Professor Mankekar seems like a pretty nice person, but I don't think her lectures were that clear. She often didn't elaborate on topics or when she did it did not help my understanding. I didn't watch many of the lectures or readings though, unless they'd help me with the two papers and 1 group discussion presentation.

I got a C- because I didn't turn in one of the papers, but I'd take this class if you plan on doing all your assignments because it was really interesting and pretty easy if you did the work. She also made the final optional because COVID causes difficult times, which was super kind of her, but I feel that kinda backfired on me because it made me unmotivated to learn the material. She also gave 2% extra credit if you did the course evaluation at the end of the quarter. Overall, you should take this class if you want to learn about cool ethnic studies concepts like intersectionality, gender being a relational concept, and transnationalism.

The only reason this class could be bad is if you just do not like anthropology. I would not categorize this as a film class, its a anthro class. The professor and TAs are great. I enjoyed section and lecture was recorded. You do not have to participate you just have to write some papers and a group project. Literally so easy and interesting.