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Beth Parent CPSP218L Anonymous 11/25/2019	I'm in Scholars so I had Dr. Parent for both semesters of freshman Colloquium and for first semester Scholars Colloquium. This will pertain to sophomore colloquium, CPSP218L, taken Fall 2019. This was a half semester course, meeting once a week, for seven weeks. Workload was super reasonable - we read a book with 12 chapters, each on a different disease that changed the world, and each group of 2-3 students gave a 30 minute presentation on their chapter/disease. After presentations there were short write-ups on the presentations or discussions. Presentation was graded more than reasonably and was not overly difficult. Being one of the earlier groups to present made the workload heavy because we had little time to prepare, but we made that choice ourselves (we chose presenting on an early chapter). My advice would be to do the same - it's a lot of work for a week but then you have no/minimal work for the rest of the semester and the assignment is not hanging over your head. Besides, you don't have a lot of work in the first week of classes anyway. The write-ups were easy points and she asked decently interesting questions. You should get an easy and interesting A out of this class. She is strict on phones: asked us to put them away and told us we'd lose a lot of points if she saw them. Was serious about it. She was also serious about being on time, since the class met so few times. She's good about answering emails. FYI, read the syllabus, it's worth it.