This is definitely one of the easiest classes you can take to fulfill the Writing II credit. This class is offered both asynchronous and in person. In the asynchronous version, the videos are pre-recorded and students are placed in a TA section. There are weekly reflections (1 page double spaced), a short synthesis paper, and a final paper. The weekly refections and short synthesis paper are essentially free points. The essay is very doable with the resources offered in the class. The course material too is pretty interesting. Overall, I would highly recommend this class. It's pretty much a guaranteed A as long as you do all the work.

This class was both engaging and interesting. The professor did a great job teaching the material asynchronously. I also thought that the assignments were challenging but rewarding.

I loved this class for the most part. The material was rich, and I was genuinely interested in everything I learned. However, if you read the other reviews, they will mention how TAs can jeopardize your grade. THEY CAN, AND SOME WILL. I had an A with all my class material but was given a C for being late with four videos. Keep in mind most of us watched them late because some TAs didn't care. Despite that, we watched them all. She failed us as if we didn't watch any on time or didn't watch any at all. Keep in mind there are about 40 videos with the TA and Profs combined, and they both count for participation. Some TAs don't deduct points for watching late, but mine did and didn't give some of us the points for watching 90% of the videos on time (the syllabus doesn't say it won't give points for the videos we did watch on time) and ended up failing us in participation which is about 20% of your grade. I wasn't the only student with this issue and the TA is very rude and doesn't help out at all or try to compromise as well as the professor. Now, as a last resort, some of us have to go to the Dean's to try to get our grades appealed. This class and its material is genuinely fantastic, but all it takes is for one TA to throw all of that out the window. So my advice: don't pick Atiyeh Taghiei as your TA lol.

I took this class online and asynchronous for a GE, and I really enjoyed it. The beginning of this class almost felt like an intro to gender studies, and I found it super interesting. Every week, you have several lectures and readings to complete, and a simple quiz based on the lectures and readings. There are a few short (500 word) writing assignments. The course material is interesting enough, the course load isn't too much, and the grading is lenient. I would definitely recommend this class.

Good class to take if you want something easy to satisfy a GE requirement. It was asynchronous, so I didn’t have any interaction with the professor or the TA, although it is offered if you want that. We just had one quiz each week which was based on the content of that week’s lecture videos, and two reflection assignments due throughout the quarter. There was a midterm and final that were each two essay questions, 500 words each. Not a difficult class, just do the work and you will do well.

Honestly, I think this class is pretty decent. I signed up for it since I needed a GE and saw it was asynchronous so I figured it would be easy. There was definitely more work than I expected but it was completely manageable if I worked on it throughout the week; I would not recommend waiting to work on it until the last day since there are a couple of hours of videos and then a couple of hours of reading usually as well. Content-wise, it was so-so. I know some people have said that there were pieces of information in the class that were just flat-out wrong but honestly, I don't have enough experience with the subjects to confirm/deny that. I will say though that there were a couple of statements that made me pause and I disagreed with (more so the interpretation of the information we were learning about rather than the information itself). Homework-wise, as I said there was a good bit of homework throughout the week but if you start working on it at the beginning of the week it's completely manageable. There are also weekly quizzes that I found very easy. If you actually watch the videos and do the readings (which counts for your participation points anyway), you should be able to get a B on each one easily if not an A. Otherwise, there are two reflections, a mid-term, and a final in the class. All of them are pretty straightforward and you're given a week to work on them and it's not hard to score well on them as long as you can make some sort of argument and meet the word count. There is not really any interaction with Prof. Cooney herself, only the prerecorded videos of her and the two times each quarter she has an info-session where you can ask questions. All of your interactions with instructors in this class will mainly be through your TA and the head TA and in my experience, they are pretty good and have fair expectations when it comes to grading, submissions, etc. Overall, if you like history or want an easy-ish GE, this is a decent class. It doesn't take much effort and you can honestly BS your way through some of it.

I am selling the books

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations
The Woman Who Would Be King
Cleopatra- A Biography

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I took the course as a hybrid meaning that all my lectures were posted online and I only had to attend discussion once a week. The lectures were incredibly interesting and easy to follow as she presented all the material as a story rather than just reducing history into dates and names. In terms of grading, depending on your TA the essays varied in difficulty but as long as you go to office hours to figure out what your TA is looking for, you can get an A!

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Books:
-The Woman Who Would be King
-Cleopatra-A Biography
-The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations
-The World Until Yesterday (PDF doc)

When taking Prof. Cooney's class, it is important to consider her as a professor and the class itself as two separate aspects. She herself is engaging and entertaining as a lecturer, she speaks very informally and in layman's terms, so you feel like you're having more of a conversation than a boring drawn out textbook narration. However, since her classes are very based on her lectures and speaking coverage, its very inconsistent. She is definitely knowledgeable and the class does try to cover various subregions, but you can definitely tell that her focus and interests are heavy towards some, so I felt like some days of the class were just not necessary. Also, due to some day offs in the general quarter's calendar in addition to some lectures going into the following ones, we were off schedule according to the syllabus and the last civilizations (China/India) were definitely just squeezed in. The main assignment in this class is a research essay or podcast (something they were testing out as an option my quarter) that you have until the end of the quarter to submit, so your personal time was more focused on whatever you chose and likely didn't really think deeply towards the others. It is necessary to pay attention though because the final itself were 2 critical analysis essays of any region, but she gave the possible prompts ahead of time so you can review for yourself. Overall, a good class that doesnt take a lot of stress if you can time manage yourself and not be too reliant on in-class/TA help. They didn't regulate how TA's prepared you for the essay writing, so others had more feedback and mini due dates while others were kind of just a ask-me-if-you-need-help. I ended up switching discussions to have a more helpful TA and that surely made a difference in the course of the class.
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Selling required texts:
Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
The Woman who Would be King by Kara Cooney
The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
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(Kept the books because I bought them, but definitely not necessary to buy full price to do well in the class!)

Selling The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations ($10) and The World Until Yesterday ($15), both needed for the class. **********