The variety of professors means that you inherently will like professors more or less than others, but I think that this class does a good job of keeping equal material, test questions, and essays based on each professors line of work. The amount of expected reading for each week is a bit insane and I would recommend doing it at the start of the year, and then seeing you feel like the lectures just give you the same info (in my opinion the readings are simply just the first 15 minutes of the lectures, so it's not really necessary to read unless you don't pay attention during lectures well). The midterms and essays are fair. The biggest part of a class like this where the TAs grade everything is that some TAs will give every student a 97+ on every assignment as long as you're competent, while other TAs have a sub 90% average on every assignment (I was fighting for my life for this A ngl). The other thing is that the TAs are super important for every assignment because they get to choose how they want each essay or assignment to be done by the students. Overall, the class is good and interested, but the deeper understanding and grade aspect is totally TA dependent.

Professor Decker was in the kindest words, the most boring. While I do believe Decker has great value in his lectures and is very knowledgeable in his topics, he is very bad keeping the students engaged. His lectures can get boring fast is not the most engaging either. His lectures are important and useful when the literature paper comes up later in the quarter. He's a well meaning professor.
Onto the class in general, I recommend this cluster for those who are interested in history, politics, and culture but also can deal with some more dense long readings. While the readings are helpful to understand lectures better, the reading isn't too important until the midterm when they expect you to cite some readings in the timed essay. When it came to the workload I would say it was pretty light, the first two weeks you are assigned reading forms to encourage doing the weekly readings and can be finished in 15 minutes. After this you have only two assignment, a political science paper explaining the choices you made in making a 15 second campaign ad from any president between 1955-1975. The final assignment is a literature paper on a one of two books due in December. The class is not recorded but lecture slides are posted on BruinLearn.
The only serious downside to this cluster would be grading, grading is completely up to your TA. Some TA's may grader stricter than others. In general your TA will make this class pleasant or difficult depending on their grading. I will highly recommend this cluster but do recommend you take into consideration the long readings and TA grading.

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Like my review on the CLUSTER 60A class it is basically the same. This is probably one of the harder clusters for STEM majors and I would steer clear of this if you could because of the assessments in this class which you actually have to study for. Honestly, your grade here boils down to your TA so figure out who is a lenient grader in the first quarter. I got one of the harder TAs in the first quarter so I made sure to get the easiest TA for this quarter which made my life 10x easier. The final isn't that hard if your TA is nice because they will just give you an A as long as you are able to do the first couple of sections well which requires some memorization of topics. The essay in the final paper is going to seem hard, but if you can write down a somewhat coherent argument they won't mark you down ridiculously hard and you can easily finish with an A.... if you have a good TA. If you TA hates life and is miserable you will join them soon enough because then it gets hard AF. The reading is unbelievely long and ridiculous which I skimmed through (barely read) and you can get away with this if you have a good TA (I cannot stress this enough if you are stuck in this cluster).

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLUSTER IF YOURE TRYING TO KNOCK OUT EASY GEs. I honestly don't know why this cluster has so many good ratings. I took this cluster to knock out humanity GE's as a STEM major and I was told that clusters are easy. IF YOU WANT AN EASY CLUSTER TAKE A DIFFERENT ONE. yes i got an A and i believe most people did but THE AMOUNT OF WORK THEY EXPECT FROM YOU IS INSANE. it is not worth it. they assign like 3 14-page papers and 15+ min videos to watch BEFORE class and on any holiday where you get a day off THEY ASSIGN MOVIES TO WATCH AND ANALYZE. yes you can get by without doing the readings (but be careful if your TA is strict about doing them), but for the midterm they expect you to memorize NAMES AND TITLES OF READINGS to use as evidence for the essay portion and they expect you to memorize names of songs and their dates which is SUCH A WASTE OF TIME and not significant to my life whatsoever. in the winter quarter they have a CUMULATIVE FINAL but at least they give you the names of the papers and songs this time... the papers in fall and winter are pretty easy and some of the lectures are interesting but it's a shame that they made this class so miserable with the amount of effort they expect you to put in.

(For the cluster in general, not just Prof Decker)
Pros:
-understandable content
-organized lectures
-attendance not mandatory (slides posted online)
-straightforward midterm
Cons:
-grade entirely dependent on TA
-papers make up a huge portion of your grade and can be a little complicated
-some of the lectures (especially Decker's) are boring

Every single thing in this class is graded by your TA. If they don't like you, you're screwed. I had a paper that I went to the writing center for 3 times and was told that it "was an A+ paper if I've ever seen one." I ended up getting Bs on all of my papers, which brought my grade down to an A-. The content is simple and this class should be an easy A, but unfortunately, it's very subjective and dependent on your TA. (My TA was S Ewing, he was a good TA just a terribly strict grader)

Prof Decker was extremely helpful and encouraged everyone to participate. Never makes you feel dumb (even if you have some wild takes on the reading). Workload was manageable: weekly worksheets, one short paper at the beginning of the quarter (1 page), second paper during week 8 (4-5 pages), and a final paper (4-5 pages) due at the end. This course focuses on American literature and television, super refreshing and interesting material compared to other English courses. Highly recommend for every English major to take this course.

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GE Clusters 20A and 20B (Interracial Dynamics)

Selling the Fall 2014 (20A) and Winter 2015 (20B) course reader needed for this cluster; it contains all the articles required to read. Price is negotiable.

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GE Cluster 20A and 20B

Selling Interracial Dynamics 20A and 20B course readers. Price is negotiable.

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