Professor
Juliet Williams
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Winter 2016 - I was one of the 20 males in the class of 180 Now if I said this is class, I would probably offend someone. I am a straight male who grew up in a patriarchal culture before I came to America. I took the class because I heard it was easy. In my point of view, this class was unbearable. Yeah it can be easy, but it's so hard to study when opinions and view points are expected to be accepted as facts. Your grade will HEAVILY depend of your TA. Your TA will grade your midterm and final and your weekly discussions essays (which are 30% of your grade). My TA (L. Reeve) expected all of us to agree with her viewpoints and if I did not my grade would have suffered. Other TAs, emailed their classes on what the essay will be on so they can prepare what facts to study before. Juliet's lecture slides are so useless. The lectures are more like an open discussion. Use your phone or laptop and she will walk up to you and MAKE YOU pay attention to her viewpoints. If you're not interested in the subject, it's a gamble because your grade depends on your TA SO BE CAREFUL OUT THERE ALL YOU CISGENDER STRAIGHT MALES WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GENDER STUDIES. YOU MIGHT WANNA CONSIDER RUNNING AWAY FROM JULIET
Winter 2016 - I was one of the 20 males in the class of 180 Now if I said this is class, I would probably offend someone. I am a straight male who grew up in a patriarchal culture before I came to America. I took the class because I heard it was easy. In my point of view, this class was unbearable. Yeah it can be easy, but it's so hard to study when opinions and view points are expected to be accepted as facts. Your grade will HEAVILY depend of your TA. Your TA will grade your midterm and final and your weekly discussions essays (which are 30% of your grade). My TA (L. Reeve) expected all of us to agree with her viewpoints and if I did not my grade would have suffered. Other TAs, emailed their classes on what the essay will be on so they can prepare what facts to study before. Juliet's lecture slides are so useless. The lectures are more like an open discussion. Use your phone or laptop and she will walk up to you and MAKE YOU pay attention to her viewpoints. If you're not interested in the subject, it's a gamble because your grade depends on your TA SO BE CAREFUL OUT THERE ALL YOU CISGENDER STRAIGHT MALES WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GENDER STUDIES. YOU MIGHT WANNA CONSIDER RUNNING AWAY FROM JULIET
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Fall 2024 - The DJS cluster is phenomenal, and I would highly highly recommend it to anyone interested in the humanities or social issues. It does NOT require any knowledge/interest in data science or statistics. Every single lecture I'm left in awe of the discussions and examples in class. For example, felt like I learned more about the horrors of slavery in 1 lecture than in my entire 12 years of school. Undoubtedly, I feel the cluster captured the complexity of using data to understand social issues and fight for justice; I absolutely love this cluster course, it has completely changed my perspective on so many things around our daily lives that I take for granted. Workload-wise it was my easiest class by far; there is no homework or tests aside from a short discussion post each week and 3-4 writing assignments each quarter. Prof Williams was a truly incredible professor who certainly improved my understanding of the content. At the beginning of every class, she provides a helpful overview of the topic we are exploring, and how it fit into the themes in data, justice, and society -- this was extremely helpful for staying oriented during class and discussions of the week. Prof Williams' passion for gender studies and feminist theory really intersected with many of the themes we discussed in the cluster, and I was consistently intrigued by the connections she made. Sometimes, though, these concepts and theories were difficult to understand and I would appreciate if we spent more time building them up and understanding feminist and philosophical justice theory.
Fall 2024 - The DJS cluster is phenomenal, and I would highly highly recommend it to anyone interested in the humanities or social issues. It does NOT require any knowledge/interest in data science or statistics. Every single lecture I'm left in awe of the discussions and examples in class. For example, felt like I learned more about the horrors of slavery in 1 lecture than in my entire 12 years of school. Undoubtedly, I feel the cluster captured the complexity of using data to understand social issues and fight for justice; I absolutely love this cluster course, it has completely changed my perspective on so many things around our daily lives that I take for granted. Workload-wise it was my easiest class by far; there is no homework or tests aside from a short discussion post each week and 3-4 writing assignments each quarter. Prof Williams was a truly incredible professor who certainly improved my understanding of the content. At the beginning of every class, she provides a helpful overview of the topic we are exploring, and how it fit into the themes in data, justice, and society -- this was extremely helpful for staying oriented during class and discussions of the week. Prof Williams' passion for gender studies and feminist theory really intersected with many of the themes we discussed in the cluster, and I was consistently intrigued by the connections she made. Sometimes, though, these concepts and theories were difficult to understand and I would appreciate if we spent more time building them up and understanding feminist and philosophical justice theory.
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Winter 2024 - Professor Williams is such a kind hearted person. She really opened my mind to different perspective when it came to feminism. She was very helpful in wanting to help us outside of this course in our future endeavours which was very kind. If you have the privilege to take a class with her, do it!
Winter 2024 - Professor Williams is such a kind hearted person. She really opened my mind to different perspective when it came to feminism. She was very helpful in wanting to help us outside of this course in our future endeavours which was very kind. If you have the privilege to take a class with her, do it!
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