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Clare Lyons HIST289N Expecting an A Anonymous 10/30/2024	I absolutely love her! She is so nice and welcoming and a great lecturer. There is a lot of required readings and 2 300 word responses due each week, but it's definitely doable. She has each student do an oral argument, but it not as scary since you present in a group of 4 and total talking time is around 8 minutes. I found the timing of the oral argument not great, since we also have 2 8-10 page papers and my oral argument was a few dats before my paper was due, but she gave us all an extension. (the paper length wasn't too bad either because it used Chicago footnote citations which eat up pages). So far ive really enjoyed the class and would recommend to anyone interested in women's studies.
Clare Lyons HIST289N Expecting an A- Anonymous 10/23/2024	I really enjoy this class (HIST289). Both the TA and the professor are engaging as well as encouraging. This is a gen-ed class for me; I enjoyed it, none the less. However, when it comes to writing the papers (midterm), there is no rubric. You should 100% take notes for the lectures, you can use them in your papers. But definitely show up to the discussions; take notes and do the papers weeks in advance. The grading is questionable, but the TA is pretty flexible and you can debate the grade.
Clare Lyons HIST289N Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/29/2024	she's a nice teacher and the class is manageable. You don't really have to show up to lecture but def show up to discussions. I found the lectures and readings to be boring but if you do the work you'll be fine so do with that what you will
Clare Lyons HIST289N Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/18/2022	I loved the class, it was very interesting and educational. If you want to do well on her assignments be as detailed as possible when answering questions, unfortunately there are no rubrics to work from but that’s the pattern I’ve picked mid semester, the more I write the higher the grade. I wouldn’t call this an easy class, I had to put a lot of time into it due to all the assigned readings, but it was also not too difficult, definitely time consuming.
Clare Lyons HIST289N Expecting an A Anonymous 04/25/2022	The class is interesting and the things we learn about are very new/do not come up in your average history class. But the professor is VERY vague about grading and we do not get a rubric for any papers. For the first half of the semester we got video lectures but once we got to the second unit on LGBT history we only got power point slides to read through. Considering the loose structure of the class the grading is pretty harsh as well.
Clare Lyons HIST289N Anonymous 03/31/2022	DO NOT TAKE HIST 289N. I went into this thinking it would be a fun, interesting class. Instead, I was met with boring lectures, extremely harsh grading, and lack of instructions. There’s not a rubric for any of the assignments in the class, yet on almost every assignment there are a ton of points taken off with no explanation as to why. Most of the assignments the high isn’t even a 100, which does not make any sense. Anyways, this class has been my main source of stress this semester and makes me extremely angry. Do not take it.

Clare Lyons
HIST289N

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/30/2024

I absolutely love her! She is so nice and welcoming and a great lecturer. There is a lot of required readings and 2 300 word responses due each week, but it's definitely doable. She has each student do an oral argument, but it not as scary since you present in a group of 4 and total talking time is around 8 minutes. I found the timing of the oral argument not great, since we also have 2 8-10 page papers and my oral argument was a few dats before my paper was due, but she gave us all an extension. (the paper length wasn't too bad either because it used Chicago footnote citations which eat up pages). So far ive really enjoyed the class and would recommend to anyone interested in women's studies.

Clare Lyons
HIST289N

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
10/23/2024

I really enjoy this class (HIST289). Both the TA and the professor are engaging as well as encouraging. This is a gen-ed class for me; I enjoyed it, none the less. However, when it comes to writing the papers (midterm), there is no rubric. You should 100% take notes for the lectures, you can use them in your papers. But definitely show up to the discussions; take notes and do the papers weeks in advance. The grading is questionable, but the TA is pretty flexible and you can debate the grade.

Clare Lyons
HIST289N

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/29/2024

she's a nice teacher and the class is manageable. You don't really have to show up to lecture but def show up to discussions. I found the lectures and readings to be boring but if you do the work you'll be fine so do with that what you will

Clare Lyons
HIST289N

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/18/2022

I loved the class, it was very interesting and educational. If you want to do well on her assignments be as detailed as possible when answering questions, unfortunately there are no rubrics to work from but that’s the pattern I’ve picked mid semester, the more I write the higher the grade. I wouldn’t call this an easy class, I had to put a lot of time into it due to all the assigned readings, but it was also not too difficult, definitely time consuming.

Clare Lyons
HIST289N

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/25/2022

The class is interesting and the things we learn about are very new/do not come up in your average history class. But the professor is VERY vague about grading and we do not get a rubric for any papers. For the first half of the semester we got video lectures but once we got to the second unit on LGBT history we only got power point slides to read through. Considering the loose structure of the class the grading is pretty harsh as well.

Clare Lyons
HIST289N

Anonymous
03/31/2022

DO NOT TAKE HIST 289N. I went into this thinking it would be a fun, interesting class. Instead, I was met with boring lectures, extremely harsh grading, and lack of instructions. There’s not a rubric for any of the assignments in the class, yet on almost every assignment there are a ton of points taken off with no explanation as to why. Most of the assignments the high isn’t even a 100, which does not make any sense. Anyways, this class has been my main source of stress this semester and makes me extremely angry. Do not take it.

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