I took this class asynchronously with an in-person discussion. Honestly, it was pretty easy. The class is based on a textbook and the professor's lectures basically repeated everything from the readings. I found the tests to be fairly easy by taking detailed notes on the readings and reviewing them the night before, as well as going through the TA's practice questions. There were 2 midterms and no final, and the midterms were not cumulative! The midterms themselves were pretty simple, just multiple choice asking about concepts from the readings on a somewhat basic level. The readings though were a bit long and could take me a long time to get through, but given that it was just 1 chapter a week and a few lecture videos, the workload was really low and I could knock everything out in a day. My TA was Roxanne and she was super nice! Really lenient with the discussion assignments and very approachable.

This class contained extremely interesting topics that I wanted to learn more about. The midterms I found to be difficult somewhat with multiple trick questions (they are about 35 questions I believe), and there are two of them. My TA Joseph was extremely helpful to me, but the professor didn't make himself very available to us as students to ask him questions. He was extremely hard to understand throughout the course. All he did was copy and paste from the textbook and put it on white slides. It was painful to go to class every week as it was hard to understand him due to a poor microphone and mumbling and the slides had no interesting content on them to help us learn the material. If I could take another GE class I would have, but the professor is a kind man for sure, the class was just tough to get through, and my grade I feel like was reflective of how difficult it was to learn in this class as I would have a 4.0 without this class grade.

I took this class as a GE credit and unfortunately this class was not the easiest for me. During lectures and TA discussions, I felt confident with the material at hand, but unfortunately, my exam scores did not reflect my knowledge on the subject. While both the midterm and final were very short, the questions were very oddly worded, and left me and many of my peers receiving low outcomes for our final grade in the class. I would not say this is a challenging GE overall, as the course work was light, however if you do not have a "sociology brain" and have a hard time thinking in this way, I would not recommend this class as the exam questions will likely trip you up. However, the material provided during class time was very straight forward, and did not find attending lectures a requirement for this course as Prof. Villarreal puts most if not all required information directly on the slides which are shared on Canvas.