This class was still online for me Fall 2021 with in-person discussions and a few virtual discussions. I was in the virtual discussion.

The class was easy enough. 5 shorts papers with the lowest grade being dropped along with discussion attendance making up your grade. I would definitely take the class again if I could.

Only downside was that the professor did not have the best mic quality and I often felt like someone was screaming in my ear when watching lectures.

The lectures were 100% remote this quarter, and were posted asynchronously. He broke them up into shorter videos, which was very helpful. The lectures can be a bit monotonous at times, and I lost interest in the material towards the end, but overall this class is an easy GE. There are five "quizzes," which are 700 word essays which you have a couple of days to complete. He drops the lowest score, so you can skip on altogether if you want to. I was able to finish the class 2 weeks early because of this, as the final was just the fifth quiz. I found the discussions to be very interesting. I definitely recommend taking this if you're looking for an easy GE with a light workload, it was about half as much work as my other classes.

Professor Schachner is such a cool dude. I loved listening to him lecture. There are three tests (consisting of a few short answer questions) and two short take-home “projects,” and he grades all of these based on his feeling of how well you did. He doesn’t really use points.

Took this while still in online format. Course consisted of 5 exams throughout the quarter, one of which you could drop. Your best four exams were worth 80% and just going to section was 20%. Exams were 2 page short essays that you had three days to complete. Solid GE. Lectures were not very engaging but material was interesting at points. Recommend 100% Schachner a G