This class is a great option for STEM majors, as it is actually really interesting and also knocks out a lot of your GE's in the Foundations for Arts and Humanities, as well as the Foundations for Society and Culture (that is, if you finish the Cluster). Professor Matsumoto was an incredible lecturer and chose really engaging topics to discuss. The class has a good amount of weekly reading to pay attention to, as well as a few assignments that build on each other throughout the quarter, but it's not overwhelming at all. My biggest piece of advice is to participate in discussion and get to know your TA well!

Prof Matsumoto is so cool!!! She speaks very clearly and has organized lecture slides. She's also the only lecturer of the Cluster to time her lectures correctly (most usually don't finish all their slides because time runs out but Prof Matsumoto always times it perfectly). I would recommend taking this cluster if you're interested in history and interracial dynamics, which I definitely am. I found the lectures and readings really intriguing and they grade very easily. Discussions are 2 hours long though and are really draining and often awkward, it's the only part of the class I don't like.

She know a lot about east asian american history and was engaging. She shared some good insights into current events and historical relationships.

This class uses clickers to mark participation, so it's important that you're present when class starts. I recommend making this your first or last class of the day since the lecture hall during my quarter was in De Neve, so as a resident on the hill, it was so relaxing to be able to get to the cluster in a few minutes from my dorm.

The final for this course was very reasonable. I believe it was based on defining a list of key terms (which they gave you beforehand to study), short answer questions, and a couple essay questions. The grading honestly depends on your TA because some are harsher graders than others, but content wise the final was very reasonable and they were very clear in what topics we should be studying.

Prof. Matsumoto is very sweet, but in all honesty her lectures were very easy to fall asleep during. The topics were rather decently interesting, and every now and then she'd have a few relatable moments when discussing the dynamics of asian families, which were very funny in an appropriate manner.

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