This class is SO interesting. We learn so much uncommon (but awesome) info about the Med. Agnew himself is an amazing professor, but the TA was sooo scary and was a tough grader for our weekly assignments. Each week we had an assignment with 2-4 questions about the lecture material and readings, so you best believe I poured my heart and soul into those assignments. The midterm was take-home and a normal long/short essay test. The final was take-home but a research paper. There were a bunch of supplemental readings that were absolutely necessary to read to do well on the assignments (which often ask for specific examples/concepts hidden in one paragraph of the 70 page reading). You don't have to read the whole thing you can skim it and find the info you need, of course. The supplemental books I just found free pdfs for and then the ones I could not find I just used book review sites to get the summary.