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Richard Ellis
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Fall 2025 - This class isn't difficult, the midterm consisted of identifying pictures from lecture slides, identifying short passages, and one short answer style question at the end. It was easy, but there was a lot of material to memorize for it. The TAs grade pretty weirdly and won't give you any sort of feedback unless you see them in office hours. There was no homework, only readings for every lecture and this quarter we had to do a project where we recreate an existing civilization from the readings/course material. Lecture-wise, this is with the dinosaur GE as one of the most boring classes I've taken here (as an Engineering major). The professor is pretty dry and it's hard to learn from lecture other than copying from the slides because it is difficult to understand what the point is behind what he talks about. I hate watching online videos but I dreaded going to lecture because it gets pretty boring pretty fast especially at 9am.
Fall 2025 - This class isn't difficult, the midterm consisted of identifying pictures from lecture slides, identifying short passages, and one short answer style question at the end. It was easy, but there was a lot of material to memorize for it. The TAs grade pretty weirdly and won't give you any sort of feedback unless you see them in office hours. There was no homework, only readings for every lecture and this quarter we had to do a project where we recreate an existing civilization from the readings/course material. Lecture-wise, this is with the dinosaur GE as one of the most boring classes I've taken here (as an Engineering major). The professor is pretty dry and it's hard to learn from lecture other than copying from the slides because it is difficult to understand what the point is behind what he talks about. I hate watching online videos but I dreaded going to lecture because it gets pretty boring pretty fast especially at 9am.
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