I love the lectures but the grading of the TAs are ridiculous. My TA deducted points over the most minimal things (ex/ accidentally putting the wrong page number, extra spacing between 2 words). The way they critique the essays made no sense and their comments were passive aggressive. I got a C+ and I worked really hard on it. I made my thesis as minimal to not make it broad and the TA said it was too broad and didn't make sense when it was so obvious and simple. Not only that, but my thesis was literally the essay prompt and all I added was an element i would focus on. They are hypocrites because they said that we shouldn't stress over it yet they graded them as if we were all literature and english majors. Many of the points in my essay were things directly said by the professor and the TA would leave comments negatively critiquing them and also things he himself would tell us during the discussion. Contradicting himself literally. Like I said, the Professor himself and the lectures are great and informative but the TAs are ridiculous and not helpful at all. I was starting to like my TA because he was really chill but it's probably an act so he can basically destroy our grade.

Mufti for Com Lit 2DW was chill, for the first half of the quarter we were reading and analyzing articles in class and section. Our class focused on world literature about displacement, immigration and refugees. The second half of the quarter we were assigned books to read about every two weeks, analyzing and close reading some parts in section. Our midterm and final had the same form and was pretty short and basic in which there were ID's of key words from the articles to relate to class topics as a whole, as well as short close readings to write and a little larger essay to write on the books.
This class is very low maintenance, Mufti and our TA's assured us that we only needed to go over our notes and make sure we were "doing the readings" to get ready for exams. I personally didn't read the books, even though there weren't sparknotes for the books we read online lectures and TA discussions were enough for me to do well on the exams. The TA's are also pretty chill and cool people! A smaller, relaxing class that most people skipped going to the whole quarter and I assume still passed the class with a decent grade.