I am not sure why this class has such a range of ratings- I thought it was pretty easy. For summer quarter, we had one 3 page essay due week 2, and after that it was all work for the final with a part due each week. This was a great class to take C sesh if you are wanting to fulfill your writing II. Not the most engaging class but some of it was pretty interesting honestly.

This class was absolutely spectacular. It fulfills three GE's (Historical Analysis, Diversity, and Writing II) and the professor is so inspiring and interesting to listen to. The class was built around having weekly readings and lectures that cumulated in a one-page Activity Journal at the end of the week. The readings and lectures were awesome and super helpful and could often be skimmed. The lectures and videos took maybe two hours to knockout with the most readings and lectures at the beginning of the class. Then, every week a one-page activity Journal was due based on what you learned that week. Super easy. There was only ever one super hard reading but the TA spent a lot of time making sure we understood. There were only ever two real "tests" in the form of essays and neither was particularly difficult. The lecture videos are wonderfully produced and extremely engaging and the workload is so minor that most of the class would finish the week's work in a day (though I don't recommend that lol) Overall, I will highly, highly recommend this class.

This class is amazing if you want to learn about what women power entails in a society. All the material is intriguing to read. However, this class is quite tedious. We have to write a 1-page essay every week that is based on the week's readings. The readings can be short or super long which can take up to hours to read. Professor Cooney is super cool.

Professor Cooney has been such a pleasure to be taught by. She is the definition of a boss woman and always manages to make lectures so engaging...and not just interesting, like a literal TV show. I absolutely adore this course despite the fact that there is a MASSIVE workload of readings and discussions and etc.

Because the class is asynchronous, you won't be interacting with Prof. Cooney at all. The class is a LOT of work that one doesn't really pick up on from the fact that it's asynchronous. Every week, there's a few (fun) asynchronous lectures to watch, a journal assignment to complete, and sometimes another assignment meant to build your final paper is due. The entire class is structured around 2 papers. The first is about the Michael Mann reading on the sources of power and the second is an 8 page paper based on a powerful woman in ancient history of your choosing. Don't underestimate how quickly those 8 pages can catch up to you and don't slack. Writing II is called writing intensive for a reason, and you'll be writing all quarter long. Doable, but by no means was it a class I would want to take again.

I agree with some of the Fall 2021 reviews, as this class was relatively interesting and truly is about what the class entails, women and power in the ancient world. Professor Cooney's lectures were engaging and you can tell how passionate she was about the topic, but besides that, this is mainly a review of the structure of the class since this is what a lot of people want. There is a LARGE AMOUNT of writing to be done in this class because it is a writing II and a GE requirement. The material isn't hard to grasp but the work itself is very tedious sometimes. There are weekly activity journals (with a prompt) that you'd have to look at the readings and lecture to answer + other participation (40%), a 3-4 page Mann synthesis paper (10%), final 10-12 page research paper/podcast script (45%), and a final presentation (5%). It is a lot I will not lie, but it's split into the quarter fairly well, especially since the course is all online-asynchronous(for the in-person discussion I think they had discussion participation instead of writing activity journals). The prompts were very open-ended but it made it sort of hard to formulate some form of ideas and even tell if your ideas are valid... but your TA is the main source of support and also your grade as well. The stressful part was mainly just the final paper because of the page requirement and how much of your grade it determined, but your TA gives you feed back on your rough draft for you to improve your grade. So yes, this course is heavily reliant on your TA. Thus, this class was exhausting I won't lie but I can definitely say I learned a lot from the course... but I would not really go out of my way to take it out of interest simply because of the amount of work that there was to do!

I took this for writing II over the summer asynch. Kara Cooney is my favorite professor, she is funny, real, engaging, and extremely knowledgeable. You get to pick your topic for your essay, so there is a lot of flexibility. I had Tyler as a TA and he gave such good feedback and was super knowledgable and flexible. I would be friends with Kara Cooney she is awesome. I really enjoyed this class, I would definitely recommend.

Took this class as an asynchronous GE but I enjoyed it a lot! The lectures were surprisingly interesting for an asynchronous class. Participation matters a decent amount. TAs grade all of the assignments. TA Muhammad Souman was a great TA and very helpful in the writing process. I would take the class again.