Do NOT take this with Cattelino. This class was very boring and your grade depends heavily on your TA. Lots of long weekly readings which do get interesting in the second half but mostly are very basic. No midterm but there are two essays that the professor doesn’t really give helpful tips on and were lowkey very confusing to write. I had Isabella as my TA who is the GOAT, absolutely do take her she is an amazing TA with great discussions and amazing grading on essays. There’s no study guide for the final, which is OK bc the final was actually super easy and completely based on the second half of the course with super easy questions and light SAQs/long essay. Overall, this class is a very easy GE if you understand colonialism and oppressed groups which was basically the theme of the course. The class is just super boring, no recorded lectures, but is very easy and you can at least get a B with little effort and a good TA. Wouldn’t recommend if you can take a slightly harder but more interesting class.

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.