<p>Will those who have taken clusters please help us freshmen out by giving us ratings and comments? Some of these professors are fairly unknown (ex. emma thomas and ali racy) and don’t have any ratings on bruinwalk.</p>
<p>During the first two quarters, clusters are team-taught, and a group of professors take turns giving lecture and occasionally have a panel discussion (or at least, that’s the way it was set up in Interracial Dynamics). Professors in clusters don’t really influence your grade all too much (for the first two quarters; you might end up taking a seminar with a professor in the third quarter), and it’s the TAs that are key. For instance, I almost thought of dropping my cluster because I had a horrible TA first quarter, but I stuck to it and thoroughly enjoyed the class after switching TAs. You will know which TAs are bad and which ones are good by how quickly their sections fill up–in winter quarter, because nobody knows much first quarter. My bad TA from fall quarter had like 3 people sign up for her two sections in the winter. It was really sad.</p>
<p>America in 1960s</p>
<p>J. Decker: Boring lecturer, likes to give alot of busy work and rote memorization. Good thing is that he genuinely cares for students so he’s not impossible about tstuff.</p>
<p>L. Vavreck: really peppy and nice, treats students like little kids,not too hard and good lecturer</p>