Graded on attendance, participation, midterm (in-class), final, and 8-10 page paper. While he is very helpful during office hours, he does not post slides and even bullet points from slides were not integral to the tests. Overall, he expects the students to be able to digest and synthesize his lectures, which could be considered fast-paced. Even though this is a common teaching style, I found this to be really inaccessible and his tests while not trick questions, were not easy either. Honestly, I found his approach towards US religion history lacking in critical political context (I remember that he made a big deal out of the supposed incompatibility between the US govt. banning indigenous religious practices and the "founding ideals" of the freedom of religion and free speech--as if this blew his mind, even though a critical examination of this history will tell you that the same govt. banning indigenous religion and massacring indigenous people would not care about any supposed "ideals" it held). Also, he had a tendency to normalize Israel.