Professor
Jamie Goodwin-White
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Fall 2021 - I had Professor Goodwin-White for GEOG 158 Population Geography in Fall 2021. As an aspiring Demographer, I really enjoyed taking this class with her! I thought her midterm and final were very manageable but some people in the class seemed to have found them very confusing and challenging. There is a very short research paper due near the end of the quarter, and I thought it was very fun. I think the prof graded only like 10-15% of the papers submitted, and the TA graded the rest. I got mine graded by the professor, and I think she did so in a very thoughtful and generous way as she gave me a 100 out of 100 with a nice feedback. Overall, I do not think this class is hard at all. You do need to watch the lectures and read the textbook every week but that's pretty much all you need to do. 100% recommended.
Fall 2021 - I had Professor Goodwin-White for GEOG 158 Population Geography in Fall 2021. As an aspiring Demographer, I really enjoyed taking this class with her! I thought her midterm and final were very manageable but some people in the class seemed to have found them very confusing and challenging. There is a very short research paper due near the end of the quarter, and I thought it was very fun. I think the prof graded only like 10-15% of the papers submitted, and the TA graded the rest. I got mine graded by the professor, and I think she did so in a very thoughtful and generous way as she gave me a 100 out of 100 with a nice feedback. Overall, I do not think this class is hard at all. You do need to watch the lectures and read the textbook every week but that's pretty much all you need to do. 100% recommended.
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Fall 2022 - professor was injured so the class was online. it consisted of a midterm, a 6-8 page paper due week 9, and a final. midterm and final consisted of 3 questions to be answered in a paraphrase and 1 question to be answered in 2-3 paragraphs with an extra credit question. professor is helpful though the material is dense. lots of information to cover so learn to take good notes
Fall 2022 - professor was injured so the class was online. it consisted of a midterm, a 6-8 page paper due week 9, and a final. midterm and final consisted of 3 questions to be answered in a paraphrase and 1 question to be answered in 2-3 paragraphs with an extra credit question. professor is helpful though the material is dense. lots of information to cover so learn to take good notes
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Winter 2023 - I took Social Geog in winter 2023 but it was labelled as GEOG 140, so I think they changed the class number. Goodwin-White was such an amazing and very sweet professor-- and she is extremely knowledgeable about the topics. I thought the class would be less about injustice and inequality, but that is the main focus of the course. The textbook is absolutely necessary to perform well on the tests, though it was boring at times. Her tests are like 5 multiple choice and then a few long and short essay questions. She allows a cheat sheet so I literally wrote in MINUSCULE print and nearly broke my hand the night before exams. Her essay questions are often specific and require you to write about specific instances or examples, so the cheat sheet is a life-saver. We also have to write a short review about research articles, create our own research proposal In the social geog field, and also read articles she provides (that are on the exams). The class focuses extensively on the US and the UK for some reason -- sometimes too Canada and AUS/NZ. A manageable and sometimes interesting upper div -- made much better by Goodwin-White's charm.
Winter 2023 - I took Social Geog in winter 2023 but it was labelled as GEOG 140, so I think they changed the class number. Goodwin-White was such an amazing and very sweet professor-- and she is extremely knowledgeable about the topics. I thought the class would be less about injustice and inequality, but that is the main focus of the course. The textbook is absolutely necessary to perform well on the tests, though it was boring at times. Her tests are like 5 multiple choice and then a few long and short essay questions. She allows a cheat sheet so I literally wrote in MINUSCULE print and nearly broke my hand the night before exams. Her essay questions are often specific and require you to write about specific instances or examples, so the cheat sheet is a life-saver. We also have to write a short review about research articles, create our own research proposal In the social geog field, and also read articles she provides (that are on the exams). The class focuses extensively on the US and the UK for some reason -- sometimes too Canada and AUS/NZ. A manageable and sometimes interesting upper div -- made much better by Goodwin-White's charm.
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Spring 2024 - The class itself is not that difficult. There are a handful of very straightforward pop quizzes with 2-3 questions based on the readings, a midterm and final that also contend with the readings, and a research paper. The midterm and final were pretty straightforward as long as you did the readings or paid attention to what the professor said about them in lecture. We were also allowed a notecard cheatsheet for both exams. The research paper was also pretty simple, although the prompt is very loose so the rigor and depth expected were unclear. Not a difficult class by any means, but required a bit more effort than you would expect. The professor herself was not a very interesting lecturer, most classes were very boring and dry and she's somewhat ramble-y, and overall I don't feel that I've learned much from this class. I would not recommend this class.
Spring 2024 - The class itself is not that difficult. There are a handful of very straightforward pop quizzes with 2-3 questions based on the readings, a midterm and final that also contend with the readings, and a research paper. The midterm and final were pretty straightforward as long as you did the readings or paid attention to what the professor said about them in lecture. We were also allowed a notecard cheatsheet for both exams. The research paper was also pretty simple, although the prompt is very loose so the rigor and depth expected were unclear. Not a difficult class by any means, but required a bit more effort than you would expect. The professor herself was not a very interesting lecturer, most classes were very boring and dry and she's somewhat ramble-y, and overall I don't feel that I've learned much from this class. I would not recommend this class.
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