I took this course in Winter quarter and I'll try to be as accurate as possible.

Weekly essay: 54%
you write 9 essay (1 page) and highest score for each essay is 6. Which make weekly essay SUPER important. Each TA has his/her own style, so If you go and talk to your TA you should be okay. Remember, if you get 5 out of 6 every week, that's already 9% of your total grade.

4 Quiz: 16%
Pretty straight forward, no surprise. If you study, you'll get 10/10 easily. seems like Prof. has several different versions. sometimes she let you grade your own quiz, yet it's up to her decision.

Participation: 15%
Go to discussion and participate. Y'all know what to do in discussion. SPEAK!

Final:15%
There is no Midterm. Just final.

She gives outlines before class. And These outlines help a lot. Organizing questions are good guide preparing for final.

The is a horrible lecture. The material should be interesting but Natasha jut ruined it. Usually in the class she would just reading her handout in a monotonous voice. Most of the students have no idea what the class is going on and I don't know why somebody said this is the best GE because as far as I know, no one like it. There is not even a guideline for the final and the questions in the final is questionable. Most of the class was talking about the most important religions in China: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism but there are half of the essay questions in the final are about Fa Lun Gong and Christian which are seldom taught in the lectures.