I absolutely hated this class and would not recommend it. This class had one six-page paper (with a minimum of ten sources), a weekly discussion post (all the way into finals week), a presentation, and another seventeen to twenty-page paper (min: fifteen sources) that was overall hell, along with long readings + supplemental readings almost weekly. You could tell the professor was passionate about his field but he was not good or experienced at working/teaching undergrads and was probably used to dealing with more experienced graduation students judging by the amount of coursework he assigned to us and little to no instruction. The classes hardly discussed readings and were more focused on him empathizing with us and the difficulty of research rather than actually focusing on class topics or instruction. And when he did focus on readings it addressed the eccentricity of it, and I failed to see how it might relate to class.

Assignments were increasingly frustrating and by the end, my classmates and I were frustrated and mentally done with the content and instruction of the class. He explained he was purposefully vague with all his instructions but this made papers and presentations frustrating and I often struggled to see how assigned readings were related at all to the class topic. Unfortunately, while the professor was passionate and showed empathy it was ultimately canceled out by the amount of coursework, difficulty of topics/assignments and lack of instruction he failed to give us.

So overall I would advise dodging this class if you can.