Great professor, has a real passion for what he teaches and genuinely cares about his students. Very kind and easy to approach. Class is very light and the exams are extremely straightforward, just put a little bit of effort into studying and you'll ace them. Overall, it's everything everyone says it is: interesting, very easy and a great class to take. Would recommend to anyone in a heartbeat!!

Professor Wen is great at making Scandinavian Literature interesting. As a student who has a hard time paying attention in non-major courses, I found it really easy to engage in his lectures. It also doesn't hurt that the readings he chooses are by far the most interesting pieces I've read for my GEs.

This is the easiest GE you could ever ask for. The most work you'll ever have to do is an essay (10%) due week 2, but you can get out of it if you're lucky by volunteering for the mock trial. There's no need to actually do the full readings; you can get by if you just read summaries of the books and stories on the syllabus. There is a participation grade (10%) where he calls on a few people at random (he has a prepared list of names) to answer usually easy/bs-able questions related to the readings/lecture, but very few people even get called on and if you aren't, you still get the full 10%. There's two midterms (40% each) that were 20 multiple choice and easy as hell, though you should make sure you read the summaries or else there might be one or two questions that you might have to guess on.

All in all, easy A in a GE, next to no workload after week 2,.

Prof. Wen is really engaging and charismatic, though the majority of students take this class to boost their GPA. His two tests that make up 80% of the grade were multiple choice and took me less than fifteen minutes each.

He does require you to buy about $90 worth of textbooks. I would highly recommend using Scribd, which is an online library service. If you do the free month trial, you can print a couple of the books as pdfs off their site and then unsubscribe. I got Naive Super and The Dwarf that way.

Pretty easy GE class, it's an athlete class. No discussion, only midterm and final.

Readings are so important!! It's so hard to bullshit the paper on midterm/final if you haven't read before section. He references a lot of the readings during lecture and it gets kind of confusing if you haven't at least skimmed his passages. Midterm and final is decent, as long as you've read and gone to section you'll do fine.

Material is not hard, mostly a memorization based class.
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Class was an easy A as long as you did the reading. Patrick Wen is a really cool professor, and he is very clear on the material you need to know for the essays/tests.
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Class material was very straight forward and easy and professor was very clear on class expectations and material.

This class was a breeze. I personally actually really enjoyed it! Not just because of how simple it was, but the readings are interesting and I really had fun with them. It's all literature and folklore, so it was fun and somewhat nostalgic.

A pretty easy class overall. Didn't go to most of the lectures near the end of quarter. His midterms are not relevant to his lectures so you basically don't even have to go to class. Just read the some of the materials and you will be fine! I'm also selling the books required for the class. Text me for more information **********

Hi y'all, I'm a freshman who literally just took the class and let me tell you one thing, this class is complete and utter bullshit. It is one thing that Professor may be super interested in what he says and what he wants to share with us, but it is another if he makes them interesting and relevant for us. The materials listed on the syllabus are ultimately, different from the things he "teaches" in class. Moreover, he rambles on and gets lost in his bullshit every singe class... Prepare yourselves, this class is boring af period. As long as you are good at bullshitting, you'll do just fine. If you're not, you might want to reconsider.