This class has good reviews, but Professor Cooney probably writes them herself. This is genuinely the worst class I've ever taken in my entire life. I am a south campus major and this class caused me more stress than my other classes.
My TA, @Dani Candelora, was absolutely horrible. She accused me of academic dishonesty and was very impolite and rude to her students. That being said, the grade you get depends entirely on your TA.
Cooney is very pretentious and only talks about her own experiences, not what we need to know for the midterm and final. Pretty much half the class is pointless because very few of the lectures pertain to what she actually tests you on.
There were a lot of students who tried to kiss up to Cooney and talk about their own views on feminism, which none of the other students actually care about.
The lectures are incredibly boring and truly pointless to attend. The final paper is ridiculous because no one teaches you how to do it, it's extremely long, and the process of choosing a topic is difficult. The topic she suggests are too specific and obscure, and the TAs claim most topics are too broad.
She doesn't know much about India, China, and Persia but still tried to lecture about it. It looked extremely unprofessional.
No matter what any of the other reviews say, I promise you will regret taking this class. It is absolutely horrible.

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I would highly recommend this class! She is a really cool, fun professor and the material is really interesting. I would also say that it isn't particularly hard to get an A in the class if you study!

Loved the content, loved the class, wonderful professor. (there is a lot of reading and writing- but thats pretty standard)

This class was both engaging and interesting. The professor did a great job teaching the material asynchronously. I also thought that the assignments were challenging but rewarding.

I loved this class for the most part. The material was rich, and I was genuinely interested in everything I learned. However, if you read the other reviews, they will mention how TAs can jeopardize your grade. THEY CAN, AND SOME WILL. I had an A with all my class material but was given a C for being late with four videos. Keep in mind most of us watched them late because some TAs didn't care. Despite that, we watched them all. She failed us as if we didn't watch any on time or didn't watch any at all. Keep in mind there are about 40 videos with the TA and Profs combined, and they both count for participation. Some TAs don't deduct points for watching late, but mine did and didn't give some of us the points for watching 90% of the videos on time (the syllabus doesn't say it won't give points for the videos we did watch on time) and ended up failing us in participation which is about 20% of your grade. I wasn't the only student with this issue and the TA is very rude and doesn't help out at all or try to compromise as well as the professor. Now, as a last resort, some of us have to go to the Dean's to try to get our grades appealed. This class and its material is genuinely fantastic, but all it takes is for one TA to throw all of that out the window. So my advice: don't pick Atiyeh Taghiei as your TA lol.

I took this class online and asynchronous for a GE, and I really enjoyed it. The beginning of this class almost felt like an intro to gender studies, and I found it super interesting. Every week, you have several lectures and readings to complete, and a simple quiz based on the lectures and readings. There are a few short (500 word) writing assignments. The course material is interesting enough, the course load isn't too much, and the grading is lenient. I would definitely recommend this class.

Good class to take if you want something easy to satisfy a GE requirement. It was asynchronous, so I didn’t have any interaction with the professor or the TA, although it is offered if you want that. We just had one quiz each week which was based on the content of that week’s lecture videos, and two reflection assignments due throughout the quarter. There was a midterm and final that were each two essay questions, 500 words each. Not a difficult class, just do the work and you will do well.

Honestly, I think this class is pretty decent. I signed up for it since I needed a GE and saw it was asynchronous so I figured it would be easy. There was definitely more work than I expected but it was completely manageable if I worked on it throughout the week; I would not recommend waiting to work on it until the last day since there are a couple of hours of videos and then a couple of hours of reading usually as well. Content-wise, it was so-so. I know some people have said that there were pieces of information in the class that were just flat-out wrong but honestly, I don't have enough experience with the subjects to confirm/deny that. I will say though that there were a couple of statements that made me pause and I disagreed with (more so the interpretation of the information we were learning about rather than the information itself). Homework-wise, as I said there was a good bit of homework throughout the week but if you start working on it at the beginning of the week it's completely manageable. There are also weekly quizzes that I found very easy. If you actually watch the videos and do the readings (which counts for your participation points anyway), you should be able to get a B on each one easily if not an A. Otherwise, there are two reflections, a mid-term, and a final in the class. All of them are pretty straightforward and you're given a week to work on them and it's not hard to score well on them as long as you can make some sort of argument and meet the word count. There is not really any interaction with Prof. Cooney herself, only the prerecorded videos of her and the two times each quarter she has an info-session where you can ask questions. All of your interactions with instructors in this class will mainly be through your TA and the head TA and in my experience, they are pretty good and have fair expectations when it comes to grading, submissions, etc. Overall, if you like history or want an easy-ish GE, this is a decent class. It doesn't take much effort and you can honestly BS your way through some of it.

CLASS: Arts and Architecture 100 - Selected Topics in Arts

I have so much to say about this professor, I found out recently that this class has good reviews because Cooney writes them herself! This class was unorganized and it was just a waste of money and time. It's like what are you suppose to get out this class, did not learn anything.

Class requirements : It is a doable class, and you just submit everything on canvas. Midterm: 5 page research paper, and a 10 page paper for the final.

I took this class as a GE and was surprised to find it satisfied the diversity requirement, writing II requirement, plus the original GE (Historical Analysis). I thought the class sounded interesting and it was. It talked about women in the ancient world and how they rose to power, usually through marrying a powerful man or being a mother of a king. I enjoyed the class and recommend people to take it. It was online and I wrote a 4/5 page paper in the middle of the quarter, and then wrote a 10 page paper for the final, and both required research but were very manageable. Every week I would have to watch the lectures online and read the articles posted for us, and then answer a prompt equal to about a page of writing, sometimes with questions at the end and related analysis. I took this during the TA strike so I'm not sure how the class works normally but I still think the class is worth people's time.