the readings you have to read before each lecture in this class are insanely dull and random, and are like 80 pages each. the general structure of this class is easy to grasp, but the class in general is just a pain. professor cattelino is very sweet, but sometimes her lectures don't connect and are just confusing. overall, there are definitely better GEs to take, but if you end up with this class, it's not the end of the world.

Just a bit boring honestly, but she is one of the kindest professors I have had! Very helpful! Very easy to grasp concepts.

Professor Cattelino is very kind, considerate, and accommodating. The only assignments were weekly low-stakes quizzes (super easy as long as you pay attention to the lectures) which consisted of multiple choice questions and one short-response question (which may or may not rely on the readings for the week) and two term papers which were a little challenging to start, but the professor and TAs were very helpful and gave lots of feedback on how to write them. As someone who is not a social science major, I found this class to be an overwhelming amount of reading, but were usually thought provoking and interesting. In addition to the required texts for the course, a VPN is required for most readings. I would say the actual content of the course isn't difficult but the reading is dense.