Great class. Although I took this in the summer as an elective so there are a lot of lectures, it was still interesting to learn about. I think the relevant big points were hit and the big points are what you need to focus on for evaluations. There were 2 reflections you could write at any time during the course which I loved (I love the flexibility of it). And 1 assignment to do. Overall, very doable. No in-person exams, just a midterm and a final online to do.

It's interesting and this is coming from an upper-year student with a healthsci background. It's not super healthsci heavy, again- just focusing on the big ideas and the social aspects too of how plagues affected people.

She's passionate about it clearly and I like her powerpoint slides and the way she explains things clearly. I had a good TA as well.

Advice... this is not a very difficult course, and there's not a lot of evaluations. Take advantage of this and get your reflections out of the way when you can. Then do the assignment when possible. And then you can focus on other courses and 'cruise' just take notes on big ideas explained in lectures.

There were so many things on A2L and a lot of recordings to listen to as well as readings and so many lecture vids. I took the summer elective. You do a quiz and preference poll every week. Some questions are kinda stupid tbh. I didn't really use the needed materials or watch all the lecture vids to the full extent cuz I also was taking another elective at the time and have a life and young ones to take care of. I don't think it's worth it and still don't think it is to buy a textbook near 100 bucks I barely use, is boring, and don't find useful for the quizzes. And yet, the written assignment requires you to directly cite it. I didn't find their feedback particularly useful and the marking was rather harsh I guess. This is coming from a straight A upper-year student from a harder program ...read more

No, not useful??? This is coming from someone who writes music and has a music theory background. Frankly I found it quite boring and some of the quiz questions were really stupid like 'What was Mozart's father's job?' for example or like asking REALLY specific things about the composer and where they were born, the school they attended, etc.

Too many lecture vids and found it lengthy, boring, overwhelming. TA didn't respond til 2 days after my email sent. Prof is okay. I think. But really, no need to make 50 quiz questions PER quiz. It's overwhelming and testing on specific parts of the audio.

I signed up for the free trial version of the textbook but I didn't realize that the free version would only give you certain (useless) chapters for free access. Most of what I needed for the assignment was blocked from free access. MY ADVICE IS.. if you wanna save bucks on the textbook, read the textbook sections that are relevant in advance and save them if possible (for your assignment- view assignment instructions in case they change from the moment I'm writing this). Then cancel your immediate access thing cuz I find the textbook useless.