Professor Herman is a brilliant and engaging lecturer, whose lectures are not difficult to grasp and entertaining at times as well. The examples she brings up are not only insightful, but relevant and thought-provoking to the extent that you are able to develop your own questions as she breaks them down. Overall, Professor Herman's organization of this class is highly efficent and easy to follow: Do the readings, attend lecture/discussion, complete Four mini-examlets, Complete 3 papers which are alloted approximately two weeks to complete, and she provides many opportunities over zoom for office hours.

Her examinations are fair, and straightforward. Additionally, she provides a "review" office hours usually the day before an examlet, which provides students an opportunity to clarify any last minute questions.

Her lectures mirror a large socratic seminar but she encourages student participation through thought provoking inquiry.

Overall, I would take this course again because Professor Herman is able to take large amounts of information and transform them into comprehensive, amusing, and reflective information for students to apply to their own lives.

3 papers and 4 "examlets" (4 chunks of the final) distributed throughout the quarter. This class will sure keep you busy. A lot of tedious work, I'd say. Lots of reading and RE-reading in order to understand the material since it's so dense. The class isn't impossible though. I ended up with an A-, and that was the result of doing all the assigned reading and making sure I understood what the philosophers were talking about, paying attention and taking notes in class, and writing coherent papers. If you have trouble, go to office hours. Your TA can help you with your papers. See them after you get your prompt, and they'll help you get started; don't wait til the last minute.

Herman's f'ing tight
take her class and stuff cuz you'll like learn important things

If your intention, by taking this class, is to garner a collection of solid writing samples , you're ends will not be met by those means.
Philosophy 22W is a course concerned with the regurgitation of the theories of happiness and morality. You will be provoked into rejecting the latter and failing to receive the former. Professor Herman seems genuinely concerned with the material she teaches as well as genuinely concerned for her students. Unfortunately, the material you will be so professed to by this infrastructure of caring is repetitive, not always sensical and only vaguely realistic.
-This is a class to be taken when every other Writing 2 is filled and you have exhausted all means of extracting a PTE from any other available course.

(Summary: Decent Professor, Awful Class)

22W was very demanding; there were 3 essays (draft and final draft) and 4 tests. She's a great professor, she always comes prepared for class, she engages the students by constantly asking questions, she's always available to answer questions and she responds to emails faster than any professor I know.
However because there we covered 5 philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hume, Mill) I don't feel like I spent enough time on any one of them to thoroughly understand their theories. Also, the grading for the papers was difficult but the TAs were great. Don't take this class unless you can show up to lecture ready to take lots of notes because paying attention in lecture is key to understanding the theories.