Dr. Marino was super encouraging and loved hearing students share their thoughts. The class was both live and recorded for us to watch. There were six discussion posts/reflections (~30%) that we could complete at any point in the quarter, so if you wanted to do them all in the first few weeks you could. I'd recommend finishing them early, so you can focus on your primary source analysis (~10%), annotated bibliography (~15%), final research project (40%). The workload is very reasonable, just pace yourself.