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Brenda Stevenson
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Winter 2024 - She randomly takes attendance, which is worth 10% of your grade. She collects journal entries that you have to keep up with weekly but it is not hard to do at all she also collects this randomly for a grade. There was a mid-term and a final. They both consisted of heavy memorizing but the study guide was almost identical to both exams she is a very sweet professor. Very interesting lectures she kept everyone engaged and has an amazing sense of humor if you want to learn more about African American history this is a class you must take.
Winter 2024 - She randomly takes attendance, which is worth 10% of your grade. She collects journal entries that you have to keep up with weekly but it is not hard to do at all she also collects this randomly for a grade. There was a mid-term and a final. They both consisted of heavy memorizing but the study guide was almost identical to both exams she is a very sweet professor. Very interesting lectures she kept everyone engaged and has an amazing sense of humor if you want to learn more about African American history this is a class you must take.
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Fall 2025 - The structure of the class has been updated. Prof is extremely knowledgable but Final and midterm are kinda grueling. You answer 10-20 short answer questions which you must memorize beforehand and must HANDWRITE essays (TWO ESSAYS!!! ON THE FINAL! and one on the midterm). Dr. Stevenson said each essay needed to be 5 pages and TAs mentioned that you need to memorize your thesis. Altogether EXTREMELY memorization heavy with dates, names, places, concepts, etc but that's to be expected for a history course. One summary of 2-3 chapters due every 2 weeks but very luck based bc whoever you get assigned to for grading will grade everything for you whether that's either one of the TAs or the Prof and each have diff. parameters, my grader was a stickler in the weirdest ways. If you can go to TA Galo's office hours DO IT. This is probably the only thing that will get you through the course with minimal effort which is what I did bc I never took lecture notes (she doesn't give a copy of her slides until a week or so before the exams). If you study purely from the study guide for exams and verify answers with the TA, you're golden.
Fall 2025 - The structure of the class has been updated. Prof is extremely knowledgable but Final and midterm are kinda grueling. You answer 10-20 short answer questions which you must memorize beforehand and must HANDWRITE essays (TWO ESSAYS!!! ON THE FINAL! and one on the midterm). Dr. Stevenson said each essay needed to be 5 pages and TAs mentioned that you need to memorize your thesis. Altogether EXTREMELY memorization heavy with dates, names, places, concepts, etc but that's to be expected for a history course. One summary of 2-3 chapters due every 2 weeks but very luck based bc whoever you get assigned to for grading will grade everything for you whether that's either one of the TAs or the Prof and each have diff. parameters, my grader was a stickler in the weirdest ways. If you can go to TA Galo's office hours DO IT. This is probably the only thing that will get you through the course with minimal effort which is what I did bc I never took lecture notes (she doesn't give a copy of her slides until a week or so before the exams). If you study purely from the study guide for exams and verify answers with the TA, you're golden.
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