had to answer but I know other TAs required a lot more than that.

My ta was amazing but the professor was pretty uninvolved she would do recorded lectures and sometimes not post them so that’d be tough there was 2 quizzes no final no midterm really good class material is super interesting