Love love loveeeeee this class. Davida is such an amazing professor, and she does such an excellent job of making the class material both accessible and engaging. Especially in what is basically an intro to theory class, she manages to challenge students with difficult (but interesting!) readings while also being a very encouraging and helpful instructor. The prompts for papers are very open-ended, interesting, and honestly fun to take on--she really does encourage each student to make their own unique contributions to every class discussion, which makes this course a very inclusive and enriching space.

BEAUTIFUL class. Most of the material covered cultural theory-- how culture is created, how we view culture, how cultures interact with each other-- not specific cultures themselves. Classes were both lectures and discussions, and are long but very engaging. There was a TON of reading that you didn't absolutely have to do to follow along, but the material was interesting and helpful in the long run for your three papers (basically two midterms and final). Prompts are broad and allow you to apply these learned theories to literally anything that fits-- in our first paper, peers in my class connected topics like cultural relativism to police surveillance, the cartoon "Infinity Train," Instagram, the ban on hijabs, etc etc etc highly recommend!