SOCIOL 128
Sociology of Emotions
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 1. Designed for juniors/seniors. Sociological theories and explanations of social conditions shaping and producing emotional experiences; effects of individual expression of emotions on social conditions; relations between thought, sensations, and emotions; self and emotions; social construction of emotions. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Summer 2024 - Anderson’s class this summer was conducted in an asynchronous, online manner, which provided a lot of flexibility. However, this class has a dense workload that made taking it feel exhausting. Each week, we had a few hours of lectures to get through, two readings that we needed to leave comments on, and two 500-word discussion posts (which drew from the readings/lectures). The readings, in my opinion, were painfully boring. She also gave us a midterm that was pretty easy if you kept up with her lectures, and assigned two papers. In following her rubric for the papers, I was able to do pretty well on them. I also did pretty well on the exam just from taking extensive notes in her class. It was hard to get a perfect score on the discussion posts; the TAs were nitpicky and I often would receive less than full credit (a 3.8 or 3.6 out of 4 points, etc), so they expect a high standard of writing within them. This was a constant source of stress for me as each point in her class is worth 1%, and I was losing points to these discussion posts twice a week. Anderson herself was okay, and the content of her lectures was somewhat interesting, but though I found her class interesting, she was immensely unaccommodating to students. She is not the type to grant accommodation without documentation. Again, given how often we had assignments in her class, this became a constant source of stress. I took her class alongside two others at the same time, and hers easily had double the workload of my other classes. I was spending upwards of 10-20 hours a week on her class alone at times. Perhaps in a regular term quarter this would have felt less dense. Overall, I just wouldn’t take her again. The actual content was somewhat interesting, and I came out of the class feeling like I learned a lot of valuable information, but her grading structure left me in a constant state of worry. I do think if she offered even a little bit of extra credit, that would be nice.
Summer 2024 - Anderson’s class this summer was conducted in an asynchronous, online manner, which provided a lot of flexibility. However, this class has a dense workload that made taking it feel exhausting. Each week, we had a few hours of lectures to get through, two readings that we needed to leave comments on, and two 500-word discussion posts (which drew from the readings/lectures). The readings, in my opinion, were painfully boring. She also gave us a midterm that was pretty easy if you kept up with her lectures, and assigned two papers. In following her rubric for the papers, I was able to do pretty well on them. I also did pretty well on the exam just from taking extensive notes in her class. It was hard to get a perfect score on the discussion posts; the TAs were nitpicky and I often would receive less than full credit (a 3.8 or 3.6 out of 4 points, etc), so they expect a high standard of writing within them. This was a constant source of stress for me as each point in her class is worth 1%, and I was losing points to these discussion posts twice a week. Anderson herself was okay, and the content of her lectures was somewhat interesting, but though I found her class interesting, she was immensely unaccommodating to students. She is not the type to grant accommodation without documentation. Again, given how often we had assignments in her class, this became a constant source of stress. I took her class alongside two others at the same time, and hers easily had double the workload of my other classes. I was spending upwards of 10-20 hours a week on her class alone at times. Perhaps in a regular term quarter this would have felt less dense. Overall, I just wouldn’t take her again. The actual content was somewhat interesting, and I came out of the class feeling like I learned a lot of valuable information, but her grading structure left me in a constant state of worry. I do think if she offered even a little bit of extra credit, that would be nice.
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Forget about all the other reviews before this one...Professor TenHouten is a changed man and not for the better! His class consists of a midterm, final, and TWO term papers (10 pages in length each)! He even has assigned seating! Who has assigned seating in college?! And he is an incredibly paranoid man...he thinks that every student is taking advantage of him. He does not have trust in anyone. I definetely do not recommend him. Do not make the same mistake that I made. He does not give extra credit (so far at least it seems) and he is not concerend about the student.
Forget about all the other reviews before this one...Professor TenHouten is a changed man and not for the better! His class consists of a midterm, final, and TWO term papers (10 pages in length each)! He even has assigned seating! Who has assigned seating in college?! And he is an incredibly paranoid man...he thinks that every student is taking advantage of him. He does not have trust in anyone. I definetely do not recommend him. Do not make the same mistake that I made. He does not give extra credit (so far at least it seems) and he is not concerend about the student.
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