While extremely intelligent and passionate about subject matter, Professor Chowdhury will make you work for your grade. Not a class to be a slouch in, and from early on, make sure that you don't miss a beat - not being forgiving with assignment grading, and a rather arbitrary grading scale for her writing projects (check minus, check, check plus) might leave you wondering why you received the final grade you did. The bulk of the class is in B-range, with her reserving higher marks for the truly exemplary. If you make a claim in her class when you participate, make sure to back it up.

she was pretentious and used big words incorrectly... easy GE tho. loved oliver ruhl if you get him as a TA you are honestly set! she was just so hard to deal with, and wanted everyone to put art history above absolutely everything... also avoided classical discussions in favor of her own ideas and interpretations.

take this if you want to be looked down upon (af), but kill a GE :)