Core classes - advice on most popular classes, professors - and the ones to avoid!

jazzcatastrophe
Tue, 13 May 2014 03:30:55 +0000

I would recommend hitting up ratemyprofessor for more info about specific professors. Different ones tend to teach each semester, so I can’t really give you advice about any one specific professor. I think the core classes are across the board pretty mediocre, but it definitely helps to go for a topic that you are genuinely interested in. Also try to look at syllabi ahead of time, so you have an idea of what kinds of assignments the class consists of. In these classes, TAs do virtually all the grading, so buddy up to your TA and figure out what they want to see. Some specific classes I know of: animal humans (for texts and ideas) is supposed to be really good. Conversely, the sounds class for the expressive cultures requirement is supposed to be horrifically difficult. I took Multinational Britain for my own cultures and contexts class, and while the class itself was pretty good, my TA was an incredibly hard grader and heavily favored students who were upperclass history majors