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Shane Walsh AASP211 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/25/2024	This class was taught by both Dr. Jason Nichols and Dr. Shane Walsh, so this review is for them both. It's a really easy and informative class that fills 3 gen-eds. The guest speakers were interesting and I enjoyed the class discussions. The workload was very light; 3 quizzes, 2 writing assignments, and a final project. The quizzes all had either no time limit or 2 attempts. You should get a high grade on the writing assignments and final project as long as you put some effort into it. All assignments except for the final seemed to have flexible due dates as long as you asked the professors for an extension. I liked this class and the movie connected to the themes we discussed.
Shane Walsh AASP211 Expecting an A Anonymous 07/10/2024	Pretty easy class and has some interesting info. However, as others have mentioned there is no feedback at all on any of the essays you write, and Im not sure if this is true but all of the essays the high was 94, he might not give any scores higher than that on essays. Additionally, the quizzes will have some free response questions, which are graded the same way as the essays. For example on the first quiz there was a question that asked you to introduce yourself and answer some questions, and I got points off on that question, and Im not sure why. But if you get past that the class has almost no downside to it.
Shane Walsh AASP211 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/30/2023	TAKE TAKE TAKE this class for a gen ed or elective. EASY A!!!! It meets once a week for 2.5 hours but the entire time is watching a movie/videos and having a discussion. There were a couple quizzes online at home based on readings and two papers but they were only 1 page each and the quizzes weren't hard. You also get plenty of time to complete them. The final exam was just a powerpoint presentation where you pick any topic you want that was covered in class and make a presentation on it. You don't have to present it just do a voice recording that has to be 10 minutes long. There is also a participation grade that was basically breaking into small groups and you wrote ur name on a paper to show that you were there, but you don't know which class it'll be in so you need to go to them all. However, the classes were very interesting to hear them talk about different topics so you wouldn't want to skip anyways. TAKE THIS CLASS
Jason Nichols AASP211 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/26/2023	Taking this class with Jason Nichols and Shane Walsh was enjoyable. It felt more like an open discussion/podcast than a class most of the time. I do wish we ended up doing film reviews, but oh well. I really don't understand how Professor Nichols has this low of a rating, but maybe the experience in AASP211 was different than AASP100 and others. Otherwise, he's a really interesting guy and listening to him speak doesn't bore me like most other professors
Shane Walsh AASP211 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 08/23/2022	I took this class as an international student, which gave me a large amount of information about the segregation and inequality in the U.S from the Black people's side. Furthermore, the professor is extremely structured and well-formate with the lecture and flexible with the due date. I highly recommend this course and professor if you prefer to understand the social problem from another angle or fulfill the degree requirement with a meaningful A.
Shane Walsh AASP211 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/08/2022	I took this class with both Dr. Walsh and Dr. Nichols. They are both pretty chill and funny and Dr. Walsh is very intelligent and super passionate about this topic, so he likes to go off sometimes, but it still connects to the information. Between Dr. Walsh and Dr. Nichols, Dr. Walsh seemed a lot more professional and structured throughout the course. The class is super chill, it's an open dialogue where anybody can speak or because we had 100+ people on zoom this semester, you can get away with lurking and only listening. We watched the Get Out movie in this class and wrote two essays on it. However, the only other grades in the courses are 5 quizzes and 3 more essays which are not directly on the movie but rather, on race issues, and black history in general. It takes VERY long to get grades back, however, and there is little to no feedback on the essays throughout the course.

Shane Walsh
AASP211

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/25/2024

This class was taught by both Dr. Jason Nichols and Dr. Shane Walsh, so this review is for them both. It's a really easy and informative class that fills 3 gen-eds. The guest speakers were interesting and I enjoyed the class discussions. The workload was very light; 3 quizzes, 2 writing assignments, and a final project. The quizzes all had either no time limit or 2 attempts. You should get a high grade on the writing assignments and final project as long as you put some effort into it. All assignments except for the final seemed to have flexible due dates as long as you asked the professors for an extension. I liked this class and the movie connected to the themes we discussed.

Shane Walsh
AASP211

Expecting an A
Anonymous
07/10/2024

Pretty easy class and has some interesting info. However, as others have mentioned there is no feedback at all on any of the essays you write, and Im not sure if this is true but all of the essays the high was 94, he might not give any scores higher than that on essays. Additionally, the quizzes will have some free response questions, which are graded the same way as the essays. For example on the first quiz there was a question that asked you to introduce yourself and answer some questions, and I got points off on that question, and Im not sure why. But if you get past that the class has almost no downside to it.

Shane Walsh
AASP211

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/30/2023

TAKE TAKE TAKE this class for a gen ed or elective. EASY A!!!! It meets once a week for 2.5 hours but the entire time is watching a movie/videos and having a discussion. There were a couple quizzes online at home based on readings and two papers but they were only 1 page each and the quizzes weren't hard. You also get plenty of time to complete them. The final exam was just a powerpoint presentation where you pick any topic you want that was covered in class and make a presentation on it. You don't have to present it just do a voice recording that has to be 10 minutes long. There is also a participation grade that was basically breaking into small groups and you wrote ur name on a paper to show that you were there, but you don't know which class it'll be in so you need to go to them all. However, the classes were very interesting to hear them talk about different topics so you wouldn't want to skip anyways. TAKE THIS CLASS

Jason Nichols
AASP211

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/26/2023

Taking this class with Jason Nichols and Shane Walsh was enjoyable. It felt more like an open discussion/podcast than a class most of the time. I do wish we ended up doing film reviews, but oh well. I really don't understand how Professor Nichols has this low of a rating, but maybe the experience in AASP211 was different than AASP100 and others. Otherwise, he's a really interesting guy and listening to him speak doesn't bore me like most other professors

Shane Walsh
AASP211

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
08/23/2022

I took this class as an international student, which gave me a large amount of information about the segregation and inequality in the U.S from the Black people's side. Furthermore, the professor is extremely structured and well-formate with the lecture and flexible with the due date. I highly recommend this course and professor if you prefer to understand the social problem from another angle or fulfill the degree requirement with a meaningful A.

Shane Walsh
AASP211

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/08/2022

I took this class with both Dr. Walsh and Dr. Nichols. They are both pretty chill and funny and Dr. Walsh is very intelligent and super passionate about this topic, so he likes to go off sometimes, but it still connects to the information. Between Dr. Walsh and Dr. Nichols, Dr. Walsh seemed a lot more professional and structured throughout the course. The class is super chill, it's an open dialogue where anybody can speak or because we had 100+ people on zoom this semester, you can get away with lurking and only listening. We watched the Get Out movie in this class and wrote two essays on it. However, the only other grades in the courses are 5 quizzes and 3 more essays which are not directly on the movie but rather, on race issues, and black history in general. It takes VERY long to get grades back, however, and there is little to no feedback on the essays throughout the course.

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